Best Show HN projects from Feb, 2016

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


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

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

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

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

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#3 Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

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

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#4 Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#12 Show HN: Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTC

239 points | 64 comments | Feb 28, 2016 | by nlightcho

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#13 Show HN: Turtl – A secure, encrypted Evernote alternative

236 points | 96 comments | Feb 03, 2016 | by orthecreedence

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#14 Show HN: Sense2vec model trained on all 2015 Reddit comments

225 points | 79 comments | Feb 15, 2016 | by syllogism

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#15 Show HN: HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments

217 points | 122 comments | Feb 11, 2016 | by dangrossman

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#16 Show HN: SocketCluster.io – flexible open-source real-time server with pub/sub

217 points | 39 comments | Feb 10, 2016 | by cryptica

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#17 Show HN: An algorithm to automatically turn photos of food into faces

211 points | 28 comments | Feb 01, 2016 | by aaronrandall

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#18 Show HN: LogDNA – Easy logging in the cloud

196 points | 143 comments | Feb 10, 2016 | by leeab

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#19 Show HN: Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

154 points | 65 comments | Feb 05, 2016 | by buckket

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#20 Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

153 points | 72 comments | Feb 27, 2016 | by _jt2r

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#21 Show HN: Laboratory, a Python port of GitHub's Scientist library for refactoring

153 points | 13 comments | Feb 15, 2016 | by buttscicles

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#22 Show HN: AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people

151 points | 93 comments | Feb 03, 2016 | by mrmondo

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#23 Show HN: Cracking passwords with a simple genetic algorithm

149 points | 58 comments | Feb 27, 2016 | by lyle_nel

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#24 Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar

149 points | 30 comments | Feb 09, 2016 | by matryer

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#25 Show HN: Import Docker in Python and Run Anything

142 points | 29 comments | Feb 24, 2016 | by stephensonsco

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#26 Show HN: GitHub project structure visualizer

141 points | 40 comments | Feb 24, 2016 | by veniversum

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#27 Show HN: Yet another (faster) way to discover events nearby

137 points | 78 comments | Feb 24, 2016 | by pat-jay

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#28 Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction

129 points | 113 comments | Feb 25, 2016 | by MPetitt

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#29 Show HN: Pass a URL, get summarized content

126 points | 56 comments | Feb 28, 2016 | by meeper16

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#30 Show HN: Transcrypt – Fast, small Python 3.5 to JavaScript transpiler

121 points | 51 comments | Feb 10, 2016 | by JdeH

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#31 Show HN: Redspread (YC W16) – CLI to deploy Docker to Kubernetes in one command

118 points | 43 comments | Feb 25, 2016 | by mfburnett

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#32 Show HN: Go-git – low-level and extensible Git client library in Go

114 points | 56 comments | Feb 16, 2016 | by mcuadros

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#33 Show HN: The Top Fives – now with Dark Mode

106 points | 47 comments | Feb 15, 2016 | by sonaal

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#34 Show HN: What parts of your code are not original

104 points | 36 comments | Feb 06, 2016 | by nunobrito

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#35 Show HN: I'm looking for science fiction writers

103 points | 81 comments | Feb 22, 2016 | by mojoe

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#36 Show HN: Truebill – Find and track paid subscriptions, cancel with one click

103 points | 46 comments | Feb 17, 2016 | by idrism

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#37 Show HN: Bonsai (YC W16) – bulletproof contracts and payments for freelancers

102 points | 40 comments | Feb 22, 2016 | by mthomasb

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#38 Show HN: Lightweight Microservices Architecture for the Internet of Things

94 points | 40 comments | Feb 03, 2016 | by andreareginato

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#39 Show HN: I recently launched a new cloud hosting company

91 points | 92 comments | Feb 01, 2016 | by jasondecastro

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#40 Show HN: Locent – Mailchimp for SMS

90 points | 35 comments | Feb 19, 2016 | by mattjoseph

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#41 Show HN: Zappa – Serverless Python/Django on AWS Lambda

87 points | 41 comments | Feb 08, 2016 | by Mizza

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#42 Show HN: Roam – Global co-living subscription

