ASCII Animals
Creative
ascii art
SHOW HN2012
62points
31comments
#372of 1,677 in 2012
Top 23%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.50.
Privacy: 0 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun nostalgic terminal toy, reminiscent of telnet towel and sl
From 3 comments
Reminds me of ``` telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl ``` (can't believe this is still up after all these years)
fletchowns on HNMy god, I remember being spellbound by this for hours as a novice, after learning my first few shell commands and managing to get the damn modem to work on linux.
makmanalp on HNSpeaking of ASCII art in your terminal, ``` $ apt-get install sl $ /usr/games/sl ```
sciurus on HN
Objections
Piping curl into sh is dangerous and a bad install model
From 4 comments
``` curl -s [url] | sh ``` Please don't train people to do that.
raldi on HNHonestly... that is an extraordinarily strange (and dangerous) model for executing things in a terminal. It's not a web browser! I mean, cool idea, I guess... but I don't think…
shawnz on HNYeah, I NEARLY ran that second command, then I saw what it did and my heart did a backflip. "Seriously, I'm being asked to do that on HN?" Then I came here to see if anyone else…
DanHulton on HNThat's a different case. Installing software implicitly means you trust an installer. Throwing random data into a shell prompt to see an ASCII cat is the sort of shit that gave…
juan_juarez on HN
The second command recursively fetches the URL, which is unsafe
From 1 comment
I was going to run the second one in a VM, after downloading the code and taking a look: it recursively grabs the url so it's really not safe.. the first one is ok though if you…
marquis on HN
Makes an HTTP request for every frame
From 1 comment
Neat, but it seems to make an http request for every frame. Unclear if requests caches that, but I did get a socket error on KeyboardInterrupt so I don't think so.
mixmastamyk on HN
Alternatives named
cowsay
From 2 comments
Also similar to cowsay[1]: [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
gpmcadam on HN/usr/games/cowsay -f `ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows | shuf -n1` `/usr/games/fortune`
anveo on HN
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
From 1 comment
Reminds me of ``` telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl ``` (can't believe this is still up after all these years)
fletchowns on HN
sl steam locomotive
From 1 comment
Speaking of ASCII art in your terminal, ``` $ apt-get install sl $ /usr/games/sl ```
sciurus on HN
figlet
From 1 comment
And if you want to generate ascii text: http://www.figlet.org/
makmanalp on HN