Show HN: Terminal sharing using your browser (opens in new tab)

I get the lolz and all that but I don't see holding down ^C for two minutes all that imaginative. Right now the demo stays up for a few minutes until someone starts a fork bomb... for whatever reason... frustrating, I had a nethack game going for awhile too!

krishnasrinivasOP12y ago

yeah ... I think we can expect all kinds of people here :-) You can just install nutty and check it out.

bsirkia12y ago· 1 in thread

cool! I had to get 5 interns spun up on a few dev environments last summer and this definitely would have made it easier. I can also see this being useful for sharing output like logs or errors.

I'm sure as the developer you've thought of a lot more applications for nutty (great url btw), what sort of things do you see it being useful for?

krishnasrinivasOP12y ago

It will be useful for any situation where you want to quickly share your terminal. Have you used tmux/screen tools? Nutty will be useful in similar situations where tmux/screen is used but nutty works even if the peer is behind firewall. Plus you can use webrtc when sharing terminals using nutty as it runs in the browser.

junker3712y ago· 1 in thread

This is pretty useful. I think it should only be readable by default. Why the need to sign-in to make it read-only?

krishnasrinivasOP12y ago

If you think making it R/O by default makes sense ... let me think about it. I need to fix "Why the need to sign-in to make it read-only"

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egray212y ago· 4 in thread

Watching the demo is like watching TwitchPlaysPokemon, except it's HN/NuttyPlaysLinux. They've already done rm -rf / on the demo that I was watching.

Pezmc12y ago

I think the conclusion is that you can't trust random internet users with a terminal.

egray212y ago

Now I really want to go make a TwitchPlaysLinux stream. Would need a goal for them to accomplish...

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krishnasrinivasOP12y ago

I removed the "Live demo" as it was making my server slow.

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elwell12y ago

It is truly nutty.

akerl_12y ago· 1 in thread

Posted previously by the same user, who appears to be the developer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6571735

krishnasrinivasOP12y ago

Yes, I re-did the whole thing and giving it another shot.

columbo12y ago· 1 in thread

It's interesting to see the 3 different groups of people

1) People trying to break the system

2) People trying to use the system

3) Griefers

krishnasrinivasOP12y ago

yeah ... I think we can expect all kinds of people here :-) You can just install nutty and check it out.

bsirkia12y ago· 1 in thread

cool! I had to get 5 interns spun up on a few dev environments last summer and this definitely would have made it easier. I can also see this being useful for sharing output like logs or errors.

I'm sure as the developer you've thought of a lot more applications for nutty (great url btw), what sort of things do you see it being useful for?

krishnasrinivasOP12y ago

junker3712y ago· 1 in thread

This is pretty useful. I think it should only be readable by default. Why the need to sign-in to make it read-only?

krishnasrinivasOP12y ago

If you think making it R/O by default makes sense ... let me think about it. I need to fix "Why the need to sign-in to make it read-only"

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