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Show HN: Terminal to web page in a single command

Posted by leakr on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:49AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/FenrirSec/xterm.rs

Hello HN! Today I'm releasing to the public something I've been working on for a little while now. I wrote a rust back-end to replace the one xterm.js uses. After many issues with Node and security concerns with some of the packages required by xterm.js (which is inherent to any node project with many dependencies), we decided to build our own xterm.rs back-end that would have no dynamic...

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Show HN: Stream any GUI to a webpage in a single command (no noVNC included)

Posted by leakr on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:21AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/lp1dev/WebX11

Hello HN! A few months ago I told you about WebX11, my project turning any X11 GUI into a web interface. Recently I experimented with webtransport (and chose to keep using websockets instead), added various optimizations on the image format, cache and managing window areas and resizing. Right now I'm happy with how the project turned out and I'm ready to show it to the world! I hope the project...

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Re:WebX11 – Turn any executable into a resizable web page on Saturday October 04, 2025 @07:59PM (#45477813)
Hello! As a side-project I build this because I got tired of having to run a full-fledged VNC server to just expose a single window for a lab or when I was debugging on a remote machine. It uses Xvfb to create a new virtual desktop and streams the contents back to you via WebTransfer or WebSocket.
Re:Dead Man's Switch Using Git and Telegram on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:54AM (#38640394)
How I built a simple Dead Man's Switch using Git/GitHub and Telegram
Re:Show HN: I'm starting an IoT hacking video series on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:35AM (#27086167)
I started a video series documenting the analysis of an IoT device, we're starting with environment setup and packet capture using a RaspeberryPi 4 and we're going to do protocol analysis next time!
Re:Why Privacy Matters on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:35AM (#24342192)
Ghost is pretty neat! It's self-hosted solution though, which means that you have to update your OS and the software (Ghost related or not) on it regularly if you don't want it to be vulnerable which isn't ideal if you're not technical and don't want to deal with this.
Re:Why Privacy Matters on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:32AM (#24342152)
Your "standard" user without any git or HTML/CSS/JS or command line knowledge hasn't a lot of options imho. Obviously, self-hosting with https://sitejs.org/ or something similar would be ideal but when you don't have a dev/IT background and you're looking for a way to host a blog there isn't a plethora of viable and easy-to-use solutions, especially if you don't want to use a service provided by Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc... I did the research a few months ago and maybe I missed some options though? If you have resources I'm interested!
Re:Why Privacy Matters on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:26AM (#24342062)
"is ideal privacy even possible" - It is, but 99% of the world population won't be able to attain it. Your machines (smartphone, PCs) can be fingerprinted with a 99% accuracy even if you navigate using Tor or a VPN. I think https://panopticlick.eff.org/ can be part of an answer!
Re:Why Privacy Matters on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:19AM (#24341964)
Unfortunately WordPress is a pain in the butt to maintain, every plugin and even the core is a security liability if you don't auto update everything (which is likely to randomly wreck your blog someday) and Wordpress's default configuration (with its XMLRPC API) is far from perfect.
Re:Why Privacy Matters on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:17AM (#24341944)
Yeah that's a great theorical piece of advice. But here's the thing. In 2020 if you don't wanna self-host your website and have a resilient and flexible website, you don't have other options than squarespace/wix and other platforms using cookies.