Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2014

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Aug, 2014.


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#1 Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

1013 points | 331 comments | Aug 25, 2014 | by greenwalls

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#2 Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

577 points | 181 comments | Aug 16, 2014 | by RoryGlyphic

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#3 Show HN: Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win

455 points | 97 comments | Aug 13, 2014 | by entangld

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#4 Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL

325 points | 77 comments | Aug 22, 2014 | by obsession

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#5 Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

309 points | 140 comments | Aug 21, 2014 | by MarkMc

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#6 Show HN: I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy

260 points | 102 comments | Aug 14, 2014 | by BonsaiDen

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#7 Show HN: Restore tmux environment after a system restart

241 points | 43 comments | Aug 30, 2014 | by brunosutic

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#8 Show HN: Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS

221 points | 34 comments | Aug 18, 2014 | by sahat

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#9 Show HN: Pythonpy – the swiss army knife of the command line

220 points | 42 comments | Aug 10, 2014 | by Russell91

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#10 Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C

212 points | 91 comments | Aug 04, 2014 | by tekknolagi

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#11 Show HN: Detect articles with corporate sponsors

204 points | 78 comments | Aug 14, 2014 | by typpo

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#12 Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet

192 points | 43 comments | Aug 05, 2014 | by f292

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#13 Show HN: Scraperjs – A versatile web scraper

192 points | 36 comments | Aug 18, 2014 | by ruipgil

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#14 Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end

168 points | 100 comments | Aug 21, 2014 | by matthewmueller

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#15 Show HN: Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding

162 points | 60 comments | Aug 14, 2014 | by ges

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#16 Show HN: Chan – pure C implementation of Go channels

150 points | 44 comments | Aug 29, 2014 | by tylertreat

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#17 Show HN: C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs

146 points | 40 comments | Aug 24, 2014 | by tuhdo

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#18 Show HN: I lose things constantly, so I built this service

145 points | 88 comments | Aug 25, 2014 | by madchops1

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#19 Show HN: ZipLocate, a free API for zip code geolocation

140 points | 55 comments | Aug 22, 2014 | by nathancahill

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#20 Show HN: Weird iOS, a list of the weirdest, most artful or unexpected apps

136 points | 20 comments | Aug 26, 2014 | by kennywinker

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#21 Show HN: Self-hosted project management application

135 points | 81 comments | Aug 13, 2014 | by chintanb

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#22 Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web

134 points | 54 comments | Aug 26, 2014 | by evenflow

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#23 Show HN: Opp.io – Meeting Minutes Made Useful

133 points | 64 comments | Aug 13, 2014 | by bujatt

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#24 Show HN: Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

132 points | 43 comments | Aug 01, 2014 | by caffeinewriter

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#25 Show HN: Practical Guide to Mobile Apps Using Phonegap and Famo.us

131 points | 70 comments | Aug 15, 2014 | by nicholasreed

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#26 Show HN: Emacs Mini Manual

130 points | 41 comments | Aug 01, 2014 | by tuhdo

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#27 Show HN: Pol.is – a new commenting system powered by machine learning and D3

126 points | 41 comments | Aug 26, 2014 | by colinmegill

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#28 Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and biological simulations

121 points | 31 comments | Aug 23, 2014 | by rileyjshaw

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#29 Show HN: Play music by typing

119 points | 62 comments | Aug 24, 2014 | by benzguo

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#30 Show HN: Workfrom – The best coffee shops and cafes to work from

117 points | 74 comments | Aug 03, 2014 | by darrenbuckner

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#31 Show HN: Codeanywhere

101 points | 57 comments | Aug 24, 2014 | by garrypettet

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#32 Show HN: Startuplister – A startup directory listing service

101 points | 50 comments | Aug 13, 2014 | by crixlet

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#33 Show HN: LuaJIT FFI binding to libuv with coroutines

101 points | 35 comments | Aug 28, 2014 | by pguillory

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#34 Show HN: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finding Your First Customers

99 points | 14 comments | Aug 19, 2014 | by jjets718

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#35 Show HN: QuoDB – Movie quote search engine based on subtitles

96 points | 30 comments | Aug 04, 2014 | by lusob

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#36 Show HN: Lit – a modern literate programming tool

95 points | 61 comments | Aug 15, 2014 | by cdosborn

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#37 Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gutenberg corpus

