Best Show HN projects from Jan, 2016

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Jan, 2016.


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#1 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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#2 Show HN: I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images

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

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

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

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#4 Show HN: GPU text rendering with vector textures

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

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

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

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

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

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#7 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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#8 Show HN: Ship – A fast, native issue tracker for software projects

219 points | 106 comments | Jan 29, 2016 | by kogir

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181 points | 134 comments | Jan 28, 2016 | by dom96

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#10 Show HN: Wired Logic – a pixel-based logic simulator

176 points | 15 comments | Jan 31, 2016 | by mkirsche

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#11 Show HN: A decentralized social network with end-to-end encryption

167 points | 61 comments | Jan 08, 2016 | by mschultheiss

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#12 Show HN: Nativefier – Wrap any web page natively

162 points | 70 comments | Jan 19, 2016 | by jiahaog

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#13 Show HN: Plain text for the web

151 points | 47 comments | Jan 03, 2016 | by saola-app

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#14 Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Source Software

150 points | 73 comments | Jan 15, 2016 | by d99kris

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#15 Show HN: Chatlio – Live chat with your web visitors directly from Slack

136 points | 37 comments | Jan 20, 2016 | by johne20

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#16 Show HN: Wallabag, a self-hostable application for saving web pages

135 points | 43 comments | Jan 22, 2016 | by tcit

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#17 Show HN: IPalyzer – Analyze any IP for location, RDNS, blacklisting

123 points | 42 comments | Jan 16, 2016 | by k5hp

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#18 Show HN: Patchwork – Real-time notifications for OSS vulnerabilities

122 points | 49 comments | Jan 13, 2016 | by Shamiq

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#19 Show HN: An open-source ultrasound imaging dev kit side project

122 points | 43 comments | Jan 21, 2016 | by kelu124

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#20 Show HN: CMS.js – Fully Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator

117 points | 94 comments | Jan 18, 2016 | by inflam52

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#21 Show HN: A support network for working remote – my idea to overcome cabin fever

115 points | 41 comments | Jan 26, 2016 | by ob1gman

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#22 Show HN: Read Hacker News in a Pinterest Way

113 points | 44 comments | Jan 26, 2016 | by valentinvieriu

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#23 Show HN: Detect upsampling in images

113 points | 15 comments | Jan 20, 2016 | by 0x09

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#24 Show HN: Graphene – GraphQL framework for Python

106 points | 25 comments | Jan 26, 2016 | by syrusakbary

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#25 Show HN: Skadi – self-hosted Trello alternative with a 10 second installation

104 points | 56 comments | Jan 31, 2016 | by medvednikov

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#26 Show HN: Python to C++14 transpiler

96 points | 44 comments | Jan 17, 2016 | by morgenkaffee

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#27 Show HN: A friendship-centric journal

96 points | 40 comments | Jan 03, 2016 | by jacobevelyn

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#28 Show HN: Pact, a simple utility that kills all procs given to it if one dies

94 points | 75 comments | Jan 22, 2016 | by nickodell

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#29 Show HN: GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX

92 points | 38 comments | Jan 06, 2016 | by friendcode

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#30 Show HN: Libconcurrent – Coroutines in C

91 points | 24 comments | Jan 12, 2016 | by mitghi

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#31 Show HN: Git Draw allows you to draw pictures directly into your GitHub heat map

91 points | 19 comments | Jan 18, 2016 | by ben174

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#32 Show HN: Penny, an easy way to track your spending

89 points | 85 comments | Jan 07, 2016 | by adennis4

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#33 Show HN: A Machine Learning Model for Salary Estimation

83 points | 31 comments | Jan 08, 2016 | by elaineo

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#34 Show HN: Dockerized GPU Deep Learning Solution (Code and Blog and TensorFlow Demo)

80 points | 9 comments | Jan 08, 2016 | by viklas

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#35 Show HN: Space Shooter in QBasic

79 points | 26 comments | Jan 30, 2016 | by Jean-Philipe

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#36 Show HN: Desktop Fruit – A Curated Blog of Mac App Design

79 points | 24 comments | Jan 29, 2016 | by BrendonTO

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#37 Show HN: Openblog – Blogging with GitHub Issues

78 points | 18 comments | Jan 30, 2016 | by megalodon

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#38 Show HN: Coderust 2.0 – Visual Guide for Programming Interview Preparation

