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Night.fm

70 points| aliabd | 5 years ago |night.fm

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[+] mxuribe|5 years ago|reply
According to the maker's main website [https://circuit.dev/], it appears to be a "cyberpunk-themed radio station"...though for me, it stays at "LOADING PLAYER"...so maybe the site/app is getting overwhelmed with traffic? I'll come back to it later.

I did like that hacker-y intro screen; very neat!

[+] alexcroox|5 years ago|reply
Network tab shows it's waiting for a request to /api so definitely under too much load right now.
[+] eptcyka|5 years ago|reply
I think it's just staying a bit too close to the source material.
[+] mr-wendel|5 years ago|reply
Eager to check it out when it's able to breath again!

In the mean time, I can't recommend https://nightride.fm/ enough. Fun retro/synth UI, great stations, and a MilkDrop visualizer for whatever you've got playing.

When they do shows with artists and producers those are blast to listen in on.

[+] JimiofEden|5 years ago|reply
Thanks for sharing this. I've been hunting around for a good synthwave radio, and this hits all the right points.

I'm eager to try out OP's link when the server can handle again, but the experience on nightride fm is REALLY, really cool.

[+] revicon|5 years ago|reply
Nightride is a great one, listening now!

https://somafm.com/ is another excellent music stream, Groove Salad is my favorite.

[+] jedberg|5 years ago|reply
I'm listening now and this is actually making me anxious. The music is the kind you'd hear in 80s movie montages right before something important is going to happen. I'm now anxiously waiting to find out what major plot point happens next.
[+] joshspankit|5 years ago|reply
This would be a great use-case for webtorrent or something.
[+] offtop5|5 years ago|reply
Is hacker News the new load testing. Instead of having to whip your up own j meter instance you just post a link here and see what happens .
[+] mxuribe|5 years ago|reply
You mean like LoTaaS (load testing as a service)? ;-) (I totally made that up, and have no idea if that is even a real thing.)
[+] kjakm|5 years ago|reply
It gets stuck on "Loading" for me in Safari (and Chrome).
[+] zffr|5 years ago|reply
Same. Seems like it's stuck making a request to 'https://night.fm/api/'. Possibly facing the hacker news hug of death
[+] duxup|5 years ago|reply
Worked on Firefox 84.0.2... well until it got to 'loading player'... then stopped.
[+] kaeruct|5 years ago|reply
Mine gets stuck loading but outputs this in the console

>getting new tracks... >Array [] >couldn't get tracks: Request failed with status code 504

[+] acdanger|5 years ago|reply
504 errors in the console, looks like HN huge o' death.
[+] grgbrn|5 years ago|reply
Also Firefox. I wonder which browsers work?
[+] cmeacham98|5 years ago|reply
Server is returning a 504 on /api/ which their JS doesn't expect and gets stuck forever.
[+] duxup|5 years ago|reply
I feel like for this to be on the front page we should maybe know what this page ... does.
[+] hairofadog|5 years ago|reply
Looks cool and I'll be interested in checking this out when it's up again.

The interface and vibe remind me that people have posted links here about listening to the International Space Station; I would love an internet radio station that was sort of like a police scanner, but more like astronauts or aquanauts talking to each other – calm human voices far away, with that sort of static two-way-radio vibe, more science and less carnage. I could listen to that all night long.

[+] open-paren|5 years ago|reply
I think this is the first time I've seen Svelte in the wild (outside of NYT)
[+] miloignis|5 years ago|reply
I'd love to have this load and listen in, but while you're waiting you might be able to get your fix from https://nightride.fm which I found a while back.
[+] delgaudm|5 years ago|reply
Oooh. Thanks for this! Now enjoying the Recktory channel.
[+] cmeacham98|5 years ago|reply
Image that shows what it would work like if the server wasn't down (looted from a meta tag): https://i.imgur.com/kJIGRF5.png
[+] linschn|5 years ago|reply
Off topic but what a mess imgur has become!

It's an image sharing site, yet the image is the last thing that loads.

After 20 seconds I closed the tab, I'm on a mobile connection in a fast train and the image was not loaded after that time. The social media badges were though.

[+] uncomputation|5 years ago|reply
Reminds me a lot of poolside.fm, I hope it’s by the same guy
[+] pram|5 years ago|reply
Poolside is extremely cool, especially the desktop clients styled like classic MacOS
[+] utf_8x|5 years ago|reply
Aaaand... it's down...
[+] nickthemagicman|5 years ago|reply
Well I breached the security protocol. Am I going to jail?
[+] elwell|5 years ago|reply
If someone hooked it up to trigger some final command on a server they were hacking... well it wouldn't sound good in court when the prosecutor says "You clicked the 'Breach Protocol' button, and you gonna tell us you didn't know what you were doing?!"
[+] meddlin|5 years ago|reply
Right to jail...