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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

128 mentions on Hacker News by 110 people: 24 stories, 104 comments · first 2024-12-26 · latest 2026-10-28

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  1. I have a fix in my fork: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/95c7fc322802a6... Inspect + build yourself
    comment by zhvihti · 2026-10-28 · in Ghostty 1.4
  2. I actually fixed one cause of this, which is released in 1.4.0. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/12714 The only other cause I've encountered is if a secure input (password) field is focused, since macOS won't give apps global…
    comment by adrum · 2026-10-28 · in Ghostty 1.4
  3. …is sanitized so invisible and line-breaking characters cannot conceal the effective destination. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/security/advisories/G... The sensible default is to have it turned off. And by the looks of it Ghostty…
    comment by tjoff · 2026-10-27 · in Ghostty 1.4
  4. …Kitty graphics hints will be next . [1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/ [2]: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions [3]: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2394
    comment by jaywcarman · 2026-10-27 · in Ghostty 1.4
  5. …about: being able to quickly `⌘+F, ⌘+V` - the find textbox does not respect keyboard shortcuts: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/11159
    comment by eclipticplane · 2026-10-27 · in Ghostty 1.4
  6. …requests that waste maintainers’ time. Projects come up with their own way of blocking people ( https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/.github/VOU... ) but having this be a GitHub feature is a much easier option for most.
    comment by dewey · 2026-10-08 · in New repository settings for configuring pull request access
  7. …trade-offs are. You should see the amount of iterations a human needs on these kinds of projects. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty has almost 18,000 commits. So does https://github.com/gnachman/iterm2 . So does…
    comment by hombre_fatal · 2026-09-05 · in There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
  8. Ghostty is still there though? https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty doesn't seem like a serious effort. And: >My personal projects and other work will remain on GitHub for now. People always talk about "leaving GitHub" but it's all talk.
    comment by sunaookami · 2026-08-07 · in GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
  9. …official nightly builds from the main branch [0]. You do not need to build it yourself. [0] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/releases
    comment by lr1970 · 2026-08-03 · in Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
  10. …years to someone try and attempt something like this. Huge thanks to GH user mikewang817 [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/13291 P.S. I changed "agent" to "app" in the title since that makes much more sense. I think…
    comment by boltzmann-brain · 2026-07-24 · in TFormula: Render LaTeX from any CLI app directly in Kitty-compatible terminals
  11. …version. See https://github.com/dakra/ghostel/pull/541 jFYI, Ghostty issue to support 0.16 is here: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/12228 So for your homebrew zig you probably have to: brew uninstall zig brew install zig@0.15
    comment by dakra · 2026-07-14 · in Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty
  12. non-video link: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/13264
    comment by johntash · 2026-07-09 · in Ghostty is getting automatic scrollback compression, using up to 90% less RAM
  13. …is what is keeping me on Konsole. None of the newer consoles (for Linux) seem to have this. [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2393
    comment by anotherevan · 2026-06-22 · in Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
  14. Try ctrl + v https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/10099#dis...
    comment by estetlinus · 2026-05-28 · in Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
  15. TigerBeetle ( https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle ) and Ghostty ( https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty ) come to mind as decently popular projects.
    comment by peesem · 2026-05-15 · in Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
  16. …in ghostty[1] as well, can't wait! [0] https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Control-Mode [1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/1935#issuecomm...
    comment by seemaze · 2026-04-13 · in Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
  17. GhosTTY accepts LLM contributions, but has strict rules around it: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.m... I accept LLM contributions to most of my projects, but have (only slightly less) strict rules around it. (My…
    comment by halostatue · 2026-03-17 · in Give Django your time and money, not your tokens
  18. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/tree/main/.agents/com... Is my best guess. The GP is perhaps referring to ghostty repo adding helper files for Llm agents to operate as a cursory look at issues to placate issue submitters.
    comment by righthand · 2026-03-14 · in Sunsetting Jazzband
  19. …Escape, it made that an easy choice. Works great in Sublime. Have this request open for Ghostty: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/10499 On Linux, there's xremap. It lets you remap key chords on a per-app basis. I'm using…
    comment by bsimpson · 2026-03-10 · in I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does
  20. I prefer this policy: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.m... > If you can't explain what your changes do and how they interact with the greater system without the aid of AI tools, do not contribute to this project.…
    comment by mglvsky · 2026-03-06 · in A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests
  21. Nvm. Had another look, and I think I found it? Is it this: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/milestone/7
    comment by mijoharas · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
  22. There's a PR out there for tabs in quick terminal https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/9857
    comment by adrum · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
  23. …Ghostty to being with, the lack of a scripting API quickly drove me to WezTerm before long. See: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2353 I hope they prioritize scriptability soon. It's quite important to my personal git…
    comment by MajorBee · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
  24. Worth posting here: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions
    comment by gtirloni · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
  25. The tip releases have had search support for a few months: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189 https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1993728538344906978 As Mitchell stated above: > Ghostty 1.3 is around the corner, literally a week…
    comment by retlehs · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
  26. …an option for you (I've been using it a ton for a few months and haven't seen any bugs so far): https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/releases/tag/tip
    comment by macmccann · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
  27. …14 months old discussion of input latency in Ghostty with comments from the author: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/4837
    comment by ivanjermakov · 2026-03-01 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
  28. …but they are working on stability before a release, which means a pause on new features right now. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2549
    comment by aflat · 2026-02-20 · in Show HN: cmux - Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications
  29. …://x.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349 https://nitter.net/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349 https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
    comment by thatguy27 · 2026-02-19 · in The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out
  30. > Ghostty banned AI-generated contributions outright that's a lie: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.m...
