Speaking of making unsubstantiated claims: this post is totally untrue. The formula was not updated with an OS requirement due to some misconstrued build issue; installation on High Sierra was blocked 6 hours ago, as noted in the very issue thread that this HN topic is about [0], explicitly because the freezes and crashes are very real and reproducible.

[0]: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682#issuecomment-355...

> Turns out it doesn’t, but it’s not unusual for people to make these types of unsubstantiated claims

What are the unsubstantiated claims? That these people including me are lying and have made this crash up? Do you really believe that?

> turns out it’s a build issue that conflicts with High Sierra.

Thanks for checking, but what is the build issue is exactly?

The original point was that unless htop installs kernel extensions or runs as admin it shouldn't break the rest of the system. So there might be an htop issue but there is most likely a macOS issue as well.

Whatever the system issue was is fixed for some and certainly for me on 10.13.2 or newer when running htop.