Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop(github.com)
17 pointsby cloaky23312 hours ago11 comments
  • pythonic_hell9 hours ago
    This is nice, however why build this when you could have raised a PR to btop to add support directly into it?
    • corv8 hours ago
      Perhaps because it's easier to reinvent the wheel nowadays?
    • queenkjuul8 hours ago
      From the btop contribution guidelines:

      > "Vibe coded" PR's where it seems like the author doesn't understand the generated code will be dismissed.

  • ahofmann7 hours ago
    If you don't bother to write your own announcement, I don't bother to look at your thing.
  • mantomat7 hours ago
    Please, please, take the time to write READMEs by hand. It at least shows intentionality.
  • misiek087 hours ago
    No mention of Rust in repo description and every 4 sentences?! Thanks, I’ll look at it! I didn’t know I miss those things until reading README ;(
  • TomJansen7 hours ago
    I hate this "witty" Claude speak where it tries so hard to be cool:

    >I haven't seen yours yet

    >, in the terminal you already live in

    >truth

    >Everything is optional

    I can't really put my finger to it why, but type of writing pisses me off so much.

    • sunaookami7 hours ago
      This + when it constantly leaks prompts and implementation details. E.g.:

      >No sudo, no telemetry, about 1.3% of one core.

      You just know the prompt the author sent. And of course the absolute classic:

      >No ps, no powermetrics, no scraping.

      • entrope7 hours ago
        In a third list of three things, Claude mentioned that this program does not link an HTTP stack. Good to know, I guess, but how can we evaluate it against Zawinski's law without knowing whether it can read or send email?
    • 6 hours ago
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  • skrrtww8 hours ago
    > I built
    • weikju8 hours ago
      > > I built

      I assumed it was Claude taking credit for it since it wrote the whole post anyway.

    • 7 hours ago
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    • dontdoxxme8 hours ago
      Me and my French mate Claude
  • 6 hours ago
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  • aeve8906 hours ago
    Geez even the literally 1 line "about" is written with AI. What do people mean when they write "so I built..."?
  • rvz8 hours ago
    So in 2026, it is more efficient to waste thousands of tokens on rolling your own slop version, rather than adding a feature to something that already exists.

    Something like btop has been there for decades and will continue to do so where as this slop tool will be unmaintained or even deleted in a year.

    • misiek087 hours ago
      They don’t accept vibecoded PRs and yes, it’s much easier to sit for a evening or two than to wait for maintainers to review PR in a month and wait another month or year for release. I’m not happy, but that’s the reality.
    • jawr7 hours ago
      I believe btop was only released in 2021.

      htop was released 2024 and top was released 1992.

      I agree that the bar is much lower now, but reinventing rather than adding is not a new thing!

      • herywort6 hours ago
        I assume 2024 is a typo, htop was released in 2004
      • dd_xplore7 hours ago
        What! Htop is newer than btop?
  • ramon1568 hours ago
    These descriptions are borderline insulting

    > No sudo, no telemetry

    Does it also not nuke your kernel? does it also not inject a keylogger? How will I know if it doesn't tell me! /s

    • hparadiz6 hours ago
      You could just read the code.
      • nozzlegear6 hours ago
        Erm, the based employees at Anthropic don't read their code before merging, they just have Claude read it twice. Why would I waste my time reading code when I could be proompting?
  • itsjzt8 hours ago
    hello