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Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

25 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 2 stories, 23 comments · first 2014-12-18 · latest 2026-03-13

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    Hammerspoon
    story by tosh · 2026-03-13 · 150 comments
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    Hammerspoon: A tool for powerful automation of OS X
    story by thunderbong · 2025-09-22 · 0 comments
  3. …and the post-run formatting/annotation, but all of the actual work is done by my scripts: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/blob/master/.gith...
    comment by cmsj · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
  4. I just learned about hammerspoon because of this, automate macos with lua, nice: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by mzs · 2024-10-01 · in Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
  5. …Some honorable mentions: Hammerspoon - Unlock insane levels of configuration/automation ( https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon ) Raycast - Spotlight search replacement ( https://www.raycast.com/ ) LuLu Firewall - An amazing FOSS…
    comment by schmeichel · 2024-06-09 · in Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
  6. …https://github.com/RobotCharlie/key-remapping-hammerspoon/bl... https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/discussions/3246 About macOS in general if you use hidutil https://hidutil-generator.netlify.app/ https://rakhesh.c
    comment by nicce · 2024-05-21 · in NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching
  7. …about hammerspoon [1] on macOS. Not a GUI tool, but Lua is a very easy language to learn. [1] https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by killthebuddha · 2023-05-04 · in Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
  8. …[2]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Commands#focus-win... [3]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon [4]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/wiki/Sample-Confi...
    comment by rifty · 2023-04-06 · in Vim-like “jump” cursor for Mac OS Window Management
  9. …the cmd- modifier, and post that synthetic event) [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [1] https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/issues/2196#issue... [2] https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.eventtap.event.html#prop...
    comment by philsnow · 2023-02-02 · in Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm
  10. …you trade in some of AHKs terseness for better modularity and compatibility with existing packages. https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by endymi0n · 2022-08-31 · in Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux
  11. some of my top picks: - Hammerspoon: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon - MeetingBar: https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar - Stats: https://github.com/exelban/stats - Syncthing: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos -…
    comment by luckman212 · 2022-02-02 · in Ask HN: What are some good open-source Mac apps you can't live without?
  12. …yabai, amethyst, etc. However, you'll probably enjoy its open-ended nature, given your article. [1] https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by vladdoster · 2021-12-31 · in macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
  13. I've used ZeroBrane to debug HS in the past: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/issues/1268
    comment by rufugee · 2021-12-13 · in Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
  14. …automating things including being to setup hotkeys globally as well as modal/on per-app basis [0] https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by shbooms · 2021-11-05 · in From macOS to Arch Linux
  15. …hard to actually do, and we ended up with all of this crud to be able to get one XML file: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/blob/master/.gith...
    comment by cmsj · 2021-09-09 · in GitHub Actions checkspelling community workflow GitHub_TOKEN leakage via symlink
  16. …Hammerspoon[3]. [1] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst [2] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [3] https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by least · 2020-10-25 · in The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
  17. …able to do everything with just Hammerspoon. [1]: https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo [2]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/issues/1025#issue...
    comment by dguo · 2020-05-13 · in In Praise of AutoHotKey
  18. Or if you want to write your own WM from scratch, try https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by mollusk · 2019-01-21 · in Best Display for Programming? (2017)
  19. …[3] https://github.com/sdegutis/Phoenix [4] https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir/ [5] https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by armitron · 2018-12-31 · in Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers
  20. …X", "Lua", and "automation" and immediately assumed Steven Degutis was behind this...lo-and-behold: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/blob/master/CREDI... Awesome work! (And if you haven't already, check out some of Steven's other…
    comment by jballanc · 2016-07-15 · in Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua
  21. …the nice Getting Started Guide and the API documentation there is also a Wiki with sample configs https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/wiki
    comment by weitzj · 2016-07-14 · in Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua
  22. Hammerspoon is another one worth mentioning, uses Lua: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by luckman212 · 2016-07-13 · in Show HN: Phoenix 2.2 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
  23. …a fan of Mjolnir: https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir Hammerspoon is a less complicated fork of it: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon My config: https://github.com/colindean/mjolnir-config
    comment by colindean · 2015-12-22 · in Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X
  24. Hammerspoon - crazy powerful desktop automation for OS X. https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon We get a few hundred downloads of each release, but I like to think that the market for people who want to program their desktop, has to…
    comment by cmsj · 2015-04-25 · in Ask HN: Brag about open-source projects you're proud of
  25. …for plugins we could add. Feel free to drop by #hammerspoon on Freenode, or file issues at https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
    comment by cmsj · 2014-12-18 · in Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X