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HN comment orderI use this all the time. I find this option pretty neat: curl wttr.in/Moon Shows current lunar phase. I use Termux[0] on my phone with curl installed. Pretty handy. Also, check out rate.sx[1] from the same author: curl rate.sx Shows information about current exchange rates of cryptocoins. More similar console services: https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services [0]: https://termux.com/ [1]: https://github.com/chubin/rate.sx
Remember with this kind of thing you're trusting the remote site with access to your terminal emulator. There have been various security problems with some more advanced terminals and escape sequences in the past[1][2]. Personally I think it's a cute thing and have implemented some similar little easter eggs to this via: curl ip.wtf/moo [1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical... [2]: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162621/rxvt-2.7.0-rxvt...
This is pretty rad. I'm surprised no one's made a CEEFAX replica for the terminal yet [0]. Their weather page is pretty iconic [1]. [0] There are CEEFAX Emulators online that pull from the BBC RSS feeds to do this. [1] https://teletextart.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/weather...
One of my favorite shell aliases is "alias weather=curl wttr.in/<City>"
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1105
- Total comments
- 354
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-03 | Web front end to console weather app | dorsatum | 3 | 1 |
| 2017-03-17 | Wttr.in – weather checking CLI | mromnia | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-08-26 | Chubin/wttr.in: The right way to check the weather | axiomdata316 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-04-26 | curl wttr.in | old-gregg | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-06-25 | Curl Wttr.inFirst breakout · Best thread | old-gregg | 461 | 122 |
| 2022-02-14 | wttr.in: `curl wttr.in` check weather in terminal | ducktective | 4 | 1 |
| 2022-05-15 | `curl wttr.in`: Weather in your terminal | cercatrova | 368 | 143 |
| 2025-07-17 | Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast serviceHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | saikatsg | 264 | 87 |