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Re: Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

#11
This is awesome, the sshtalk mentioned above looks great too, although trying to brute force a room name isn't working out for me.

I found a few of the key bindings by accident, trying to scroll with j. I considered making something like this a long while ago, but definitely not in asm, this is impressive.

I may have to poke at the code a bit and see if I can add/change a couple things :)

Re: Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

#12
post #11

This is awesome, the sshtalk mentioned above looks great too, although trying to brute force a room name isn't working out for me. I found a few of the key bindings by accident, trying to scroll with j. I considered making something like this a long while ago, but definitely not in asm, this is impressive. I may have to poke at the code a bit and see if I can add/change a couple things :)

FWIW, I intentionally didn't implement a "/list" feature for it, as it was originally designed to be an in-house sorta ephemeral chat thing... not many requests for a public "IRC-style" ssh chat server, if there is by all means adding the feature for a "/list" wouldn't take long

Re: Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

#13
I made a docker image for this: https://github.com/agonzalezro/docker-hnwatch

If you want to run it: docker run -it agonzalezro/hnwatch

I don't know why but hnwatch doesn't look like working ATM. I've tried in a Linux box (without docker) and I have the same problem with the tty, it's just loading 4 news and no comments or similar.

Re: Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

#14
post #11

This is awesome, the sshtalk mentioned above looks great too, although trying to brute force a room name isn't working out for me. I found a few of the key bindings by accident, trying to scroll with j. I considered making something like this a long while ago, but definitely not in asm, this is impressive. I may have to poke at the code a bit and see if I can add/change a couple things :)

FWIW, I intentionally didn't implement a "/list" feature for it, as it was originally designed to be an in-house sorta ephemeral chat thing... not many requests for a public "IRC-style" ssh chat server, if there is by all means adding the feature for a "/list" wouldn't take long

I was just poking around to see how it works. I love the idea, but I doubt I could convince enough people to join that wouldn't already have the room name to justify the effort of adding a /list.

Re: Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

#15

I made a docker image for this: https://github.com/agonzalezro/docker-hnwatch If you want to run it: docker run -it agonzalezro/hnwatch I don't know why but hnwatch doesn't look like working ATM. I've tried in a Linux box (without docker) and I have the same problem with the tty, it's just loading 4 news and no comments or similar.

I noticed that the API from firebaseio has been really lagging since I turned this loose, not sure what is up, the code for the retrievals is pure REST though, nothing hardcore or nonstandard.

Re: Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

#17
post #6

I love your ssh "site" - ssh 2ton.com.au I like the idea of using the talk command

Yeah I spent a very interesting day chatting to heaps of people, haha, wasn't even logged in until just then :) glad it is appreciated. I can't handle too many chats all-at-once, but am logged into it now :) Edit: meant to include the origin of my day's sshtalk fun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9716459

Is there a list of active rooms somewhere?

Re: Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I spent a very interesting day chatting to heaps of people, haha, wasn't even logged in until just then :) glad it is appreciated. I can't handle too many chats all-at-once, but am logged into it now :) Edit: meant to include the origin of my day's sshtalk fun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9716459

Is there a list of active rooms somewhere?

See prior comment about the intentional omission of "/list" functionality

Re: Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

#19

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Ha! Great question, one that I get asked semi-frequently. 1) Because unlike many, I can, 2) Because contrary to popular belief, it is not difficult. :)

my main desktop is also Mac OS X, I run vmware fusion + linux hosts when necessary, but all of my server infrastructure is linux anyway :-) linux kernel makes assembler so much easier than OS X and of course all of my library is catered for server-side infrastructure.

Yeah, my only easy option is to run this on our live web server. Hmmm, conflicted ...

Re: Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my main desktop is also Mac OS X, I run vmware fusion + linux hosts when necessary, but all of my server infrastructure is linux anyway :-) linux kernel makes assembler so much easier than OS X and of course all of my library is catered for server-side infrastructure.

Yeah, my only easy option is to run this on our live web server. Hmmm, conflicted ...

again FWIW, I am the co-founder of a proper Australian registered business, I appreciate your concern. In an isolated environment, run it with strace -o nasties.txt or something similar. I assure you personally that the only outbound connects this thing does is to your locally defined DNS and firebaseio per the HN API, and is not terribly unpleasant to any host CPU (near as I can tell anyway, and that was before I enabled the 150 item limit on the main page indices).
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