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glance-linux

Face unlock for Linux with real liveness detection: a PAM module, a daemon, and an Omarchy lock screen indicator

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GITHUB · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 67 upvotes (top 12%) · 1 view

Niche: credential management and security tools · 78 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▲ +56% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Security
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial A basic PAM wrapper calling OpenCV is doable, but reliable, secure anti-spoofing liveness detection and secure daemon architecture require dedicated biometric/computer vision expertise.

What it would actually take: Requires C/Rust Linux systems engineering and computer vision. Stack entails a Linux PAM module, a systemd daemon talking over D-Bus, V4L2 webcam capture (supporting IR when available), and an anti-spoofing ML pipeline (e.g., MiniFASNet) running via ONNX Runtime to prevent photo/video replay attacks.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1972 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #216 of 1973 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Gaze · hn · 2026-08-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.74
  • FSM · hn · 2026-06-28 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • SimdFace · github · 2026-11-10 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • vulnerable-driver-boilerplate · github · 2026-09-28 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • FaceGuard · github · 2026-09-15 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Selvum · hn · 2026-08-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Pwnbox · github · 2026-10-19 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • macOSHello · github · 2026-10-23 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.54

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