Hacker News with Generative AI: IRC

IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine (ircdriven.com)
IRC Driven is a modern IRC indexing site and search engine. Originally started in 2006, inspired by the now defunct SearchIRC, and after several rewrites we are now evolving into a social media platform for IRC.

IRC, Search Engines, Social Media

95 points by pabs3 5 days ago | 81 comments

BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021) (ariadne.space)
A side effect of the whole freenode kerfluffle is that I’ve been looking at IRCD again. IRC, is of course a very weird and interesting place, and the smaller community of people who run IRCDs are largely weirder and even more interesting.

Operating Systems, Technical Debt, IRC, Software

121 points by thunderbong 20 days ago | 107 comments

Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go (github.com/ergochat)

Go Programming, IRC, Software, Open Source

291 points by OuterVale 31 days ago | 154 comments

Freedom to run 3rd party clients (borretti.me)
Client freedom, by analogy to the four freedoms, is the freedom to operate a third-party client to an API. Email, IRC, and RSS are open protocols with client freedom. You can read email through a native GUI app, a spartan text-only client, and even an Emacs mode.

Client Freedom, Open Protocols, Software, Email, IRC

7 points by xelxebar 51 days ago | 0 comments

The Lounge: a Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client (github.com/thelounge)
Modern features brought to IRC. Push notifications, link previews, new message markers, and more bring IRC to the 21st century.

IRC, Web Development, Open Source, Communication, User Interface

4 points by fanf2 77 days ago | 0 comments

IRC Today hosted IRC bouncer (irctoday.com)
Chat on IRC from any client, keep message history between devices, share files and photos over chat.

IRC, Chat, Messaging, Communication, Software

29 points by todsacerdoti 77 days ago | 21 comments

Matrix-Libera IRC Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective (2023) (libera.chat)
Some people have requested transparency into how Libera came to the conclusion that we needed to take the drastic action of requesting that Element Matrix Services (EMS) deactivate the portalling bouncer-like feature of the Matrix bridge and limit it to explicitly opted-in plumbed rooms, and then escalate to more serious action in requesting the bridge be disabled fully.

IRC, Matrix, Open Source, Communication, Retrospectives

85 points by walterbell 109 days ago | 79 comments

Wallops: A modern IRC client for classic Mac OS (jcs.org)
Wallops is a modern IRC client that I wrote on and for my Macintosh Plus.

Mac OS, IRC, Software, Programming

94 points by todsacerdoti 127 days ago | 27 comments

The Lounge: The self-hosted web IRC client (thelounge.chat)

IRC, Web Development, Self-Hosted, Chat

7 points by Tomte 147 days ago | 1 comments

Ircpipe – Netcat for IRC (gir.st)

Networking, IRC, Tools

73 points by signa11 147 days ago | 8 comments

My IRC client runs on Kubernetes (xeiaso.net)