/usr/bin/htop
Infrastructure
server monitoring demo
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
6 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 12 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score -0.25.
Idea: 4 for, 6 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, clever hack that renders a server's own htop output
From 3 comments
Well you’re right in that you have no idea what you’re looking at. Ever tried to render an interactive cli gui as a website in a browser? It’s atrivial. It’s a neat project that…
whalesalad on HNWhoa, this is awesome. This is the sort of thing I wish I'd come up with.
dejawu on HNgotty is such a useful tool - especially with interactive mode turned on and you can ssh from the browser
binocarlos on HN
Useful for simple no-install piping via seashells
From 2 comments
A no-installation version: `htop | nc seashells.io 1337`
anishathalye on HNWoah, seashells is awesome! Especially cool (and useful) how you can `cat` and it shows up as you type.
jD91mZM2 on HN
Objections
Hard to see what it does without context
From 1 comment
I don't understand what am I looking at. Somebody runs htop command and serves output as an html? How did that end up in HN top? Should be maximum a high school project.
mapcars on HN
Display breaks when terminal is wider than browser
From 1 comment
If the terminal window is bigger than your browser this shows junk as the lines start wrapping, does anyone know a workaround? EDIT: Zooming out does the trick
tempay on HN
Unicode boxes render wrongly in Firefox on Linux
From 1 comment
In Firefox on Linux, I'm seeing a lot of U+000F boxes scattered around, messing up the layout.
thristian on HN
Requests
Support function keys and interaction
From 2 comments
Do the F keys function ? Edit: looks like there isn't much in the way of interaction ...
emeraldd on HN> Ever tried to render an interactive cli gui as a website in a browser? It’s atrivial. Which part of it is interactive? The cli gui part is also suspect. For all we know it…
gspetr on HN
Make renice and other process actions work
From 1 comment
I couldn't renice (F7) my uploaded pwn-rootkit process, please fix.
singularity2001 on HN
Questions
How to run it on-premises
From 1 comment
Wow, this is awesome! I wish the data I want to send here wasn't so sensitive. How can I run this on-premises?
hackmiester on HN
Alternatives named
GoTTY
From 2 comments
Check out gotty https://github.com/yudai/gotty maybe that's what you want.
rmetzler on HNGoTTY does that for every console app: https://github.com/yudai/gotty
egeozcan on HN
seashells.io
From 2 comments
A no-installation version: `htop | nc seashells.io 1337`
anishathalye on HNlooks like termbin's clone (termbin.com)
kurason on HN
Glances web mode
From 1 comment
Check out glances in webserver mode: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
melq on HN
rtail
From 1 comment
Seashells isn't currently open-source (the goal was to have a hosted version to make it easy for people to pipe non-sensitive data). In the next version, I'm planning on adding…
anishathalye on HN