Best Show HN projects from May, 2016

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


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

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

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

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

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#3 Show HN: Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks

217 points | 28 comments | May 16, 2016 | by JayOtter

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#4 Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

202 points | 127 comments | May 17, 2016 | by subcosmos

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#5 Show HN: Serverless meets Microservices

191 points | 61 comments | May 12, 2016 | by vladaionescu

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#6 Show HN: Speech Coaching App – Stop Saying 'Umm', 'Like', 'Uhh'

176 points | 86 comments | May 12, 2016 | by abhagi

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#7 Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch

168 points | 42 comments | May 09, 2016 | by EvanGr

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#8 Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups

164 points | 89 comments | May 26, 2016 | by shopkins

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#9 Show HN: Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider

161 points | 49 comments | May 29, 2016 | by aeneasr

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#10 Show HN: Hydrogen, a multithread non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust

154 points | 46 comments | May 10, 2016 | by nathansizemore

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#11 Show HN: Phone verification at no cost

147 points | 62 comments | May 08, 2016 | by natsu90

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#12 Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com

143 points | 76 comments | May 24, 2016 | by nk-

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#13 Show HN: Chatbots made easy – Build, train, and deploy bots

131 points | 36 comments | May 26, 2016 | by bestkao

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#14 Show HN: Go Actor Model, fast distributed actors for Golang

115 points | 9 comments | May 03, 2016 | by RogerAlsing

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#15 Show HN: Texttop – Interactive desktop rendered in TTY with ASCII

114 points | 29 comments | May 21, 2016 | by tombh

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#16 Show HN: Sharp11 – Music Theorization and Improvisation Engine

113 points | 10 comments | May 14, 2016 | by jsrmath

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#17 Show HN: Illustrio – Search, customize and download illustrations

112 points | 35 comments | May 23, 2016 | by raphdg

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#18 Show HN: I built a bot to automatically apply to jobs

109 points | 86 comments | May 23, 2016 | by jmopr

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#19 Show HN: Discover new music through an infinite suggestion graph (React/Redux)

108 points | 39 comments | May 02, 2016 | by joshwcomeau

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#20 Show HN: Assembly to C code Decompiler

98 points | 34 comments | May 27, 2016 | by zandorg

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#21 Show HN: Family.scss – a set of 20 smart SASS mixins

88 points | 21 comments | May 22, 2016 | by redox_

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#22 Show HN: Gitsome: A Git/Shell Autocompleter with GitHub Integration

85 points | 15 comments | May 09, 2016 | by donnemartin

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#23 Show HN: Wsta – a CLI for working with WebSockets written in Rust

85 points | 13 comments | May 23, 2016 | by esphen

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#24 Show HN: Hackchain – Continuous Bitcoin-Inspired CTF Competition

83 points | 4 comments | May 09, 2016 | by indutny

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#25 Show HN: Export HN saved links (upvotes) as JSON or CSV

82 points | 16 comments | May 23, 2016 | by amjd

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#26 Show HN: Deploy Docker Image to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

81 points | 26 comments | May 12, 2016 | by yefim

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#27 Show HN: tesserocr – A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API

78 points | 14 comments | May 20, 2016 | by reubano

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#28 Show HN: Writing Streak – write fiction every day

75 points | 32 comments | May 01, 2016 | by rayalez

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#29 Show HN: IPsec VPN Server in Docker Container

74 points | 19 comments | May 22, 2016 | by hwdsl2

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#30 Show HN: Neural Network Evolution Playground with Backprop NEAT

73 points | 7 comments | May 14, 2016 | by hardmaru

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#31 Show HN: Arc – secure file archiver

72 points | 43 comments | May 31, 2016 | by arete

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#32 Show HN: We Work Contract – London Web contract jobs with day rates

71 points | 77 comments | May 11, 2016 | by jwmoz

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#33 Show HN: Cloud-based GIF editor to augment any video

70 points | 31 comments | May 06, 2016 | by anonfunction

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#34 Show HN: WebGL Minecraft-like scripting environment for teaching programming

66 points | 22 comments | May 26, 2016 | by cjdell

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#35 Show HN: Neural Network Visualizer Classifying Handwriting – D3/Redux

64 points | 19 comments | May 17, 2016 | by CSenn

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#36 Show HN: HTTP Prompt – An HTTP CLI with autocomplete and syntax highlighting

