Show HN: AI Usage – Native macOS Menu Bar for Claude Code and Codex Limits
AI Usage Claude Code and Codex limits, one click away. Measured at 0.0% CPU between scheduled refreshes. A real native menu bar popover — no Dock icon or persistent window.
- ▪AI Usage Claude Code and Codex limits, one click away.
- ▪Measured at 0.0% CPU between scheduled refreshes.
- ▪A real native menu bar popover — no Dock icon or persistent window.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,541 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/burakgon/ai-usage-menubar |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:43:05 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T07:01:43.897Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T07:01:43.897Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | f-4udw4K2mqh · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
AI Usage Claude Code and Codex limits, one click away. Native Liquid Glass. Measured at 0.0% CPU between scheduled refreshes. A real native menu bar popover — no Dock icon or persistent window. AI Usage shows the limits that matter and stays out of the way. No extra account, API key, local server, telemetry, usage history, or background log scanning. Other usage apps stay heavy. AI Usage stays light. Download Open the DMG, drag AI Usage to Applications, and launch it. It appears in the menu bar rather than the Dock. macOS 26 or newer is required. NoteCurrent public builds are ad-hoc signed because a Developer ID certificate is not available yet. If macOS blocks the first launch, right-click AI Usage in Applications and choose Open.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.