hn-cli

hn

A terminal client for Hacker News.

Features 📰 Story browser — Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN with tab switching 💬 Comment threads — navigate with j/k, fold/unfold, lazy-load reply trees 🌐 Translation — translate a title with t, all visible titles with T, or a selected comment 🔄 Soft refresh — refresh stories or comments without restarting 🎨 Themes — hn, mocha, dracula, tokyo, nord, gruvbox ⚡ Progressive loading — visible range loads first, more fetched as you scroll Install

Homebrew (macOS / Linux):

winget (Windows):

curl (macOS / Linux):

No sudo needed — the binary is installed under your home directory. The install directory is picked from the first of these that is set: To install somewhere else:

The script warns if the install directory is not on your $PATH, and prints the export PATH=... line to add to your shell profile.