SIsimonpure·Jan 2, 2026Submission
Brief: ChatGPT in your terminal: slash commands, any OpenAI model, local tools
2 points · Open discussionWilliamAGH
brief
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ChatGPT in your terminal: slash commands, any OpenAI model, local tools, fast and beautiful TUI
2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
12GitHub stars
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ChatGPT in your terminal: slash commands, any OpenAI model, local tools, fast and beautiful TUI
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 31, 15:00 | 2025-12-31 15:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-31 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 31, 18:00 | 2025-12-31 18:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-31 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 31, 21:00 | 2025-12-31 21:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1, 00:00 | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1, 03:00 | 2026-01-01 03:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1, 06:00 | 2026-01-01 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1, 09:00 | 2026-01-01 09:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1, 12:00 | 2026-01-01 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1, 15:00 | 2026-01-01 15:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1, 18:00 | 2026-01-01 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1, 21:00 | 2026-01-01 21:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-02 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 2, 00:00 | 2026-01-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-02 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2, 03:00 | 2026-01-02 03:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-02 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2, 06:00 | 2026-01-02 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-02 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2, 09:00 | 2026-01-02 09:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-02 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2, 12:00 | 2026-01-02 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-02 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2, 15:00 | 2026-01-02 15:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-02 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesI made some tweaks to the Github releases config, you should be able to do this now as well:
curl -L -o brief.zip https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief/releases/latest/download...
unzip brief.zip
cd brief-*/
./bin/brief
In 2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?It just so happens that I’ve built one already: TUI4J (Terminal User Interface for Java).
https://github.com/WilliamAGH/tui4j
It combines a port of BubbleTea from Go, and Textual and other inspired rewrites of other functionality.
It’s a fork of someone’s earlier work that I sought to expand/stabilize.
I built a beautifully simple LLM chat interface with full dialog windows, animations, and full support for keyboard and mouse interactivity parity, showing what this Java library is capable of.
Example chat app: https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief
Would love to see others build similar things with it!
In 2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?