eBPF
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 5, 2025first mention
Jul 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“eBPF is a revolutionary technology for the Linux kernel that makes the kernel both secure and programmable.”
“eBPF will”
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“Just hook the relevant system call and be done with it.”
“XDP, and the eBPF ecosystem in general, is quite neat.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- item 48871677 1 mention
- Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C 1 mention
- item 47457042 1 mention
- Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL 1 mention
- A free and open-source rootkit for Linux 1 mention
- Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF 1 mention
Data: ebpf.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“eBPF is a revolutionary technology for the Linux kernel that makes the kernel both secure and programmable.”
“eBPF has a lot more checks in the verifier”
“similar in spirit to eBPF, but built specifically for embedded environments”
“eBPF will”
“Just hook the relevant system call and be done with it.”
“So eBPF for a WAF isn't worth it?”
“XDP, and the eBPF ecosystem in general, is quite neat.”