Nice, I've now created dozens of little personal tools like this now :-)
This is IMHO the killer AI feature for personal use. So many utlities I never would have spent time on are now within reach. Even just non-trivial bashrc aliases and functions
vcf•Apr 19, 2026
Yeah, I completely agree. It's awesome to be able to build anything you want (as long as it's not too complex). I, too, have at least a dozen, and I usually don't share, but with the playoffs starting, I felt others could enjoy this one.
cr125rider•Apr 19, 2026
Super fun! Nice job shipping!
embedding-shape•Apr 19, 2026
> It's awesome to be able to build anything you want (as long as it's not too complex).
That's the thing. It was always awesome, as long as it wasn't too complex. The only thing that changed for me what was "too complex".
zawakin•Apr 19, 2026
Same — similar pile accumulating, and GitHub has fallen way behind. I keep going back and forth on whether a monorepo is the right answer or if it'd just make the sprawl more legible without actually helping. How are you organizing yours?
vcf•Apr 19, 2026
One repo per project. It makes it easier when I want to share or make public. I have 100+ repos in my account and I don’t find that cumbersome.
j45•Apr 19, 2026
The missing interface from sports.
rangersny1•Apr 19, 2026
Nice! In practice, how far behind the TV broadcast does it end up being?
vcf•Apr 19, 2026
Not too much, but it’s using a Rest API, so it also depends on the refresh rate (default 30 seconds, configurable with cli argument).
brewdad•Apr 19, 2026
That’s not bad. One of my favorite times is college football season with a big game on say, ABC. You quickly learn who it watching OTA, who is watching on cable and who has YoutubeTV based on the different reaction times after a big play.
james-clef•Apr 19, 2026
Wicked. Who is your team?
vcf•Apr 19, 2026
Go Habs Go!
bradley_taunt•Apr 19, 2026
Booooo!
(From a Senators fan…)
embedding-shape•Apr 19, 2026
> Acknowledgments - This project was inspired by Playball, a similar terminal application for following MLB baseball games.
Should've gone for something generalized that could handle a bunch of different games, instead of just another sport, so someone caring about multiple sports don't need multiple TUIs :)
vcf•Apr 19, 2026
Different sports have different ways to present the data. But most importantly, the data availability differs a lot between leagues, so there’s a benefit to having separate tools. I, for one, would not want to maintain an app for all sports.
Having long ago built an app that does gamecasts for multiple sports, similar to what you get from ESPN, every sport is completely different. There's almost nothing that matches up, except for the very basic concept of a box score. Even play by play has enough differences to be vastly different
embedding-shape•Apr 19, 2026
I never once built an app for gamecasts, any sport, but even I do realize that sports are different... Not sure what made you(s) believe I'm suggesting the exact same UI for all the sports.
itsnh98•Apr 19, 2026
Go Habs!
cyberax•Apr 19, 2026
What next? Perhaps a small scripting language to run on the side of the terminal?
You know, just to make some simple automations possible, nothing super-special.
_doctor_love•Apr 19, 2026
settle down
yuppiepuppie•Apr 19, 2026
Nice! I was thinking about doing something like this but for cycling, however one of the biggest PIA about building products for sports is all the gating of data.
Does the NHL really provide an API for all games? That's nice...
vcf•Apr 19, 2026
I had the same thought, went ahead when I found an existing Python module to access the API.
stackskipton•Apr 19, 2026
Officially no, but there is undocumented API (if you are commercial, they provide documentation and support) that is public without authentication.
14 Comments
Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451577 - Oct 2025 (146 comments)
Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591070 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)
Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653981 - Nov 2019 (42 comments)
This is IMHO the killer AI feature for personal use. So many utlities I never would have spent time on are now within reach. Even just non-trivial bashrc aliases and functions
That's the thing. It was always awesome, as long as it wasn't too complex. The only thing that changed for me what was "too complex".
(From a Senators fan…)
Should've gone for something generalized that could handle a bunch of different games, instead of just another sport, so someone caring about multiple sports don't need multiple TUIs :)
You know, just to make some simple automations possible, nothing super-special.
Does the NHL really provide an API for all games? That's nice...
This reminds me of that f1 tui… https://github.com/JustAman62/undercut-f1 or https://github.com/IAmTomShaw/f1-race-replay. The one I’m thinking of syncs with kodi for delayed playback “live” stats.
https://api-web.nhle.com/v1
Keeping upto date endpoints for sport scores is the most difficult challenge.