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zzulanas • today at 3:23 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

now I can finally live my dream of saying "it's a unix system I know this" in front of my family and non-technical friends while pulling this thing up and inspecting my bloated tmux processes running 20 claude code instances


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hnlmorg • today at 7:12 PM

You could do that before, because that scene was actually a file manager written for UNIX called fsn. But there have been ports / reimplementations of it since such as fsv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer

It’s probably the only time in cinema history that a “hacker” visual effect was actually UNIX.

bch • today at 5:54 PM

"Its the Gibson - it's finding us too fast!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz67ErIRa4&t=63s