DAdavid_ar·Nov 22, 2015
IPFS doesn't run natively in the browser yet
https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
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ipfs.js
[ARCHIVED] See https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs
2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
33GitHub stars
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What it is
[ARCHIVED] See https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs
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Where it is used
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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, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
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HN mentions by week4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-09-09 08:44:15 UTC to 2015-11-22 09:48:59 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7 | 2015-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5 | 2015-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 12 | 2015-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | 2015-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 26 | 2015-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2 | 2015-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 16 | 2015-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesIntegrating with the existing web is definitely one of the goals, see https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
In Why the Internet Needs IPFSSee https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues for comparisons to existing systems. The plan is for IPFS to be able to transparently integrate with the existing web, e.g. https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
In Why the Internet Needs IPFSSee https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
It's coming along, not fully functional yet but you can watch its progress (or contribute code :D ) at https://github.com/ipfs/node-ipfs
In Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web