Hntui
A TUI for Hacker News
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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!
HN · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 112 upvotes (top 8%) · 1 view
Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 86 launches in terminal user interface tools →
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 : 102 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 103 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-03 · 475 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- HackerFriction, HackerTube for what HN complains about · hn · 2026-11-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Wikihack · hn · 2026-11-02 · 339 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Hacker Times · hn · 2026-06-28 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- HackerRepos · hn · 2026-11-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- A Hacker News–style site focused on European tech · hn · 2026-02-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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