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Show HN: your website as a TUI, over SSH right now

6 points • by keepamovin • today at 12:18 AM • 3 comments • view on HN

Try it at: ssh krnl.duetbrowser.com

No sign up, totally free - no download. Let me know what you think.

This is a real TUI browser rendering the web as ANSI with its own layout engine. The backend is Google cloud run, running browserbox and the Krnl TUI browser and it is routed through a simple SSH server endpoint.

Prior art exists (brow.sh) but I wasn't satisfied with their graphical take. I wanted the raw, old skool terminal days of the early internet - BBS, and old green phosphor library comptuers - but running the modern web, with all the bells and jingle jangle whistles (JavaScript, etc).

No funding, no VC, just 100% raw terminal fun. Not sure how long the demo will last, but try it out.

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zgubi • today at 6:40 AM

  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  KRNL — the text-mode web browser, in the cloud │
  │  Ctrl-C or close the terminal to end the demo.  │
  └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Starting BrowserBox Terminal Kernel...

Error: Failed to start kernel - Cannot find module 'chroma-js' Require stack: - /tmp/sea-terminal-kit-f476015698c8cef721a6637233bd9330/client/node_modules/terminal-kit/lib/termkit.js - /tmp/sea-terminal-kit-f476015698c8cef721a6637233bd9330/client/noop.js Connection to krnl.duetbrowser.com closed.

quotemstr • today at 2:33 AM

You might want to consider using atomic update escape codes: https://github.com/contour-terminal/vt-extensions/blob/maste...

The interface flickers like crazy right now.

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