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31 mentions on Hacker News by 25 people: 5 stories, 26 comments · first 2011-11-15 · latest 2026-08-30
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…2011 is suddenly on the front page? Anyway, a better known implementation (in Bash) is probably https://github.com/holman/spark , which was developed by Zach Holman, one of the first GitHub hires.
comment by priteau · 2026-08-30 · in Spark: Sparklines in your shell -
Found it! https://github.com/holman/spark/blob/master/spark
comment by rurban · 2024-08-27 · in The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021) -
…pressing z/x/c/v can switch between last hour/day/month/year charts on each stock item. Check out https://github.com/holman/spark for how to make graphs with simple character glyphs. I realize my problem with terminal programs like this is…
comment by hombre_fatal · 2021-02-03 · in A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker -
…cases in Germany, like via command line arguments, that might be handy for use in scripts. [0] https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by dividedbyzero · 2020-07-10 · in Show HN: COVIDnow – monitor COVID19 numbers via CLI -
Reminds me of this script to generate sparklines in the command line: https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by flobosg · 2020-05-07 · in Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code -
…a tangentially related project years ago — also called spark — that did simple sparklines in shell: https://github.com/holman/spark Just as a warning, though; over the years I’ve gotten 3-4 requests by media companies to write a book on…
comment by holman · 2017-09-12 · in A font to make sparklines in seconds -
…m/seenaburns/stag/blob/master/examples/netw... Trying out some of the examples for Spark is also fun: https://github.com/holman/spark/wiki/Wicked-Cool-Usage
comment by __sb__ · 2014-08-27 · in Show HN: Stag, Streaming graphs inside your terminal -
if you like this you'll also like spark, for sparklines in the terminal ▁▂▃▅▇ https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by kilovoltaire · 2014-05-21 · in Pixel graphics in terminal -
…this, if anyone was interested. █▅▇▆▄▄▅▁ | | | | | +- $120-$150k | +- $50k-$80k +- $20k [1] https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by WestCoastJustin · 2013-09-29 · in Poll: Freelancers/Consultants – What's your yearly income? -
https://github.com/holman/spark You'll like this then.
comment by echohack · 2013-08-14 · in Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike? -
…| | 21 35 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734 ps. I created the bar graph via https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by WestCoastJustin · 2013-08-14 · in Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike? -
…150 113 73 60 42 24 14 12 21 12 10 10 10 8 7 10 12 10 90 ▅▃▄▆▄█▆▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▅ ^ 120k-129k [1] https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by WestCoastJustin · 2013-06-01 · in Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary? -
./spark 18 28 65 73 33 39 28 10 10 7 1 6 2 3 7 3 2 1 3 34 ▂▃▇█▄▄▃▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▄ ^ 40k-49k [1] https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by WestCoastJustin · 2013-06-01 · in Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary? -
https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by mh- · 2013-02-07 · in Histo.c – histograms in the terminal for static or streaming data -
That's great! But you know that begs for sparklines... https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by keyle · 2013-01-27 · in Hubble - a terminal dashboard -
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comment by WestCoastJustin · 2012-12-13 · in Why founders shouldn't be the developers -
…– for example, “▅” is character U+2585 LOWER FIVE EIGHTHS BLOCK. sp332 probably either used https://github.com/holman/spark or manually copied and pasted those characters.
comment by roryokane · 2012-08-17 · in Font that creates charts -
…Histogrem requires a custom font. Still, it's nice that Histogrem offers greater precision. [1] https://github.com/holman/spark
comment by mbostock · 2012-04-07 · in Histogrem: The Histogram Font -
…or to scratch their own (non-monetary) itch. Here's a random one from the HN frontpage last week: https://github.com/holman/spark I'm not sure whether we're arguing some kind of objectivist semantics game, or if we're talking past each…
comment by mnutt · 2011-12-08 · in You Guys Are Millionaires Right?