# IainKay/ram-altman

> 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.

- Magnitude: 7.9 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 769 total · +26 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:02–01:27 UTC, ≈ 631 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Other · Language: Shell · License: Unlicense · Created: 2026-11-05 · Last push: 2026-11-06
- GitHub: https://github.com/IainKay/ram-altman · Homepage: https://ram-altman.lol · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/IainKay/ram-altman

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 18
- Issues and pull requests: 11
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 281 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 19

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-05 … 2026-11-09: 6, 51, 49, 669, 26

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-08 6.9, 11-09 7.9

## Hacker News

- RAM-Altman: a bash script that emails Sam Altman about your unused RAM — 45 points, 8 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50412766

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #20

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