Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2015

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Aug, 2015.


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#1 Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are

836 points | 245 comments | Aug 04, 2015 | by FiloSottile

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#2 Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data

514 points | 79 comments | Aug 10, 2015 | by minimaxir

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#3 Show HN: Image Processing for Everybody

451 points | 167 comments | Aug 05, 2015 | by loomi

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#4 Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack

375 points | 124 comments | Aug 04, 2015 | by ac360

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#5 Show HN: Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js

342 points | 79 comments | Aug 18, 2015 | by boucher

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#6 Show HN: Print iconic patents for your walls

241 points | 51 comments | Aug 02, 2015 | by AlexMuir

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#7 Show HN: Ear training using midi.js

230 points | 34 comments | Aug 25, 2015 | by dncrane

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#8 Show HN: Find your competitors that Google can't

189 points | 61 comments | Aug 17, 2015 | by richardbrevig

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#9 Show HN: Guess which government programs work

184 points | 53 comments | Aug 13, 2015 | by robertwiblin

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#10 Show HN: Is it vulnerable? Drag-n-drop your Gemfile.lock to check

175 points | 49 comments | Aug 07, 2015 | by phillmv

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#11 Show HN: Git-remote-dropbox – use Dropbox as a true Git server

174 points | 60 comments | Aug 19, 2015 | by anishathalye

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#12 Show HN: Flarum – Delightfully simple open-source forum software

163 points | 78 comments | Aug 27, 2015 | by tobyzerner

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#13 Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor

151 points | 123 comments | Aug 05, 2015 | by sdybskiy

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#14 Show HN: Nihongo – Study Japanese using authentic text from games, songs, etc.

139 points | 101 comments | Aug 20, 2015 | by chrisvasselli

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#15 Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

137 points | 88 comments | Aug 14, 2015 | by viksit

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#16 Show HN: Perseids meteor shower from space

136 points | 19 comments | Aug 13, 2015 | by typpo

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#17 Show HN: Algebra.js – Build, display, and solve algebraic equations

132 points | 30 comments | Aug 14, 2015 | by nicolewhite

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#18 Show HN: NaSC – Do maths like a normal person

127 points | 24 comments | Aug 12, 2015 | by macco

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#19 Show HN: Generate React forms from JSON form schemas

107 points | 27 comments | Aug 21, 2015 | by SteveVitali

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#20 Show HN: How I know what my neighbors uploaded on YouTube

102 points | 79 comments | Aug 30, 2015 | by thenewvu

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#21 Show HN: Learn Magic Tricks Online

99 points | 41 comments | Aug 05, 2015 | by jdstraughan

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#22 Show HN: Rockets – Reddit and websockets

98 points | 28 comments | Aug 01, 2015 | by rtheunissen

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#23 Show HN: Find a home close to work

94 points | 67 comments | Aug 12, 2015 | by rgbrgb

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#24 Show HN: SpaCy – Build tomorrow's language technology products with Python

93 points | 10 comments | Aug 20, 2015 | by syllogism

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#25 Show HN: A collection of algorithmic art generated with POV-Ray

90 points | 25 comments | Aug 21, 2015 | by mscharrer

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#26 Show HN: Download the first 10,002,378 HN comments/stories as one archive

90 points | 19 comments | Aug 04, 2015 | by cdman

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#27 Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information

89 points | 59 comments | Aug 18, 2015 | by gusgordon

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#28 Show HN: Pandashells – Bringing the Python data stack to the shell prompt

89 points | 18 comments | Aug 02, 2015 | by robdmc

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#29 Show HN: Forms – Easy custom database applications

82 points | 61 comments | Aug 28, 2015 | by semperdark

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#30 Show HN: Stackie – A tiny stack machine for texture generation

81 points | 19 comments | Aug 18, 2015 | by Lerc

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#31 Show HN: AWS S3 outage test from across the world

77 points | 30 comments | Aug 10, 2015 | by sajal83

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#32 Show HN: A toy ray tracer in Rust

77 points | 5 comments | Aug 09, 2015 | by Twinklebear

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#33 Show HN: Robot that copies artist's exact strokes to replicate a painting in 3D

73 points | 46 comments | Aug 24, 2015 | by chrischen

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#34 Show HN: Publicize – PR for Startups

73 points | 27 comments | Aug 03, 2015 | by egusa

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#35 Show HN: Tmux plugin manager

73 points | 21 comments | Aug 09, 2015 | by brunosutic

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#36 Show HN: Hasp – A minimal CSS preprocessor using the M4 macro language

