IainKay/ram-altman
- Total stars
- 769
- Today
- +26since 00:02 UTC
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Monitors your RAM and reports any "quite terrible" unused capacity directly to the CEO of OpenAI.
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About the project
A bash script that samples Linux RAM usage from /proc/meminfo and emails a daily joke report to Sam Altman about unused memory, with CSV logging and tests.
Useful for
- Run --dry-run to preview the generated email without sending anything
- Schedule it in cron to sample RAM every five minutes and email at most once a day
- Audit your machine's average RAM usage from the CSV log with awk
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 9, 2026, 01:38 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:02–01:27: 743 → 769 stars (+26). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +631 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 769 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #20.
- Hacker News: “RAM-Altman: a bash script that emails Sam Altman about your unused RAM” — 45 points, 12 h ago.
- About 24 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
- November 2, 2026
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- November 3, 2026
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- November 4, 2026
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- November 5, 2026
- 6
- November 6, 2026
- 51
- November 7, 2026
- 49
- November 8, 2026
- 669
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 669 · November 8, 2026. Days with data: 4.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 9, 2026, 01:37 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 769
- Today
- +26 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:02–01:27 UTC, ≈ 631 by evening
- Forks
- 18
- Issues and pull requests
- 11
- Watchers
- 1
- Language
- Shell
- License
- Unlicense
- Created
- November 5, 2026
- Last push
- November 6, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
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Hacker News discussions
- RAM-Altman: a bash script that emails Sam Altman about your unused RAM45 points, November 8, 2026
Spotted in
- November 9, 2026Top new repositories this week: #20
- November 8, 2026Top new repositories this week: #23
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