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hyper

A terminal built on web technologies

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A terminal built on web technologies

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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, 2:59:53 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year26 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-07-15 19:54:35 UTC to 2025-03-10 10:30:58 UTC.

02468102016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 3 submissions, 6 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 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): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 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): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC936
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
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 UTC413
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 UTC321
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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 UTC211
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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carmate383·May 7, 2019
"New Blazing Fast WebGL Engine". Wow really? Major changes - "Emoji support". For fucks sake, seriously? Am I the only one that doesn't want anything of the following _bull shit_? * A terminal emulator that is dependent on an entire web browser (not to mention the layers upon layers of bullshit abstractions all to run something from the 70s). * Support for "emojis" (I mean, come on. It's a _damn terminal_). * To execute code that can hijack control of my shell from any of the 956 dependencies[1] this _heap of shit_ relies on. [1] $ git clone https://github.com/zeit/hyper.git $ cd hyper $ npm install $ ls -lt | wc -l 956
In Hyper 3.0.0
nailer·May 7, 2019
I've been using Hyper 3 Canary for a while, if you're on Windows it's a MASSIVE difference from previous versions - all the normal stuff you expect to work (select to copy, right click paste, rendering, readline shortcuts etc) works (with a little tweaking, see below). It's definitely usable as a daily driver. I've been using Windows Terminal in the last 24 hours and it still has some major bugs. While I'd say Fluent Terminal is the best in terms of being lightweight and feature filled, and Alacritty for raw power if you have big shell workloads, Hyper 3 is pretty damn good and worth a try. Sane defaults: Use pwsh (not cmd, that's the Windows equivalent of launching 70's Bourne shell on a *nix box): shell: "C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\6\\pwsh.exe", shellArgs: [], Normal new tab, close window keys, make readline keys work:
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keymaps: { "tab:new": "ctrl+t", // Also known as 'close tab' "pane:close": "ctrl+w", // Bug workaround for https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/2873 "editor:movePreviousWord": "", "editor:moveNextWord": "" },
In Hyper 3.0.0
hs86·Mar 24, 2019
The situation for terminal emulators is still bad on Windows. Those web-based ones have no problems with fancy font features like powerline icons or ligatures but they still have a limitation when it comes to color support. [1] Fluent seems to be affected from this as well. The other important feature for me is tmux with mouse support. To my knowledge, only WSLtty [2] does this right. It lacks support for font ligatures but I value a functional tmux more than some ligature eye candy. I still hope that Microsoft will improve their own conhost.exe in further updates. Also, the upcoming 1903 update will improve the color support those web-based terminal emulators. [1] https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1968 [2] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty
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