Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderOn the surface looks like an improvement over htop ( which I've been using for 10+ years ) But this is the kind of software that I would want to keep using. Will btop keep being supported? Is btop going to be available in practically all distros I use? Even currently on Arch its only in the AUR. Its also concerning there is btop[0] and bpytop[1]? I don't understand the difference. [0]https://github.com/aristocratos/btop [1]https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop
Page title is - btop: A monitor of resources As per HN guidelines [0] - > Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use this. It's much lighter than its predecessor, bpytop. You can track this by running both and htop with the total CPU time tracker on htop. btop uses less CPU than htop. bpytop uses much more. This becomes a bigger deal the longer a machine is running. I specifically use btop for this when fuzzing because any CPU it doesn't use goes to the fuzzer. And I still want to track the state of the machine while fuzzing, especially…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 622
- Total comments
- 195
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-23 | Btop++ is a power resource monitor for LinuxFirst breakout · Best thread | feross | 316 | 65 |
| 2023-06-25 | Btop++: Resource monitor for processor, memory, disks, network and processes | ingve | 111 | 12 |
| 2024-11-21 | btop: A Monitor of Resources | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-12-25 | Btop: A Monitor of Resources | bjourne | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-01-16 | btop++ – C++ version/continuation of bashtop and bpytop | indigodaddy | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-11-08 | Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interfaceHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | vismit2000 | 190 | 118 |