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  • I remember seeing a recent analysis where the vast majority of cables from Amazon misreported their capabilities. Is this tool going to be able to catch those, or blindly report what the chip advertises?
    by ricardobeat
  • Doesn't work for me. Says "No USB-C ports detected", although I'm pretty sure my monitor is connected via USB-C, and the monitor also has a built-in USB hub where my USB keyboard is connected to.
    by bkummel
  • I love that this is a native mac app. Thanks for building this, and thanks for sharing.
    by bichiliad
  • can something like this be done for linux? maybe a wrapper for lsusb. I just found https://github.com/doug-gilbert/lsucpd which adds PD and more.
    by n3storm
  • Thanks for creating this. I'm blind so the $16 USB tester off amazon to sort through my drawer of cables is not an option. This will stop me from needing to buy a sbc just so I have something running Linux to test cables.
    by jareds
  • This is pretty nice, but why do a lot of Mac apps insist on living in the menu bar?
    by sagacity
  • Props to @sleepingNomad here, who has done 16 releases in the last 7 hours, incorporating feedback from HN on the fly!

    * Don't like menubar apps? you you can run it as a normal app

    * Don't like GUIs? Now you can run it on the command line

    Just look at that Changelog:

    https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/releases?page=2

    by billyhoffman
  • Cool. Just want to chime in that I wanted to see how quickly GPT-5.5 can turn this into a KDE Plasma 6 Plasmoid. Took about 10 minutes and two dollars, and now I have a nice QML app showing the same information in my taskbar.

    Just wanted to say this because I feel it's really crazy that I can just do this today...

    by pimeys

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