DDoS detection in 500 lines of Python (MIT, no cloud, no account)
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HN · launched May 26, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 45%) · 0 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The author explicitly describes a concise 500-line Python script that monitors network sockets/pcap for traffic spikes and packet thresholds without external dependencies.
Discussion
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Concerns raised: Post flagged by HN bot, unclear why, GitHub repo selling a service may trigger spam filters, Flood of AI-generated services on GitHub affecting legitimacy
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1245 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #542 of 1246 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 207 days after the earliest competitor.
- DDoS detection in 0.9s, tested against a 48 Gbps attack live · hn · 2026-04-26 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- packetlens · github · 2026-11-06 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- wine-quarantine · github · 2026-10-07 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- netprobe-ir · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WinNetDiff · github · 2026-10-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Oproxy · hn · 2026-06-07 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Bastion · github · 2026-10-22 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Shittp · hn · 2025-12-21 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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