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Show HN: Somo – a human friendly alternative to netstat

Show HN: Somo – a human friendly alternative to netstat

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·June 9, 2025
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nubb

i’ve typed netstat -pna so many times in my life using something else would totally ruin me

mrweasel

Very nice. I constantly struggle to remember the correct parameters to netstat and this seems to return the information that I need in 90% of my use cases.

basemi

Please see also `ss`

https://linux.die.net/man/8/ss

bityard

I find the output of `ss` very hard to read in comparison to netstat.

kykat

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at0mic22

Think it should be explicitly stated that it is not available on Mac OS as procfs does not support it

Zekio

Readme only mentions linux, so why bother mentioning Mac OS?

cls59

README also leads with a screenshot that has macOS window styling. So, "works on Mac" is a reasonable first impression to draw.

qualeed

Before you get to that screenshot, you have to get past the big, bold sentence that says "A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.".

krunck

There are MacOS-like themes available. Eg: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1275087/

insane_dreamer

The title `A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux` is pretty clear.

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