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Turn your idle shell into a visual playground with this collection of Bash screensav­ers

8 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2025-10-28 · latest 2025-10-29

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  1. …yd=$((120+(y>>24))); printf '\e[48;5;%um ' "$yd"; fi; done This could probably be submitted to https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/blob/main/gall...
    comment by georgefrowny · 2025-10-29 · in Why do some radio towers blink?
  2. …coders and then tells them how to behave [0]. I imagine we'll see more of this in the future. [0] https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/blob/main/AGEN...
    comment by jedberg · 2025-10-28 · in Show HN: Bash Screensavers
  3. Good catch! For folks curious about the rm -rf see https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/blob/main/gall... line 339
    comment by attogram · 2025-10-28 · in Show HN: Bash Screensavers
  4. …day when great projects like this pop up on the front page of HN? Did you see the library of viz? https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/blob/main/libr... My favourite API: lov_die_with_honor()
    comment by throwaway2037 · 2025-10-28 · in Show HN: Bash Screensavers
  5. See the spread-the-word script in https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/tree/main/spot... This script generates a series of shell commands to create a "spotlight" message on the main GitHub repository page. It does this by…
    comment by attogram · 2025-10-28 · in Show HN: Bash Screensavers
  6. …is messed up now because of further commits, but you can see what it looked like at the time here: https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/tree/a7369a93c...
    comment by warp · 2025-10-28 · in Show HN: Bash Screensavers
  7. Gallery of current screensavers: https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/blob/main/gall...
    comment by attogram · 2025-10-28 · in Show HN: Bash Screensavers