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HN-Stories – Rust CLI to browse and open HN stories from the terminal

HN-Stories – Rust CLI to browse and open HN stories from the terminal

by Brysonbw·Feb 21, 2026·5 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●MidCozy

Terminal HN reader exists, but hn-stories is just another wrapper.

Strengths
  • •Minimal, focused tool that solves one problem cleanly
  • •Published to crates.io with binary install, making distribution frictionless
  • •Clean TUI with filter options (top, new, best, ask, show, job stories)
Weaknesses
  • •Terminal-based HN clients already exist; this is a well-trod category with no novel UX or feature
  • •No differentiation—fetches from public HN API and displays in a grid, no caching or offline features
Target Audience

Terminal-first developers, HN frequent readers who prefer CLI interfaces

Similar To

hn-cli · hackertab.dev · HackerNews.app

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AI/ML●●Solid

Interesting story pairing from across the Hacker News Corpus

Instead of clustering threads by shared words, the project rewards distinct-titled but topically connected threads — an inverted Jaccard/TF-IDF twist that surfaces genuinely surprising links. The UI lists each pairing with useful metrics (entropy, novelty, semantic score, evidence counts, merged pairs and time ranges), so you can judge why two stories were paired without digging through raw data.

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