Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector

(github.com)

22 points | by a_kawashiro 3 hours ago

7 comments

  • cobbzilla 3 minutes ago
    Obligatory reference to psDoom [1]. There’s something quite fun about killing the monster labeled “init” and poof! Your whole system is now dead.

    [1] https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

  • a_kawashiro 3 hours ago
    I built procinsh, a 3D Linux process inspector inspired by Ghost in the Shell.

    It visualizes running processes and their relationships in a 3D UI. Process activity, memory maps, file I/O, and socket communication are reflected in real time.

    The backend is written in Rust and uses procfs, eBPF, ptrace, and process_vm_readv to collect information from the system.

    Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnWvN8ej2A

    More details about the motivation and implementation: https://akawashiro.com/articles/procinsh-en

  • g3z 48 minutes ago
    this looks something pulled straight from a hacker tv show that I would have thought fake as hell
  • zzulanas 34 minutes ago
    now I can finally live my dream of saying "it's a unix system I know this" in front of my family and non-technical friends while pulling this thing up and inspecting my bloated tmux processes running 20 claude code instances
  • hncbw02z5a 59 minutes ago
    Did a procfs scraper once, handling pids vanishing mid-read took me ages.
  • v3ss0n 19 minutes ago
    Look at that FPS!! Now we need another inspector to monitor Procinsh.
  • latencyharbor 28 minutes ago
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