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CLI Tool Pick
2026-10-16

drop: run code you don't trust without giving it your home directory

drop is a rootless Linux sandbox that keeps your distribution and hides your home directory; this issue covers its install, a working session, a climb from 1 to 386 stars after its Show HN, and the container work it cannot do.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-10-02

yoinks: paste a video link, get a file in your Downloads folder

yoinks is a terminal format picker that turns a video link into a file in your Downloads folder by driving yt-dlp; this issue covers its install, one working download, a 3,346-star climb over eleven weeks, and the open bugs that decide whether to keep it.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-09-18

hister: full-text search for the pages you've read and the files you keep

hister indexes the pages you visit and the files you keep into a search engine that runs on your own machine and answers from the terminal; this issue covers its install commands, a working setup, its current GitHub momentum, and the license and rename caveats.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-09-04

tailcat: netcat across NAT, without a tailnet

tailcat creates a short-lived encrypted link between two machines for port forwarding, file transfer, and SSH, with no Tailscale account or root access required.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-08-21

Fresh: the no-config Rust editor at #18 on GitHub Trending

Fresh is a fast-moving Rust terminal editor with familiar keybindings, LSP, worktree sessions, and a two-minute install; this issue weighs its current GitHub momentum against GPL-2.0, telemetry, and terminal-compatibility trade-offs.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-08-07

gh-stack: split large changes into reviewable PRs from the terminal

gh-stack is GitHub's new CLI extension for building, rebasing, submitting, and merging stacked pull requests; this issue weighs its two-minute install against public-preview and rebase caveats.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-07-24

superfile: a modern file manager that stays in the terminal

superfile is a practical Go terminal file manager with previews, metadata, side-by-side panels, and quick installs for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

CLI Tool Pick
CLI Tool Pick
2026-06-28

boo: screen, rebuilt on Ghostty

boo is a young MIT-licensed Zig terminal multiplexer that keeps GNU screen’s simple session model while using Ghostty’s VT core for modern redraw fidelity.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-06-27

ttl: traceroute with a real TUI

ttl is a Rust network diagnostic CLI/TUI that expands traceroute into a live investigation console with MTU discovery, ECMP clues, NAT detection, trace diffing, replay, and Prometheus export. It is practical to try today via Homebrew or Cargo, but the public community signal is still thin.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-06-26

rgx: debug regexes inside your terminal

rgx is a Rust terminal UI for regex debugging with step-through execution, three engines, code generation, and optional ReDoS analysis — practical to try, but still light on community proof.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-06-25

rura: a TUI scratchpad for building shell pipelines

rura (Rust, MIT, v1.6.0, 303★) is an interactive TUI that turns the terminal's edit-uparrow-rerun loop into a live pipeline editor — pipe data in, edit stages, watch output update in real time, with diff mode and context-aware completion.

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CLI Tool Pick
2026-06-24

swpui: the search-and-replace TUI your terminal workflow is missing

swpui (Rust, MIT/Apache-2.0, v0.9.0, 51★) — a case-aware search-and-replace TUI with per-file preview and zero runtime deps.

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