circumflex
A terminal client for browsing Hacker News stories, comments, and linked articles.
By The circumflex contributors
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About circumflex
circumflex is a command-line Hacker News reader with a terminal interface. It shows stories and comment threads, formats comments and headlines with syntax highlighting, and supports Vim-style navigation.
Reader Mode displays linked articles in the terminal. The client also supports searching older submissions and saving stories to favorites. It is read-only and does not support logging in, voting, or commenting.
Strengths
- Reads stories, comments, and linked articles in the terminal
- Includes search and favorites
- Uses Vim-style navigation
Limitations
- Read-only, with no login, voting, or commenting
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the MIT license.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- The circumflex contributors
- Platforms
- Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Hacker News readers who prefer a terminal interface
- Categories
- Terminals, RSS readers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the Homebrew formula