87 points | 40 comments | Feb 02, 2016 | by sushimako

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#43 Show HN: Initial release of the distributed TensorFlow runtime

85 points | 3 comments | Feb 26, 2016 | by mrry

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#44 Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Terminal

83 points | 35 comments | Feb 04, 2016 | by rafael-rinaldi

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#45 Show HN: Urubu – A micro CMS for static websites

80 points | 31 comments | Feb 16, 2016 | by jandecaluwe

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#46 Show HN: GDOM – GraphQL for DOM traversing

78 points | 8 comments | Feb 25, 2016 | by syrusakbary

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#47 Show HN: Kneden – Transpile ES7 Async/await to ES6 Promise Chains (Babel Plugin)

76 points | 22 comments | Feb 13, 2016 | by marten-de-vries

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#48 Show HN: GrapesJS – Open source tool for building templates easily

74 points | 25 comments | Feb 06, 2016 | by artf

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#49 Show HN: Clubhouse – project management built for software teams

72 points | 49 comments | Feb 17, 2016 | by andrewchilds

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#50 Show HN: GraphvizAnim, a tool to create animated graphs, based on graphviz

70 points | 18 comments | Feb 01, 2016 | by mapio

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#51 Show HN: Codebeat – automated code review for Swift

68 points | 9 comments | Feb 22, 2016 | by fishnchips

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#52 Show HN: Smartmockups – Create product screenshots with just a few clicks

67 points | 58 comments | Feb 25, 2016 | by iamlukaszajic

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#53 Show HN: See what other NPM packages everyone else is using

67 points | 22 comments | Feb 28, 2016 | by temple3188

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#54 Show HN: Structure – IoT Developer Platform

66 points | 19 comments | Feb 23, 2016 | by brandonlipman

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#55 Show HN: Lanes – a minimalist week-planner and Pomodoro timer

65 points | 32 comments | Feb 08, 2016 | by welanes

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#56 Show HN: Jolteon – Babel/Electron/React/Browserify/Sass application stack

65 points | 18 comments | Feb 21, 2016 | by vulpino

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#57 Show HN: Tracing You, a website that tries to “see” where its visitors are

65 points | 16 comments | Feb 07, 2016 | by forgetcolor

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#58 Show HN: Swift and VR – Google Cardboard Ported to Swift and iOS

64 points | 19 comments | Feb 05, 2016 | by nzff

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#59 Show HN: PyGeno, a Python Package for Precision Medicine

64 points | 17 comments | Feb 22, 2016 | by daoudat

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#60 Show HN: Konsus.com – On-demand freelancers via chat

64 points | 13 comments | Feb 09, 2016 | by SRasch

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#61 Show HN: Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UTF8 and Windows (BSD)

63 points | 50 comments | Feb 16, 2016 | by fceller

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#62 Show HN: Medical Research Summarizer – Complex research as simple summaries

62 points | 34 comments | Feb 18, 2016 | by blaurenceclark

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#63 Show HN: D3 TimelineChart

62 points | 8 comments | Feb 21, 2016 | by grillorafael

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#64 Show HN: Slackbot for founders to track their startup's finances

60 points | 35 comments | Feb 23, 2016 | by ashnkumar

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#65 Show HN: Hangman in 3 lines of Python

58 points | 25 comments | Feb 07, 2016 | by nvader

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#66 Show HN: Stoplight – Visual API Tooling

57 points | 24 comments | Feb 16, 2016 | by tonytony

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#67 Show HN: Estimated Reading Time API

56 points | 29 comments | Feb 19, 2016 | by mklopets

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#68 Show HN: Claudia.js – deploy Node.js microservices to AWS more easily

56 points | 18 comments | Feb 20, 2016 | by adzicg

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#69 Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

55 points | 41 comments | Feb 12, 2016 | by gitmagic

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#70 Show HN: Reactuate – a React/Redux stack with a focus on domain-driven design

49 points | 32 comments | Feb 01, 2016 | by yrashk

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#71 Show HN: GitHub Notifier

49 points | 24 comments | Feb 05, 2016 | by ghprndev

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#72 Show HN: Open Source PaaS for Swift Web Apps

