Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2016

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


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

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

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#2 Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#8 Show HN: Learn Functional Programming Using Haskell

220 points | 90 comments | Aug 02, 2016 | by xwowsersx

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#9 Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets

220 points | 69 comments | Aug 19, 2016 | by abrena

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#10 Show HN: Workq – Job Server in Go

185 points | 59 comments | Aug 23, 2016 | by iamduo

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#11 Show HN: Gping.io – Like TinyURL for your car

184 points | 75 comments | Aug 07, 2016 | by dustball

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#12 Show HN: Cuckoo Filter Implementation in Go, Better Than Bloom Filters

181 points | 30 comments | Aug 07, 2016 | by irfansharif

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#13 Show HN: KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators

180 points | 34 comments | Aug 25, 2016 | by ddevault

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#14 Show HN: Amium – A better way to collaborate

168 points | 57 comments | Aug 02, 2016 | by yurisagalov

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#15 Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat

160 points | 29 comments | Aug 11, 2016 | by pfraze

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#16 Show HN: Book about writing web apps in Go without a framework

158 points | 57 comments | Aug 05, 2016 | by thewhitetulip

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#17 Show HN: New time and daylight application

150 points | 34 comments | Aug 16, 2016 | by dassreis

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#18 Show HN: Hacker Hall - Virtual Coworking

147 points | 29 comments | Aug 12, 2016 | by malcolmocean

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#19 Show HN: Neural network trained to generate GitHub repository names

145 points | 49 comments | Aug 02, 2016 | by halfeatenscone

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#20 Show HN: WebGL Fire Simulation

143 points | 23 comments | Aug 18, 2016 | by jharsman

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#21 Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs

136 points | 90 comments | Aug 30, 2016 | by marco1

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#22 Show HN: GPU-Accelerated Digit Recognition with WebGL

135 points | 57 comments | Aug 17, 2016 | by erkaman

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#23 Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc.

129 points | 39 comments | Aug 28, 2016 | by LukeFitzpatrick

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#24 Show HN: Set of trained deep learning models for computer vision

127 points | 15 comments | Aug 06, 2016 | by fchollet

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#25 Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport

118 points | 62 comments | Aug 27, 2016 | by Heqx

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#26 Show HN: Use Windows 10 Apps APIs Directly from Node.js and Electron

113 points | 11 comments | Aug 04, 2016 | by nadavbar

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#27 Show HN: Replify – Create a REPL for any command

112 points | 18 comments | Aug 19, 2016 | by danielrw7

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#28 Show HN: Heartbeat – Transform REST Endpoints to Streaming APIs

111 points | 24 comments | Aug 03, 2016 | by sidi

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#29 Show HN: A Web Extension to save a page or selection as eBook

106 points | 25 comments | Aug 18, 2016 | by eg312

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#30 Show HN: Use Meetup.com Data to Find Your Ideal City

104 points | 34 comments | Aug 31, 2016 | by ponderingHplus

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#31 Show HN: JSON.is

100 points | 57 comments | Aug 08, 2016 | by zackbloom

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#32 Show HN: Knuckleball – An in-memory data structure server

100 points | 36 comments | Aug 09, 2016 | by rodrigoalima99

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#33 Show HN: Thyme, a simple CLI to measure human time and focus

99 points | 18 comments | Aug 16, 2016 | by gonedo

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#34 Show HN: Publish blog post with a simple Git push

96 points | 63 comments | Aug 07, 2016 | by snehesht

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#35 Show HN: Chessboardify – Make the grid a chessboard

95 points | 33 comments | Aug 04, 2016 | by mapehe

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#36 Show HN: Cryptic – A sensible secret management toolkit and Go library

93 points | 32 comments | Aug 21, 2016 | by domodwyer

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#37 Show HN: Bouncy Ball – A TodoMVC for web animation

85 points | 16 comments | Aug 01, 2016 | by bryanbraun

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#38 Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming

83 points | 28 comments | Aug 18, 2016 | by cher14

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#39 Show HN: Igloos That Don't Melt

81 points | 35 comments | Aug 23, 2016 | by peterwallhead

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#40 Show HN: Make Slack Bots in Java

