It's Hacker News in your terminal.
Circumflex (clx) is a terminal-based Hacker News browser that brings the full HN experience directly to your command line. Unlike web browsers, circumflex provides a unified interface for reading both comment sections and articles without leaving your terminal, featuring a built-in Reader Mode that formats web articles for comfortable terminal reading.
The tool stands out with its thoughtful design choices that enhance the Hacker News browsing experience. It offers syntax highlighting for comments and headlines, rainbow-colored indentation for comment threads, and special formatting for code snippets, usernames, and references. Comments are displayed through the familiar less pager, making navigation intuitive for terminal users.
Circumflex is perfect for developers and terminal enthusiasts who prefer keyboard-driven workflows and want to stay focused within their terminal environment. The tool supports advanced features like marking articles as read, highlighting new comments since your last visit, saving favorites, and full Nerd Fonts integration for enhanced visual appeal. Whether you're catching up on tech news during breaks or researching topics for work, circumflex provides a distraction-free way to engage with the Hacker News community.
# via Homebrew
brew install circumflex
# via Nix
nix-shell -p circumflex
# via AUR
yay -S circumflex