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1Days on list
181Score · 7d
Nov 4, 2026First seen
Rank · 7 days
On Hacker News
- Points
- 341
- Comments
- 212
- Submitted by
- porridgeraisin
- Posted
- Nov 4, 2026
- Site
- sw.kovidgoyal.net
Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on sw.kovidgoyal.net.
Trending history
Kitty 0.50 was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 4, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 54 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #6 of 30, reached on Nov 4, 21:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 4, 22:22 UTC. The same link also trended on Lobsters, which raises its cross-platform score.
Rank history
Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).
Last 14 days
Best rank per day (UTC).
6
Oct 26today
Metric history
Platform metric as reported by Hacker News.
Where it trended
| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News · Front page | #6 | 1 | 54 | |
| LLobsters · Hottest kitty 0.50.0 | same link | |||
From the discussion
A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.
The shader support offers a hook to trigger on the bell character, so of course I had to hook this up to a screenshake shader. Get fish to emit a bell on a nonzero command exit, and I have screenshake on failed commands. I expected this to be really annoying but it's actually kindof great:…
I recognized him name from Calibre: https://calibre-ebook.com/about What a legend.
Using kitty's own benchmark tool, compared against Ghostty and Vivido[0] It is slower than the other two. `/Applications/kitty.app/Contents/MacOS/kitten __benchmark__` Kitty v0.50: Only ASCII chars : 4.6s @ 217.6 MB/s Unicode chars : 4.13s @ 217.8 MB/s Unique multi-codepoint Unicode cells : 15.93s @ 54.9 MB/s CSI…
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Questions
Is Kitty 0.50 trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 4, 22:22 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
What is the highest rank Kitty 0.50 reached?
#6 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 4, 21:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Kitty 0.50 been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 4, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (54 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
341 points and 212 comments; submitted by porridgeraisin on Nov 4, 2026.