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#1 Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes

1624 points | 152 comments | Jul 26, 2016 | by bbx

#2 Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

1226 points | 122 comments | Sep 30, 2016 | by ExUtumno

#3 Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties

1117 points | 122 comments | Nov 24, 2016 | by bbx

#4 Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration

1004 points | 64 comments | Aug 10, 2016 | by mewo2

#5 Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

911 points | 247 comments | Oct 12, 2016 | by Capira

#6 Show HN: Primitive Pictures

894 points | 170 comments | Sep 20, 2016 | by fogleman

#7 Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet

847 points | 161 comments | Apr 21, 2016 | by arechsteiner

#8 Show HN: New calendar app idea

825 points | 197 comments | Jun 06, 2016 | by petermolyneux

#9 Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

819 points | 150 comments | Feb 09, 2016 | by jbranchaud

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#10 Show HN: Primitive for macOS

798 points | 145 comments | Nov 15, 2016 | by fogleman

#11 Show HN: I made a database of remote companies

747 points | 114 comments | Jun 13, 2016 | by stockkid

#12 Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages

727 points | 97 comments | Oct 12, 2016 | by bijection

#13 Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers

673 points | 198 comments | Nov 24, 2016 | by OwainX

#14 Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app

648 points | 176 comments | Nov 05, 2016 | by gliechtenstein

#15 Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment

628 points | 136 comments | Aug 24, 2016 | by antimatter15

#16 Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

613 points | 153 comments | Feb 11, 2016 | by hisham_hm

#17 Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

571 points | 62 comments | Nov 09, 2016 | by caiozo

#18 Show HN: What every browser knows about you

553 points | 206 comments | Apr 01, 2016 | by Capira

#19 Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git

508 points | 167 comments | Aug 02, 2016 | by ahl

#20 Show HN: Antd – A set of high-quality React components

507 points | 104 comments | Nov 28, 2016 | by _yesmeck

#21 Show HN: React Native Express – Learn React Native Through Interactive Examples

496 points | 53 comments | Nov 28, 2016 | by dabbott

#22 Show HN: Rocket – Web Framework for Rust

484 points | 114 comments | Dec 23, 2016 | by sbenitez

#23 Show HN: Hire an Oldster

475 points | 295 comments | Dec 16, 2016 | by adamqureshi

#24 Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News

463 points | 184 comments | Aug 26, 2016 | by leandot

#25 Show HN: Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it

454 points | 65 comments | Jan 21, 2016 | by hteumeuleu

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#26 Show HN: I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images

448 points | 94 comments | Jan 09, 2016 | by kowdermeister

#27 Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

441 points | 56 comments | Feb 02, 2016 | by fogleman

#28 Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

429 points | 233 comments | May 26, 2016 | by ivm

#29 Show HN: Ascii to SVG

416 points | 76 comments | Oct 02, 2016 | by ivanceras

#30 Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address

415 points | 199 comments | Aug 10, 2016 | by roberdam

#31 Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time

405 points | 183 comments | Nov 22, 2016 | by StavrosK

#32 Show HN: Podcat – Imdb for podcasts

401 points | 106 comments | Mar 15, 2016 | by hijp

#33 Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks

396 points | 154 comments | Sep 01, 2016 | by 23andwalnut

#34 Show HN: Learn to Code for Free

395 points | 135 comments | Nov 22, 2016 | by robtherobot

#35 Show HN: Anycomplete

390 points | 85 comments | Nov 29, 2016 | by nathancahill

#36 Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X

388 points | 62 comments | Jul 14, 2016 | by rgcr

#37 Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source

384 points | 306 comments | May 10, 2016 | by wscott

#38 Show HN: Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers

382 points | 68 comments | Apr 18, 2016 | by pushcx

#39 Show HN: I made a Hacker News for podcasts

367 points | 132 comments | Apr 16, 2016 | by podcastrank

#40 Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform

364 points | 146 comments | Oct 05, 2016 | by gargron

#41 Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

361 points | 83 comments | Oct 10, 2016 | by tagspaces

#42 Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

356 points | 165 comments | Feb 22, 2016 | by g3

#43 Show HN: Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons

350 points | 95 comments | Aug 02, 2016 | by mxstbr

#44 Show HN: 3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk

350 points | 55 comments | Jan 13, 2016 | by TheMozg

#45 Show HN: A fork of sudo with Touch ID support

347 points | 128 comments | Oct 31, 2016 | by mattr1

#46 Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way

339 points | 22 comments | Dec 13, 2016 | by rwieruch

#47 Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writing Common Lisp apps

