Week 3: hackernews-tui

Built and shipped a Hacker News terminal UI with OpenTUI and GPT-5.3-Codex in about 30 minutes, then published it to npm.

Mar 4, 2026Week 3shipped

This Week 3 build is hackernews-tui, a terminal UI for quickly searching Hacker News.

hackernews-tui screenshot

What I built

Open source repo: nearbycoder/hackernews-tui
npm package: hackernews-tui
CLI usage: bunx hackernews-tui or npx hackernews-tui
New article: Building hackernews-tui in 30 minutes with OpenTUI and GPT-5.3-Codex
New project page: hackernews-tui

Why this mattered

This was a clean example of how quickly custom terminal tools can ship now with OpenTUI and GPT-5.3-Codex, especially when the full build-to-publish loop is handled in one Codex app workflow.

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