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This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.

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This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.

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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, 7:02:50 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year21 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-11-12 16:01:56 UTC to 2026-02-10 03:40:51 UTC.

02462014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 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): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 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 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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 UTC220
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

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.NET Home This repository is a starting point to learn about and engage in .NET and .NET open source projects. This repository is not an official .NET or .NET Framework support location, however, we will respond to issues filed here as best we can. Please file .NET product issues at main project repos below. In this repository .NET Framework Release Notes .NET Framework Documentation .NET Open Source Developer Projects .NET Open Source Consumer Projects Free Services & Tools for Open Source .NET Projects Please contribute to this repository via pull requests Finding .NET Open Source Projects Here are some excellent community-maintained lists of projects & libraries: Awesome .NET Awesome .NET MAUI Awesome Blazor There are many projects that you can use and contribute to, some of which are listed below. Please do contribute to these projects! .NET .NET (dotnet/core) .NET Aspire (dotnet/aspire) .NET MAUI (dotnet/maui) .NET testing, includes Microsoft.Testing.Platform and MSTest (microsoft/testfx) ASP.NET Core (dotnet/aspnetcore) C# (dotnet/csharplang) Entity Framework Core (dotnet/efcore) F# (dotnet/fsharp) ML.NET (dotnet/machinelearning) Roslyn Compiler Platform (dotnet/roslyn) Windows Forms (dotnet/winforms) WPF (dotnet/wpf) .NET Docs .NET docs (dotnet/docs) .NET Aspire docs (dotnet/docs-aspire) .NET MAUI docs (dotnet/docs-maui) ASP.NET Core docs (dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs) Entity Framework docs (dotnet/EntityFramework.Docs) .NET Framework .NET Framework docs (dotnet/docs) .NET Framework source code - read-only subset (microsoft/referencesource) Xamarin Xamarin iOS + macOS (xamarin/xamarin-macios) Xamarin Android (xamarin/xamarin-android) Xamarin.Forms (xamarin/Xamarin.Forms) Mono Project Community Here is a short list of projects to check out: .NET for Apache Spark Orleans Exceptionless Glimpse JSON.NET MonoGame MVVM Cross ReactiveUI There are additional templates available for dotnet new. For more information, see Available templates for dotnet new .NET Foundation Many .NET open source projects are part of the .NET Foundation. Microsoft has contributed many projects, including ASP.NET Core and .NET Core. You may want to consider joining the .NET Foundation. Check out the .NET Foundation Discord Server to see what others are talking about, or start a new discussion to ask a question or make a point. License This repository is licensed with the MIT license.
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