# donnemartin/haxor-news

Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI).

Repository: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/haxor-news
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: cli, python, hacker-news, hacker-news-reader, hacker-news-client, terminal, shell, utilities, utility, client, developer-tools, programming, macos, linux, windows
Last push: 2022-04-22T02:41:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3944, "days_push": 1594, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4088, forks 167 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.523114+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, search-engine, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, social-media
- platform: cli, python, windows, cross-platform
- tags: hacker-news, terminal-ui, news-reader, comment-filtering, regex-filtering, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- donnemartin/haxor-news (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.523114+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:22.718369+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.523114+00:00, sha f38e1ca0f96e)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/haxor-news/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:15:07.454133+00:00, sha da40b604b329)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.