Hntui
A TUI for Hacker News
Details
- External ID
- 49876760
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hntui
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 111
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9298245614035088
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
hi there! i'd like you to try out a tui i made for browsing hackernews. it's built using opentui and also effect (learning experiment). i really like it and i think you will too!
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal user interface for hacker news readers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A terminal UI (TUI) consuming Hacker News's public Firebase/Algolia APIs is a very standard beginner-to-intermediate project directly suitable for vibe coding.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ratatui, bubbletea, opentui, brow.sh, vimium
Concerns raised: Large binary size, Official API is read-only
Feature requests: Browser configuration options, HN login and posting support, Smaller binary size
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker Times · hn · 2026-06-28 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- A Hacker News–style site focused on European tech · hn · 2026-02-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- oeis-tui · hn · 2025-11-29 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- I built an interactive HN Simulator · hn · 2025-11-24 · 538 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- What Is Hacker News Working On? · hn · 2025-11-06 · 229 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- HN Buffer · hn · 2025-11-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- HN Game Stories · hn · 2026-06-20 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.