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facebook-ios-sdk

Used to integrate the Facebook Platform with your iOS & tvOS apps.

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What it is

Used to integrate the Facebook Platform with your iOS & tvOS apps.

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Where it is used

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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, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year31 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-08-12 22:06:25 UTC to 2024-08-18 20:03:00 UTC.

05101520252010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 25 mentions; 4 submissions, 21 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC25421
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

31 sources
efilife·Aug 18, 2024
Problems listed in the article: > Everyone uses different operating systems, IDEs and dev tools. How is this related to .gitignore? > This list will only keep growing, it will never end Where's the problem? A random Facebook's repo has its gitignore file weigh 2KB[0]. Is this a problem? > Is the “.gitignore” file competing with the “README.md” for the most updated file in the git repo? I hope not Again, why is this a bad thing? The author just wanted to rant about something but didn't know about what *[0] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/blob/main/.giti...
In Stop Using Git Ignore
commoner·Nov 10, 2021
I had missed some information on my network monitoring app (RethinkDNS[1]) and updated my last comment before seeing your reply! You're right about the connections to a Facebook server, though I'm only seeing the connections when the app is cold-started on Android. I haven't had the chance to test on iOS. The Facebook Android[2] and iOS[3] SDKs are source-available. From a privacy perspective, when someone compares Google Maps to HERE WeGo, the question is whether using Google or HERE (plus the Facebook SDK) would be more of a privacy violation. I don't have a good answer to this question. But from a market share perspective, HERE WeGo is a minor player compared to Google and using it instead of Google Maps would help curb Google's market dominance in mapping. Of course, if a free and open source OSM-based app is viable for your area, I w
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ould go for that instead. [1] https://f-droid.org/it/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/ [2] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk [3] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk
In Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps
searchableguy·Aug 2, 2020
Just disconnect your phone from the internet. Native apps aren't much better. The real solution is to use FOSS apps that you can check yourself and trust regardless of pwa or native. Your browser and device already had APIs to track you long before PWA standard and they still do. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-... https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/25/21338151/instagram-bug-ca... https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374 https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1427
In W3C give up on preventing PWAs from tracking users
exikyut·Jul 13, 2020
Question. In https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1373#iss..., it's noted that FBSDK starts the in the `+load` method. I understand that's what's causing the crashes. In https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1427#iss..., someone mentions that <key>FacebookAutoInitEnabled</key> <false/> disables auto init. Couldn't this potentially eliminate all FBSDK-related startup/non-interactively-caused crashes?
In Can Facebook provide postmortems on their iOS SDK crashes?
geofft·Jul 13, 2020
The backtrace in https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374 makes it sound like they passed a nil pointer to NSOrderedSet's initWithSet method, from inside FBSDKServerConfigurationManager's processLoadRequestResponse method. That makes it sound like a new version of the data provided by the server didn't have some field that old versions of the SDK expected, and the old code didn't catch that exception.
In Can Facebook provide postmortems on their iOS SDK crashes?
yreg·Jul 10, 2020
Workaround for users: Enable airplane mode and disable WiFi, or block facebook domains Workaround for developers: Go to Facebook Developer page > Analytics and disable automatic Events.[0] Apparently this doesn't solve the issue for everyone. Issue in Facebook's tracker: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/17391881029111... [0] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1427#iss...
In App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

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