hn-ui 0.1.1

A terminal-based Hacker News reader that displays stories in a beautiful table format.

HN UI

A terminal-based Hacker News reader that displays stories in a beautiful table format.

Features

• View top, new, best, ask, show, and job stories from Hacker News
• Customizable number of stories to display
• Start from any rank in the story list
• Rich terminal interface with colored output
• Rate-limited API calls to respect Hacker News API limits
• Concurrent fetching for improved performance

Installation

pip install hn-ui

Usage

# Show top 50 stories (default)
hnd

# Show top 10 stories
hnd -n 10

# Show new stories
hnd -m new

# Show stories starting from rank 20
hnd -s 20

# Show 5 ask stories starting from rank 10
hnd -m ask -s 10 -n 5

Command Line Options

• -m, --mode: Story mode to display (choices: top, new, best, ask, show, job)
• -s, --start: Start from this rank article (1-based index, default: 1)
• -n, --num: Number of articles to display (default: 50)

Story Modes

• top: Top stories (up to 500)
• new: New stories (up to 500)
• best: Best stories (up to 500)
• ask: Ask HN stories (up to 200)
• show: Show HN stories (up to 200)
• job: Job stories (up to 200)

Requirements

• Python 3.12+
• requests
• rich

Development

This project uses uv for dependency management. To set up for development:

uv sync