Why “Tuis” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I'm not sure I will migrate to Omarchy, but seeing the hype around the system gave me incentive to create TUIs for most of my apps. I'm making my day to day DX as OS-neutral as…
by rubslopes · Oct 4, 2026
> What would you say are the merits of the terminal that a TUI encapsulates? GUI scripting is still not a thing today. That's the biggest issue with GUIs. Plus the mouse is genu…
by cryptonector · Oct 3, 2026
I tried a few of those and they are shiny but each eventually has their own bugs and quirks and limitations and I always felt like I was trying too much of my active workflow in…
by ithkuil · Oct 3, 2026
Well, I apologize for assuming! But, nevertheless, that's why TUIs are popular.
by multiplegeorges · Oct 2, 2026
I like TUIs because it's impossible to fuck them up with unlabeled hieroglyphic buttons floating in a sea of padding.
by unrented7977 · Oct 2, 2026
I'm pointing out that current GUIs are pretty primitive and haven't undergone much serious thought about functional improvement since Xerox PARC in the late 1970s, and that's wh…
by antonvs · Oct 2, 2026
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Tuis, TUIS, TUIs, or TUI may refer to:Plural of tūī, a species of passerine bird native to New Zealand Tuis District, Costa Rica Tuis (magazine), a South African magazine published by Media24 Tokyo University of Information Sciences, a private university in Japan Text-based user interfaces, also known as terminal user interfaces Text User Interface, a text-based user interface for GDB Read more on Wikipedia