ahmd-sh/hntui

browse hackernews like a hacker

Productivity & self-hostedTypeScript#hacker-news#opentui#tui

3.7 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 28, 2026, 14:00 UTC.

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About the project

A terminal TUI client for reading Hacker News: six feeds, comments, saved posts, themes, and Vim-style navigation.

Useful for

Read Hacker News directly in the terminal without a browser
Save interesting posts to a local list for later reading
Browse comment threads and open links from them

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

32 stars so far today, about 45 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 45× as much.
Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
Hacker News: “Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News” — 26 points, 1 h ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 18
Today: 32 · ≈ 45 by evening
Forks: 1
Issues and pull requests: 0
Watchers: 0
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.5.0 · September 23, 2026
Created: May 27, 2026
Last push: September 23, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News26 points, September 28, 2026

Spotted in

September 28, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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