94 points | 13 comments | Aug 03, 2014 | by c-w

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#38 Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go

93 points | 48 comments | Aug 06, 2014 | by satyajitranjeev

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#39 Show HN: Impulse – Dynamic JS Animations for the Mobile Web

93 points | 31 comments | Aug 28, 2014 | by coderzach

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#40 Show HN: HN-beautify – a stylesheet for the HN frontpage

91 points | 49 comments | Aug 08, 2014 | by guico

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#41 Show HN: Opstarts – Startup planning and forecasting without spreadsheets

90 points | 44 comments | Aug 20, 2014 | by devahaz

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#42 Show HN: Use email subject lines to save personal stats and chart them

90 points | 31 comments | Aug 05, 2014 | by darrennix

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#43 Show HN: Simple algorithmic trading in JavaScript

88 points | 48 comments | Aug 11, 2014 | by Cloud9Trader

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#44 Show HN: Emulator-Backed Remakes, a new way to make classic game remakes

87 points | 51 comments | Aug 14, 2014 | by ggambetta

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#45 Show HN: Macdown

87 points | 23 comments | Aug 24, 2014 | by qqwpkao6

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#46 Show HN: San Francisco MUNI Transit Delays, Visualized

86 points | 32 comments | Aug 04, 2014 | by bdon

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#47 Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you

85 points | 51 comments | Aug 02, 2014 | by jchoudh

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#48 Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups

84 points | 51 comments | Aug 21, 2014 | by simoncoulton

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#49 Show HN: Call to Speakers – Find and track conference speaking opportunities

83 points | 22 comments | Aug 04, 2014 | by conroy

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#50 Show HN: λ Bubble Pop, an educational toy built using λ Lessons

83 points | 10 comments | Aug 22, 2014 | by Uehreka

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#51 Show HN: Dumbphone – Turn your smartphone into a dumbphone

82 points | 69 comments | Aug 08, 2014 | by bozho

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#52 Show HN: GoLearn

81 points | 10 comments | Aug 10, 2014 | by sjwhitworth

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#53 Show HN: A 16-bit Forth machine written in VHDL

80 points | 16 comments | Aug 04, 2014 | by inforichland

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#54 Show HN: Find longtail keywords with low SEO competition

79 points | 46 comments | Aug 25, 2014 | by itrinity

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#55 Show HN: PojoViz – Visualize the structure of any JavaScript library, framework

78 points | 19 comments | Aug 11, 2014 | by maurizzzio

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#56 Show HN: Cupertino.js – A JavaScript to Cocoa compiler and runtime

77 points | 23 comments | Aug 23, 2014 | by jermar

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#57 Show HN: Blot, a static blog powered by Dropbox

75 points | 36 comments | Aug 15, 2014 | by dgam

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#58 Show HN: A marketplace for client-side apps

75 points | 27 comments | Aug 18, 2014 | by adamschwartz

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#59 Show HN: Pre-commit – A framework for managing multi-language pre-commit hooks

73 points | 14 comments | Aug 27, 2014 | by struys

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#60 Show HN: Free Survey Creator

72 points | 32 comments | Aug 04, 2014 | by wallawe

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#61 Show HN: Howm – A Vim-like tiling X11 window manager

71 points | 60 comments | Aug 29, 2014 | by hunt

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#62 Show HN: Call emails, not phones

71 points | 49 comments | Aug 27, 2014 | by bertelet

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#63 Show HN: BemTV – Hybrid CDN/P2P Architecture for HLS Broadcasts

71 points | 22 comments | Aug 07, 2014 | by flavioribeiro

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#64 Show HN: SuperTrip

69 points | 27 comments | Aug 28, 2014 | by hodgesmr

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#65 Show HN: Aerobatic – Smart Hosting for Single Page Apps

68 points | 31 comments | Aug 11, 2014 | by jgowans

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#66 Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

64 points | 48 comments | Aug 27, 2014 | by matmik

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#67 Show HN: Datastringer, a tool for hacker-journalists

60 points | 18 comments | Aug 19, 2014 | by 5c2v

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#68 Show HN: InvoiceAtOnce – Easy Invoice Creation

57 points | 50 comments | Aug 13, 2014 | by NubeDeArroz

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#69 Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read