81 points | 25 comments | Aug 06, 2016 | by ramswaroop

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#41 Show HN: Price changes alerts for any store

79 points | 60 comments | Aug 31, 2016 | by adibalcan

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#42 Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line

79 points | 18 comments | Aug 05, 2016 | by Socketubs

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#43 Show HN: Checkup – OSS tool for simple, self-hosted health checks

79 points | 16 comments | Aug 06, 2016 | by tim_l

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#44 Show HN: War on Ether

76 points | 36 comments | Aug 30, 2016 | by kobigurk

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#45 Show HN: SecretCrypt – Keeping secrets in plain sight

75 points | 35 comments | Aug 23, 2016 | by nsaje

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#46 Show HN: Realtime, self-hosted monitoring for Node.js inspired by GitHub Status

75 points | 19 comments | Aug 17, 2016 | by rwilinski

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#47 Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids

71 points | 54 comments | Aug 17, 2016 | by ceyhunkazel

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#48 Show HN: Poetically simple code review on GitHub

66 points | 24 comments | Aug 26, 2016 | by beliu

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#49 Show HN: LockedAway – A unique text experience

65 points | 24 comments | Aug 17, 2016 | by foopod

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#50 Show HN: Auto install npm dependencies as you code

60 points | 77 comments | Aug 08, 2016 | by siddharthkp

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#51 Show HN: Simple express-like routing for front-end

58 points | 27 comments | Aug 17, 2016 | by franciscop

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#52 Show HN: A next gen front-end framework with lots of editable examples

57 points | 30 comments | Aug 27, 2016 | by solkimicreb

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#53 Show HN: Tenta – A private encrypted browser

56 points | 64 comments | Aug 04, 2016 | by tenta

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#54 Show HN: Twincl Editor – A WYSIWYG/Markdown dual-mode editor

55 points | 26 comments | Aug 12, 2016 | by arthurtw

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#55 Show HN: Inspired by a HN comment, half stars proposed for Unicode [pdf]

55 points | 12 comments | Aug 01, 2016 | by kens

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#56 Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands

53 points | 58 comments | Aug 13, 2016 | by jnasty

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#57 Show HN: Git Confirm. Git hook to catch accidentally committed code (TODO/Skip)

51 points | 45 comments | Aug 03, 2016 | by pimterry

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#58 Show HN: Ball falls on the teapot in WebGL

49 points | 30 comments | Aug 18, 2016 | by alex2401

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#59 Show HN: Daily executive summary of your Slack channels

49 points | 29 comments | Aug 10, 2016 | by nagrom42

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#60 Show HN: Things that help with depression and anxiety

48 points | 48 comments | Aug 29, 2016 | by baccheion

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#61 Show HN: Go-odbye – Twitter Follow/Unfollow Reporting Tool Written in Go

47 points | 44 comments | Aug 29, 2016 | by DLion

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#62 Show HN: PGBackup.com, Postgres backup as a service

46 points | 47 comments | Aug 30, 2016 | by EmielMols

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#63 Show HN: Crowdsourcing academic profiles for 3,600 computer science professors

46 points | 13 comments | Aug 28, 2016 | by lazyjeff

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#64 Show HN: Ulterius, complete control of your desktop – from your browser

46 points | 8 comments | Aug 08, 2016 | by andrewmd5

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#65 Show HN: Twincl – A New Attempt at β€œRich Forum”

45 points | 28 comments | Aug 05, 2016 | by arthurtw

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#66 Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Manager

45 points | 12 comments | Aug 31, 2016 | by SalGnt

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#67 Show HN: New Cool Calendar App for Android Just Launched

45 points | 8 comments | Aug 03, 2016 | by petermolyneux

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#68 Show HN: Natural Language to SQL interface to embed in your app

44 points | 25 comments | Aug 16, 2016 | by davidsQL

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#69 Show HN: Noms – The versioned, forkable, syncable database

43 points | 3 comments | Aug 02, 2016 | by aboodman

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#70 Show HN: W3clan – User-Curated Tutorial Network

42 points | 26 comments | Aug 23, 2016 | by w3clan

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#71 Show HN: Hapibelly, Rotten Tomatoes for Restaurants

