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kovidgoyal
kitty
Python2017–2026
kovidgoyal / kitty

kitty

If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.

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What it is

If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.

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Where it is used

  • Graphviz — Graphviz adds a -Tkitty output to display inline graphics using the kitty Terminal graphics protocol. This implements inline graphics in terminals that support that protocol, including kitty. Source
  • mpv (media player) — mpv is documented on kitty's integrations page as using kitty's graphics/video output (vo=kitty) to play videos in the terminal. Source

What people are saying

I mostly switched to librem 14, arch linux (i3wm, gnome from time to time), still using a mac for work (mostly presentations, video conferencing). Development tends to get more…

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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, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year113 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-01-07 04:17:33 UTC to 2026-10-07 18:29:01 UTC.

051015202017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 3 submissions, 5 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 1 submissions, 13 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 3 submissions, 10 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 1 submissions, 11 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 2 submissions, 12 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 19 mentions; 1 submissions, 18 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 1 submissions, 10 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 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
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC835
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14113
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13310
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12111
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14212
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC19118
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11110
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606

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