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Control the fans of every Intel Mac to make it run cooler

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2013-08-14 · latest 2025-08-11

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  1. This is: a) really neat. b) an utterly terrifying wrapper around a wrapper around this: https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl See here: https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/tree/main/dist The layer above that is a shell script…
    comment by amluto · 2025-08-11 · in Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices
  2. For those interested, it's likely smcFanControl - https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl
    comment by jbrooksuk · 2015-07-18 · in New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
  3. …deal with the ifdef to build it). I like it, since I'm a fan of little inspecting tools[1]. [0]: https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl/blob/master/smc-c... [1]: https://github.com/lloeki/toolbelt/blob/master/battery
    comment by lloeki · 2015-05-01 · in Show HN: Dshb – OS X system monitor in Swift inspired by top and htop
  4. You could also try this out... https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl/tree/master/smc-c...
    comment by kineticfocus · 2013-08-14 · in Hacking the OS X Kernel for Fun and Profiles