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NEW web design with better contrast incoming! :D Thank you for the feedback :)
Your dark mode choice for your late night chat is appropriate, and good branding. If someone’s technically literate enough to engage with an SSH-based social network, then they should be capable of injecting user scripts, custom CSS, and/or deploying assistive browser extensions, OS settings, and screen readers.
If this were a website about cataract treatments or a Metamucil landing page, then it would be a bad design.
This is like habbo hotel but for terminal nerds, amazing.
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If I have your public key I could probe a server to see if it recognizes that public key. Which would tell me information you might not want to be leaked.
Could you explain how/why that would be an issue? I still don't understand. Isn't the nature of public keys meant to be that they're public?
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Okay, but why is that something to be concerned about? How would one be able to probe to see if a server recognizes a public key? Why does that matter?
so, i used my public key. can someone please tell me what i should be worried about now?
Whether that's a concern or not is an open question, of course.
Nice! I was just thinking about how much I love installing binaries instead of going to a website
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It's possible to login and interact and use late.sh with just your SSH client - there's no need to download or run custom code. But you that did make me realise that they don't have a github link on that page anywhere. Your tone in this comment is a bit out of place on HN. Why are you here if you think it's 1M dummies?
The people why ran that line without knowing what it does are dummies. And yes maybe not 1M but there were a lot of them.
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No X. No Y. A is your B. We do G, not H. C, D, E — plus an optional F. No I, no J, no K — just an L into a W. I would say the design is the most human thing about this page. (It has its charm somehow, even if it’s obviously “flavour of the week LLM design”. Also, I don’t think an LLM would choose colours so poorly unless nudged in that direction – accidentally, I suppose.)
Oh no, concise sentences. Must be an inappropriate use of the robot! Kind of exhausting. If you think (or care), that the LLM wrote all of the subheaders, the category names etc, then you might be spending too much time focused on the wrong thing.
no passwords. no OAuth. no accounts.
your ssh key is your identity.
chats, scores, and streaks are tied to your public key fingerprint. same key, same data.
And what the fuck is OAuth? (Okay, this clearly is oriented at developers, but on its own the sentence just doesn’t make sense. For me as a user, what pain is removed by not having a “Sign in with GitHub” button? Why should I care?)
How about you tell me why you decided to do it that way:
all your data – chats, scores, streaks – is tied to your ssh public key.
no need to come up with a password or verify your email – just ssh in.
Now, for bonus points, there’s two obvious questions to answer:
• what do I do if I lose my SSH key?
• what do I do if I use more than one device?
(The obvious answers are “you can add other SSH keys in your account settings” and “you can add other SSH keys in your account settings”.)
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Okay, one more, and then I need to go grab a beer.
a read-only peek at the TUI in your browser.
tab around, see what's inside.
no typing, no chat, no games — just a window
into a shared demo session.
for the real thing, `ssh late.sh`.
a read-only preview of late.sh in your browser.
poke around and see what's inside. `ssh late.sh` when you’re ready to chat and play.Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it is a very nice way of saying “f off” if you’re poor, whatever with your display (low res mobile) or eyesight.
Is this really not a mostly “solved” problem using assistive browser (or OS-level) settings/extensions that apply high-contrast/large type consistently across all sites/apps? Is it necessary to performatively sacrifice aesthetics to signal to everyone else you’re especially sensitive to these needs? At what point is it enough? If they use high contrast, large fonts, and translations for every language—including Swahi…
One doesn't need to sacrifice aesthetics to make the design legible to an average user.
> At what point is it enough?
It depends on who your audience is. The more people you want to reach, the more you need to cater to everyone's needs. There are fundamental anti-patterns to avoid like writing with a dark font on a dark background.