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donnemartin/haxor-news

Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI). observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news · Python · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3944
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1594
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

4088 stars · 167 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

haxor-news is a Python command line interface for browsing Hacker News from the terminal. It lets users view and filter posts, comments, linked web content, hiring posts, and user info without leaving the command line.

Use cases

  • browse hacker news from the terminal
  • filter comments on a hacker news post by regex
  • show only unseen or recent comments on a post
  • search the monthly who's hiring post for remote jobs
  • view a hacker news user's profile from the command line
  • pipe hacker news post output to other shell utilities

When to avoid

  • you prefer a graphical or web-based Hacker News reader
  • you need actively maintained software with recent releases
  • you want full Hacker News interaction like voting or posting

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli search-engine developer-tools developer-tools social-media cli python windows cross-platform hacker-news terminal-ui news-reader comment-filtering regex-filtering command-line macos linux

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
donnemartin/haxor-newsmain23

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="donnemartin/haxor-news")

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