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Pear
Company blog · pears.com/newsprogrammingsystems
Pear is the company blog at pears.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2024, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “P2P from scratch – The Internet is hostile”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link pears.com as the home of Pear, a platform for building peer-to-peer desktop and mobile apps from the Dat/Beaker lineage, made by Holepunch. Comments cite it for the technology, not for any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Empowering Developers, Disrupting the Norm!
Most-linked posts?
- P2P from scratch – The Internet is hostile2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-02
- Holepunch Unveils P2P Platform "Pear Runtime"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-14
- Pears – Unleash the Power of P2P2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-14
What Hacker News says?
I started out with linode, a decade ago. It became much more expensive than AWS, because it bundled the hard drive space with the RAM. Couldn't scale one without scaling the other. It was ridiculous. AWS has a bunch of startup credits you can use, if you're smart. But if you want free hosting, nothing beats just CloudFlare. They are literally free and even let you sign up anonymously with any email. They don't even…
Comment linking /news/building-apocalypse-proof-applications-with-pear-runtime/
on “I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars”Submitted Holepunch Unveils P2P Platform "Pear Runtime" as a story · 92 points
HN discussion>Nonetheless, it seems like an interesting topic: how exactly do Chinese [or more broadly, any] government [make] decisions on what to block, flow through their government system, before getting to the technical level where they actually do the blocking? Indeed, that is an excellent question, applied to any Nation-State that blocks connections for any reason! Now, this brings up a highly interesting question, which…
Comment linking /news/holepunch-unveils-groundbreaking-open-source-peer-to-peer-app-development-platform-pear-runtime/
on “So you think you understand IP fragmentation?”Submitted Bare: Run JavaScript Everywhere as a story · 41 points
HN discussionHey all, just letting you know that the core technology inside of Dat/Beaker is alive and well inside Keet [1] (a P2P communications app) and Pear [2] (a platform for building P2P desktop/mobile apps). Keet is built on Pear. Both projects are built by Holepunch [3], a company we formed a few years back to keep the peer-to-peer candle burning. It's always a challenge but never dull. We're working on tons of mad scien…
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on “Beaker Browser and the Dat Protocol”Submitted P2P from scratch – The Internet is hostile as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhy not something p2p and encrypted? https://peerloomllc.com/pearpetal/ No servers, no problem. You fear losing your device? I'm sure you have more than one, any additional one you have is a fully functional backup. The technology it is built on is extremely cool. http://pears.com/ Or better yet. Why trust this one (even though the source is on github)? You can just ask your AI agent to build you your custom one on…
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on “The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker”Submitted Pears – Unleash the Power of P2P as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted P2P from Scratch – Part 1: The Internet Is Hostile – Pears as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pears.com to Participate in the Third Annual Plan ₿ Forum as a story · 1 points
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