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hisham.hm
Personal blog · hisham.hm · on HN as hisham_hmprogrammingsystems
hisham.hm is a personal blog at hisham.hm about programming and systems. Since 2011, 53 different Hacker News readers have linked it 70 times, most often “Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 30 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link hisham.hm mostly as the home of htop, the process monitor, and also for posts on 0- vs 1-based indexing, the userland shell, and smart devices. Most comments cite it as a tool page.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says the smart-tech article "explains it well" on why an iPad is a smart gadget rather than a general computing device.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 30 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2014-03-21
- Userland: Integrated Dataflow Environment5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-09-01
- Htop 2.1 released5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-10-05
- Dynamic type systems aren’t even simpler4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-20
- Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-01-19
- Smart Tech – Smart for Whom?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-19
- The Lua community needs to learn to move on3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-04
- When listing repeated things, make pyramids3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-11
- I almost added Tetris to htop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-13
- The Algorithm Did It2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-01
What Hacker News says?
Ipad isn't general computing device, it's a smart gadget, same as Smart TV same as IoT lightbulb. This article explains it well: https://hisham.hm/2020/12/10/smart-tech-%e2%80%94-smart-for-...
Comment linking /2020/12/10/smart-tech-%e2%80%94-smart-for-whom/
on “Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client”Submitted Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform as a story · 613 points
HN discussiondaily-ish drivers of mine: - autossh - https://linux.die.net/man/1/autossh - sshfs - https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs - pandoc - https://pandoc.org/installing.html - exiftool - https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ - htop - https://hisham.hm/htop/ - tmux - https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki - rsync - https://rsync.samba.org/ - midnight commander - https://midnight-commander.org/ (faster, than loop ing ls, cd…
Comment linking /htop/
on “Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?”Submitted Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment as a story · 379 points
HN discussionFor others interested in donating: http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=donate
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on “Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform”Submitted User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy as a story · 290 points
HN discussionCopied from the main site at http://hisham.hm/htop/ ?
Comment linking /htop/
on “Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform”Submitted Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing as a story · 186 points
HN discussion128 Cores - nice: http://hisham.hm/htop/128.png
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on “Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform”Submitted Turns out GCC has imperative argument handling as a story · 64 points
HN discussionWhat looks less technical and more user friendly on a business card? http://hisham.hm or www.hisham.hm Personally, I think www is. And it's shorter.
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on “Why use www?”Submitted Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing as a story · 37 points
HN discussionMy domain is not immediately obvious as an URL: hisham.hm (also my username in many places, or variants of it, like @hisham_hm). Sometimes I do need to make it more obvious that it's an URL (e.g. when printed, or on presentation slides). In those cases I write it as http://hisham.hm
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on “Why use www?”Submitted Dynamic type systems aren’t even simpler as a story · 28 points
HN discussionThis looks quite good, and I’ve wanted something like this for a while now. I wonder if it could be improved by incremental versions of commands like grep, e.g. making the change grep net -> grep network faster. Another system with some different but related capabilities is userland: https://hisham.hm/userland/
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on “UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview”Submitted A love letter to bands, in music and code as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSlightly offtopic: the author says the background of https://hisham.hm/htop/ shows live statistics, that's not the case as far as I can tell, just 4 pre-recorded images shown successively. Ontopic: Quite impressive setup. For me it would be too strictly regulated for a comfortable use, though technically I like it. To each it's own.
Comment linking /htop/
on “Linux Desktop Setup”Submitted Understanding, at last, the Y combinator as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhtop - http://hisham.hm/htop/
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on “Ctop – commandline monitoring for containers”Submitted I almost added Tetris to htop as a story · 6 points
HN discussionDunno about pr process, but i could have sworn that graphs where a option in htop. http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=screenshots Some of them show both 1.0 graphs and the new, unicode based ones from 2.0.
Comment linking /htop/index.php?page=screenshots
on “Ctop – commandline monitoring for containers”Submitted Lua and Python's "not quite" ternary operator as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://hisham.hm/htop/
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on “Ctop – commandline monitoring for containers”Submitted The Lua community needs to learn to move on as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor those who don't know, that thing with meters on it is htop(1). http://hisham.hm/htop/
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on “System76 launching ARM Pro server with 96 cores up to 1TB ECC RAM and 32TB storage”Submitted Htop 2.2.0 released as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThat particular EWD is one of my pet peeves, because of how it always pops up in discussion about array indexing. There are several situations where 1-based indexing is better, but which Dijkstra doesn't mention. For instance, one-based is much better for iterating backwards. I think a compelling argument can be made that 0-based is better for offsets and 1-based is better for indexes, and that we should not think o…
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on “The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra”Submitted Anatomy of a (failed?) free-software fundraiser as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is a great post, recently I have been trying to re-learn and understand linux (specifically) ubuntu using monitoring tools. In my opinion htop and Facebook osquery are the two best available tools for understanding how an operating systems and processes work. The osquery approach of recording all OS data in form relational tables (with PIDs as keys etc.) is very useful. https://hisham.hm/htop/ https://osquery.i…
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on “Understanding /proc”Submitted Dynamic type systems aren't even simpler as a story · 4 points
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