72 points | 42 comments | Aug 13, 2015 | by djanowski

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#37 Show HN: Drive – a tiny program to pull or push Google Drive files

69 points | 21 comments | Aug 11, 2015 | by odeke-em

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#38 Show HN: Hitcount.me – Live Website Popularity

67 points | 10 comments | Aug 31, 2015 | by benwilber0

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#39 Show HN: Droners.io – Get anything filmed by a drone

65 points | 42 comments | Aug 13, 2015 | by daveumr

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#40 Show HN: CurioDB – A distributed/persistent Redis clone built with Scala/Akka

62 points | 9 comments | Aug 15, 2015 | by stephen_mcd

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#41 Show HN: EtherPot – A decentralized, autonomous, provably fair lottery

61 points | 25 comments | Aug 26, 2015 | by aakilfernandes

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#42 Show HN: Fortune.js – High-level I/O for web applications

60 points | 9 comments | Aug 15, 2015 | by daliwali

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#43 Show HN: Lua in Python

57 points | 7 comments | Aug 14, 2015 | by fangwang

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#44 Show HN: Chrome/FF plugin brings the HN and Reddit conversation to you as you surf

55 points | 53 comments | Aug 02, 2015 | by spenvo

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#45 Show HN: Siderly – Get remote work with your side project

54 points | 36 comments | Aug 24, 2015 | by userium

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#46 Show HN: Portal – Personal Cloud Servers

53 points | 37 comments | Aug 13, 2015 | by portalplatform

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#47 Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

53 points | 25 comments | Aug 06, 2015 | by maccman

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#48 Show HN: Who Cares? – Professions in the NHS

52 points | 27 comments | Aug 24, 2015 | by benrmatthews

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#49 Show HN: Pyexperiment

49 points | 26 comments | Aug 09, 2015 | by duerrp

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#50 Show HN: Watch strangers talk on Omegle with a MitM attack

48 points | 19 comments | Aug 06, 2015 | by berman

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#51 Show HN: Smart-table-scroll – Browser-based tables with 1M rows

47 points | 18 comments | Aug 21, 2015 | by cpolis

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#52 Show HN: sql_firewall – SQL Firewall Extension for PostgreSQL

47 points | 15 comments | Aug 24, 2015 | by snaga

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#53 Show HN: gockerize - easily build and package Go binaries into Docker

46 points | 2 comments | Aug 06, 2015 | by vonsnowman

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#54 Show HN: Heman – Tiny C library for working with height maps

46 points | 0 comments | Aug 18, 2015 | by prideout

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#55 Show HN: The prime knots in 3D

45 points | 17 comments | Aug 23, 2015 | by prideout

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#56 Show HN: MadBlocker β€” iOS 8 Ad and Tracking Script Blocker

44 points | 49 comments | Aug 15, 2015 | by tomkinstinch

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#57 Show HN: PJON – Communications bus system for Arduino

44 points | 15 comments | Aug 07, 2015 | by gioscarab

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#58 Show HN: Rei – Process lists easily

44 points | 12 comments | Aug 27, 2015 | by sapsan

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#59 Show HN: Littlelogs, a social journal of progress on your projects

43 points | 18 comments | Aug 30, 2015 | by joshsharp

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#60 Show HN: Dcron – Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system

42 points | 24 comments | Aug 17, 2015 | by victorcoder

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#61 Show HN: Best and free resources to learn product management

41 points | 12 comments | Aug 23, 2015 | by yilunzh

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#62 Show HN: Building a JavaScript Recommendation Engine with Graph Theory

40 points | 2 comments | Aug 10, 2015 | by keithwhor

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#63 Show HN: Forestry.io – A better way to host static websites (demo)

39 points | 53 comments | Aug 14, 2015 | by sgallant

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#64 Show HN: The platform used for the TechCrunch interview with Sam Altman

39 points | 28 comments | Aug 17, 2015 | by zabramow

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#65 Show HN: Js2glsl ShaderToy – Source to Source Compiler from JavaScript to GLSL

38 points | 7 comments | Aug 03, 2015 | by albinofrenchy

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#66 Show HN: A Chrome extension to block users on Hacker News

37 points | 36 comments | Aug 04, 2015 | by limelight

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#67 Show HN: Pullbox – A dead-simple dropbox alternative using Git

36 points | 30 comments | Aug 14, 2015 | by prashanthellina

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#68 Show HN: I built an Uber for locksmith

