Hit That
Dev tools
terminal web renderer
SHOW HN2015
59points
7comments
#479of 2,565 in 2015
Top 19%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
4 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.47.
Execution: 3 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clever combination of existing Node modules in very little code
From 1 comment
What I found most interesting about this is how it's just 43 lines of code, demonstrating how well modularity is working out for Node. It basically joins two otherwise unrelated…
petercooper on HN
Pixel-perfect output looks good, especially the Google logo
From 1 comment
"Pixel Perfect" - awesome! The google logo looks particularly 'pixel perfect.' Seems like some "sub-pixel" texturing could be done by drawing different characters a la ascii art.…
sparkman55 on HN
Colour output works well on some sites
From 2 comments
i like the ember result... google one not so much thanks!
ircuse on HNNeat! Try it with various characters off marvel.com, you get some really cool looking output.
avitalp on HN
Objections
Google logo output is poor on some sites
From 1 comment
i like the ember result... google one not so much thanks!
ircuse on HN
Requests
Support for sub-pixel or character-based texturing like AAlib
From 2 comments
"Pixel Perfect" - awesome! The google logo looks particularly 'pixel perfect.' Seems like some "sub-pixel" texturing could be done by drawing different characters a la ascii art.…
sparkman55 on HNI hadn’t known about AAlib, that’s quite cool. Unfortunately it seems only to do greyscale output, whereas the selling point of this is that it’s in colour. I made a pull request…
evincarofautumn on HN
Alternatives named
w3m with xterm
From 1 comment
You can also render websites with w3m & xterm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m PS: Internet, lol internet.
miduil on HN
AAlib
From 1 comment
"Pixel Perfect" - awesome! The google logo looks particularly 'pixel perfect.' Seems like some "sub-pixel" texturing could be done by drawing different characters a la ascii art.…
sparkman55 on HN