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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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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, 9:01:12 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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diggan·Sep 17, 2018
Normally you would go about it like this: dig +short txt _dnslink.ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com ^ will get you the root hash. Then for finding the hash of that particular directory: ipfs resolve /ipfs/QmVsEiBRsdiHMvmDVJTNtrXNqSKYdtoepcoZxUrQ8rU7qR/ham But unfortunately it errors, probably because it's a HAMT sharded directory and the `resolve` call hasn't been changed to accept them yet. There is a open issue about it here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/5270 Edit: Actually found a work-around. Loading up the hash via our IPLD Explorer reveals the (re-)name of the directory, which happens to be `05ham` and we can call `resolve` on that: "ipfs resolve /ipfs/QmVsEiBRsdiHMvmDVJTNtrXNqSKYdtoepcoZxUrQ8rU7qR/05ham" Then we get the `/ipfs/zdj7WZpLoZYr4AoDUdpCNBVHLi1S8y6muFoCgwUa9kmxUpYCr` hash which you can use for
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In Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway
karalabe·Apr 18, 2018
This repository is an unofficial fork of `github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs`, converted from a `gx` based project to a plain Go project. The goal is to act as an IPFS library that can be imported and used from Go apps without the need of switching all dependency management over to `gx`. As a bonus, this fork is compatible with GoDoc!
In IPFS fork usable as a Go library
prophesi·Apr 7, 2018
Yep, precisely! And if I'm having peer discovery issues with just two nodes, I can't imagine what you guys are having to go through. :/ For the curious: you'd run `ipfs id` on the nodes to get their addresses. Then you'd run `ipfs config edit` on them and add the other node's address to the bootstrap section. https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/config.md#b... But yeah... They'd still mysteriously not connect to each other at times.
In Show HN: FileNation – A simple way to send files using IPFS

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