Show HN: Explain curl|bash installer scripts
curl-bash-explain.dev
I hate "curl|bash" installer instructions and often download and inspect the script manually before running it. I dislike that we've normalizing installing random software from random URLs and hoping for the best.
This is a little something to help me in these cases: pasting the curl|bash oneliner will download and inspect it and tell you exactly what's happening under the hood.
Here's an example for Homebrew: https://curl-bash-explain.dev/results/1c9db64f27d7487ecf74fe...
It's rather slow at the moment (I opted for better vs faster analysis). Once GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark[0] gets into API, I might switch to that to make it faster (or Gemini Flash, or something else).
This is hosted on exe.dev, coded by their coding agent using Opus 4.6, and is open source.