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gobpf
C2018–2025
iovisor / gobpf

gobpf

Go bindings for creating BPF programs.

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

Go bindings for creating BPF programs.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-08-30 01:42:01 UTC to 2025-11-02 03:30:22 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Prompt 1C: Create a Go package named dbpftrace with a README and docs, then create a cli utility named dbpftrace to: parse pid and descendents' fs syscall events (like bpftrace) using libbpfgo and godtrace Use either (cilium/ebpf or libbpfgo or gobpf) or (godtrace or (CGO or FFI) bindings to libdtrace) depending on which OS, by default cilium/ebpf: https://github.com/cilium/ebpf aquasecurity/libbpfgo https://github.com/aquasecurity/libbpfgo iovisor/gobpf w/ bcc: https://github.com/iovisor/gobpf chzyer/godtrace: https://github.com/chzyer/godtrace oracle/dtrace-utils/tree/devel/libdtrace: https://github.com/oracle/dtrace-utils/tree/devel/libdtrace From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45755142 re eBPF for WAF: > awesome-ebpf > Kernel docs, examples, Go libraries: https://github.com/zoidyzoidzoid/awesome-ebpf#go-libraries : >> Go li
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braries: >> cilium/ebpf - Pure-Go library to read, modify and load eBPF programs and attach them to various hooks in the Linux kernel. >> libbpfgo - eBPF library for Go, powered by libbpf. >> gobpf - Go bindings for BCC for creating eBPF programs
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