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ml5js
ml5-library
JavaScript2018–2026
ml5js / ml5-library

ml5-library

Friendly machine learning for the web! 🤖

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Friendly machine learning for the web! 🤖

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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, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-03-30 19:04:00 UTC to 2026-09-04 17:26:00 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 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 comments20222023-01-01 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
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 UTC000
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

What Hacker News says

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> Have we seen any creator of a deep learning library, take a similar position if not stopping any support for anyone using it for mass surveillance? ml5.js license: > This license gives everyone as much permission to work with this software as possible as long as they comply with the ml5.js Code of Conduct [...] ml5.js code of conduct: > Do not: [...] Use ml5.js to build tools of mass surveillance and prediction to repress the rights of people https://github.com/ml5js/ml5-library/blob/main/LICENSE.md Not sure how enforcable this is but it exists.
In Contributing to WebSockets – Cryptocurrency Users
For anyone interested, here is a sampling of available ML libs in JavaScript. The first two, including tensorflow.js, are sub-libraries of the major ML projects, and the others are custom JS libs: [tensorflow.js](https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs) [mxnet.js](https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet.js/) [propel.js](https://github.com/propelml/propel) - this uses tensorflow.js under the hood [ml5](https://github.com/ml5js/ml5-library) - also uses tensorflow.js [webdnn](https://github.com/mil-tokyo/webdnn) [brain.js](https://github.com/BrainJS/brain.js) [mljs](https://github.com/mljs/ml) [synaptic](https://github.com/cazala/synaptic) edit: added the ml5 lib mentioned in a subsequent comment.
In Introducing TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning in JavaScript

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