Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers
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#25Peak rank
2Days on list
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Oct 31, 2026First seen
On Hacker News
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- Arterialist
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- Oct 29, 2026
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Trending history
Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 31, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 20 checks on 2 different days, across 2 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN · this week). Its best position was #25 of 30, reached on Oct 31, 04:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 5, 15:50 UTC.
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| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #25 | 1 | 12 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN · this week | #28 | 1 | 8 |
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Hey guys, I had a few esp32 boards around for a while and always thought - how do we go beyond just one device, would it be possible to apply cloud-native thinking to distributed edge computing? Result is Kube32. I got the cluster and a full-stack web app with real-time sync running on esp32 s3 dev board and…
Super cool! One thought that would make this way more useful to me (and probably a thousand times more complicated, sorry) is if it had a way to split out “GPIO” subroutines from the main app, and schedule them separately. So GPIO would become an addressable unit like pods or load balancers in k8s. The idea is I…
What kind of overhead does the Wasm approach add in terms of memory and cpu time? I also have way too many ESP32 boards lying around
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Is Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 5, 15:50 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers reached?
#25 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 31, 04:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 31, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (20 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
53 points and 22 comments; submitted by Arterialist on Oct 29, 2026.