40 points | 61 comments | Aug 12, 2016 | by benkarst

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#72 Show HN: Functional Programming for Kids: Interactive Tutorial

40 points | 18 comments | Aug 01, 2016 | by viebel

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#73 Show HN: Chrome Remote Debugging Protocol interface

38 points | 7 comments | Aug 28, 2016 | by cyrusand

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#74 Show HN: Every Twitter and/or Facebook user has a public message board here

37 points | 37 comments | Aug 10, 2016 | by rchr

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#75 Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi

37 points | 21 comments | Aug 16, 2016 | by maxpert

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#76 Show HN: Architect – Hardware Description and Emulation JavaScript Library

34 points | 28 comments | Aug 29, 2016 | by mbad0la

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#77 Show HN: I made a site that searches and compares travel info of 230+ countries

33 points | 17 comments | Aug 29, 2016 | by svenkapudija

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#78 Show HN: RadioSilence. Easy to Use OS X Firewall

32 points | 5 comments | Aug 16, 2016 | by knes

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#79 Show HN: Our Take on Intuition Engineering with Docker

31 points | 1 comments | Aug 09, 2016 | by Maro

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#80 Show HN: Minimal, modern embedded V8 for Python

30 points | 8 comments | Aug 02, 2016 | by jbaviat

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#81 Show HN: A header only C++11 LRU Cache template class, with no dependencies

29 points | 27 comments | Aug 30, 2016 | by mohaps

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#82 Show HN: Stdlib.com – Building a Standard Library of Node.js Microservices

28 points | 1 comments | Aug 08, 2016 | by keithwhor

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#83 Show HN: Chrome extension to avoid noisy domains in the Hacker News feed

27 points | 16 comments | Aug 03, 2016 | by mathiasrw

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#84 Show HN: Wryte – a dictation software for bloggers

25 points | 9 comments | Aug 02, 2016 | by macco

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#85 Show HN: Introducing Fr8, an Open-Source SaaS Integration Service

23 points | 6 comments | Aug 22, 2016 | by alexed

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#86 Show HN: We Built an Autonomous RC Car Using Neural Networks and Raspberry Pi

23 points | 0 comments | Aug 17, 2016 | by yedhukrishnan

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#87 Show HN: Find any email address on the web

22 points | 24 comments | Aug 31, 2016 | by beeker87

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#88 Show HN: Rendering Jupyter notebooks in the browser

22 points | 2 comments | Aug 07, 2016 | by drej

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#89 Show HN: HTML5/WebGL/WebSocket MMO tanks – Server in C++

21 points | 6 comments | Aug 24, 2016 | by zubster

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#90 Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms

21 points | 6 comments | Aug 17, 2016 | by ruiramos

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#91 Show HN: Secure Linux Apps on the Mac Desktop Through Docker

21 points | 5 comments | Aug 01, 2016 | by alexellisuk

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#92 Show HN: A JavaScript String replace API that challenges the status quo

20 points | 7 comments | Aug 28, 2016 | by fagnerbrack

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#93 Show HN: WebGL low-poly saturn example

19 points | 3 comments | Aug 15, 2016 | by alex2401

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#94 Show HN: Firefox Autocomplete Prioritize URL

19 points | 2 comments | Aug 08, 2016 | by nathancahill

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#95 Show HN: Airbnb but without code

18 points | 10 comments | Aug 04, 2016 | by brentsum

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#96 Show HN: A minimal web-based IMAP client for use on untrusted machines

18 points | 7 comments | Aug 09, 2016 | by dividuum

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#97 Show HN: Amnesia for Twitter deletes tweets more than N days old

18 points | 6 comments | Aug 11, 2016 | by jmathai

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#98 Show HN: Trailbot – Monitor Your Data and Act Upon Unwanted Modifications

18 points | 5 comments | Aug 23, 2016 | by adansdpc

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#99 Show HN: React Rich Text Editor – Built on DraftJS

18 points | 4 comments | Aug 12, 2016 | by zackify

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#100 Show HN: Free Django Hosting with SSL, managed database and custom domains

18 points | 1 comments | Aug 11, 2016 | by jmelett

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