hnr 0.4.1

h.n.r (HoNoR) — a fast terminal UI for Hacker News
hnr-0.4.1 is not a library.

h.n.r

Crates.io

A terminal UI for Hacker News — pronounced HoNoR

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 inline expand/collapse per comment
  • Comment prefetch — comments are fetched automatically after a short dwell on any story and the pane switches without pressing Enter; works for Algolia search results too
  • Reader mode — press r to fetch and render any article as structured text with headings, code blocks, quotes and lists (powered by Mozilla Readability); loads in the background with a progress indicator
  • Shimmer progress — all async operations (feed refresh, article fetch, comment prefetch, search) show an animated shimmer indicator in the status bar
  • 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 showcase

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 Fetch comments (story pane) · Expand / collapse comment inline
Tab Switch between story list and comments pane
Esc Back to story pane · Close modal
Space Collapse / expand comment thread
r Reader mode — fetch and render article as structured text
R Refresh current feed
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
h Show help
/ Command mode
q Quit

Reader mode keys

Key Action
j / k Scroll line by line
d / u Half-page down / up
n / N Jump to next / previous section
g / G Jump to top / bottom
o Open article in browser
Esc / q / r Close reader

Slash Commands

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

License

MIT