62 points | 7 comments | May 20, 2016 | by eliangcs

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#37 Show HN: RaftLib – Easy, productive parallel programming in C++

62 points | 4 comments | May 31, 2016 | by jcbeard

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#38 Show HN: Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes

61 points | 19 comments | May 26, 2016 | by vning93

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#39 Show HN: A conformant WebGL implementation for Node.js

57 points | 15 comments | May 26, 2016 | by 33a

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#40 Show HN: Gratefulness.io – Learning to be grateful, one text reminder at a time

56 points | 26 comments | May 03, 2016 | by agopinath

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#41 Show HN: Ceilfire.com – Online HTML5 Game Maker

55 points | 15 comments | May 24, 2016 | by n3on_net

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#42 Show HN: Doctest – C++ single-header testing framework

55 points | 8 comments | May 22, 2016 | by onqtam

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#43 Show HN: Klart – Capture Anything (Pocket for Screenshots)

53 points | 47 comments | May 16, 2016 | by drikerf

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#44 Show HN: Smlr – re-encode jpegs using butteraugli visual quality measurement

53 points | 5 comments | May 10, 2016 | by jasonmoo

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#45 Show HN: Subasub – Learn Languages with Translated Subtitles

52 points | 32 comments | May 08, 2016 | by larion1

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#46 Show HN: Larder, bookmarking for developers

52 points | 32 comments | May 03, 2016 | by joshsharp

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#47 Show HN: Pathfinder – Routing as a service

52 points | 19 comments | May 09, 2016 | by ajmichael

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#48 Show HN: Curabase – Curate a list of links for yourself, your team, or the world

51 points | 40 comments | May 04, 2016 | by sheraz

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#49 Show HN: Highscore.money – Pay your way into the highscore

50 points | 49 comments | May 30, 2016 | by marc

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#50 Show HN: Open Notebook – Software for creating digital math worksheets

50 points | 10 comments | May 21, 2016 | by jaltekruse

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#51 Show HN: JSONScript – Asynchronous scripting language using JSON format

49 points | 47 comments | May 21, 2016 | by epoberezkin

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#52 Show HN: Yet another Sublime Text plugin for C++ completion

49 points | 14 comments | May 28, 2016 | by soinus

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#53 Show HN: See what the internet thinks about any topic, based on Google queries

46 points | 41 comments | May 19, 2016 | by ionwake

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#54 Show HN: FastDocs – Speed up creating Google Docs at home or work

46 points | 14 comments | May 23, 2016 | by flinner

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#55 Show HN: SSL certificate dashboard

45 points | 18 comments | May 29, 2016 | by Jens_

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#56 Show HN: MapReduce Implementation of Spatial Co-Location Mining Algorithm

43 points | 7 comments | May 09, 2016 | by shagunsodhani

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#57 Show HN: Data Driven Tech Radar

41 points | 17 comments | May 12, 2016 | by mrmrcoleman

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#58 Show HN: StrelkiJS - small library to index and SQL-join in-memory collections

41 points | 11 comments | May 23, 2016 | by kidstrack

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#59 Show HN: S3io.com – using Amazon S3 for personal storage

40 points | 29 comments | May 23, 2016 | by iliaznk

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#60 Show HN: keysniffer – Linux kernel module to log pressed keys in debugfs

40 points | 15 comments | May 16, 2016 | by apjana

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#61 Show HN: TLS cert expiration dashboard

40 points | 13 comments | May 25, 2016 | by craine

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#62 Show HN: Tmuxp – Tmux session manager written in Python

40 points | 9 comments | May 28, 2016 | by git-pull

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#63 Show HN: Canal – Policy based networking for cloud native applications

38 points | 4 comments | May 09, 2016 | by knoxa2511

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#64 Show HN: My Weekend Hack – KubeFuse, a Kubernetes Fuse Filesystem

37 points | 3 comments | May 01, 2016 | by char_pointer

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#65 Show HN: TakeMeasure – Make your phone a ruler

35 points | 26 comments | May 28, 2016 | by lubos_

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#66 Show HN: Update your requirements.txt file with Pur in Python

35 points | 26 comments | May 09, 2016 | by welder

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#67 Show HN: Mailform – Print and Mail in bulk from your browser

35 points | 8 comments | May 09, 2016 | by kunle

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#68 Show HN: Design for Startups

32 points | 8 comments | May 26, 2016 | by umitakcn

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#69 Show HN: True-Random – Generate “truly” random numbers

