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Description:
Hacker News in your terminal

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 3.8@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: hacker-news terminal cli news-reader developer-tools

Install: brew install circumflex

About:
Circumflex is a command-line interface (CLI) tool that allows users to browse and read Hacker News threads directly in their terminal. It provides a clean, distraction-free interface for consuming tech news without leaving the command line. The tool fetches content from the official HN API and presents it in an easily navigable format.

Key Features:

Terminal-native interface for reading HN articles and comments
Keyboard-driven navigation for efficient browsing
Support for viewing article links via terminal-based browsers or URL openers
Clean, minimal UI optimized for CLI environments
No browser required, reducing resource usage

Use Cases:

Reading Hacker News during work without context switching to a GUI browser
Quickly checking tech news updates while in a terminal-based workflow
Browsing HN on remote servers or headless systems without a graphical interface

Alternatives:

hackernews-tui – Similar terminal-based HN client with a more complex UI and additional features like offline reading
lynx – General-purpose text-based web browser that can access HN but lacks HN-specific optimizations

Version History

Detected	Change	Commit
Oct 10, 2025 3:06am	VERSION_BUMP	95bb633c
Oct 12, 2023 6:38pm	VERSION_BUMP	c9f0ab58
Oct 3, 2023 12:05pm	VERSION_BUMP	6525b40d
Sep 30, 2023 3:13pm	VERSION_BUMP	b4ea1c56
Jun 11, 2023 10:17am	VERSION_BUMP	72374e3b
May 6, 2023 12:45pm	VERSION_BUMP	a3584bd5
May 5, 2023 8:15am	VERSION_BUMP	99884f69