Best Show HN projects from Sep, 2016

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


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#1 Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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

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#2 Show HN: Primitive Pictures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#7 Show HN: G9.js – Automatically Interactive Differentiable Graphics

237 points | 29 comments | Sep 24, 2016 | by bijection

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#8 Show HN: Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index

229 points | 139 comments | Sep 13, 2016 | by deusu

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#9 Show HN: Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on Earth for $3

218 points | 88 comments | Sep 05, 2016 | by traviswingo

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#10 Show HN: An Open Retro RPG Game Maker in Python

215 points | 27 comments | Sep 27, 2016 | by a1o

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#11 Show HN: Lemonade – the world's first P2P insurance company

185 points | 167 comments | Sep 21, 2016 | by gilsadis

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#12 Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification

180 points | 80 comments | Sep 05, 2016 | by zaytoun

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#13 Show HN: Colors Used by Popular Sites

179 points | 38 comments | Sep 11, 2016 | by paulhebert

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#14 Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

171 points | 75 comments | Sep 21, 2016 | by drusenko

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#15 Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste

169 points | 281 comments | Sep 15, 2016 | by nappy

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#16 Show HN: Material Design for Bootstrap – Powerful and Free Material Design UI KIT

164 points | 46 comments | Sep 27, 2016 | by Bolduro

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#17 Show HN: How many days until?

156 points | 74 comments | Sep 23, 2016 | by uptown

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#18 Show HN: Live visualization of Kafka streams

144 points | 38 comments | Sep 26, 2016 | by yairwein

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#19 Show HN: OverThrown – A multiplayer turn based strategy game

141 points | 49 comments | Sep 10, 2016 | by dan335

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#20 Show HN: Rust, ARM Cortex M, and a Generated HAL

137 points | 43 comments | Sep 26, 2016 | by jamesmunns

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#21 Show HN: Drum machine in 100 lines of HTML/JS

134 points | 48 comments | Sep 12, 2016 | by siggy

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#22 Show HN: Materia – A modern dev environment to build mobile and web applications

127 points | 43 comments | Sep 08, 2016 | by mehdim

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#23 Show HN: GraphicsJS, New Powerful Free Open-Source JavaScript Graphics Library

124 points | 43 comments | Sep 15, 2016 | by andreykh

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#24 Show HN: Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

122 points | 83 comments | Sep 28, 2016 | by matylla

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#25 Show HN: cookies.js, making cookies a delight to work with on the front-end

122 points | 46 comments | Sep 08, 2016 | by franciscop

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#26 Show HN: Printed Books from WhatsApp with Python and LaTeX

114 points | 28 comments | Sep 26, 2016 | by bkmn

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#27 Show HN: I built a MySQL storage engine which is InnoDB compatible

106 points | 30 comments | Sep 27, 2016 | by cruppstahl

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#28 Show HN: SpaceNeovim – Spacemacs for Neovim

105 points | 27 comments | Sep 18, 2016 | by Tehnix

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#29 Show HN: sdees – serverless decentralized editing of encrypted stuff

100 points | 35 comments | Sep 07, 2016 | by qrv3w

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#30 Show HN: Tomato – Pomodoro Timer

98 points | 72 comments | Sep 26, 2016 | by jastr

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#31 Show HN: Txt.wav – Text Animation Library

98 points | 23 comments | Sep 04, 2016 | by eorge_g

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#32 Show HN: I built a website that simplifies Congress and its activities

96 points | 33 comments | Sep 18, 2016 | by bbrez1

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#33 Show HN: Grumbles.js – Detects when your users swear out loud

91 points | 45 comments | Sep 03, 2016 | by kpthunder

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#34 Show HN: Mobi.css – A lightweight, flexible CSS framework that focuses on mobile

91 points | 32 comments | Sep 03, 2016 | by xcatliu

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#35 Show HN: Share your Unix shell with people you trust

87 points | 56 comments | Sep 08, 2016 | by old-gregg

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#36 Show HN: Bild – Simple image processing in Go with parallel processing support

87 points | 19 comments | Sep 02, 2016 | by amzans

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#37 Show HN: Intro.js v2.3.0 – Step-by-step guide and feature introduction

82 points | 23 comments | Sep 01, 2016 | by afshinmeh

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#38 Show HN: An Open Source Tool to Combat Clickbait Links