35 points | 8 comments | Aug 14, 2015 | by rayw

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#69 Show HN: Cookoo – Whistle Counter for Pressure Cookers

34 points | 18 comments | Aug 15, 2015 | by sagargv

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#70 Show HN: Writing modern C unit tests with Criterion

34 points | 13 comments | Aug 31, 2015 | by Snaipe

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#71 Show HN: Import CSV and JSON into PostgreSQL the Easy Way

34 points | 7 comments | Aug 25, 2015 | by morgenkaffee

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#72 Show HN: Progressbar - A C library for displaying command-line progress bars

33 points | 43 comments | Aug 29, 2015 | by Doches

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#73 Show HN: Deckchair – Holiday Management for Small Teams

33 points | 21 comments | Aug 23, 2015 | by squiggy22

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#74 Show HN: React Resolver – Async Rendering and Data-Fetching for React

33 points | 10 comments | Aug 10, 2015 | by ericclemmons

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#75 Show HN: A browser-based neural network simulation

31 points | 11 comments | Aug 17, 2015 | by mcrowe

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#76 Show HN: β€œRemind to Read” button on your website

30 points | 24 comments | Aug 12, 2015 | by rememberlenny

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#77 Show HN: Hyperlink Battle – Two links compete for your vote every day

30 points | 8 comments | Aug 28, 2015 | by murilomafra

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#78 Show HN: Matter – A tiny collection of UI components

30 points | 4 comments | Aug 28, 2015 | by stevenmiller888

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#79 Show HN: 10HN – Top articles from HN served every morning and every evening

29 points | 20 comments | Aug 20, 2015 | by apancik

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#80 Show HN: Had nowhere to practice coding interviews, so we built Pramp

29 points | 8 comments | Aug 04, 2015 | by davidglauber

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#81 Show HN: Event-driven, user-space and highly-scalable TCP/IP stack [pdf]

29 points | 5 comments | Aug 31, 2015 | by raphaelj

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#82 Show HN: Docker monitoring SaaS

29 points | 3 comments | Aug 17, 2015 | by scepticer

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#83 Show HN: Glow – Syntax highlighting for Clojure source code

29 points | 1 comments | Aug 01, 2015 | by venantius

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#84 Show HN: CloudSploit – Continuous AWS Security Scanning

28 points | 9 comments | Aug 14, 2015 | by cddotdotslash

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#85 Show HN: A terminal Space Invaders game

28 points | 7 comments | Aug 18, 2015 | by asib

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#86 Show HN: ObjectiveFS – Shared file system for EC2 and laptop

27 points | 21 comments | Aug 25, 2015 | by objectivefs

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#87 Show HN: Rucksack – CSS superpowers, built on PostCSS

27 points | 9 comments | Aug 19, 2015 | by seaneking

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#88 Show HN: Shape-powered movie search

26 points | 30 comments | Aug 11, 2015 | by bgnm2000

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#89 Show HN: Route Your Bluetooth Low Energy Hardware out to the Internet

26 points | 13 comments | Aug 13, 2015 | by iamflimflam1

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#90 Show HN: We help co-founder profiles find a position in Berlin

26 points | 10 comments | Aug 13, 2015 | by esauer91

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#91 Show HN: Caman – A self-signing certificate authority manager

26 points | 6 comments | Aug 20, 2015 | by radiac

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#92 Show HN: Combinatorics.js – Combinatorics JavaScript Library

25 points | 4 comments | Aug 29, 2015 | by bookmyself

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#93 Show HN: Reflection for C++ made easy

25 points | 4 comments | Aug 07, 2015 | by m4nu3l

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#94 Show HN: Distributed MapReduce framework in Go

25 points | 2 comments | Aug 24, 2015 | by sajal83

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#95 Show HN: QOTR – Go off-the record, quickly

24 points | 10 comments | Aug 13, 2015 | by crodjer

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#96 Show HN: FundingHunt – Daily Updates on Startup Funding

24 points | 9 comments | Aug 27, 2015 | by vikasr111

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#97 Show HN: My First Product for Founders and Startup Teams

23 points | 46 comments | Aug 25, 2015 | by vasylslobodian

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#98 Show HN: Online Furniture. Why are conversions low?

23 points | 46 comments | Aug 06, 2015 | by nomiddlemanco

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#99 Show HN: Track Freebies and Free Trials from Startups

23 points | 13 comments | Aug 05, 2015 | by tasteup

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#100 Show HN: Ticket Titan - Fight Traffic Tickets

22 points | 43 comments | Aug 14, 2015 | by will_brown

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