31 points | 48 comments | May 10, 2016 | by jaybosamiya

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#70 Show HN: Run your own A/B testing back end on AWS Lambda and Redis HyperLogLog

31 points | 5 comments | May 08, 2016 | by gingerlime

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#71 Show HN: Tellform – An Open-Source Form Builder

29 points | 7 comments | May 17, 2016 | by whitef0x

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#72 Show HN: React-server, for fast load and seamless transitions between pages

28 points | 0 comments | May 20, 2016 | by dfabulich

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#73 Show HN: LoadJS – A tiny async loader for modern browsers

25 points | 14 comments | May 18, 2016 | by andres

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#74 Show HN: ScaleFT, Login to Servers Using Google Apps Auth

25 points | 1 comments | May 06, 2016 | by pquerna

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#75 Show HN: PairForce – Collaborative Cloud IDE and Terminal Powered by Docker

24 points | 12 comments | May 17, 2016 | by alexdme

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#76 Show HN: A pythonic wrapper over atd to schedule deletion of files/directories

24 points | 6 comments | May 16, 2016 | by devnonymous

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#77 Show HN: Buku – Command-line bookmark manager

23 points | 18 comments | May 17, 2016 | by apjana

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#78 Show HN: Leavethe.us – search jobs by keyword in 50+ countries

21 points | 2 comments | May 21, 2016 | by fibbery

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#79 Show HN: Make your bot polyglot with Cyrano API

21 points | 0 comments | May 18, 2016 | by pdimas

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#80 Show HN: Map.XL – Online Maps in Excel

21 points | 0 comments | May 13, 2016 | by fasteRstat

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#81 Show HN: HyperDev – dev playground for full-stack web apps by Fog Creek

19 points | 15 comments | May 31, 2016 | by Yahivin

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#82 Show HN: A simple distributable object-storage system in Go

19 points | 2 comments | May 20, 2016 | by stevekemp

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#83 Show HN: Serve – like python -m SimpleHTTPServer, but with gzip and http2

18 points | 7 comments | May 01, 2016 | by rhardih

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#84 Show HN: I made a chatbot to get excused from meetings

18 points | 4 comments | May 12, 2016 | by karim

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#85 Show HN: Easiest UTM Tags Builder

17 points | 5 comments | May 07, 2016 | by shubhamjain

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#86 Show HN: Serverless Framework – Build Applications via AWS Lambda and API Gateway

17 points | 2 comments | May 20, 2016 | by reubano

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#87 Show HN: CSSStunts.com – Weekly CSS hacks

17 points | 1 comments | May 10, 2016 | by tancredi

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#88 Show HN: SessionStack – Identify and understand problems in web apps

17 points | 0 comments | May 04, 2016 | by zlatkov

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#89 Show HN: CodeGophers, Send an email to get any coding task done in 48 hours

16 points | 10 comments | May 09, 2016 | by marcell

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#90 Show HN: Cloud-based GIF editor to augment any video

16 points | 6 comments | May 05, 2016 | by anonfunction

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#91 Show HN: Learn Redux

16 points | 4 comments | May 16, 2016 | by wesbos

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#92 Show HN: Five Years of Show HN

16 points | 3 comments | May 03, 2016 | by afshinmeh

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#93 Show HN: Raspberry Pi Solar Plant Watering System: 6th Grade Science Project

16 points | 2 comments | May 24, 2016 | by 20years

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#94 Show HN: Open source realtime IoT platform

16 points | 2 comments | May 21, 2016 | by daraosn

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#95 Show HN: Clyp – the easiest way to upload and share audio (no account required)

16 points | 2 comments | May 11, 2016 | by jpatapoff

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#96 Show HN: Sqlitebiter – tool to convert CSV/JSON/Excel/Google-Sheets to SQLite

16 points | 2 comments | May 05, 2016 | by thombashi

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#97 Show HN: Automatic image moderation and nudity detection

15 points | 16 comments | May 30, 2016 | by gsso

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#98 Show HN: Ifcfg.me – What Is My IP Address

15 points | 4 comments | May 30, 2016 | by Eun

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#99 Show HN: Advertise.ai a Chatbot for Facebook Advertisers

15 points | 0 comments | May 18, 2016 | by rvcamo

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#100 Show HN: A decentralized virtual world built on Ethereum

14 points | 2 comments | May 25, 2016 | by fivedogit

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