DDoS detection in 0.9s, tested against a 48 Gbps attack live
Details
- External ID
- 47906085
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- DDoS detection in 0.9s, tested against a 48 Gbps attack live
- Website domain
- flowtriq.com
- Launched
- April 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7062982005141388
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Model Context Protocol developer tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- detect ddos attacks in milliseconds
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Detecting sub-second 48 Gbps volumetric DDoS attacks requires kernel-bypass networking (eBPF/XDP or DPDK), high-performance line-rate packet processing, and specialized multi-gigabit network infrastructure.
What it would actually take: A real implementation requires a pipeline using eBPF/XDP or DPDK running on bare-metal servers with 40/100 GbE NICs (Mellanox/Intel) to inspect tens of millions of packets per second at line rate without saturating the OS network stack. The engine uses custom sliding-window algorithms and flow hashing to flag SYN floods, amplification attacks, and UDP bursts within sub-second thresholds. It requires deep systems and low-level Linux networking engineering expertise, BGP Anycast routing peering, and substantial network bandwidth to test and deploy.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cloudflare, OVH, Path.net
Concerns raised: 48 Gbps attack volume not impressive for DDoS mitigation, Detection speed and mitigation time comparison with other providers unclear
Competitors
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Attention rank: #153 of 550 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 177 days after the earliest competitor.
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