# Snitch

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/snitch/

6 people recommended Snitch in Hacker News comments, 3 had mixed feelings and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 12 months, in 1 thread. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

6 of the 6 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat”.

**Verdict:** Free terminal tool that shows ss and netstat style connection data in a TUI, and people note it is actively maintained. One reviewer reported an install error via go.

Summary written by Claude from 10 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 9 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Terminal UI that looks nice (2 comments in the sample): "I like the TUI, connection monitoring is perfectly handled by a TUI!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363067)) "Name can be friendlier, tui looks nice!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364709))
- Maintained ss/netstat replacement (2 comments in the sample): "the installed cli at least looks and behaves like I expected from this HN post" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367449)) "an actually maintained terminal utility for viewing ss/netstat data" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46366982))
- Cool look and demo (2 comments in the sample): "The demo recording-as-code seems cool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362417)) "This looks cool - will check it out!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362517))
- Expected to be useful (1 comment in the sample): "this is going to be really useful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365237))

## Other network diagnostic tools people recommend

- [netcat](https://hackerapproved.com/p/netcat/): 16 recommend, 3 mixed, 2 criticize
- [Nmap](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nmap/): 6 recommend, 1 mixed, 2 criticize
- [ping](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ping/): 5 recommend, 1 mixed, 4 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Snitch", https://hackerapproved.com/p/snitch/ (6 recommend, 3 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.