asciinema
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People recommend asciinema as a good, professional way to record and share terminal sessions. The most common caveat is that it needs a JS player, so GitHub READMEs won't show it as a native image.
People recommend asciinema as a good, professional way to record and share terminal sessions. The most common caveat is that it needs a JS player, so GitHub READMEs won't show it as a native image.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good, professional terminal recording tool
“Have you heard the good news about the terminal savior asciinema”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” “asciinema is so good! Love seeing the player on the site.”
Comment from 12 Aug 2026 in “Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C” “the asciinema is really good and very professional”
Comment from 12 Jan 2026 in “2026 is the Year of Self-hosting” Gets the job done
“I'm flattered that Rodrigo considers asciinema as a potentially useful tool for this problem.”
Comment from 26 May 2026 in “Human Proof for FOSS Contributions: asciinema as proof you're not an LLM” “asciinema should do the job.”
Comment from 17 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Needs a JS player to render
“asciinema needs a JS player to render, GitHub READMEs don't support it as a native image”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Termstage – Animated terminal SVGs from YAML, no screen recording” File conversion is annoying
“the conversion has been annoying a few times”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions”
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See all 86 privilege escalation tools, rankedWhat people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“asciinema is so good! Love seeing the player on the site.”
“It's a cool tool/platform, but very different.”
“Have you heard the good news about the terminal savior asciinema”
“I'm flattered that Rodrigo considers asciinema as a potentially useful tool for this problem.”
“the conversion has been annoying a few times”
“asciinema needs a JS player to render, GitHub READMEs don't support it as a native image”
“the asciinema is really good and very professional”
“asciinema should do the job.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.