A terminal UI for Hacker News

Browse stories, read threaded comments, search, vote, reply, and bookmark — all without leaving the terminal. Built with Rust and ratatui. Mostly vibe coded with Claude Code over a weekend.

Features

• Six feeds — Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN, Jobs
• Threaded comments — recursive tree with inline expand/collapse per comment
• Comment prefetch — comments are fetched automatically after a short dwell on any story and the pane switches without pressing Enter; works for Algolia search results too
• Reader mode — press r to fetch and render any article as structured text with headings, code blocks, quotes and lists (powered by Mozilla Readability); loads in the background with a progress indicator
• Shimmer progress — all async operations (feed refresh, article fetch, comment prefetch, search) show an animated shimmer indicator in the status bar
• Search — Algolia-powered full-text search; press ? to open, results drop into the story list
• Seen tracking — stories dim automatically when you open their comments; press u to mark unread (persisted to ~/.hnr/seen.json)
• Bookmarks — save stories with b, browse them on feed 7, persisted to ~/.hnr/bookmarks.json
• Voting & replies — upvote or reply to any story or comment when logged in
• User profiles — view karma, bio, and submission count for any author
• Open in browser — jump to the story URL or HN discussion page with o / O
• Clipboard — copy the story URL with y
• Session — login cookie saved to ~/.hnr/session and restored on next launch

Demo

Install

# Homebrew
brew tap prasanthj/hnr
brew install hnr

# Cargo
cargo install hnr

Usage

hnr

Keybindings

Reader mode keys

Slash Commands

/login      /logout     /top        /new        /best
/ask        /show       /jobs       /bookmarks  /search
/refresh    /user <n>   /bookmark   /open       /hn
/vote       /help       /quit

License

MIT