[technoplato]

I think the dissenting / mocking comments here are missing the spirit of the post.

Since bash can evoke any Turing complete program, feasibly anything could be done with one line of bash.

The authors intent as I saw was to show what that line was. Would you have known without this article?

Whether or not people are just being sarcastic, I feel we should definitely not mock but rather encourage any open and free attempts at teaching us cool things that are more novel than the “how to get started on Linux” type bs the market is inundated with.

Bravo to author.

[mcguire]

"To solve this problem I wrote a simple server that runs in the cloud which can handle any number of realtime broadcasts uploaded using a simple curl command. This allows you to essentially broadcast radio feeds with a single line. My solution to the problem of broadcasting audio without port-forwarding was to create a free and public “dummy” server that handles any incoming traffic and forwards to any number of connected clients. This server keeps track of connected clients and routes incoming packets to them, otherwise discarding the packets."

If the author had perhaps titled their post "I wrote a multiplexing server for audio streams" it might go over better, although that doesn't have the proper click-bait appeal.

[zamadatix]

I think the spirit of the post got overrun by (likely accidentally) making the title so clickbaity.

Bash can run any program, that's why you don't advertise running a program with it in your title unless the program is (at least mostly) in bash which is an interesting constraint to go check out. There are some really whacky crazy interesting things done in actual bash scripting including internet applications like this via bash's builtin /dev/tcp functionality... come to think of it this might actually be one of those crazy "I did it in pure bash"able things.

I'm sure most on HN knew you could pipe the output of a media application like ffmpeg into something like curl instead of locally. All of the exact options and methodology used here off the top of their head? Very unlikely but is that really what this title sets the expectation of?

I don't think mocking is the best recourse but I'm not sure it's much more useful to argue the author should only be receiving blind encouragement in cases like this either. Like I said I highly doubt the author had any malice when changing the title for HN but I also understand why many don't want to blindly encourage posts where the title can be so misleading/confusing.

Ironically "Creating my own free and easy to use internet radio station host" would probably have gotten even more attention with almost never of the pushback and the project work on norns is probably worth its own post.

[DarylZero]

The one line didn't even "Make an internet radio statio" it just uploaded streaming audio to a web site.