darrylmorley/whatcable
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macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2026-05-01 · latest 2026-08-14
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…CLI binary (no GUI libraries needed) so probably could be ported to Linux (easily with an LLM?) https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
comment by haunter · 2026-08-14 · in WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do -
I cannot recommend enough https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable to know what power and data capabilities your cables support.
comment by Labo333 · 2026-07-15 · in I'm a USB-C Maximalist -
> https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable This was on show hn only yesterday. Probably can't tell you anything about the other end of the cable though. > Is this hard to do or just something normal people never care about? If i believed…
comment by nottorp · 2026-05-02 · in The USB Situation -
Wontfix for Intel Macbooks: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/issues/12 Seems the Intel southbridge isn't known to expose the needed info.
comment by avidiax · 2026-05-01 · in Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables -
…a normal app * Don't like GUIs? Now you can run it on the command line Just look at that Changelog: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/releases?page=2
comment by billyhoffman · 2026-05-01 · in Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables -
…[1] on why removing human cognitive friction is resulting in needless software complexity. [0] https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/blob/main/Sources/... [1] https://x.com/fchollet/status/2045929951539707957
comment by kranner · 2026-05-01 · in Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables -
...And claude fixed it already https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/commit/7a3ad1363ae...
comment by wallst07 · 2026-05-01 · in Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables -
There's an issue on Github for this now: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/issues/2
comment by bkummel · 2026-05-01 · in Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables -
There's an issue on Github for this now: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/issues/2
comment by bkummel · 2026-05-01 · in Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables