Dialtone watcher – what is my laptop doing and am I normal
Hi HN we are Andrew and Dex. We built dialtone watcher, a small Go agent for macOS and Linux with a very specific goal: tell me what my machine is doing all day and help me compare that with others. What it does so far: - Watches running processes, CPU and memory use, and active network endpoints. - Groups traffic into human sized summaries by process, domain, and coarse protocol like HTTPS, DNS, QUIC, and Postgres. - Stores a local summary and can post bounded rollups to the dialtoneapp.com api so enough installs can turn the fleet view into something real. We kept circling the same…
Dialtone watcher – what is my laptop doing and am I normal launched on March 15, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,631 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Hi HN we are Andrew and Dex. We built dialtone watcher, a small Go agent for macOS and Linux with a very specific goal: tell me what my machine is doing all day and help me compare that with others. What it does so far: - Watches running processes, CPU and memory use, and active network endpoints. - Groups traffic…
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