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macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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I thought that my fan never turned on. I was curious so I installed a fan meter (https://github.com/exelban/stats). If I'm playing a game and running a windows VM, it does…

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2020-06-29 20:46:18 UTC to 2026-06-23 14:39:02 UTC.

024682020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422

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janandonly·Jan 8, 2022Submission

Ask HN: What aren the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?

Ask HN: What aren the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? Are there any hidden gems that a newbie might not know about? For example, it took me half a year of MacOS usage before I discovered rectangle.app [1] which allowed you to position screens by pressing a key combination. It took me 9 months before I happen to run into Stats.app [2] which gives you the option to put certain stats (like GPU temperature, CPU load, or RAM load) into the top bar on MacOS. What else am I missing? What brilliant app is waiting out there for me to find her? [1] http://rectangleapp.com [2] https://github.com/exelban/stats
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mdasen·Jan 5, 2022Recommendation phrase
I thought that my fan never turned on. I was curious so I installed a fan meter (https://github.com/exelban/stats). If I'm playing a game and running a windows VM, it does sometimes turn on around 2,000 RPMs. I can't hear it even if I put my ear up to the vents. So, it doesn't seem to turn on almost ever for me. I've had it for over a month and I've never heard it turn on. I've seen it turn on (via the menu-bar monitor) and tried to listen for the fan and just can't hear anything. I'll be using it with the vents covered by a blanket and it doesn't seem to notice. It's one of the reasons that I love this machine. My 2020 Intel MacBook Pro would run those fans all the time making lots of noise. A web page would randomly start using a lot of CPU and my battery would drain, things would slow down, and the fans would sing their song. The magic
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of my new M1 Pro machine is that nothing seems to phase it. It's not like I had a crappy old laptop for comparison. I had a 2.4GHz Intel MacBook Pro that was over $2,000. I was wondering if the fan would go on and it might go on more if you're doing a lot of high-end rendering, but it doesn't for my usage. IntelliJ, Windows VMs, whatever, it mostly stays off and sometimes turns on, but low enough that I can't hear it even with my ear to the vents. It feels magical.
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