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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 month4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-06-17 10:36:09 UTC to 2021-09-08 00:29:57 UTC.

012019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-12-01 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 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 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 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 2021

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
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20212021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20212021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20212021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

4 sources
em-bee·Sep 8, 2021
related discussions: ZeroTier - Simple Software Defined Networking (111 points, 5 years ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11699122 ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere (107 points, 7 years ago, 50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8235702 ZeroTier 2.0 Status ( https://www.zerotier.com/2019/09/24/zerotier-2-0-status/ ) (98 points, 2 years ago, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21066821 LF: Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store ( https://github.com/zerotier/lf ) (191 points, 2 years ago, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20579868 (related blog post: https://www.zerotier.com/2019/06/30/lf-announcement/ ) How we moved to Google Cloud using Consul and ZeroTier with zero downtime ( https://tech.channable.com/posts/2017-10-25-how-we-moved-to-... ) (105 poin
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ts, 4 years ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15548642 . Ask HN by the zerotier founder: Ask HN: Critique my startup: ZeroTier One (6 points, 7 years ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8193250 Ask HN: Single founder startups: real data and experiences? (3 points, 7 years ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8723931 (maybe api can now tell us about his own experience as a single founder) . the zerotier blog also had a few popular posts (with fixed urls): The Horror in the Standard Library ( https://www.zerotier.com/2017/05/05/the-horror-in-the-standa... ) (830 points, 4 years ago, 216 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14275805 The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem ( http://web.archive.org/web/20160528080607/https://www.zeroti... ) (323 points, 6 years ago, 196 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11136739 (i could not find this article anymore. was it intentionally deleted? sorry, api) since this post seems to be controversial, you may also also note the followup: Followup on IPv6 Notation Usability Concerns ( http://web.archive.org/web/20160305151134/https://www.zeroti... ) The State of NAT Traversal ( https://www.zerotier.com/2014/08/25/the-state-of-nat-travers... ) (189 points, 7 years ago, 96 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229327 Introducing Network Containers ( https://www.zerotier.com/2015/09/29/introducing-network-cont... ) (82 points, 6 years ago, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10319747 AES-GMAC-CTR (SIV) ( https://www.zerotier.com/2019/09/04/aes-gmac-ctr-siv/ ) (74 points, 2 years ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20878207
In ZeroTier – Global Area Networking
api·Nov 6, 2019
LF uses a giant all-encompassing DAG as a CRDT and implements subjective name conflict resolution by computing "views" of the DAG based on various weighting constraints: https://github.com/zerotier/lf It's a bit like Riak or etcd but can be used across organizational and trust boundaries similar to e.g. a cryptocurrency. Anyone can run LF as part of the same network and both data privacy and security are maintained.
In CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type

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