49 points | 7 comments | Feb 05, 2016 | by kidmar

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#73 Show HN: Instabug 3.0 (YC W16) – In-app conversations and bug reporting for apps

49 points | 3 comments | Feb 01, 2016 | by okgabr

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#74 Show HN: Polly: A templating language for Rust

47 points | 21 comments | Feb 24, 2016 | by Aaronepower

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#75 Show HN: AllOrigins – Pull content from any page as JSON via API

46 points | 8 comments | Feb 16, 2016 | by hezag

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#76 Show HN: EZing – Mobile email client that looks like Messenger and uses PGP

45 points | 34 comments | Feb 08, 2016 | by Databay

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#77 Show HN: VeryAnts: Probabilistic Integer Arithmetic for Ruby

45 points | 6 comments | Feb 22, 2016 | by saghm

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#78 Show HN: LennyFaces.net – Cheatsheets for lenny faces

44 points | 28 comments | Feb 07, 2016 | by tsutomun

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#79 Show HN: Grid – Multiplayer Creative Workspace

43 points | 23 comments | Feb 12, 2016 | by joshleong

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#80 Show HN: Vector Toy – Visualize and manipulate vector field functions

43 points | 4 comments | Feb 19, 2016 | by dandelany

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#81 Show HN: GitHub Stats in the Mac OS X Menu Bar

42 points | 20 comments | Feb 27, 2016 | by Shikkic

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#82 Show HN: A virtual oscilloscope using Web Audio and live microphone input

42 points | 9 comments | Feb 04, 2016 | by outputchannel

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#83 Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow

42 points | 8 comments | Feb 05, 2016 | by jkozera

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#84 Show HN: HTTP/2 HPACK Compression Go Library

40 points | 13 comments | Feb 19, 2016 | by chrismoos

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#85 Show HN: LED Me Know: LED Notifications for Tests Using Node and Arduino

40 points | 9 comments | Feb 02, 2016 | by Copperstone

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#86 Show HN: Chaos-game – Play to create fractal images

40 points | 4 comments | Feb 13, 2016 | by jaybosamiya

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#87 Show HN: Cuneiform – A Functional Workflow Language

39 points | 10 comments | Feb 03, 2016 | by joergen7

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#88 Show HN: React-Designer – Editable Vector Graphics in React Components

38 points | 7 comments | Feb 08, 2016 | by fatiherikli

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#89 Show HN: Frpjs – Functional reactive programming library for JavaScript

36 points | 11 comments | Feb 18, 2016 | by santrajan

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#90 Show HN: Acre Designs (YC W16) - Zero-Energy Smarthomes as a Consumer Product

35 points | 38 comments | Feb 11, 2016 | by andrewksu

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#91 Show HN: MindIT – A web based Freemind alternative built in Meteor

35 points | 34 comments | Feb 03, 2016 | by sidcool

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#92 Show HN: Immagine – image manipulation service for nature.com

35 points | 4 comments | Feb 04, 2016 | by rowanmanning

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#93 Show HN: Horcrux: On-demand,version controlled data for docker containers

35 points | 2 comments | Feb 23, 2016 | by muthur

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#94 Show HN: JavaScript port of Scientist library for refactoring critical paths

34 points | 1 comments | Feb 18, 2016 | by ziyasal

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#95 Show HN: Function of Beauty (YC W16) – Personalized Shampoo

31 points | 24 comments | Feb 10, 2016 | by dossa

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#96 Show HN: Git Snippet – a free open source service for embedding code from GitHub

31 points | 19 comments | Feb 25, 2016 | by chiedo

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#97 Show HN: WallaMe – App to leave augmented reality messages in the real world

31 points | 10 comments | Feb 06, 2016 | by WallaMe

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#98 Show HN: Write blog in Emacs with hexo/org-page

31 points | 5 comments | Feb 01, 2016 | by codefalling

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#99 Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fast, binary data format

29 points | 61 comments | Feb 03, 2016 | by VStack

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#100 Show HN: The Xing Framework, Rails API and Angular, Simplified

28 points | 14 comments | Feb 04, 2016 | by shubber

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