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macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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What it is

macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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This week on Hacker News

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

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year34 dated mentions

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*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
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

What Hacker News says

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unmanageduck·Jun 23, 2026
Package manager: Nix(alternative to homebrew) https://nixos.org/download/#nix-install-macos Package management: Nix-darwin https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin Browsers: - Librewolf https://librewolf.net - Tor https://www.torproject.org - Orion https://orionbrowser.com Video downloader: Yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Video/audio player: Mpv https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv Video editor: LosslessCut https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut Video encoding: Ffmpeg https://search.nixos.org/packages?&query=ffmpeg Office suite: LibreOffice https://www.libreoffice.org IDE: Zed https://github.com/zed-industries/zed Window management: Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle Menubar system monitor: Stats https://github.com/exelban/stats Screen tweaks: MonitorControl https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl Autorun ch
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ecker: KnockKnock https://github.com/objective-see/KnockKnock Video streaming platforms: Grayjay https://grayjay.app/desktop Communication: Signal https://signal.org/download/macos Torrenting: Transmission https://github.com/transmission/transmission VPN: Mullvad https://mullvad.net/en/download/vpn/macos DNS: NextDNS https://nextdns.io Add the following in denylist to block the constant communication with apple servers: aaplimg.com apple-cloudkit.com apple.com apple.com.akadns.net apple.com.edgekey.net apple-dns.net apple.news cdn-apple.com icloud-content.com icloud.com me.com mzstatic.com push-apple.com.akadns.net safebrowsing.apple Connect to the mac from anywhere: Tailscale https://tailscale.com/download/mac
In Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?
vsgherzi·Apr 19, 2026Submission

Ask HN: Is your Mac's menu bar throwing errors?

I've noticed on Macos 26 any third party menu bar program I install will cause the console application to fill with logs with "WindowServer _CGXPackagesSetWindowConstraints: Invalid window" or just "_CGXPackagesSetWindowConstraints: Invalid window" Popular program stats shows the bug here. https://github.com/exelban/stats/issues/2829 The log seems to be thrown from somewhere deep inside MacOS' windowserver. Crack open your console app and see if you also see it anywhere in the logs if you have an app that has a menu bar icon on macos.
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