    comment by mgol94 · 2026-02-18 · in GitHub Is Dying and Developers Don't Even Know It Yet
  31. Crazy... https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty
    comment by bastardoperator · 2026-02-17 · in Gentoo on Codeberg
  32. …project. Its Zig 0.15 effort started in August and was only complete in October (see first PR at https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8372 ). And many issues were encountered and solved along the way. And of course during all of…
    comment by kccqzy · 2026-02-14 · in Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed
  33. …or asking them to refactor, like they're mentoring a junior dev. It'll just fall on deaf ears. [0] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10588
    comment by mjr00 · 2026-02-08 · in Vouch
  34. …people to spam low-quality slop in what is essentially a DoS attack on maintainers' attention. [0] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10588 [1] https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
    comment by mjr00 · 2026-02-08 · in Vouch
  35. …etc., then promotes those to issues once it's detailed enough for the maintainers to accept: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558 Later, Hyprland followed suit: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/9854 I'm sure there…
    comment by rmunn · 2026-02-07 · in Stay Away from My Trash
  36. …allows AI-assisted code contributions, which must be properly disclosed in the pull request." https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/CONTRIBUTIN... Mitchell Hashimoto (2025-12-30): "Slop drives me crazy and it feels like 95+% of…
    comment by pella · 2026-01-16 · in Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop
  37. This one was just "fire" https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10270
    comment by jemiluv8 · 2026-01-15 · in Are open source maintainers going to be the main sufferers from LLM
  38. …using claude code or other emoji heavy apps to reproduce and the memory grows linearly over time https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9786
    comment by Maxious · 2026-01-11 · in Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
  39. And the same diagnosis in the blog post was reported by a user in discussions a month ago but ignored https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9786#disc...
    comment by Maxious · 2026-01-11 · in Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
  40. …would break our memory free outside the pool. // It is easiest in this case to prune the node. ``` https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/17da13840dc71b... #3, it seems, would require making a broader change. The size effectively is…
    comment by bastawhiz · 2026-01-11 · in Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
  41. No, the reason it was fixed is that somebody managed to reliably reproduce the issue: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/10244 As you can see, there's no hint or evidence they even are on HN let alone saw that discussion.
    comment by masklinn · 2026-01-10 · in Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
  42. …there are not that many of those, and that's with this not being the only unsolved memory leak ( https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9314 is a different one).
    comment by masklinn · 2026-01-10 · in Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
  43. …the issue, and they had no reproducer. As of yesterday TFAA still had no working reproducer: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9962#disc... In the meantime they apparently got one (edit: per their sibling comment they got…
    comment by masklinn · 2026-01-10 · in Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
  44. …if your browser supports shortcuts, it can be as easy to open as remembering to type a single char) https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues?q=is%3Aissue%2...
    comment by eviks · 2026-01-02 · in Why users cannot create Issues directly
  45. …This is so that the issue can be 'pinned' to the top of the Issues page, making it more visible: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues
    comment by ColinEberhardt · 2026-01-02 · in Why users cannot create Issues directly
  46. …of weeks there were no leaks at all, now it started again but only 1/10 of the times it was before. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9786 There are some logs and a Claude Code review md file that might be useful. Hope it…
    comment by eapotapov · 2026-01-02 · in Why users cannot create Issues directly
  47. …analogy -- are unfortunately driving like a teenager who has only driven toy go-karts." "Examples: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions?discussio... "
    comment by pella · 2026-01-02 · in Why users cannot create Issues directly
  48. …for contributors. Github could do more to nudge users into approaching Discussions differently. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions?discussio...
    comment by 1123581321 · 2026-01-02 · in Why users cannot create Issues directly
  49. …https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2004938171038277708 https://x.com/alxfazio/status/2004841392645050601 https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/10114 https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/9962 but has not graduated to…
    comment by Maxious · 2026-01-02 · in Why users cannot create Issues directly
  50. …WSL 2, it was buttery smooth. I opened a discussion about this on Ghostty with more information https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/10114 . In 2019 I tried switching to native Linux and it failed with my Scarlett 2i2 USB…
    comment by nickjj · 2026-01-01 · in Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop