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1. 1AS
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2. 2
   ASCII Roulette▲88

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   2019

3. 3CB
   CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal▲348

   Hi HN I built CineCLI — a cross-platform terminal app to browse movies, view details, and open torrents directly in your system torrent client. Features: - Search movies from the terminal - Rich UI with ratings, runtime, genres - Interactive & non-interactive modes - Magnet handling via system default client - Linux/macOS/Windows support - No ads, no tracking GitHub: https://github.com/eyeblech/cinecli PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/cinecli/ Would love feedback from terminal + Python folks

   Dec 2025 · github.com

4. 4CH
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5. 5BT
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6. 6AW
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7. 7
   curl.io▲132

   Share your files from your Terminal / SSH

   2014

8. 8TV
   turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas)▲121

   This tool turns videos into ASCII pixel art. You can use your webcam feed or upload a video, then use the controls to adjust the colors, resolution, text style, etc. Github repo: https://github.com/collidingScopes/ascii It's built with javascript / html canvas. I'll be continuing to work on this, with the goal of improving performance (it can be laggy at high resolutions) and to also allow image input (turn an image into animated ASCII art). Please let me know of any feedback or suggestions!

   2024 · collidingscopes.github.io

9. 9SS
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   2016 · station307.com

10. 10TP
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    2017 · github.com

11. 11NT
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    2014 · github.com

12. 12FW
    Freeciv-Web▲212

    2019 · freecivweb.org

13. 13AA
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    2016 · jollo.org

14. 14VT
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    2020 · modfy.video

15. 15AL
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    2018 · github.com

16. 16AA
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17. 17PT
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    2019 · github.com

18. 18SY
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    2020 · github.com

19. 19CC
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20. 20TS
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21. 21S2
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22. 22AP
    A Python AST viewer for the terminal▲6

    Hey HN! I've been having a play with the idea of building a Python AST viewer that can be used in the terminal. It's very early days yet, but the basic approach is now available for playing with. Also on PyPi and works fine on GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows.

    2022 · github.com

23. 23CA
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    2022 · github.com

24. 24CR
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