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.
This is beautiful! I'm so excited to see more and more projects finally move into the third dimension for visualization of runtime and static data. I'm curious if you've played with rendering memory at all - textual bits, that is. I've been working on that end, a high performance text renderer that focuses on 3D blitted glyphs in the hundreds of millions, and I can absolutely see that sitting on top of these process towers and grids to see running memory and executing code! Any chance you're open to a side chat in some Discord or email chain?
> I'm curious if you've played with rendering memory at all - textual bits, that is.
This is a very interesting idea. I actually considered visualizing memory contents, but for now I decided not to render all memory contents and access because of the amount of data that would need to be transferred from the backend to the browser.
That said, it is definitely something I would like to explore. Your 3D text renderer sounds especially interesting for visualizing memory contents inside the process towers.
I'd be very happy to discuss this more on Discord!
There's a meaningful difference between crediting an author with his work, and engaging in reckless and negligent behavior. Yes, OP prompted an LLM to build something for him. He did not engage in a creative act or solve engineering problems. He should not feel pride for pulling the lever on the slop machine just because it paid out.
LLM companies set their bots loose on a task and failed to secure the environment. I haven't met anyone who suggests they are brilliant hackers that put Kevin Mitnick to shame. I have heard (and happen to agree with) arguments that they created conditions, either willfully or unwittingly, in which their systems breeched others. The argument is that they acted with gross negligence when using a dangerous tool, and may or may not be liable for such. If the US ever makes crime illegal again, the courts will decide.
The "apparent" hypocrisy dissappears the moment you think about it at all though, as I explained above.
But if you're not capable of moving beyond a superficial reading of a statement, I can see how you might easily dismiss as "nonsense" the very real environmental, economic, technical, ethical, social, and cognitive issues introduced by the way LLMs have been forced into our lives.
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
You could do that before, because that scene was actually a file manager written for UNIX called fsn. But there have been ports / reimplementations of it since such as fsv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer
It’s probably the only time in cinema history that a “hacker” visual effect was actually UNIX.
a_kawashiro (author) 31h ago on HN
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
tikimcfee 27h ago on HN
a_kawashiro (author) 20h ago on HN
I just created a Discord server: https://discord.gg/aQuNSczpw
> I'm curious if you've played with rendering memory at all - textual bits, that is.
This is a very interesting idea. I actually considered visualizing memory contents, but for now I decided not to render all memory contents and access because of the amount of data that would need to be transferred from the backend to the browser.
That said, it is definitely something I would like to explore. Your 3D text renderer sounds especially interesting for visualizing memory contents inside the process towers.
I'd be very happy to discuss this more on Discord!
adfm 26h ago on HN
https://youtu.be/dFUlAQZB9Ng
dddw 13h ago on HN
bigstrat2003 26h ago on HN
You didn't build a thing, dude. You had a machine build it for you.
qarl 25h ago on HN
But when agents hack another company, it's not the LLM that did it but the guy who asked it to.
Strange contradiction.
hexapus 21h ago on HN
LLM companies set their bots loose on a task and failed to secure the environment. I haven't met anyone who suggests they are brilliant hackers that put Kevin Mitnick to shame. I have heard (and happen to agree with) arguments that they created conditions, either willfully or unwittingly, in which their systems breeched others. The argument is that they acted with gross negligence when using a dangerous tool, and may or may not be liable for such. If the US ever makes crime illegal again, the courts will decide.
qarl 21h ago on HN
I hear an endless stream of anti-AI nonsense daily - and this appears to be yet another example of it.
hexapus 20h ago on HN
But if you're not capable of moving beyond a superficial reading of a statement, I can see how you might easily dismiss as "nonsense" the very real environmental, economic, technical, ethical, social, and cognitive issues introduced by the way LLMs have been forced into our lives.
qarl 19h ago on HN
Anyone who hasn't had his head in the sand has seen this coming for the last 60 years. Why do you think Turing created his test?
At this point the stubborn refusal to see it has become laughable.
> The "apparent" hypocrisy dissappears the moment you think about it at all though, as I explained above.
Yeah... I think we'll just need to agree to disagree, friend.
ranger_danger 17h ago on HN