81 points | 28 comments | Sep 22, 2016 | by goldMIT

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#39 Show HN: Simple in-memory key/value store written in Elixir using Shards

80 points | 9 comments | Sep 09, 2016 | by candresbolanos

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#40 Show HN: Python program to clean up handwritten notes

80 points | 4 comments | Sep 21, 2016 | by mzucker

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#41 Show HN: Find a movie to watch the lazy way

77 points | 41 comments | Sep 08, 2016 | by fjabre

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#42 Show HN: dingo - a Google DNS-over-HTTPS caching proxy in Go

75 points | 31 comments | Sep 16, 2016 | by pjf

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#43 Show HN: EmbedBox, an Open-Source UI to Get Your Embed Code Installed

75 points | 16 comments | Sep 08, 2016 | by zackbloom

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#44 Show HN: Granim.js – Create fluid and interactive gradients animations

74 points | 15 comments | Sep 04, 2016 | by Sarcadass

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#45 Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

73 points | 76 comments | Sep 01, 2016 | by apancyborg

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#46 Show HN: A WebGL visualization to show how global temperature changed since 1850

69 points | 24 comments | Sep 12, 2016 | by callumprentice

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#47 Show HN: 1Poshword, cross-platform PowerShell client for 1Password

66 points | 15 comments | Sep 12, 2016 | by latkin

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#48 Show HN: Logtrail – A Kibana plugin for logs that clones the Papertrail UI

65 points | 17 comments | Sep 15, 2016 | by avisk

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#49 Show HN: Using Parsing Expression Grammars to rewrite source code

63 points | 26 comments | Sep 14, 2016 | by sebcat

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#50 Show HN: CodeBuff – smart code formatter

62 points | 21 comments | Sep 19, 2016 | by parrt

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#51 Show HN: A minimalistic cloud provider

61 points | 70 comments | Sep 15, 2016 | by twelvenmonkeys

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#52 Show HN: GeoScreenshot – Test your website from many locations

60 points | 31 comments | Sep 09, 2016 | by kpsychwave

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#53 Show HN: Git–fiddle – Edit commit messages, author and timestamps during rebase

60 points | 12 comments | Sep 04, 2016 | by felixschl

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#54 Show HN: Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search

57 points | 9 comments | Sep 19, 2016 | by hungtraan

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#55 Show HN: Simple pendulum simulation with rational trigonometry

52 points | 27 comments | Sep 18, 2016 | by grondilu

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#56 Show HN: Who runs this – A Chrome extension that shows who runs a site

50 points | 44 comments | Sep 14, 2016 | by kaolti

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#57 Show HN: We built a popular plugin-based social app using HTML5

49 points | 17 comments | Sep 20, 2016 | by sssparkkk

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#58 Show HN: kenv – an environment file injector for Kubernetes resources

49 points | 14 comments | Sep 28, 2016 | by nextrevision

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#59 Show HN: Cross-platform dependency manager using bash and cmake

47 points | 27 comments | Sep 14, 2016 | by mulle_nat

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#60 Show HN: Velo – A wireless bluetooth splitter for 2 traditional headphones

45 points | 43 comments | Sep 06, 2016 | by dawidpacha

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#61 Show HN: GitHub's Fixed Header for better accessibility

45 points | 26 comments | Sep 16, 2016 | by amitmerchant

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#62 Show HN: Live Dangerously – 1-for-1 anonymous photo sharing via SMS

44 points | 49 comments | Sep 03, 2016 | by idealboy

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#63 Show HN: Inside – The network of email newsletters

42 points | 15 comments | Sep 23, 2016 | by awwstn

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#64 Show HN: Coderoulette, a pair programming game for developers

42 points | 9 comments | Sep 15, 2016 | by arielcamus

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#65 Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A responsive Hacker News client built with Angular 2

40 points | 30 comments | Sep 06, 2016 | by MrAwesomeSauce

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#66 Show HN: Choreographer-JS, a simple way to handle complicated animations

39 points | 8 comments | Sep 26, 2016 | by christinecha

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#67 Show HN: Kizina – Self-Executing, Interactive Music Album Technology

38 points | 24 comments | Sep 18, 2016 | by nfixx

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#68 Show HN: Simple C library for an XBox Controller (Linux) for easy use in games

36 points | 9 comments | Sep 10, 2016 | by EllipticCurve

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#69 Show HN: Are you trackable? An irrevocable persistent browser cookie

