Security & Privacy (SECR)
Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 7–Oct 9 (same weekday) (4)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (0/13) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (1/9)
— Not significant at current sample size: −11.1pp, 9 → 13 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
trending score
Launches & hit rate
4 days left blank: votes still coming in (launches under 48h old), incomplete day, or no launches — not shown as zero.
Faded bars are incomplete days (today, or days before every selected source was being collected).
Key statistics
- Launches
- 3Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 3.313d
- 7D range
- 3 – 5Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 0.0%0/22 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 76%12 daily chg
- Share of market
- 2.8%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 4Oct 7–Oct 9
Stocks in this sector (SECR)
Highest traction among products launched in the last 7 days. Traction for older Product Hunt launches is frozen (votes stop being re-read ~31–36h after launch; Show HN after 7 days), so this is each product’s last recorded traction. 27 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bomfather, eBPF Runtime Security | SECR | 7 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 2 | OWASP Finbot Defended with Tenuo | SECR | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 3 | MacVisor Runs VMs with VLANs and Firewall on Apple Silicon | SECR | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 30h ago |
| 4 | Let's Encrypt on an HP LaserJet M553, Renewed from a Proxmox Container | SECR | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 5 | OpenClear Self-hosted check and ACH fraud screening for small banks | SECR | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 6 | Sibuna an open source web application firewall with proof of work | SECR | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 7d ago |
| 7 | Use keepword to detect silent changes to Privacy policies or pages | SECR | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 8 | Malware Families Catalog 2,903 Families with ATT&CK Mappings | SECR | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 9 | Checkobot Detect Deepfakes and AI Images | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 10 | Single-server DDoS defense, no CDN try to take it down | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | 2d ago | |
| 11 | MadMoon Shield single-server DDoS defense, no CDN. Round 3 live | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | 44h ago | |
| 12 | Cve.earth Open-Source Environmental Destruction Tracking | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 13 | DipperPDF privacy first, Mac native PDF tools for sensitive documents | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 14 | GotEmail a native Mac mail app with one-click sign-in codes | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 15 | SecuBuzz Factual 60-word cybersecurity briefs and CISA zero-day radar | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 16 | Remove AI Metadata Offline in Browser | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 17 | Vigil Open-source AI pentesting and code audits | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 18 | Weekend hack shoot away Cloudflare CAPTCHAs | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 19 | writui An encrypted Markdown-based writing app for the terminal | SECR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 20 | Aegis Network Firewall for AI Security | SECR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 28h ago | |
| 21 | OpenFactor, an open source 2FA app for iPhone and Apple Watch | SECR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 22 | Ts-chef CyberChef-style tools and visual pipelines for VS Code | SECR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 23 | Kyber Post-Quantum PKI | SECR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 24 | Popcorn a security workbench of disposable microVMs | SECR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 25 | League Lens a free, no-login analyzer for Sleeper fantasy football | SECR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 26 | ShipOrNah Free security scan for AI-generated apps | SECR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 7d ago |
| 27 | Simple Security Checker | SECR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 7d ago |
Traction = current votes (PH) / points (HN) — early-adopter attention, not downloads or usage. Gained = traction gained between the two latest daily ingest runs; Gain % only when the previous traction was 5+. Buzz = comments gained in that interval. “frozen” = no longer tracked, so no current gain. How it works