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Dev tools · January 1, 2013

HN In Your Terminal

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

HN In Your Terminal launched on January 1, 2013 with 67 votes, #35 of 526 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

HN In Your Terminal is a command-line interface for accessing Hacker News directly from the terminal. It allows developers to browse and interact with Hacker News content without leaving their command-line environment. The project is open source and available on GitHub for developers who want to contribute to its development.

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