# Stinkpot

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Stinkpot and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a small, lean shell history tool that skips the extra features of tools like atuin, and it is only about 400 lines of code.

## Why people recommend it

- Small codebase, about 400 lines (1 comments): "only 400 LOC too, pretty neat" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055764))
- Fewer extras than atuin (1 comments): "I wanted this without all the extras of atuin that I never use." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057058))
- Custom fork works well for one user (1 comments): "I switched to my custom fork of stinkpot posted a few days ago here, and it's so nice." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316709))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [fzf](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fzf.md): 78 recommend
- [jq](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jq.md): 75 recommend
- [grep](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grep.md): 65 recommend
- [Atuin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/atuin.md): 63 recommend
- [GitHub CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-cli.md): 49 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Stinkpot", https://hackerapproved.com/p/stinkpot/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).