57 points | 25 comments | Aug 05, 2014 | by shalinshah

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#70 Show HN: Stellar Jackpot

56 points | 30 comments | Aug 12, 2014 | by thijser

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#71 Show HN: Wu.js – Higher order functions for ES6 iterators

56 points | 4 comments | Aug 07, 2014 | by mnemonik

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#72 Show HN: Stochastic – JavaScript library for simulating stochastic processes

55 points | 10 comments | Aug 08, 2014 | by nepstein

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#73 Show HN: Yeah, a Ruby video game framework

54 points | 19 comments | Aug 18, 2014 | by Skoofoo

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#74 Show HN: Scratch – Share scratch-off photos

54 points | 4 comments | Aug 24, 2014 | by leoCodePoet

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#75 Show HN: EmailPK – Instant encrypted email

53 points | 37 comments | Aug 16, 2014 | by diafygi

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#76 Show HN: Decentralized, k-ordered unique IDs in Clojure

53 points | 15 comments | Aug 20, 2014 | by llambda

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#77 Show HN: Tech stories with lots of conversation in past 24 hours

51 points | 28 comments | Aug 29, 2014 | by falicon

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#78 Show HN: Stellar-backed Twitter upvote bot

50 points | 14 comments | Aug 11, 2014 | by gdb

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#79 Show HN: Play-tag, an iBeacon dog collar

49 points | 47 comments | Aug 14, 2014 | by play_tagapp

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#80 Show HN: Drop-In Chat – Chatify your app

49 points | 45 comments | Aug 03, 2014 | by ahochhaus

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#81 Show HN: Greenscreen, open source digital signage with Chromecast

49 points | 19 comments | Aug 22, 2014 | by ehzhang

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#82 Show HN: Blast.js separates text for typographic manipulation

49 points | 19 comments | Aug 04, 2014 | by purpleturtle

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#83 Show HN: SwiftData – A SQLite library in Swift

48 points | 18 comments | Aug 26, 2014 | by greenbast

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#84 Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

47 points | 26 comments | Aug 11, 2014 | by filp

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#85 Show HN: Dweet.io – Twitter for machines, now with alerts

47 points | 13 comments | Aug 14, 2014 | by gdilla

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#86 Show HN: Open source hardware platform for Bluetooth hacking

46 points | 10 comments | Aug 07, 2014 | by aleksanb

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#87 Show HN: Tyk – Open Source API Gateway written in Golang

45 points | 29 comments | Aug 13, 2014 | by jively

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#88 Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tables in React

44 points | 25 comments | Aug 10, 2014 | by glittershark

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#89 Show HN: Dump receipts as you get them through the year, recall them at tax time

42 points | 50 comments | Aug 05, 2014 | by kayman

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#90 Show HN: Convert CSV files into MySQL insert scripts

41 points | 46 comments | Aug 28, 2014 | by d4nt

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#91 Show HN: Derulo, a tool for manipulating JSON files

41 points | 21 comments | Aug 03, 2014 | by lavelle

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#92 Show HN: Codassium – A better way to conduct remote interviews

41 points | 14 comments | Aug 13, 2014 | by karterk

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#93 Show HN: MSFT Interns to Live Stream Crowd-Controlled Video from Stratosphere

41 points | 9 comments | Aug 08, 2014 | by GoNimbus

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#94 Show HN: Friday – A fast image processing library written in Haskell

41 points | 1 comments | Aug 21, 2014 | by raphaelj

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#95 Show HN: Self destructing, encrypted messaging with file upload

40 points | 30 comments | Aug 31, 2014 | by DanBlake

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#96 Show HN: Geek Bridge – Find dev work in Japan without knowing Japanese

40 points | 29 comments | Aug 02, 2014 | by jamesknelson

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#97 Show HN: Send huge files, pause in the middle and continue

40 points | 28 comments | Aug 20, 2014 | by oron

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#98 Show HN: Shortwhale – Get fewer, shorter, and better emails

40 points | 22 comments | Aug 08, 2014 | by dominikgro

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#99 Show HN: Stampede.io – Hybrid IaaS/Docker Orchestation Running on CoreOS

40 points | 8 comments | Aug 21, 2014 | by darren0

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#100 Show HN: Pi Approximation using Monte Carlo

39 points | 55 comments | Aug 10, 2014 | by krat0sprakhar

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