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35 mentions on Hacker News by 31 people: 8 stories, 27 comments · first 2009-10-28 · latest 2026-06-10

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  1. …a very long time ago. [1]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/secrets-of-the-javascript-ninj... [2]: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/commit/02ede85b539a8...
    comment by jason_oster · 2026-06-10 · in Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
  2. …Looks like this jgonggrijp user has been keeping things moving for the last couple years: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/graphs/contributors
    comment by kipple · 2023-03-09 · in No Lodash
  3. …seen more activity recently than Lodash (which was touted as Underscore's successor for years). [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore
    comment by keb_ · 2023-03-08 · in No Lodash
  4. Not ruby, but Javascript. Have a look at underscore js source: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/blob/master/undersco... I really loved it! Especially those _ functions are small, concise and easy to understand as well. Very good…
    comment by antoaravinth · 2017-03-13 · in Ask HN: What are some examples of good code?
  5. Not sure, whether you saw this or not. But there has been some effort on this front - https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/2182
    comment by agnivade · 2016-07-18 · in The other kind of JavaScript fatigue
  6. Projects were merged: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/2182 https://github.com/underdash/underdash/issues/14
    comment by steveax · 2016-07-01 · in Lists of JavaScript methods which you can use natively
  7. https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/blob/master/undersco...
    comment by baby · 2016-05-01 · in Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?
  8. …an example of what I mean, see underscore.js [1] and the prettyfied version of the source [2]. [1]: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/blob/master/undersco... [2]: http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html
    comment by zyxley · 2015-09-16 · in Programs to Read
  9. Apparently it's possible to work around a lot of this as shown in here https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/2184 although that excludes meaningful contributions from non-contributors.
    comment by inglor · 2015-05-21 · in Underscore and Lodash Merge Thread
  10. Here are some I'm aware of: https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/issues/290 https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/2081 https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/2145 Webkit devs are aware of these and they have been fixed in Webkit…
    comment by dmethvin · 2015-03-26 · in Intent to Implement: Pointer Events in Chrome
  11. The author of CoffeeScript also created Underscore. He did the exact same thing there: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/1805 So bottom line: if you use CoffeeScript, Underscore of Backbone.js pay close attention to upgrades.
    comment by alessioalex · 2015-02-20 · in Coffeescript 1.9.0 contains a backwards incompatible change
  12. …said, I still can't believe we don't have a flatMap: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/issues/812 https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/452 (Underscore repo, but still Mr. Dalton, author of Lodash, opposing.)
    comment by acjohnson55 · 2015-01-27 · in Lodash v3.0.0
  13. Related to issue #1805 ( https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/1805 ) and other hn post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700 ).
    comment by jdd · 2014-08-29 · in Why Semantic Versioning Isn't
  14. Yup. I'm the contributor who wrote that pull for the release. You can see the original here https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/pull/1799
    comment by krebby · 2014-08-29 · in Fix the versioning
  15. See also https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/1684
    comment by krebby · 2014-08-29 · in Fix the versioning
  16. …by https://github.com/visionmedia (his less popular libraries are not very well commented though) https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore Scheme (and functional programming in general): examples/exercises from the SICP book
    comment by olalonde · 2014-04-17 · in Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
  17. …the analysis code is open source[1]. https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/joyent/node https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/jashkenas/underscore https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/caolan/async [1] https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/j…
    comment by sqs · 2014-02-17 · in Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
  18. …to that of the native Array#forEach because it delegates to the native method when it's available: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/blob/6db5b93eac3eacd...
    comment by ville · 2014-01-31 · in You might not need jQuery
  19. …not backbone, since people were getting confused (?) trying to load underscore correctly (??). https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/pull/431#issueco... In the meantime, as long as you are using the right "shims" you should be able…
    comment by gee_totes · 2013-01-28 · in BackboneJs + RequireJs AMD multi-page boilerplate.
  20. …been in the Backbone.org docs? Appears there was a fair bit of tension in it's dev history. Eg: https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/commit/4e4bc194c...
    comment by crescentfresh · 2013-01-15 · in Backbone.js v0.9.10 Released
  21. …good options out there. [1] http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor... [2] https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/blob/master/unde... [3] https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/blob/master/backbo... [4]…
    comment by sanderjd · 2012-11-24 · in Changing times for web developers
  22. …implementation of Underscore's debounce and throttle functions (both useful) is available here: https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/blob/master/unde...
    comment by jashkenas · 2012-10-15 · in Rate-limiting JavaScript function calls
  23. Have you checked underscore.js' version? https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/blob/master/unde...
    comment by swah · 2012-07-02 · in The dark side of Function.prototype.bind
  24. …- https://github.com/substack/fleet seaport - https://github.com/substack/seaport underscore - https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore node_redis - https://github.com/mranney/node_redis node-gyp - https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp…
    comment by cjm · 2012-05-11 · in Our favorite node.js modules
  25. …that anyone I hire has the gumption to also be doing similar work. Go fork some projects. [1] https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/issues/425
    comment by latchkey · 2012-01-08 · in The GitHub Job Interview
  26. …I think your example just happened to not have problems. Underscore.js still has problems ( https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/issues/7 ) with Prototype.js. I have made a small test ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/513327/underscore_proto…
    comment by jdd · 2011-08-08 · in Extending Native JavaScript Objects. Evil or Not?
  27. …a page. Blog Announcement: http://www.documentcloud.org/blog/2009/10/28/underscore-dot-... Git Repo: http://github.com/documentcloud/underscore Test and Benchmark Suite: http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/test/test.html
    comment by jashkenas · 2009-10-28 · in Underscore.js: Functional Programming for jQuery