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PIT (Phono In Terminal) — lightweight C-based terminal image viewer with true RGB color rendering in pure text-mode.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 5 stories, 16 comments · first 2025-07-04 · latest 2025-07-19

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  1. Great project, I love all these things,I also gave your repository a star, I hope you will have 1000 of them someday, you really add to the capabilities of the terminal, I'm also interested in this, if you want, check out my project too:…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-19 · in CLI converts YAML exercise plan to guided audio files
  2. Why, it's quite an interesting thing, as it were HN in terminal, looks cool, maybe I'll try it sometime. I also do interesting things, you can also check out their other ones: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-18 · in Ask HN: What are interesting do you know any terminal utilities?
  3. Hey! I just gave your project a star. If you’re up for it, I’d really appreciate your support as well — I’m working on an open-source terminal-based image viewer called PIT (Phono in Terminal), built for speed and clean rendering (even 4K…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-16 · in Show HN: KisanAI – WhatsApp Agricultural Assistant
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    Show HN: I Recently Built a Project
    story by FerkiHN · 2025-07-16 · 5 comments
  5. I recently built a project called PIT (Phono In Terminal) — a terminal image viewer written in C that renders .png/.jpg images using actual RGB colors in your terminal (with optional 256-color fallback). What makes it different? Zero…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-16
  6. For example, my favorite programming language is the C programming language, it offers endless possibilities (I know it's complicated, but I like everything and I don't see any difficulties), I've already done a lot of cool things github…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-15 · in Ask HN: Tell me, what is your favorite programming language?
  7. For example, my favorite programming language is the C programming language, it offers endless possibilities (I know it's complicated, but I like everything and I don't see any difficulties), I've already done a lot of cool things github…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-15 · in Ask HN: Let's learn more about each one, shall we?
  8. Here's the image viewer I mentioned — it’s a single binary, written in raw C with no dependencies other than SDL2. Works on Linux, Windows, Termux etc. Demo folder shows some real renders. GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-15 · in Ask HN: Do you still build terminal tools for fun?
  9. GitHub repo: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image... It includes: - ANSI-based rendering - image scaling + resizing - full C code without dependencies - supports .png/.jpg/.bmp via stb_image
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-15 · in Show HN: Terminal-based image viewer using ANSI colors (~300kb, written in C)
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    Show HN: Photo viewer, right in the terminal, cross-platform, no need for x11
    story by FerkiHN · 2025-07-11 · 3 comments
  11. I recently built a project called PIT (Phono In Terminal) — a terminal image viewer written in C that renders .png/.jpg images using actual RGB colors in your terminal (with optional 256-color fallback). What makes it different? Zero…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-11 · in I built a minimal terminal image viewer in C with true RGB and no dependencies
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    I built a minimal terminal image viewer in C with true RGB and no dependencies
    story by FerkiHN · 2025-07-11 · 1 comment
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    Show HN: Pit – View PNG/JPG images directly in the terminal (no ASCII art)
    story by FerkiHN · 2025-07-10 · 3 comments
  14. Wow bro, this is amazing! I’m also a fan of writing raw WinAPI code in C — and seeing a fast, no-dependency, single-exe utility like this in 2025 feels like a breath of fresh air. I especially love how snub avoids indexing and gives full…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-09 · in Show HN: Snub – A fast, lightweight file search CLI for Windows (written in C)
  15. I wanted to create games on Unity and build a business there, but I changed my mind and became an open source developer. Which develops various things, for example: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-08 · in Ask HN: What dream did you give up on?
  16. Wow bro, this is just great, your project really deserves a star and I gave it, I also really liked that the utility is available locally. By the way, I'm also a programmer and I create interesting things (my project is not ready yet) but…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-07 · in Show HN: I Got Tired of Calculator Sites, So I Built My Own
  17. Ops, I'll try again now: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-06 · in Show HN: Pixel Art Generator Using Genetic Algorithm
  18. I am developing a utility for viewing photos directly in the terminal. The image is rendered using the ASCII character " " filling it with different colors and shades, this allows you to open the image in even on older computers. Anyone…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-06 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
  19. I'm glad some of my tips were useful, and I understand that you are making minimalist libraries, I also like to keep everything minimal and optimized. By the way, if you can, please help me promote my repository. I've also been doing…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-06 · in Show HN: Flaget – small 5kB CLI argument parser for Node.js
  20. Wow bro, that's cool, I especially liked the game, it's cool, and I'm currently developing a utility for viewing photos right in the terminal. https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image... It's not ready yet, but can you…
    comment by FerkiHN · 2025-07-05 · in Ask HN: How many communities HN it devs in C language?
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    Linux Photo in Terminal
    story by FerkiHN · 2025-07-04 · 1 comment