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Products that do what IRCd in Pure Bash does
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45755788 there was mention of an IRC server using gawk, but no code. So I wrote an IRCd in pure bash.
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2022 · github.com
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2020 · github.com
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Hi HN, Long-time IRC obsessive here (some of you may remember me from the privacy wars and the freenode drama). My commitment to the protocol never died, so I built IRC.com, a browser-based IRC client where everything lives in user-editable JavaScript. The core ships with just a protocol shim and window manager; the rest is scriptable. Out of the box it feels like a normal IRC client, but if you want to automate channel ops, invent new commands, or redesign the UI, the power is yours. I’d love your feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas... especially from fellow IRC lifers! I'll be adding…
2025 · irc.com
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Coding agents spend a lot of time in the shell. When exploring a codebase, they usually reach for the same handful of tools: grep, find, ls, cat. We built a public SSH server that hosts Supabase docs as markdown files so that agents can explore them the same way they explore code: ssh supabase.sh grep -rl 'RLS' docs ssh supabase.sh cat docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security.md | head -10 Under the hood commands run inside Vercel's just-bash [1] library - an emulated bash shell sandboxed within the JS runtime. It uses a VFS where the docs are mounted as markdown…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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I tried to basically copy-paste the html from Archive.org and grabbed the posts from here: https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes It's missing a few of the more recent posts which I'll try grab myself sometime. But all the classics should be there.
2024 · bash-org-archive.com
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Hi HN! I built a CLI tool called ShellTalk for macOS, Linux, and web (WebAssembly) that maps English text to the corresponding Bash commands. ShellTalk is written in Swift and available under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub. I was inspired a few weeks ago after reading the Meta-Harness paper and seeing a tool called Hunch that did something similar using the Apple Foundation model. I often forget flag names and orders, but I wanted something that worked consistently. The 3B AFM worked surprisingly well with Hunch, but it felt slow and sometimes slight changes in what I wrote would result in…
Apr 2026 · barrasso.me
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Shelon: https://github.com/housni/sheldon It's not a framework, it's a library. It attempts to mimic function names in Python. Most functions work in Bash 4.3+ but there are those that work on older versions. The 'help' target in Makefile is on crack! Check the issues in that repo for upcoming features. Useful for DevOps Engineers or anyone who has to write Bash scripts.
2018
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So this question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35198563 prompted me to revisit the framework demo'ed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35033368 Just like reddit lets you go to what might be a 404 page /r/anything-you-want and you can then create that subreddit, I added this feature to remoterenters so you can make /rr/anything-you-want and be the mod of that sub. To get the ball rolling with some content I made these two AI based subs: https://remoterenters.com/rr/amazing-ai-understanding/…
2023
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Hey HN! We (Stephan and Thomas) recently open-sourced Semble. We kept running into the same problem while using Claude Code on large codebases: when the agent can't find something directly, it falls back to grep, reading full files or launching subagents. This uses a lot of tokens, and often still misses the relevant code. There are existing tools for this, but they were either too slow to index on demand, needed API keys, or had poor retrieval quality. So we built Semble. It combines static Model2Vec embeddings (using our latest static model: potion-code-16M) with BM25, fused via RRF and…
May 2026 · github.com
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I'm constantly having to look up the syntax for looping in bash so I made this tiny website to make it quick and easy.
2024 · bashforloop.com
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irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn has a bot that copies the title and url of each HackerNews news almost as soon as they are published. Sources at: https://gitlab.com/com-informatimago/com-informatimago/tree/master/small-cl-pgms/botihn
2015
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So, I have developed this web application (http://instantserver.tk) that provisions a linux virtual private server for developers. Please use this app for any wild testing and let me know how I can improve this for you!
2015
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Hi HN. This is a script I have been using for some time for coding tasks, which I have polished a bit and published. The motivation behind this script was to have an agent with persistent session which I can use from the shell like a regular command. It _can_ also be scripted, although I don't use it in such a way. The script uses a minimal prompt, which just tells it to use standard unix tools to do everything. I was surprised at how well it worked, when using a good model. Qwen3-coder is on openrouter, and it works well with the minimal instructions. I also tested qwen2.5-coder with ollama…
2025 · github.com
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2021 · github.com
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I needed a web terminal I could drop into K8s sidecars and internal tools without pulling in heavy dependencies or running a separate service. Existing options were either too opinionated about the shell or had fragile session handling around reconnects. WooTTY wraps any binary -- bash, ssh, or custom tools -- and serves a browser terminal over HTTP. Sessions survive reconnects via output replay. There's a Resume/Watch distinction so multiple people can attach to the same session without stepping on each other.
Mar 2026 · github.com
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2014 · github.com
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We're two engineers that got fed up with context switching. Why do we need to do a git push, open a browser tab, wait for some task to actually start, bite nails (or read HackerNews) for 10 minutes or more while dependencies are being installed for the 100th time and finally end up with an invalid YAML error. And for some reason this usually happens in the final stage of the pipeline leading up to the inevitable git commits "Fixed", "Fixed again", "Test", "Really fixed this time". We can do better. We set out to build Zippy. A CI/CD system that works from your terminal. No context…
Mar 2026 · zippy.sh
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This is a model I’ve been thinking about lately. It demonstrates a pattern that I’m wondering could exist, where terminal applications, BBS-style shared user boards, and other expressions of creativity and sharing are created with web technologies but rendered into the terminal and accessed over SSH. I like that this brings back some kind of old days of the internet feeling and uses web technologies but sidesteps the public World Wide Web, even though it’s still on the internet. You can try it out too right now, and I’m thinking about making the self-hosting specialized applications part a…
Jul 2026 · duetbrowser.com
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Instead of boring web forms, create and share forms right in your terminal using SSH. No browsers, no apps, just pure terminal goodness. Key features: - Instant form sharing using simple codes (ssh -t bashform.me f yourcode) - Authentication via SSH keys - Create forms with rich inputs (text, textarea, select) - View responses in the terminal - Zero installation for users - if you have SSH, you're ready - Beautiful TUI (this is subjective xD) Try it instantly: ssh -t bashform.me f try Built with Go and Charm libraries for a snappy, modern terminal experience. P.S. BashForm is actively being…
2024 · github.com
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