# dust disk usage analyzer

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/dust/

7 people recommended dust disk usage analyzer in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 12 months, in 6 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend dust as a clearer, more readable alternative to du for seeing which folders take up disk space. No critics were recorded.

Summary written by Claude from 7 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 6 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Useful for seeing disk usage (2 comments in the sample): "to give me an idea of what is going on with disk usage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220878)) "This has ben immensely useful for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316836))

## Other disk usage analyzers people recommend

- [ncdu](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ncdu/): 16 recommend, 1 mixed, 1 criticize
- [WizTree](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wiztree/): 11 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize
- [GrandPerspective](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grandperspective/): 9 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize
- [gdu disk usage analyzer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gdu/): 7 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "dust disk usage analyzer", https://hackerapproved.com/p/dust/ (7 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.