Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?

ppranav_tech26 about 6 hours ago 16 comments

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Tools like ripgrep, fzf, and htop have saved me countless hours over the years. What small utilities do you rely on daily?

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vismit2000•7 minutes ago

dust: https://github.com/bootandy/dust - This has ben immensely useful for me

nozzlegear•about 2 hours ago

Gotta be jujutsu. I've completely stopped using git and use jj everywhere instead. It works so much better for my workflow.

rft•about 1 hour ago

ssh, scp, tmux, (grml-)zsh, grep, less, file, tar, git

The time saving of a well filled ~/.ssh/config is impressive, especially once you start juggling ProxyJump hops.

ddxv•about 2 hours ago

ssh and scp just never fails to impress

-J for jumping -L for port forwarding -X for pulling remote applications to view on my laptop (waypipe for Wayland)

Adding all those, and ips and whatnot to .ssh/config so I just type:

ssh foo

fragmede•about 2 hours ago

setup LocalCommand, in ~/.ssh/config, so your config files get copied to every server you connect to, so you have all your aliases and scripts.

rft•about 1 hour ago

I intentionally avoid this, especially if I am not the only one connecting to a server. I see potentially breaking others' expectations for my convenience as a clear downside. Plus there is a level of paranoia there, I might have unintentionally included a credential in some config that gets copied over. That potentially increases the blast radius of a server compromise beyond what is strictly required for that specific server. I might copy over some scripts into a directory not in $PATH, easy enough to add it to my shell session if needed, CTRL+R helps as well.

fragmede•10 minutes ago

...why are you sharing user accounts in this day and age? Yes, absolutely, don't mess up the shared space everyone uses, but why are you sharing that space in the first place?

rhysha•about 5 hours ago

bearer-cli for static application security testing

illegalbyte2•about 2 hours ago

This looks great, thanks for sharing.

justsomehnguy•about 2 hours ago

    user: pranav_tech26
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fragmede•about 2 hours ago

...yes?

justsomehnguy•about 2 hours ago

No.

EDIT: also check their comment history.

fragmede•about 1 hour ago

Would you mind just saying what you mean?

slang800•about 3 hours ago

mansi1010•about 2 hours ago

screen

soupspaces•about 3 hours ago

tmux tealdeer zoxide