Show HN: Tern – Native macOS SSH Client in Rust/GPUI (76 MB vs. Tabby's 580 MB)
On my day to day work i mostly use termius and tabby as multi project ssh tool with vault, somehow most of the features i use are just vault and password manager, and they are bulky, takes about 500mb ram for such simple program, and termius wants paid plan just to sync the vault. There are free tools but their ux is not at that level. So i built my own simple ssh client with a little bit of my taste added, it has vault, password manager, repo sync, background gallery etc. I have been working wi
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2026-11-05 16:03:39.457Z
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Repository: your-moon/tern. Source account: On my day to day work i mostly use termius and tabby as multi project ssh tool with vault, somehow most of the features i use are just vault and password manager, and they are bulky, takes about 500mb ram for such simple program, and termius wants paid plan just to sync the vault. There are free tools but their ux is not at that level. So i built my own simple ssh client with a little bit of my taste added, it has vault, password manager, repo sync, background gallery etc. I have been working wi
Observed adoption & comparisons
Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 5, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 1 (Nov 5, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c” (GitHub Trending, Nov 5, 2026); “Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.” (TechCrunch, Nov 4, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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