Show HN: hnr – a terminal Hacker News reader vibe-coded in Rust
H.n.r is a terminal-based reader for Hacker News, designed to enhance user experience while browsing stories and comments. Built with Rust, it offers features like threaded comments, search capabilities, and bookmarking. The application allows users to interact with stories directly from the terminal without needing to switch to a web browser.
- ▪H.n.r provides six feeds including Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN, and Jobs.
- ▪Users can fetch and render articles in reader mode with structured text and a progress indicator.
- ▪The application supports Algolia-powered full-text search and allows users to bookmark stories.
Hacker News (Newest) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 5,306 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/prasanthj/hnr |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 16:23:09 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T16:34:57.902Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T16:34:57.902Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | qTozdHG7WffG |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
h.n.r — say it as "honor" A terminal UI for Hacker News Browse stories, read threaded comments, search, vote, reply, and bookmark — all without leaving the terminal. Built with Rust and ratatui. Mostly vibe coded with Claude Code over a weekend. Features Six feeds — Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN, Jobs Threaded comments — recursive tree with inline expand/collapse per comment Comment prefetch — comments are fetched automatically after a short dwell on any story and the pane switches without pressing Enter; works for Algolia search results too Reader mode — press r to fetch and render any article as structured text with headings, code blocks, quotes and lists (powered by Mozilla Readability); loads in the background with a progress indicator Shimmer progress — all async operations (feed…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.