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24 alternatives to Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News

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

Hntui is a terminal user interface for accessing Hacker News directly from the command line. It allows developers to browse and read Hacker News stories, comments, and discussions without leaving their terminal. The… 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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    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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    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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    :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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    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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    TUI browser for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet and mail readers - luke8086/retronews

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HN Deck: An alternate way to browse Hacker News

    2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.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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    A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News command line interface

    2016 · github.com · 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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    hey hn! I (re)built this TUI tool for browsing BBC News in the terminal, it uses an RSS feed for getting headlines and previews and you can read articles too. Try it out and let me know what you think! :)

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I built a native macOS desktop client for Hacker News and I'm open-sourcing it under the MIT license. GitHub: https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News Download (signed & notarized DMG, macOS 14.0+): https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News/releases Screenshots: https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News#screenshots I spend a lot of time reading HN — I wanted something that felt like a proper Mac app: a sidebar for browsing stories, an integrated reader for articles, and comment threading — all in one window.…

    Feb 2026 · 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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    2012 · zachwill.github.com · its alternatives →

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    A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News

    2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →

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    2022 · v20.ohayo.computer · its alternatives →

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

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News: Crunching the Numbers. Contribute to arnauddri/hn development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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