nowfound

Dev tools · September 16, 2025

HN Term – browse HN using the terminal

Hey HN! I've created a terminal interface to browse HN using only the keyboard. You can expand/hide replies, open external links, browse top, new, ask, show and jobs. All key bindings and theme colors are customizable :) It was built with React, OpenTUI, bun and HN API, had a lot of fun building this, excited to hear your feedback!

HN Term – browse HN using the terminal launched on September 16, 2025 with 9 votes, #1,272 of 8,160 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

Visit github.com ↗Alternativestop 16% of September 2025

What it does

Browse HN using the terminal. Contribute to aotakeda/hn-term development by creating an account on GitHub.

A terminal-based Hacker News reader built with React and OpenTUI , providing a keyboard-based way to browse Hacker News stories and comments. src/ ├── components/ # React components for UI ├── hooks/ # Custom React hooks for data fetching and navigation ├── contexts/ # React contexts for global state management ├── types/ # TypeScript type definitions ├── utils/ # Utility functions for text, time, and browser operations ├── constants/ # API endpoints and configuration └── theme.ts # UI theme configuration Key Components App ( src/index.tsx ): Main application entry point TabNavigation : Story type selection interface StoryList : Display list of stories with keyboard navigation StoryDetail :…from github.com

Does a similar job

all alternatives →
  • I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscriptJul 2026 · github.com · ▲433

    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…

  • Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Terminal2016 · github.com · ▲83

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

  • HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal2019 · github.com · ▲139

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

  • HN In Your Terminal2013 · github.com · ▲67

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

  • Browse Anime from the Terminal2025 · github.com · ▲73

    Your browser anime experience from the terminal. Contribute to viu-media/viu development by creating an account on GitHub.

  • Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News25d ago · github.com · ▲113

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

More dev tools this month

the category →
  • /dev/null▲494

    a social network for devs

    Dev tools · 4d ago · dev-null.sh

  • Contribute to oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Dev tools · 1d ago · github.com

  • open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Dev tools · 29d ago · github.com

  • Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com

  • OpenBot▲362

    Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer

    Dev tools · 24d ago · openbot.run

  • Talanoa▲346

    Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…

    Dev tools · 22d ago · talanoa.email

Source: Show HN post ↗

Launched alongside, September 2025

the whole month →
  • YouMind▲1,223

    The first AI creation studio where learning meets writing

    AI · 2025 · youmind.com

  • The site hit #1 on HN about a year ago. Got enough traffic that I turned it into a proper API. What's there: - REST API — 35k products, manually filterable by category, free key, 60 req/min - CLI — npx anycrap random -c food - faker.js plugin — bundled, no API call, works offline - HuggingFace dataset — full 35k rows for ML/training https://anycrap.shop/developers

    AI · 2025 · anycrap.shop

  • I made a built-from scratch Wayland Compositor to display any GUI app* in the terminal! I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in custom Wayland compositors, a lot of really cool things you can embed existing applications into! So, I started with embedding apps into the terminal because that is the easiest input/output (output is just utf-8 and I use the great `chafa` library for that, and I just read from stdin for the input). If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposedly wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and…

    Dev tools · 2025 · github.com

  • IR

    Years ago I stumbled across a basic version of this concept and it stuck with me. I knew if I was ever going to take on such a project, it would need to be flawless, but without coding experience it was just another idea that would never happen. By the end of 2024, as AI coding tools exploded everywhere, I finally had a way to make it real. I started from zero knowledge and spent months collaborating with AI agents as a learning experience. Every pixel and every function went through me. The AI translated what I asked for into code, but every decision was human. I didn't use existing OS…

    AI · 2025 · mitchivin.com

  • Ada▲910

    Your own AI data analyst

    AI · 2025 · ada.im

  • Turn Product Images into Scroll-Stopping Video Ads

    Growth · 2025 · vidau.ai