CHChaseRensberger·Sep 28, 2026
I've been using https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex for a while now, I like it a lot.
In Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker Newsbensadeh
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🌿 It's Hacker News in your terminal
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
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Observed mentions: 2021-10-29 17:58:38 UTC to 2026-09-28 15:08:41 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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10 sourcesCircumflex – It's Hacker News in your terminal
4 points · Open discussionSince you asked on Hacker News, I will plug my "unl" command-line utility which finds active discussions:
https://github.com/jasonthorsness/unlurker
This is not the only CLI HN client, nor is it the best, here are a few others I've seen:
https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex
https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI
In Ask HN: What are interesting do you know any terminal utilities?Similar applications:
https://github.com/wtheisen/TerminusBrowser
https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex
https://github.com/pierreyoda/hncli
https://github.com/piqoni/hn-text
https://github.com/luke8086/retronews
In Browsing Hacker News in the TerminalCircumflex – Hacker News in your terminal
4 points · Open discussionI don't think it's very difficult to write a different UI. There's even a terminal version available:
https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex
In Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?my personal favorite hacker news tui: https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex
In Orange Site HitShow HN: Circumflex, browse HN in your terminal
Some two years ago, I found myself spending a lot of time in the terminal between learning vim and discovering new command line tools. I was surprised to see that the niche of HN clis was (relatively) small, and so I decided to write my own command line tool for browsing HN called `circumflex`(`clx`).
`clx` is written in Go using Bubble Tea[1]. You can read the comment section or the linked article in reader mode in the pager `less`.
Using `lesskey` to add custom keybindings, the replies can be collapsed and expanded in real-time (but not individual replies, only all replies at once). Behind the scenes I am appending invisible unicode characters to each line so that I can use the custom keybindings to filter them out. The same technique is used to allow for jumping between top-level comments.
I spent a lot of time thinking about syntax hi
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ghlighting and finding relevant bits to highlight while also not going overboard with colors. The end result is highlighting of things I find useful for providing context in the comment section, like indicating parent poster and original poster, coloring references, coloring indentations as well as formatting YC startups.
Other quality of life features include adding submissions as favorites (it is stored as a pretty-printed json so you can check it into your vcs to allow for readable diffs). Submissions are marked as read and new comments are indicated with a bullet point.
[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
Circumflex: A Hacker News reader for the terminal
5 points · Open discussion