CLUSTER NEWS-HACKER-TERMINAL · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-07-21
Terminal Hacker News readers
This cluster comprises terminal-based news readers and TUIs focused on browsing Hacker News, covering stories, comments, saved items, and live updates. Dated entries span from 2015-07 to 2026-06 with single entries in 2015, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, and 2026, totaling 6 dated entries before the index start, so the timeline is too thin to discern a consistent shape. Traction is minimal, with all listed leaders (circumflex, hacker-news-tui-bin, hnterm) showing zero stars, indicating no clear activity advantage.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 4 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 10 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01hnterm0★13 daysliveopen sourceTerminal client for browsing Hacker News stories and comments.
- 02Hacki for Hacker News0★1 moliveopen sourceOpen-source Hacker News client that lets users browse, search, comment, vote, and save stories for offline reading.
- 03circumflex0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based news reader that allows users to browse Hacker News stories and discussions with ease.
- 04hacker-news-tui-bin0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal UI for browsing Hacker News, including feeds, comments, and bookmarks.
- 05hackernews_tui0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal user interface for browsing Hacker News, including articles, comments, and saved stories.
- 06hnterm0★unknownlivehand-codedhobbyTerminal application for browsing Hacker News stories and comments with live updates and multiple simultaneous views.
- 07hackernews-bin0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal user interface that lets users browse Hacker News, read articles, view comments, and access saved stories from the command line.
- 08Lobjur0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop client for browsing Lobsters and Hacker News feeds with collapsible comment threads and an integrated in-app web view.
- 09dashboard0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays Hacker News headlines and stories for convenient reading.
- 10hnwatch0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal app that watches Hacker News and displays new stories and comments in real time.
- 11hackgregator0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA comfortable reader for Hacker News, providing a clean interface to browse and read stories.
- 12Hatchet News0★unknownliveWeb client for browsing and reading Hacker News stories, comments, and discussions.
- 13ChatHN – Chat with Hacker News using natural language0★unknownlivehand-codedhobbyChat interface that lets users query Hacker News stories and discussion threads using natural language.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.