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nulecule

[UNMAINTAINED] Specification describing a container-based application

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[UNMAINTAINED] Specification describing a container-based application

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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, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-01-20 15:40:13 UTC to 2016-06-20 18:38:04 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012016-01-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 182016-01-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 42016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 20

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
Jan 182016-01-18 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-25 00:00:00 UTC110
Jan 252016-01-25 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 12016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 82016-02-08 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 152016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 222016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 292016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 72016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 142016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 212016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 282016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 42016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 112016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 182016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 252016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC000
May 22016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC000
May 92016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC000
May 162016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC000
May 232016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC000
May 302016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 62016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 132016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 202016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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gtirloni·Jun 20, 2016
I don't think this is an attempt by Docker to sell tools to make money. They are improving their ecosystem to make their company more relevant which may or may not snowball into other companies actually paying for their services (Docker Cloud, etc). Few companies are investing in making money by selling tools. Instead, you see Google/Amazon/Microsoft improving their cloud offerings and hoping you will your money there. They are giving away their tools (Kubernetes, Visual Studio, etc) hoping their environments become more attractive to you. I hope we are not repeating history with the "DAB" the same way the container spec in the past. The industry is tired of these format fights and we need standardization to move things forward. I would put more faith in the "DAB" format if it was announced as something coming from the CNCF or similar. Du
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ring the keynote the Atomic Nulecule [1] format came to mind... I don't know how it compares but it looks similar. 1 - https://github.com/projectatomic/nulecule
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