ANanta40·Apr 16, 2026
Anyone use hnterm?
https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm
I think it still works pretty well, and written in C++ instead of the "cool kids" Go/Rust
In Hacker News CLI (2014)ggerganov
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11 sourcesI'm not the author of this live feed site, but I did just find
https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm
from the author of llama.cpp (!!).
it also has a beautiful web version thanks to emscripten: https://hnterm.ggerganov.com/
In Hacker News Live FeedIt is a terminal app. Web is only a demo. You can compile and run it on a terminal. Source: https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm
In Browsing Hacker News in the TerminalThis is gold, although I found scrolling through stories didn't show all the comments. Is this going to cause a spate of terminal apps ported to enscripten?
This is (very probably) the terminal app:
https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm
In Browsing Hacker News in the TerminalThere is HNTerm [1], which also has an online demo [2].
[1]: https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm
[2]: https://hnterm.ggerganov.com
In ViHN: Vim for Hacker NewsLove this! Bubbletea is a great library for TUIs. I've been a long time user of hnterm (https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm) which has a nice feature for collapsing comment threads, but doesn't look as nice otherwise.
In Show HN: Circumflex, browse HN in your terminalHNTERM – Browse Hacker News interactively in your terminal
5 points · Open discussionI don't use github so I'll just leave these here:
more HN clients:
https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm
https://github.com/wtheisen/TerminusBrowser (also supports 4chan, reddit and others)
RSS reader: https://github.com/qw3rtty/neix
window manager for the console: https://gitlab.com/AutumnMeowMeow/xtermwm
lots of other top replacements out there as well: bpytop, vtop, gtop, bottom, zenith, tiptop, nmon etc.
and even more resources for this kind of stuff: https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/
In TUIsbut unfortunately both of the ones I use are missing:
https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm
https://github.com/wtheisen/TerminusBrowser
In TUIs> What are some additional features in mind that you are planning to add?
I don't really have any particular ideas in mind rn. I would love to receive feedbacks and ideas from the community.
> Here is an idea for extra hacker vibe - try adding "The Matrix" effect when rendering the screen:
https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1337719342465748993
Wow this looks dope. I'll try it out.
I just realize that you are the author of https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm. I just came across with it recently while finding some HackerNews apps on GitHub. If I understand correctly, `hnterm` seems to use the official Hacker news API for rendering. I found it quite hard to use compared to the HN Algolia APIs. Do you have any suggestions on how to utilize the official APIs better?
In Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussionsThere's this: https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm
Appears to be browse-only though.
In Ask HN: Hacker News comment tree indentation on text-based web browsers?