35 points | 18 comments | Sep 27, 2016 | by Capira

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#70 Show HN: Transparent Startups – From Side Projects to Profitable Startups

35 points | 15 comments | Sep 29, 2016 | by rafapaez

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#71 Show HN: We sold over 30,000 units of our HTML5/Electron game on Steam

34 points | 22 comments | Sep 02, 2016 | by riadd

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#72 Show HN: Omnihash, a multi-hashing utility

34 points | 3 comments | Sep 08, 2016 | by Mizza

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#73 Show HN: Komet – Native commit editor for macOS

32 points | 31 comments | Sep 06, 2016 | by zZorgz

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#74 Show HN: DudelDu a simple SHOUTcast server in Go

30 points | 18 comments | Sep 16, 2016 | by krotik

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#75 Show HN: Toby the Tab Manager

29 points | 5 comments | Sep 14, 2016 | by rohamg

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#76 Show HN: Encouraging STEM Using Advanced Math in Music

28 points | 8 comments | Sep 16, 2016 | by nfixx

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#77 Show HN: ZPDer – informs you when an NPM package you use is upgraded

27 points | 21 comments | Sep 21, 2016 | by shaharsol

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#78 Show HN: API for free deep learning models

26 points | 6 comments | Sep 14, 2016 | by adaorardor

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#79 Show HN: AlexaRank.io (free alternative to Alexa's $120 tracker)

26 points | 5 comments | Sep 30, 2016 | by aminozuur

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#80 Show HN: Finding puns computationally

24 points | 9 comments | Sep 26, 2016 | by saamm

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#81 Show HN: Nomad Projects

24 points | 7 comments | Sep 06, 2016 | by ThomWensink

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#82 Show HN: SpaceNeovim – Spacemacs for Neovim

24 points | 2 comments | Sep 17, 2016 | by Tehnix

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#83 Show HN: Mindpark - Playing Video Games with Deep Learning in Python

24 points | 2 comments | Sep 07, 2016 | by danijar

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#84 Show HN: WSL, a clean text format for relational data

23 points | 6 comments | Sep 08, 2016 | by jstimpfle

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#85 Show HN: Hillary Clinton Emails API

22 points | 11 comments | Sep 10, 2016 | by leaksapi

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#86 Show HN: Pare down your S3 Bill; with `du` for AWS S3

22 points | 10 comments | Sep 13, 2016 | by flannelcatering

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#87 Show HN: Checkup, an open-source uptime monitoring tool built for developers

22 points | 6 comments | Sep 08, 2016 | by renfredxh

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#88 Show HN: Perf-mon – Performance reports

21 points | 4 comments | Sep 06, 2016 | by jacec

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#89 Show HN: CuriositY

20 points | 13 comments | Sep 23, 2016 | by sharkdp

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#90 Show HN: Personal Finance Management in Node.js and Google Sheets

20 points | 1 comments | Sep 13, 2016 | by kika

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#91 Show HN: A-Painter: Paint in VR in Your Browser

19 points | 2 comments | Sep 20, 2016 | by ngokevin

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#92 Show HN: CurrencyFormatter.js – easily format currencies in JavaScript

18 points | 6 comments | Sep 28, 2016 | by osrec

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#93 Show HN: BugReplay – video, network and console log recording for web apps

18 points | 6 comments | Sep 09, 2016 | by edibleEnergy

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#94 Show HN: SNES Style Canvas Effects

18 points | 4 comments | Sep 19, 2016 | by __BrianDGLS__

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#95 Show HN: Directus – Free and Open-Source Headless CMS

18 points | 4 comments | Sep 14, 2016 | by benhaynes

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#96 Show HN: Minimal Focus Extension, Combines Page Blocking, Todos, and a Countdown

17 points | 6 comments | Sep 13, 2016 | by captaindaylight

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#97 Show HN: Aggregating remote jobs with AI

17 points | 3 comments | Sep 14, 2016 | by sihaelov

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#98 Show HN: Open-source face search engine

17 points | 0 comments | Sep 14, 2016 | by pavelgonchar

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#99 Show HN: The wearable that communicates entirely through your sense of touch

16 points | 8 comments | Sep 15, 2016 | by jakerockland

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#100 Show HN: Client-Side Encrypted Gist

16 points | 4 comments | Sep 11, 2016 | by srpeck

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