Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector

a_kawashiro

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

hncbw02z5a

Did a procfs scraper once, handling pids vanishing mid-read took me ages.

g3z

this looks something pulled straight from a hacker tv show that I would have thought fake as hell

zzulanas

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

v3ss0n

Look at that FPS!! Now we need another inspector to monitor Procinsh.

cobbzilla

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/

luckystarr

Over 20 years ago we had a doom in which your processes were represented by monsters and killing them sent the kill signal. :)