HN-TUI

A terminal-based Hacker News reader built with Rust.

Features

• Browse Top 30 Hacker News stories
• Read top comments on any story
• Open story links directly in your default browser
• Concurrent story fetching for fast load times
• Clean, scrollable TUI powered by Ratatui

Keybindings

Key	Action
↑ / ↓	Navigate stories
Enter	View comments for a story
o	Open story URL in browser
Esc	Back to story list
q	Quit

Tech Stack

• Ratatui + Crossterm — TUI rendering & terminal control
• Tokio — Async runtime
• Reqwest — HTTP client for the HN API
• Serde — JSON deserialization

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust (edition 2024)

Run

git clone https://github.com/Skip06/HN-TUI.git
cd HN-TUI
cargo run

License

MIT