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22 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 4 stories, 18 comments · first 2015-03-31 · latest 2026-03-24

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  1. …Rust and is headed in a good direction. Use/contribute to that if you're really interested. [1] - https://github.com/tstack/lnav/tree/master/src/third-party/l... [2] - https://github.com/pauloremoli/logana/
    comment by tstack · 2026-03-24 · in Log File Viewer for the Terminal
  2. …need to really look very hard, there are a fair number of very recent stack and heap overflows: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20heap%20...
    comment by teh · 2026-03-24 · in Log File Viewer for the Terminal
  3. …an array of web servers while at GoDaddy; good ol' times. First commit is from Sep 13, 2009: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/commit/b4ec432515e95e86ec9d71... . Woah! we’re old. This is what the UX looked like back in the day:…
    comment by guessmyname · 2026-03-24 · in Log File Viewer for the Terminal
  4. Looks very useful, will give it a go. This resonates with my use of grep+less: https://github.com/tstack/lnav?tab=readme-ov-file#why-not-ju...
    comment by asmosoinio · 2026-03-24 · in Log File Viewer for the Terminal
  5. …ones. Adding the time filters to the "Filters" panel sounds like a reasonable request. I've added https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/1275 to track. > - I would expect to be able to create a new view of the data using SQL `SELECT`. A…
    comment by tstack · 2024-06-20 · in Lnav Logfile Navigator
  6. …and hiding others. The latter point seems like it could be something that should be handled when https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/1274 is resolved.
    comment by feanaro · 2024-06-20 · in Lnav Logfile Navigator
  7. …switch between different "views" over the same data, maybe it will be possible someday :) I created https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/1274 to remember this
    comment by tstack · 2024-06-19 · in Lnav Logfile Navigator
  8. …run into are more around different versions of ncurses producing slightly different outputs. [1] - https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/test/scripty.cc [2] - https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/test/tui-captures...
    comment by tstack · 2024-06-04 · in ht: Headless Terminal
  9. …to limit how long users are connected for, and to kill the lnav process if it gets stuck. [1]: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/demo/Dockerfile [2]: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/docs/tutorials/pl... [3]:…
    comment by jamessb · 2023-11-02 · in Ask HN: How does `lnav` run its playground which you can just SSH into?
  10. …Have a look at the following comment on an issue that might be similar to what you're thinking of: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/1065#issuecomment-1602... > I guess I can sort of do this based on `module-field`? but I might want it…
    comment by tstack · 2023-08-23 · in Structured logging with slog
  11. …log_raw_text ->> '$.repository' from bunyan [1] - https://github.com/trentm/node-bunyan [2] - https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/src/formats/bunya... [3] - https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/test/expected/tes... [4] -…
    comment by tstack · 2023-08-23 · in Structured logging with slog
  12. …Loki seems to be favorite * https://datalust.co/seq is the easiest to deploy (single container) * https://github.com/tstack/lnav CLI based tool
    comment by gajus · 2023-05-08 · in Ask HN: Lightweight ELK alternative for ingesting and analyzing local logs?
  13. Sorry for the crashes, have you sent the crash logs to support@lnav.org or opened an issue on https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues ? I try to take a look at crash reports, but I’m not always able to figure out the issue from just the…
    comment by tstack · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools
  14. …to write a script that does what you want. I can help with that if post in the github discussion: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/discussions
    comment by tstack · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools
  15. My personal go-to for intelligently tailing files is lnav ( https://github.com/tstack/lnav ) tho it has crashed a couple of times for me when applying a bunch of filters, etc. Is anyone aware of any other comparable shell tool for tailing…
    comment by omair_inam · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools
  16. …and see what really happened. I think it can be improved, I just haven't found the time yet. [0] - https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/test/scripty.cc
    comment by tstack · 2020-12-10 · in Unit-testing a console app
  17. …lnav is able to lock onto a date format and parse all the lines in a file fairly quickly. [1] - https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/src/ptimec.cc
    comment by tstack · 2016-10-13 · in Timing the time it takes to parse time
  18. GitHub https://github.com/tstack/lnav
    comment by michaelmior · 2015-03-31 · in The Log File Navigator