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HISTORICAL RECORD2014–2019
segmentio / nightmare · Not publicly available

nightmare

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22Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
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What people are saying

I use nightmarejs https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare which is based on electron; I recommend it if you're on js

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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, 12:01:02 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year22 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-10-07 13:48:04 UTC to 2019-12-04 23:01:19 UTC.

0369122014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 2 submissions, 9 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019

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 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1129
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Segment | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | ONSITE | Apply here: https://segment.com/jobs/ Segment is an analytics API that helps businesses integrate their entire analytics stack. Once customers send us data, we can send it to 180+ other integrations and databases like Redshift. We write code in Go and Node, process tens of billions of events a month, and contribute heavily to open source: https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare, https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith, https://github.com/segmentio/myth, and many more at https://github.com/segmentio We're looking for infrastructure, front-end, and security engineers as well as data analysts and designers. Apply here: https://segment.com/jobs/
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
Segment — San Francisco, Infrastructure Engineering We're looking for engineers to be part of our core engineering team, owning our distributed data processing infrastructure. We process billions of requests a month, growing incredibly quickly, and write primarily in Go and Node.js. In particular, we're looking for new teammates who are comfortable with building and operating distributed systems on EC2. We have a service oriented architecture (hate monolithic repos) and operate one of the largest combined Amazon Redshift clusters. As a team, we love to open-source most of our work: https://github.com/segmentio https://github.com/segmentio/yal https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith https://github.com/segmentio/myth https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js We're currently 36 people, with substantial
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revenue. But the biggest and most challenging engineering problems lie ahead. We're a key piece of infrastructural data plumbing for thousands of web businesses, and we need to interoperate reliably and seamlessly with hundreds of integration partners. Email myself peteratsegment.com, calvinatsegment.com (cto/co-founder) or drop us a note here: https://segment.com/jobs/descriptions/infrastructure-enginee...
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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