Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to RanSim
100% harmless simulation of a real ransomware infection
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. RanSim launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1VHvim-hackernews▲193
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 4MI
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 5VA
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A very entertaining story about cybercrime from both perspe…
2015 · its alternatives →
- 7MH
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 10CC
2018 · cecibot.com · its alternatives →
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- 12LC
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fensivo▲4Human risk management that learns from every signal
Jul 2026 · fensivo.co · its alternatives →
- 14IX
Hello HN! Deploying the next-generation of security telemetry technologies to production is hard, so I’m building Impulse, a fully automated XDR platform that leverages tools like Osquery and eBPF to provide real-time threat detection & integrity monitoring for servers and workstations. It detects malware from behavioural patterns rather than signatures and enables deeper visibility than legacy tools. Impulse agents can be deployed on any device or VM running Linux such as cloud VMs in VPC networks, VPS servers or personal workstations and IoTs. In terms architecture, it is organised around…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built an open-source malware detection daemon that monitors all running processes in real-time using ML + heuristics. No kernel modules or eBPF required. Key points: - Polls /proc for new processes (works on any Linux kernel 2.6+) - Random Forest model trained on EMBER 2018 dataset (2.3M samples) - Heuristic rules for crypto miners, ransomware, rootkits - ~20MB RAM, <1% CPU, sub-millisecond scan latency - Pure C, zero runtime dependencies - Model embedded directly in binary (50KB) Why I built this: Existing solutions either require modern kernels (eBPF) or are heavy/proprietary.…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I recently discovered that LLMs can generate hilarious tech article titles, so I took it to the next level by generating coherent and entertaining comment threads, article content, and images. It will be automatically updated, so you'll never get bored. Enjoy! P.S. I've added robots.txt so I hope it doesn't get indexed.
2023 · crackernews.github.io · its alternatives →
- 17RA
2016 · react-hn.appspot.com · its alternatives →
- 18TA
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Over the past few months, as we scaled our internal AI Agents, we hit a dead end: Running LLM-generated arbitrary code in Docker is basically running naked on security due to container escape risks. But using full traditional VMs takes minutes to boot and eats too much memory to support high-density concurrency. We loved the developer experience of SaaS sandboxes on the market, but they are closed-source, expensive, and have too high a barrier to entry for self-hosting. So, our team decided to build our own. After months of grinding, using RustVMM and KVM, we built a blazing-fast,…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 23HX
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Coding agents craft arbitrary code so securing them is more complicated than red-teaming. We post trained a cyber-security small llm, changed how it reasons and supplemented our controls using program analysis techniques such as inline reference monitoring to outperform GPT5.5-xhigh on hard benchmarks like LinuxArena and SleightBench. Free product available at harden.run and full benchmarks in the blog post.
15d ago · harden.run · its alternatives →
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