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24 alternatives to HN-Stories – Rust CLI to browse and open HN stories from the terminal

crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

1HP
High-performance, compiled Datalog in Rust as a proc macro▲6
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2020 · crates.io · its alternatives →
2
An Express-inspired web framework for Rustfree▲85
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2022 · crates.io · its alternatives →
3
Fast, human-friendly passphrase generator written in Rust▲5
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2018 · crates.io · its alternatives →
4CC
checkline: check each line you want from stdin to stdout (CLI/TUI/Rust)▲5
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2022 · crates.io · its alternatives →
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I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust▲597
A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…
2025 · desktopdocs.com · its alternatives →
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layer▲88
I built a small CLI called layer. It manages .git/info/exclude so you can keep local-only files in a repo without adding them to the shared .gitignore. This came from a normal team repo problem. People keep their own local files in a repo: API_SPEC.md, BACKEND_GUIDE.md, ARCHITECTURE_NOTES.md, CLAUDE.md, prompt files, scratch notes, temporary investigation docs, and other markdown files with custom names that are useful for one developer but should not be committed. The usual answer is “just put it in .gitignore”, but that gets messy fast because these files are different for each…
Mar 2026 · crates.io · its alternatives →
7
Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)▲208
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2024 · crates.io · its alternatives →
8RT
Rust transform macro ident case▲10
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2019 · crates.io · its alternatives →
9
fcode is a binary rust-serde format that supports schema evolution▲14
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2021 · crates.io · its alternatives →
10
18KB ls alternative in no_std rust and Libc▲23
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
Jul 2026 · crates.io · its alternatives →
11
Tascli, a simple CLI task and record manager▲16
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2025 · crates.io · its alternatives →
12CA
CraftQL – A Rust CLI tool for GraphQL schemas manipulation and graphviz▲12
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2020 · crates.io · its alternatives →
13
JQL – A JSON Query Language CLI Tool Built with Rust▲25
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2020 · crates.io · its alternatives →
14
G-win – .gcode parser written in Rust with winnow▲39
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2024 · crates.io · its alternatives →
15
I made a crate for creating interactive chord diagrams in Rust▲51
2020 · datacrayon.com · its alternatives →
16
I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely▲113
A Rust crate for containing memory leaks and fragmentation - brannondorsey/mem-isolate
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Crates▲163
A better home for your music collection
2025 · crates.app · its alternatives →
18
Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls▲141
I'm excited to introduce Zerobox, a cross-platform, single binary process sandboxing CLI written in Rust. It uses the sandboxing crates from the OpenAI Codex repo and adds additional functionalities like secret injection, SDK, etc. Watch the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiPm9BOPCg Zerobox follows the same sandboxing policy as Deno which is deny by default. The only operation that the command can run is reading files, all writes and network I/O are blocked by default. No VMs, no Docker, no remote servers. Want to block reads to /etc? zerobox…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A command-line tool, a Rust lib, and a GraphQL API to get HN stories▲12
Another HackerNews command-line client. Contribute to scastiel/hn development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Every open source tool from the "What's HN working on" thread▲169
Public datsets made with https://getomni.ai/. Contribute to getomni-ai/datasets development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
21
HN In Your Terminal▲67
Hacker News on the Terminal. Contribute to ciaranarcher/hacker_term development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
22
A native Hacker News reader with integrated todo/done tracking▲54
Hey HN! I'm excited to share a tool I've been working on - a native Hacker News reader built with Rust and egui. Here's a screenshot: https://github.com/haojiang99/hacker_news_reader/blob/main/s.... As a daily HN reader, I've always struggled with keeping track of interesting posts I want to read later. Browser tabs pile up, bookmarks get forgotten, and I lose track of what I've already read. I needed a way to: 1. Browse HN efficiently (across all sections - hot, new, show, ask, jobs, best) 2. Quickly mark posts as "todo" for later reading 3. Mark posts as…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
23
A Gnus Back End for HN▲103
A Gnus backend for Hacker News. Contribute to dickmao/nnhackernews development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
24
Rust-starter, a boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications▲97
Rust Starter Project. Contribute to rust-starter/rust-starter development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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