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littlesnitch-linux

Open Source components of Little Snitch for Linux

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5Mentions
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Open Source components of Little Snitch for Linux

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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, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-04-09 07:58:09 UTC to 2026-05-05 14:19:01 UTC.

012342026-04-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 commentsApr 92026-04-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 222026-04-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 5

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

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Apr 92026-04-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-10 00:00:00 UTC404
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What Hacker News says

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Intentionally not edited to add: Why are you using minified dependencies (like uPlot.iife.min.js[1] and uPlot.min.css[2]) for a desktop application? uPlot is also open source (released by Sorokin under MIT), but why aren't you following the terms of its license[3]? 1. <https://github.com/obdev/littlesnitch-linux/blob/main/webroo...> 2. <https://github.com/obdev/littlesnitch-linux/blob/main/webroo...> 3. <https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot/blob/master/LICENSE>
In LittleSnitch for Linux
Disclaimer: I'm the developer of Little Snitch for Linux. Regarding MITM concerns: The eBPF component, which actually sees all the traffic, is Open Source (GPLv2). You can review it on Github and verify whether it sends any data to user space: https://github.com/obdev/littlesnitch-linux But the trust issue is still real, the daemon has to run as root because it needs to watch for new mounts and keep a table of file system roots up-to-date, even after loading all the eBPF programs. As a root process, it can technically do whatever it wants. Unless you limit it with a kind of mandatory access control (SELinux or similar). This is the very first release and we will probably come up with a more restricted permission requirement in the future. For the moment, I try to catch up with bug reports. There seems to be more diversity in the Linux lan
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