Ktop
a themed terminal system monitor with charts and OOM tracking
Details
- External ID
- 46967919
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ktop
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4393530997304582
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Built this because I wanted nvtop + btop in one view while tuning local hybrid LLM inference. Supports themes, charts, and OOM kill tracking. Written in Python.
Enrichment
- Theme
- coding agents and developer utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal system monitor with charts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a Python terminal UI built with libraries like Textual or Rich that reads hardware stats via standard system monitoring libraries and dmesg/cgroups.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 8 launches clear the similarity bar.
Attention rank: #7 of 9 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 91 days after the earliest competitor.
- Llmtop · hn · 2026-03-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- pixeltop · github · 2026-09-29 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Hyprmoncfg · hn · 2026-03-31 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- tmon · github · 2026-09-19 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Cursor Cmd+K like command generator for all terminals · hn · 2026-04-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Radar · ph · 2026-05-03 · 398 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- kernwatch · github · 2026-09-11 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- Linnix · hn · 2025-11-11 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.30
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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