hn-cli: Blazing fast, Hacker News CLI (TUI)

by heartleo · Claude Skill · ★ 51

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How to install hn-cli

go install github.com/heartleo/hn-cli/cmd/hn@latest
git clone https://github.com/heartleo/hn-cli

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: CAUTION · quality 74/100

Flagged: sudo usage. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars51
Forks2
LanguageGo
CategoryClaude Skill
LicenseMIT
Quality Score74/100
Last Updated2026-08-27
Created2026-04-15
Platformsclaude-code, cli, go
Est. Tokens~17k

About hn-cli

hn A terminal client for Hacker News. Features 📰 Story browser — Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN with tab switching 💬 Comment threads — navigate with , fold/unfold, lazy-load reply trees 🌐 Translation — translate a title with , all visible titles with , or a selected comment 🔄 Soft refresh — refresh stories or comments without restarting 🎨 Themes — hn, mocha, dracula, tokyo, nord, gruvbox ⚡...

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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