hnr 0.3.3

A fast terminal UI for Hacker News — browse feeds, read threaded comments, vote and reply
hnr-0.3.3 is not a library.

hnr

A terminal UI for Hacker News

Browse stories, read threaded comments, search, vote, reply, and bookmark — all without leaving the terminal. Built with Rust and ratatui. Mostly vibe coded with Claude Code over a weekend.

Features

  • Six feeds — Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN, Jobs
  • Threaded comments — recursive tree with collapse/expand and a full-text overlay
  • Search — Algolia-powered full-text search; press ? to open, results drop into the story list
  • Seen tracking — stories dim automatically when you open their comments; press u to mark unread (persisted to ~/.hnr/seen.json)
  • Bookmarks — save stories with b, browse them on feed 7, persisted to ~/.hnr/bookmarks.json
  • Voting & replies — upvote or reply to any story or comment when logged in
  • User profiles — view karma, bio, and submission count for any author
  • Open in browser — jump to the story URL or HN discussion page with o / O
  • Clipboard — copy the story URL with y
  • Session — login cookie saved to ~/.hnr/session and restored on next launch

Demo

hnr demo

Screenshot

hnr screenshot

Install

# Homebrew
brew tap prasanthj/hnr
brew install hnr

# Cargo
cargo install hnr

Usage

hnr

Keybindings

Key Action
1 – 7 Switch feed: Top / New / Best / Ask / Show / Jobs / Bookmarks
j / k / ↑ / ↓ Navigate up/down
Enter Open comments (story pane) · Full-text overlay (comment pane)
Tab Switch between story list and comments pane
Esc Back to story pane · Close overlay
Space Collapse / expand comment thread
b Bookmark / unbookmark selected story
u Mark selected story as unread
? Search stories via Algolia
v Vote on selected story or comment
c Reply to selected story or comment
p View author profile
o Open story URL in browser
O Open HN discussion page in browser
y Copy story URL to clipboard
l Login / logout
r Refresh current feed
h Show help
/ Command mode
q Quit

Slash Commands

/login      /logout     /top        /new        /best
/ask        /show       /jobs       /bookmarks  /search
/refresh    /user <n>   /bookmark   /open       /hn
/vote       /help       /quit

License

MIT