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ipfs / kubo

kubo

IPFS implementation in Go: a daemon that stores and serves content-addressed data, with a CLI, HTTP Gateway, and RPC API

59Distinct people
84Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
17.2KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

IPFS implementation in Go: a daemon that stores and serves content-addressed data, with a CLI, HTTP Gateway, and RPC API

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year84 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-10-18 20:16:56 UTC to 2026-08-03 20:29:31 UTC.

0369122014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 1 submissions, 10 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 0 submissions, 12 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11110
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12012
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220

What Hacker News says

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This is why I think solutions like IPFS are the future: http://ipfs.io/ (tl;dr: go get github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/cmd/ipfs) Basically, the day will come when any single one of us will be able to serve our own content privately from our own machine without requiring a massive infrastructure investment, nor any kind of fancy participation in what is, essentially, branding on steroids (Internet of today), but rather all it will require to sell and control ones own art is to publish it yourself with cryptographic certainty that there simply is no middle man any more. Its the third party that degrades all art - those who have to carry the stuff from place to place in order to pimp things for the artist. Get rid of this, and give the artist direct and completely control over where and when and to whom their art is delivered, and we produce the ut
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opia that many of us artists wish we had. It is unbearable to have to go through a third party to get to the masses; to have direct contact is the ultimate goal..
In Who's doing this to my internet?
(EDIT: we've a meetup coming up soon. The SV Ethereum Meetup is hosting an intro to IPFS later this month in San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/221350594... come hang out!) --------------- Hello Everyone! --------------- @jbenet here. Thanks for all the attention! Did not expect to wake up to this post today :) The best resources for learning about ipfs are: - The IPFS Paper: http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmR7GSQM93Cx5eAg6a6yRzNde1FQv7uL... (note: DRAFT 3, working on DRAFT 4, lots has evolved.) - The Alpha Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMxDNuuAiQ - The First Tech Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4pckodM9g - The IRC Logs: http://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/ -- there's so much knowledge in these, we're working on moving it over. We're working on a bunch of more expository media: - Specs!! https://git
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hub.com/ipfs/specs - More Demos - More Talks - Draft 4 of the paper But there's only so many hours in a day, and we spend most of our time developing. All the resources will be way more polished as time goes on. Please bear with us as we make these available. In the meantime, ask questions in our new FAQ (below), or in #ipfs on irc.freenode.net -- And we'll be answering questions here too of course. I've just created: https://github.com/ipfs/faq -- if you ask questions there we can build a knowledge base IPFS already works-- you can install it and try it out. It's not production ready yet, but it's already very reliable. I use it to move around all sorts of personal files, and we use it to host many websites. Some people asked about what applications are there now? There's many static websites on ipfs, and some simple webapps. We ship our entire ipfs webui with ipfs itself (turtles all the way down!). In particular, Eris Industries recently made a decentralized YouTube clone using IPFS and their Decerver: https://github.com/eris-ltd/2gather If you see more-- please let us know at https://github.com/ipfs/community so we add it to an index (we just reorged our repos under the github org last week).. We need to make some more tooling to make web-publishing with ipfs really, really nice. We'll be making that over the next few weeks, so if you're interested in pushing out websites with ipfs-- come talk to us. Another big use case we're going after is Docker container distribution. We're preparing a whole bunch of demos right now that we'll show off in the next week or two. You can peek at: https://github.com/ipfs/container-demos We can already boot entire VMs and containers over ipfs in <10 seconds :D which makes me really happy. You can boot to ipfs with this makefile: https://gist.github.com/jbenet/76afa70955910a2ed097 If you want to help, the best ways are: - Come hack with us! We're particularly looking for Go hackers - Just use it! - Write applications on top. - Report issues: https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/issues and so on. - Help us with docs - Write another implementation (this is blocked by https://github.com/ipfs/specs/) Some ipfs community members i've seen posting below are: whyrusleeping, dylankpowers, inconshreveable Also, IPFS development is sponsored by our company, "Protocol Labs, Inc" -- we also make Filecoin. We are hiring, so check out: http://ipn.io/join (yeah-- we just changed the company name. still need to update ipn.io / get a new domain.) See you around the tubes! :) - @jbenet
In IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
Hi! If you haven't already found it, a good way to start is to lurk around the IRC #ipfs channel on freenode (logs: https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/). If you have any skills in Golang go ahead and check out the issues labeled as "help wanted" https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/labels/help%20wanted. Those ones are generally easier for newcomers to tackle. If you have other talents go ahead and ask in the IRC channel and we'll point you in the right direction.
In IPFS Alpha Demo – Distributed Web

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