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k8
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attractivechaos / k8

k8

k8 Javascript shell

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What it is

k8 Javascript shell

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-06-19 01:35:12 UTC to 2014-11-28 05:06:40 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 162014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-07-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-08-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 12014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 24

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 162014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 232014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 302014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 72014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 142014-07-14 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 212014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 282014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 42014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 112014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 182014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 252014-08-25 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 12014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 82014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 152014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 222014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 292014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 62014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 132014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 202014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 272014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 32014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 102014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 172014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 242014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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mappu·Nov 28, 2014
Node is the obvious leader amongst V8 shells, but there's also - https://github.com/attractivechaos/k8 and discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7913950 - http://silkjs.net/ - https://code.google.com/p/teajs/ - https://github.com/samlecuyer/sorrow.js - https://github.com/tlrobinson/narwhal - d8 (bundled with v8 source) Not counting other CommonJS-compatible platforms, or javascript shells using engines other than V8, or server-side javascript application frameworks
In IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript

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