75 points | 11 comments | Jan 07, 2016 | by fahimulhaq

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#39 Show HN: Visual Search using features extracted from Tensor Flow inception model

75 points | 8 comments | Jan 28, 2016 | by visualsearchsv

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#40 Show HN: Searchkit – React components for elasticsearch

74 points | 27 comments | Jan 03, 2016 | by joemcelroy

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#41 Show HN: Search Google, GitHub, Stack Overflow, other sites from the terminal

73 points | 34 comments | Jan 25, 2016 | by zquestz

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#42 Show HN: A little knowledge portal I've been building

72 points | 49 comments | Jan 27, 2016 | by tuvalie

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#43 Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development

72 points | 41 comments | Jan 22, 2016 | by NameNickHN

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#44 Show HN: Slack Night Mode

72 points | 38 comments | Jan 22, 2016 | by laCour

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#45 Show HN: Tufte's discrete sparklines using D3.js

70 points | 8 comments | Jan 06, 2016 | by rooviz

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#46 Show HN: Goad – AWS Lambda powered load testing tool

69 points | 13 comments | Jan 26, 2016 | by jcxplorer

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#47 Show HN: ReactNativeAutoUpdater – support dynamic updates for React Native apps

68 points | 15 comments | Jan 12, 2016 | by yurisagalov

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#48 Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2kb jquery alternative

67 points | 20 comments | Jan 22, 2016 | by franciscop

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#49 Show HN: Building a Market for Penetration Testing

66 points | 51 comments | Jan 28, 2016 | by kenbaylor

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#50 Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

65 points | 28 comments | Jan 21, 2016 | by wjd

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#51 Show HN: Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site

64 points | 32 comments | Jan 14, 2016 | by nubela

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#52 Show HN: A personal Heroku on local hardware to easily connect smart devices

64 points | 2 comments | Jan 19, 2016 | by tiff

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#53 Show HN: Freeciv-Earth play anywhere on earth

63 points | 12 comments | Jan 09, 2016 | by roschdal

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#54 Show HN: Static Analysis Tool for Dockerfiles in Haskell

63 points | 3 comments | Jan 12, 2016 | by morgenkaffee

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#55 Show HN: Gmelius 6 – Gmail just got better

61 points | 26 comments | Jan 19, 2016 | by xpressyoo

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#56 Show HN: Use Slack for Everything

60 points | 45 comments | Jan 04, 2016 | by JCBarry

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#57 Show HN: OpenGL-Shader Tutorial in form of a detailed documented sample project

58 points | 7 comments | Jan 08, 2016 | by EllipticCurve

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#58 Show HN: 360Β° and VR Video Streaming in HTML5 Tutorial, Build a Netflix For VR

56 points | 39 comments | Jan 19, 2016 | by slederer

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#59 Show HN: Tribalpedia – Free Learning About Native American Indians

55 points | 48 comments | Jan 02, 2016 | by Cawbv

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#60 Show HN: 1dollarthings.com – an internet dollar store

54 points | 44 comments | Jan 15, 2016 | by leeseibert

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#61 Show HN: HackerRank's app guarantees an interview call after a coding challenge

54 points | 32 comments | Jan 12, 2016 | by rvivek

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#62 Show HN: CommuteKit: 120+ Digital Tools for a More Positive Commute

53 points | 20 comments | Jan 05, 2016 | by michaelsitver

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#63 Show HN: Saas.do – Build powerful webapplications without coding

53 points | 2 comments | Jan 08, 2016 | by WanderingSnow

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#64 Show HN: $ A TAP producer and test harness for your shell

53 points | 0 comments | Jan 29, 2016 | by bucaran

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#65 Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications

52 points | 29 comments | Jan 07, 2016 | by kozkozkoz

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#66 Show HN: Character Recognition with OpenCV

52 points | 13 comments | Jan 24, 2016 | by brakmic

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#67 Show HN: A programmable embedded browser written in pure Java

52 points | 11 comments | Jan 13, 2016 | by logn

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#68 Show HN: HNLive – Hacker News in Real Time

51 points | 26 comments | Jan 22, 2016 | by max0563

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#69 Show HN: Water-Simulation with Real-Time Reflections and Perlin-Noise Terrain

