[HN Gopher] A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven ...
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A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time
weather data
Author : forinti
Score : 126 points
Date : 2026-02-19 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| dbacar wrote:
| Lovely project.
|
| Yet checking out "cargo install weathr" and is it me or rust is
| becoming the next nodejs? :D
| tmp_20260219 wrote:
| I had the same thought seeing the long list of "Downloaded" and
| "Compiling" lines. Looking at Cargo.toml, I believe tokio could
| be overkill for this. I might clone it and play with reducing
| deps to see how far I can get reducing the npm-ness of this
| tool.
| tehlike wrote:
| One day i will make an app you can connect with telnet or ssh so
| that you can do pricetracker.wtf on cli.
|
| One day.
|
| Very cool project!
| sneak wrote:
| given that go has an ssh server in stdlib or close to it, this
| might even be a oneshot prompt with opus.
| piinbinary wrote:
| That reminds me of `curl wttr.in/94110`
| owenmarshall wrote:
| I also enjoy `finger <cityname>@graph.no`
| otherflavors wrote:
| Reminds me of
| weatherspect(https://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/)
| which unfortunately hasn't been working since the API it was
| using was deprecated/abandoned
| CodeIsTheEnd wrote:
| I watched the animated gif in the readme and let out a shout of
| delight when I saw the lightning strike, and on the second loop
| appreciated how it also lit up the surroundings. Lovely attention
| to detail!
|
| I looked at the snow one and almost expected snowdrifts to start
| accumulating.
| the_arun wrote:
| For me (in firefox) whole screen froze for a sec/two when
| lightning hit.
| reconnecting wrote:
| TUI twice (1) a day. Interesting tendency.
|
| 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075124
| MattDaEskimo wrote:
| I'm convinced we are cycling through the stages of programming
| as it becomes commoditized.
| reconnecting wrote:
| I propose 'fast coding'.
|
| Like fast fashion, but for software development. One piece of
| software, one-time use: run, have fun, delete. No
| maintenance, no support, and no regret.
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| Thin clients next month?
| ZebusJesus wrote:
| And you get another star, thanks for sharing this great project
| and just neat all around. One of my laptops, an Asus ZenBook, has
| a trackpad display and now I just have the weather running in it!
| godelski wrote:
| Fun idea! Now someone has to write shaders for ghostty
| annshress wrote:
| I am impressed with contributors like these. In the fast-moving
| world, where everyone is running after AI, you slow down to touch
| grass.
| ge96 wrote:
| The new neofetch
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