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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

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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, 3:38:16 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.

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

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
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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jstanley·Jun 22, 2017
It's not my API, it's the standard IPFS writable gateway API, documented here: https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/writeable-http-gateways/210 And there's an example usage here: https://github.com/jes/hardbin/blob/master/js/hardbin.js#L25 There is currently a bug which means you first need to DELETE the filename (in my case "content") that you are trying to replace if it already exists, but apart from that it is straightforward. I started fixing the bug here https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3931 but ran out of steam - hopefully I'll continue soon.
In Show HN: IPFessay – Publish uncensorable essays to IPFS
Kubuxu·May 19, 2017
Only if `go test -cover ./...` would work. Currently in needs a lot of magic [1] (ignore sharness test coverage magic, it uses even more magic [2]). [1]: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/coverage/Rules.m... [2]: same file as [1], we compile unit test using `go test -c -cover` that runs our main function and saves the return value to file ([3] and [4]), but it works. If someone considers doing that, run everything in ramfs (tmpfs). [3]: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/coverage/main/ma... [4]: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/cmd/ipfs/runmain...
In The State of Go – Where we are in May 2017
Kubuxu·Jan 21, 2017
I've recently done that in go-ipfs project for cross package coverage (where tests in one package are counted towards coverage in all the others). You can see the results here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/ce00f384dc244f04ec7d87e... It is quite a bit of coverage and Makefile magic, but it generates coverage results. The same file also allows us to wire in sharness testing (cli tests) to generate coverage report. It is quite important for us as we don't test cli in unit tests just in the sharness. ------- The magic happens here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/ce00f384dc244f04ec7d87e... Each package has its one coverage target, for each package I collect dependencies that are in our testing scope and then I create go test cover call that includes those dependencies.
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