338 points | 100 comments | Jun 02, 2016 | by pavelludiq

#48 Show HN: Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes

337 points | 105 comments | Feb 16, 2016 | by qrv3w

#49 Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

336 points | 182 comments | Nov 27, 2016 | by dejan

#50 Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with

334 points | 223 comments | Nov 09, 2016 | by robbizorg

#51 Show HN: GPU text rendering with vector textures

334 points | 87 comments | Jan 01, 2016 | by wjd

#52 Show HN: 2D field of view demo

333 points | 76 comments | Jun 07, 2016 | by legends2k

#53 Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

322 points | 134 comments | Feb 03, 2016 | by apancik

#54 Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite

322 points | 63 comments | Dec 23, 2016 | by azamat-bagatov

#55 Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours

314 points | 191 comments | Mar 19, 2016 | by titusblair

#56 Show HN: The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction

311 points | 70 comments | Apr 11, 2016 | by mojoe

#57 Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos

310 points | 64 comments | Jan 22, 2016 | by davidbarker

#58 Show HN: InstaPart – Build circuit boards faster with instant parts

309 points | 107 comments | Sep 24, 2016 | by natashabaker

#59 Show HN: U.S. Legal Concepts for Founders – Online Handbook

309 points | 50 comments | Dec 08, 2016 | by swampthing

#60 Show HN: Handicareers.com – A simple job board for disabled people

303 points | 82 comments | Dec 03, 2016 | by therealcoffee

#61 Show HN: ThreadTone – Halftone images made of thread

303 points | 44 comments | Dec 25, 2016 | by theveloped

#62 Show HN: A flask app to make dashboards, easily

302 points | 38 comments | Sep 09, 2016 | by dxdstudio

#63 Show HN: Killing Procrastination by Making Everything Fit

301 points | 86 comments | Oct 25, 2016 | by maxkrieger

#64 Show HN: Deepstream.io – open-source real-time server with pub/sub and data sync

301 points | 83 comments | Feb 10, 2016 | by troika

#65 Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors

300 points | 82 comments | Apr 28, 2016 | by gavino

#66 Show HN: My first web app – PDF memo creator

297 points | 140 comments | Nov 01, 2016 | by probolsky

#67 Show HN: 1M rows/s from Postgres to Python

296 points | 89 comments | Aug 04, 2016 | by 1st1

#68 Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

295 points | 144 comments | Jun 03, 2016 | by darajava

#69 Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820

294 points | 110 comments | Jun 06, 2016 | by mgalka

#70 Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

291 points | 156 comments | Nov 21, 2016 | by kristerv

#71 Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

289 points | 36 comments | Dec 25, 2016 | by sehugg

#72 Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework

288 points | 168 comments | Jan 06, 2016 | by keithwhor

#73 Show HN: Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half

285 points | 215 comments | Dec 07, 2016 | by fiesycal

#74 Show HN: Anime.js – Polyvalent JavaScript Animation Engine

283 points | 73 comments | Jun 27, 2016 | by JulianGarnier

#75 Show HN: Riko – A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes

283 points | 67 comments | Jul 21, 2016 | by reubano

#76 Show HN: Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms

279 points | 95 comments | Mar 15, 2016 | by ageitgey

#77 Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination

277 points | 122 comments | Oct 16, 2016 | by redpanda_ua

#78 Show HN: OpenGL in super slow motion – visualising Z-buffering

276 points | 38 comments | Jul 04, 2016 | by Artlav

#79 Show HN: Get encrypted data from people that don’t know how to encrypt

275 points | 93 comments | Oct 19, 2016 | by chomponthis

#80 Show HN: Randomly generated metal riffs using Web Audio API and React

275 points | 42 comments | Jul 01, 2016 | by frogboy

#81 Show HN: Learn how to build electronics with monthly kits

272 points | 112 comments | Dec 26, 2016 | by adammunich

#82 Show HN: how2 – stackoverflow.com from the terminal

272 points | 43 comments | Feb 22, 2016 | by csantini

#83 Show HN: The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency

269 points | 30 comments | Feb 09, 2016 | by prvak

#84 Show HN: Mega Boilerplate

268 points | 55 comments | Jun 08, 2016 | by sahatyalkabov

#85 Show HN: A secure, open source U2F token you can make with $4.5 worth of parts

267 points | 92 comments | Jun 22, 2016 | by conorpp

#86 Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Spreadsheet and Calendar

264 points | 104 comments | Nov 23, 2016 | by becewumuy

#87 Show HN: Build your first real world React.js application

261 points | 44 comments | Sep 07, 2016 | by mxstbr

#88 Show HN: ICanHazData – Data URI Swiss Army Knife

257 points | 5 comments | Nov 28, 2016 | by chadscira

#89 Show HN: Whosfiring

256 points | 179 comments | Nov 15, 2016 | by icoffee

#90 Show HN: Simple and elegant Markdown-based resumes

255 points | 121 comments | Feb 03, 2016 | by awalGarg

#91 Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

254 points | 145 comments | Dec 01, 2016 | by plankton_sb

#92 Show HN: Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library

253 points | 62 comments | Feb 01, 2016 | by chinchang

#93 Show HN: Homemade 32-bit CPU and OS (2015) [video]

253 points | 37 comments | Jun 06, 2016 | by tomsm

#94 Show HN: CSS ICON, an icon set crafted by pure CSS

250 points | 67 comments | Oct 17, 2016 | by wentin

#95 Show HN: Host your status page on GitHub

248 points | 43 comments | Mar 07, 2016 | by jayfk

#96 Show HN: Mitmproxy 1.0 released, now with a web interface

248 points | 37 comments | Dec 26, 2016 | by mhils

#97 Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

246 points | 53 comments | Nov 21, 2016 | by chivalrous

#98 Show HN: StockDroids.com – A curated list of near-stock Android devices

245 points | 106 comments | Nov 20, 2016 | by oDot

#99 Show HN: MapHub – A Google My Maps Alternative, Based on OpenStreetMap Data

244 points | 81 comments | Mar 30, 2016 | by hyperknot

#100 Show HN: I'm a professor who has developed an interactive Powerpoint alternative

244 points | 64 comments | Jan 12, 2016 | by twoslide

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