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Portview, A diagnostic-first port viewer for Linux (~930 KB, zero deps)

Details

External ID
46933422
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Portview, A diagnostic-first port viewer for Linux (~930 KB, zero deps)
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Feb. 8, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.10512129380053908
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
systems tools and desktop utilities
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
lightweight port viewer for linux
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Building a zero-dependency ~930 KB systems diagnostic binary for Linux requires low-level systems programming in C, Rust, or Go directly querying kernel interfaces (/proc/net, netlink sockets, sockstat).

What it would actually take: The tool must parse Linux kernel internals directly using Netlink `inet_diag` sockets and `/proc/net/` entries to extract listening/active sockets, socket inode numbers, and match them against process descriptors via `/proc/[pid]/fd`. It is compiled statically using musl libc in C, Rust, or Go without external shared libraries to maintain a tiny binary footprint under 1 MB. This requires deep familiarity with Linux networking internals, socket APIs, and low-level systems debugging.

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Competitors

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Attention rank: #1314 of 1417 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 100 days after the earliest competitor.

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