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upterm

A terminal emulator for the 21st century.

22Distinct people
24Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
19KGitHub stars
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What it is

A terminal emulator for the 21st century.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year24 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-09-05 22:49:53 UTC to 2022-04-06 00:06:31 UTC.

02468102015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 4 submissions, 5 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 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 comments2022

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
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC945
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 UTC220
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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

What Hacker News says

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I'd be curious to see how this plays out. > We expect real-time collaboration to dominate future markets as the pandemic runs its course and forces people and businesses online en masse I'd think that the area for the easiest investment in this problem space wouldn't be on the creation of a new terminal emulator (like iTerm2 or the Windows Terminal), but instead as a piece of software running on the remote server, something like tmux. Imagine instead a tmux that could allow multiple users to connect to it simultaneously, and drive different panes at the same time, or view the commands that another user is using in a given pane. Then, regardless of what terminal emulator you choose, you'd be able to collaborate with your teammates, once you connect to the same server session. When I think about a "Terminal 2.0", I imagine something more li
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ke [this](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3121). Ideally though, whatever protocol for rich feedback and content embedding wouldn't be tightly coupled between the shell and the Terminal, which I don't believe is something that [UpTerm](https://github.com/railsware/upterm) did well (though correct me if I'm wrong.)
In Hackathon and Challenge to build a new Terminal – $20k investment

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