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24 alternatives to Hnterminal, browse/interact with Hacker News in terminal

terminal client for browsing hacker news. Contribute to Aperocky/hnterminal development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hnterminal is a terminal-based browser for Hacker News that allows users to browse and interact with the platform directly from the command line. Designed for developers and terminal-focused users, it provides a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface C++ Library - imtui/examples/hnterm at master · ggerganov/imtui

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've built hnterminal, a pip package that lets you browse, upvote, and comment on HN from terminal: $ pip install hnterminal $ hnterminal hnterminal is an interactive REPL environment with commands like "get_front_page", "get_tree", "upvote", "reply_to", etc, each of which supports rich arguments and comes with full help documentation. On the read side, hnterminal uses the HN API to construct front page and comment trees. On the write side, it reads the webpage and constructs an API response from parsed information. Unfortunately, a write API does not exist for HN (that I know of).…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    sleeek tui for hacker news. Contribute to ahmd-sh/hntui development by creating an account on GitHub.

    26d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've built hnterminal, a pip package that lets you browse, upvote, and comment on Hacker News from your terminal. To get started: $ pip install hnterminal $ hnterminal hnterminal is an interactive REPL environment with commands like "get_front_page", "get_tree", "upvote", "reply_to", etc, each of which supports rich arguments and comes with full help documentation. Checkout the readme.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Kotlin/Swing desktop application front-end for Hacker News - westoncb/HNDesktop

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A different way to browse the discussions on hackernews. Control everything intuitively with your keyboard.

    2021 · haxplore.pabue.co · its alternatives →

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    :newspaper: CLI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News on the Terminal. Contribute to ciaranarcher/hacker_term development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A hackernews ncurses CLI written in GO. Contribute to andrewstuart/hn development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to aome510/hackernews-TUI development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Just for fun, I built an interactive Hacker News Simulator. You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly. The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit. You don't need an account to post. When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link. I really wanted it to feel…

    Nov 2025 · news.ysimulator.run · its alternatives →

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    A Gnus backend for Hacker News. Contribute to dickmao/nnhackernews development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News Delivered to Desktop :dancers:. Contribute to owenthereal/hacker-menu development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    It's been 2 years since the initial release [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610). The initial version was a very basic prototype which was not available anywhere beyond the GitHub repo. You had to install it as a userscript or load the extension manually. Since then, it remained simple but better, new features include: - Improved accuracy by also using comments to help gauge the topic of discussion and the right keywords. - Published as plugin for more browsers: Chrome, Firefox (including android), and more recently Microsoft Edge. - Support for narrow screens…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News command line interface

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Some two years ago, I found myself spending a lot of time in the terminal between learning vim and discovering new command line tools. I was surprised to see that the niche of HN clis was (relatively) small, and so I decided to write my own command line tool for browsing HN called `circumflex`(`clx`). `clx` is written in Go using Bubble Tea[1]. You can read the comment section or the linked article in reader mode in the pager `less`. Using `lesskey` to add custom keybindings, the replies can be collapsed and expanded in real-time (but not individual replies, only all replies at once). Behind…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I put this together since I find myself switching away from the terminal to see if anything new popped up in HN. There might be similar ones out there, didn't bother looking. It was a quick experiment, which might end up with a few more features.

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ✨ Hacker News, but refined — Interface tweaks and features to make the HN experience better - plibither8/refined-hacker-news

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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