51 points | 18 comments | Jan 07, 2016 | by EllipticCurve

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#70 Show HN: An Interactive Audio Lesson About the Shape of the Universe

49 points | 15 comments | Jan 06, 2016 | by Uehreka

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#71 Show HN: Pipecat – Connect message queues with Unix pipes

48 points | 14 comments | Jan 04, 2016 | by morgenkaffee

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#72 Show HN: Jotted – jsfiddle for self-hosted client-side demos

47 points | 6 comments | Jan 14, 2016 | by ghinda

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#73 Show HN: Recipelab, a simple nutrition calculator / recipe analyzer

46 points | 31 comments | Jan 10, 2016 | by phugoid

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#74 Show HN: DailyTechVideo – curated conference talks for full-stack developers

46 points | 13 comments | Jan 12, 2016 | by reuven

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#75 Show HN: Chrome Extension to view any files in your browser

45 points | 22 comments | Jan 26, 2016 | by dallamaneni

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#76 Show HN: RaftLib – Stream Computation library for C++

45 points | 6 comments | Jan 15, 2016 | by jcbeard

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#77 Show HN: Leo – the Slack app to keep your team happy :)

45 points | 0 comments | Jan 14, 2016 | by jakeshriar

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#78 Show HN: Would love some feedback on my weekend project (built in 3 days)

44 points | 49 comments | Jan 18, 2016 | by tc1222

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#79 Show HN: I made Linkpack, a filesystem-based link organizer for iOS

42 points | 38 comments | Jan 14, 2016 | by stelabouras

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#80 Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

42 points | 14 comments | Jan 20, 2016 | by metatation

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#81 Show HN: New MODULA-3 Releases for WinNT, Linux and OS X

42 points | 4 comments | Jan 03, 2016 | by brakmic

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#82 Show HN: Curious Namespace Trick – Limited static polymorphism in C++

41 points | 18 comments | Jan 21, 2016 | by dchichkov

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#83 Show HN: Fuzzy finder for Chrome tabs and windows

41 points | 12 comments | Jan 09, 2016 | by sina

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#84 Show HN: Flexible Editor – An Open Source Flex-Box Based Layout Editor

40 points | 9 comments | Jan 03, 2016 | by btdiehr

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#85 Show HN: Fisherman – Plugin manager and CLI toolkit for fish shell

39 points | 7 comments | Jan 12, 2016 | by bucaran

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#86 Show HN: Fosite – OAuth2 framework for Go

38 points | 5 comments | Jan 14, 2016 | by arekkas

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#87 Show HN: Jukebox, a music player for Dropbox for iOS

37 points | 11 comments | Jan 15, 2016 | by justin

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#88 Show HN: Emburse – Employee Debit Cards with Oversight

37 points | 7 comments | Jan 05, 2016 | by peterlai

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#89 Show HN: Infinit – a new peer-to-peer file system

37 points | 5 comments | Jan 11, 2016 | by bat

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#90 Show HN: CSS Animated Husky

37 points | 1 comments | Jan 19, 2016 | by davidkpiano

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#91 Show HN: Pbd – Protocol Buffers Disassembler

36 points | 11 comments | Jan 23, 2016 | by rsc-dev

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#92 Show HN: Birdly – Use your enterprise software from messaging apps like Slack

35 points | 4 comments | Jan 14, 2016 | by qhoang09

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#93 Show HN: Scrawl

34 points | 13 comments | Jan 17, 2016 | by sgentle

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#94 Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixir/Phoenix

33 points | 54 comments | Jan 08, 2016 | by acconrad

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#95 Show HN: CloudMagic Email for Mac

33 points | 26 comments | Jan 06, 2016 | by treskot

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#96 Show HN: Project Log – A simple work time tracker

33 points | 20 comments | Jan 24, 2016 | by _query

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#97 Show HN: The Codex – a graph database project for the digital humanities

33 points | 11 comments | Jan 24, 2016 | by argimenes

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#98 Show HN: Commit Comments – build commit messages in code comments

31 points | 26 comments | Jan 14, 2016 | by Zezima

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#99 Show HN: CloudRail – Universal API to Everything, Now for Android (free)

31 points | 20 comments | Jan 08, 2016 | by cloud-rail

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#100 Show HN: Tufte's line graph sparklines with D3.js

30 points | 4 comments | Jan 17, 2016 | by rooviz

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