alt.hn

4/15/2026 at 9:35:38 PM

Hacker News CLI (2014)

 https://pythonhosted.org/hackernews-cli/commands.html

by rolph

4/15/2026 at 11:40:08 PM

I already use a HN cli called w3m.

sent with w3m

by basilikum

4/16/2026 at 12:06:03 AM

wow are u arch user too

by semiinfinitely

4/16/2026 at 1:47:14 AM

They aren't - they'd have led with that. (note: I use arch and am legally obligated to tell you).

by mbernstein

4/16/2026 at 1:08:09 AM

I will be as soon as I get my workstation to not kernel panic on boot (plus figure out why wayland compositor is just giving me a blank screen)

by trollbridge

4/16/2026 at 10:16:54 AM

links2 and lynx here.

by sylware

4/16/2026 at 6:44:35 PM

elinks here

by goodmythical

4/17/2026 at 7:44:33 AM

Still going for javascript support with quickjs?

by sylware

4/16/2026 at 1:57:21 AM

Somebody recently vibecoded https://github.com/fragmede/nitpick and posted here which is pretty good but I really want to browse the sites in terminal too. Then I discovered I have had an hn alias to lynx gopher://hngopher.com . w3m also works but I want to be able to browser with full w3m images support but most sites just break on needing JavaScript. Some front end to a headless chrome/Firefox instance like brow6el or awrit might work but I haven't attempted those with much success yet

by junkblocker

4/16/2026 at 4:26:38 PM

Back when I was a lowly web dev intern - I was able to finish most of my work rather quickly. Obviously, instead of going above and beyond - I found a way to browse Reddit in the terminal.

My manager was non-technical, and so anytime he walked past my desk it appeared that I was hackin’ away. I had (and still do) have my terminal set up to be black background with bright cyan text.

by nerptastic

4/15/2026 at 11:30:12 PM

[12 years ago]

by semiinfinitely

4/16/2026 at 12:03:02 AM

with hackernews I wouldn't be surprised if this still worked

by varun_ch

4/15/2026 at 11:44:43 PM

Python 2.7 as a requirement

by rovr138

4/15/2026 at 11:34:14 PM

Usually the first thing, the page should mention is how to install it.

it is as if developer does not want anyone to use this tool.

by israrkhan

4/16/2026 at 8:26:48 AM

Nice work — I like the simplicity.

I built a TUI version of this in Go — I just love doing everything in the terminal.

Built a small prototype here if you’re curious: https://github.com/heartleo/hn-cli

by heartleo

4/16/2026 at 4:10:05 AM

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

by anta40

4/16/2026 at 4:29:21 AM

> and written in C++ instead of the "cool kids" Go/Rust

Is that supposed to sound like an argument in favor of it? Because it doesn’t.

by wiseowise

4/16/2026 at 4:53:16 AM

I thought this would provide easy query access, but it does not seem to.

Is there a CLI that queries hn.algolia.com and returns structured data?

by bredren

4/16/2026 at 3:58:15 AM

The CLI tool space has changed so much since then. Everything is getting rewritten in Rust or Go now.

by thegdsks

4/16/2026 at 10:18:12 AM

Lazy question: is the web API (CURL) allow to login and do posts?

by sylware

4/15/2026 at 11:18:10 PM

no information about installation - no github repo

by garyfirestorm

4/15/2026 at 11:26:29 PM

https://github.com/kamilchm/developer-experience/

Sidebar > Changelog > Hit the version 0.0.1 > fix the url to .com > remove tree and version

by rovr138

4/15/2026 at 11:35:30 PM

lol, even the link is not correct.

.con, instead of .com

by israrkhan

4/16/2026 at 2:32:09 AM

(2014) OP

by ChrisArchitect

4/16/2026 at 4:03:25 AM

Can we have an official Hacker News API that lets me authenticate to my account and grab the submissions and comments that I have upvoted?

by jimmcslim