Alternatives

Products that do what Tarxzf – unpack a .tgz when you don't have any other proper tool does

1. 1FG
   `fzf` * `Git` done right▲251

   2020 · github.com

2. 2EA
   Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust▲132

   2015 · bsago.me

3. 3RA
   RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust▲114

   2019 · github.com

4. 4TR
   The reverse package manager▲47

   2011 · github.com

5. 5DA
   Diffmatic – A daily GitHub digest for dev teams▲67

   2014 · diffmatic.com

6. 6AE
   Another ELF Analysis Toolkit▲62

   Nyxelf simplifies static and dynamic analysis of ELF binaries, enabling you to extract valuable insights effortlessly. And can be used for vulnerability assessments, unpacking, syscall tracing, and memory analysis.

   2025 · github.com

7. 7GP
   gitdown - prevents you from coding drunk▲60

   2013 · github.com

8. 8CA
   Crabz – a multithreaded compression CLI tool written in Rust▲11

   2021 · github.com

9. 9AC
   A cleaner alternative to the “Fork Me on GitHub” ribbon▲45

   2015 · github.com

10. 10TS
    tmux.sh▲24

    2013 · github.com

11. 11DS
    Debpack – Super simple Debian packages▲15

    2019 · github.com

12. 12ZA
    zxpy, a cleaner version of Google's zx▲30

    2021 · github.com

13. 13DT
    Distro.tools - Scripts for lazy Linux users▲14

    2019 · distro.tools

14. 14DA
    Deleted, a safer delete UX for web apps▲11

    2015 · johnotander.com

15. 15DC
    De-clutter your VS Code experience▲5

    I built this tool a couple days ago to temporarily hide your prints & comments. I wanted to focus on the core logic without having to constantly delete/add prints and comments. Lmk if you like it ;)

    2024 · marketplace.visualstudio.com

16. 16AF
    A framebuffer console viewer, pure Go▲7

    Another Sunday afternoon project: add some pizzaz to your boring bare metal or virtual machine consoles! Written as a single Go binary; no dependencies. https://github.com/Fusion/modernfbv As usual, feedback please!

    2022

17. 17GV
    GenresFox v0.4 – Hand-Written, Zero-Dependency Rust WASM▲6

    Dec 2025 · github.com

18. 18FN
    Fufox.net – Dropbox without limits and 100% free▲10

    2015 · fufox.net

19. 19EP
    Ecks.pl, a handy little tmux wrapper in Literate Perl▲12

    2016 · luchenlabs.com

20. 20BU
    Blöcke UI/UX Kit▲13

    2020 · blocke.pixsellz.io

21. 21OS
    Open-source tools for devs who don't like ads▲5

    Hey HN, wanted to share a new collection of dev utilities that are ad-free, client-side (nothing leaves your device), with a command+k menu for fast search. github.com/jamdotdev/jam-dev-utilities Why? The sites we use every day for data conversion (e.g. PNG to data URI) are cluttered with ads, one of those mildly annoying things engineers deal with while writing code. This came up at a recent team dinner, and we got interested in creating nicer, modern, uncluttered versions of these tools. Since then, every time we needed a util, we added it to our stack. Lots more tools still to…

    2024

22. 22TE
    Tzar, Easy compression and extraction for any compression format▲7

    2021 · github.com

23. 23BD
    Browser debugging tool an ex-Cloudflare team has been building for 4yrs▲12

    Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. It’s called Jam (jam.dev) and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create completely vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. I used to write in the ticket that something didn’t work— only to lead to a ton of confusion by the engineer what I meant by “didn’t work”. Was the button unresponsive? Did the page crash? Did it return an error? Or like sometimes I thought…

    2024

24. 24AM
    A minimal timed Todo list. It ain't much but it's honest work▲11

    2020 · quick-schedule.mohsinriaz.es

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