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Show HN: Terminal sharing using your browser

akerl_ 12y ago
Posted previously by the same user, who appears to be the developer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6571735 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6571735
- krishnasrinivas 12y ago
  Yes, I re-did the whole thing and giving it another shot.
bsirkia 12y ago
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?
- krishnasrinivas 12y 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.
egray2 12y ago
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.
- Pezmc 12y ago
  I think the conclusion is that you can't trust random internet users with a terminal.
  - krishnasrinivas 12y ago
    I removed the "Live demo" as it was making my server slow.
    - deleted 12y ago
      [deleted]
  - egray2 12y ago
    Now I really want to go make a TwitchPlaysLinux stream. Would need a goal for them to accomplish...
    - jjsz 12y ago
      TwitchPlaysMari0?
    - NoodleIncident 12y ago
      TwitchInstallsArchLinux?
- elwell 12y ago
  It is truly nutty.
junker37 12y ago
This is pretty useful. I think it should only be readable by default. Why the need to sign-in to make it read-only?
- krishnasrinivas 12y 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"
columbo 12y ago
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 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!
- krishnasrinivas 12y ago
  yeah ... I think we can expect all kinds of people here :-) You can just install nutty and check it out.

Posted previously by the same user, who appears to be the developer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6571735 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6571735

krishnasrinivas 12y ago
Yes, I re-did the whole thing and giving it another shot.

bsirkia 12y ago

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?

krishnasrinivas 12y 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.

egray2 12y ago

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.

Pezmc 12y ago
I think the conclusion is that you can't trust random internet users with a terminal.
- krishnasrinivas 12y ago
  I removed the "Live demo" as it was making my server slow.
  - deleted 12y ago
    [deleted]
- egray2 12y ago
  Now I really want to go make a TwitchPlaysLinux stream. Would need a goal for them to accomplish...
  - jjsz 12y ago
    TwitchPlaysMari0?
  - NoodleIncident 12y ago
    TwitchInstallsArchLinux?
elwell 12y ago
It is truly nutty.

junker37 12y ago

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

krishnasrinivas 12y 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"

columbo 12y ago

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 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!

krishnasrinivas 12y ago
yeah ... I think we can expect all kinds of people here :-) You can just install nutty and check it out.