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HNTerminal
Hacker News at terminal density, superpowers in your browser
HNTerminal renders Hacker News as a ruled grid instead of a feed: 100-500 stories in a go, metadata inline, and signals the HN API doesn't publish — velocity, heat, and controversy. It is Keyboard-first, 11 themes, installable as a web app and no account required to read.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I read Hacker News every day and kept wanting two things the site doesn't give me:
more stories per screen, and some sense of which ones are actually moving.
HNTerminal is my answer to both.
Density from structure, not tiny type: It's a ruled grid - rank, title, points, comments, age, domain, submitter, all in aligned columns, 100 to 500 stories a page.
The dead horizontal margin most readers waste becomes a second column for what's rising right now.
Signals the HN API doesn't publish: A poller snapshots every story's score on a fixed interval, so the app can show velocity (points/hour), heat (velocity weighted by age), and a controversy signal (comments outrunning points usually means a flame war). None of that exists in the public API - it has to be accumulated over time.
It is Keyboard-first, so you can use:
J / K to move
enter for the thread
/ to search
T for themes
L to switch layout
: for a command line.
Split Reader keeps the discussion pane following your cursor;
Classic Grid is the pure scan view.
Also: 11 themes (Amber CRT and VT100 for the nostalgic, Kanagawa and Sakura for the rest of us), installable as a PWA, works offline, no account, no tracking beyond anonymous usage counts.
It reads public HN data and isn't directly affiliated with Y Combinator or Hacker News.
I'd love to hear what signal you wish HN showed you that it doesn't - that's would be the roadmap.
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About HNTerminal on Product Hunt
“Hacker News at terminal density, superpowers in your browser”
HNTerminal was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #77 on the daily leaderboard. HNTerminal renders Hacker News as a ruled grid instead of a feed: 100-500 stories in a go, metadata inline, and signals the HN API doesn't publish — velocity, heat, and controversy. It is Keyboard-first, 11 themes, installable as a web app and no account required to read.
HNTerminal was featured in Productivity (657.9k followers), Developer Tools (517.2k followers) and Tech news (2.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 231.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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