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Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by hayksaakian on Thursday November 27, 2014 @11:22PM (#8669648)
Can one of the 8 (so far) up-voters tell me whats interesting here?

The linked readme tells little.

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Now 25 pts with just as much explanation....

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As of 48 points, this (1) is the most relvant and informative explanation, but still has nothing to do directly with the linked OP.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669743

Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by elisee on Thursday November 27, 2014 @11:46PM (#8669705)
Compare with https://github.com/joyent/node, similar readme and commit numbers. Looks like a node.js fork. (EDIT: maybe you already understood that, I thought it might have been a different thing from node.js altogether until I saw the repositories shared a README/history)