Ask HN: What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?
Tools like ripgrep, fzf, and htop have saved me countless hours over the years. What small utilities do you rely on daily?
Tools like ripgrep, fzf, and htop have saved me countless hours over the years. What small utilities do you rely on daily?
Discussion Highlights (9 comments)
rhysha
bearer-cli for static application security testing
soupspaces
tmux tealdeer zoxide
ddxv
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
nozzlegear
Gotta be jujutsu. I've completely stopped using git and use jj everywhere instead. It works so much better for my workflow.
justsomehnguy
user: pranav_tech26 created: 16 hours ago karma: 7
rft
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.
vismit2000
dust: https://github.com/bootandy/dust - This has ben immensely useful for me
charlie90
Everything/es.exe for searching every file on disk, its nice for AI agents to use
scary-size
https://github.com/rupa/z (z - jump around)