Best Show HN projects from Jan, 2017

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Jan, 2017.


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#1 Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

1183 points | 346 comments | Jan 18, 2017 | by kasumis_

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#2 Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust

1170 points | 476 comments | Jan 06, 2017 | by jwilm

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#3 Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today

546 points | 142 comments | Jan 03, 2017 | by niko001

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#4 Show HN: Crafting Interpreters – A handbook for making programming languages

423 points | 75 comments | Jan 15, 2017 | by munificent

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#5 Show HN: Whoishiring.io – all tech jobs mapped out

419 points | 76 comments | Jan 27, 2017 | by xando

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#6 Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir

403 points | 107 comments | Jan 28, 2017 | by sergiotapia

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#7 Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

377 points | 165 comments | Jan 23, 2017 | by kevinjoling

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#8 Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

334 points | 99 comments | Jan 25, 2017 | by twakefield

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#9 Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

331 points | 59 comments | Jan 11, 2017 | by ryanmickle

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#10 Show HN: Math Attack – My side project of 3 years

292 points | 113 comments | Jan 24, 2017 | by Sanctor

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#11 Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

248 points | 107 comments | Jan 05, 2017 | by valentinvieriu

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#12 Show HN: Ship 2.0 – A macOS Native Interface to GitHub Issues

233 points | 105 comments | Jan 26, 2017 | by kogir

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#13 Show HN: PDFlower – Reflow PDF papers for small-screen reading

216 points | 59 comments | Jan 04, 2017 | by chengchang

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#14 Show HN: An audio only social network

211 points | 171 comments | Jan 10, 2017 | by dl_terp

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#15 Show HN: Use Ansible to Run a β€œfriends and Family” OpenVPN Server on Digital Ocean

206 points | 51 comments | Jan 08, 2017 | by robbintt

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#16 Show HN: Command Line Challenge

205 points | 90 comments | Jan 26, 2017 | by zoidb

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#17 Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

192 points | 88 comments | Jan 07, 2017 | by aumerle

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#18 Show HN: Bitesnap – Deep Learning Meets Food Logging

174 points | 108 comments | Jan 25, 2017 | by vinayan3

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#19 Show HN: Mastodon, a federated microblogging network

172 points | 61 comments | Jan 02, 2017 | by gargron

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#20 Show HN: Code Cards – Anki for code

152 points | 52 comments | Jan 30, 2017 | by oskarth

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#21 Show HN: Q8, an In-Browser VM for Learning and Visualizing Bytecode Programming

145 points | 28 comments | Jan 09, 2017 | by anchovieshat

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#22 Show HN: GitHub trending alternative that ranks repos by contribution rate

142 points | 35 comments | Jan 21, 2017 | by nagasaki45

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#23 Show HN: Realtime Hacker News Summarization Using Machine Learning

138 points | 29 comments | Jan 24, 2017 | by bexp

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#24 Show HN: JSON Browse – Fetch, filter and manipulate your JSON inside the browser

138 points | 26 comments | Jan 16, 2017 | by jorde

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#25 Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

133 points | 74 comments | Jan 03, 2017 | by blaget

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#26 Show HN: Pydb – a lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ

130 points | 31 comments | Jan 28, 2017 | by asrp

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#27 Show HN: Hypergolix, β€œprogrammable Dropbox” with client-side encryption

130 points | 23 comments | Jan 12, 2017 | by nbadg

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#28 Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning datasets

126 points | 40 comments | Jan 24, 2017 | by akshaynathr

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#29 Show HN: The Bus Stop Bus

125 points | 22 comments | Jan 11, 2017 | by StavrosK

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#30 Show HN: News from Reddit

124 points | 71 comments | Jan 05, 2017 | by salmaanp

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#31 Show HN: Skeletal Animation System – a WebGL animation blender

120 points | 21 comments | Jan 13, 2017 | by chinedufn

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#32 Show HN: Develop your Python applications easily in clean Docker environments

119 points | 58 comments | Jan 23, 2017 | by macostea

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#33 Show HN: An app for your older relatives, helping them find the right cables

113 points | 62 comments | Jan 19, 2017 | by jblok

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#34 Show HN: CloudBoost – Open-Source Parse, Firebase and Algolia Combined into One

113 points | 42 comments | Jan 19, 2017 | by nawazdhandala

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#35 Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

111 points | 56 comments | Jan 03, 2017 | by blainesch

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#36 Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

108 points | 60 comments | Jan 26, 2017 | by rodrigogs

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#37 Show HN: CΓ©u, Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming

107 points | 46 comments | Jan 30, 2017 | by fsantanna

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#38 Show HN: ChatSecure iOS v4.0 – OMEMO and Signal Protocol

107 points | 27 comments | Jan 17, 2017 | by chrisballinger

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#39 Show HN: Kur by Deepgram (YC S16) – Deep Learning Made Easy

103 points | 25 comments | Jan 18, 2017 | by stephensonsco

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#40 Show HN: ColorMe

103 points | 18 comments | Jan 05, 2017 | by hodgesmr

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#41 Show HN: Automated blind control via an Amazon Echo Dot and Raspberry Pi

101 points | 30 comments | Jan 01, 2017 | by jwahawis

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#42 Show HN: Larry Wildman – Send free, anonymous postcards to horrible bosses

88 points | 52 comments | Jan 09, 2017 | by larrywildman

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#43 Show HN: Blink my keyboard lights when you visit this page

87 points | 22 comments | Jan 01, 2017 | by lelandbatey

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#44 Show HN: Music Video Dispenser

86 points | 30 comments | Jan 03, 2017 | by sigvef

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#45 Show HN: A software solution to ultrasound blood flow monitoring

85 points | 21 comments | Jan 20, 2017 | by rscho

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#46 Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

81 points | 46 comments | Jan 24, 2017 | by blitapp

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#47 Show HN: Adding some syntactic sugar to Python

77 points | 21 comments | Jan 22, 2017 | by czheo

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#48 Show HN: Data visualization news

76 points | 15 comments | Jan 09, 2017 | by fasteRstat

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#49 Show HN: Making Your Music Choose Your Desktop Wallpaper

75 points | 11 comments | Jan 30, 2017 | by hnur

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#50 Show HN: Parrot – Self-Hosted Localization Management Platform

74 points | 18 comments | Jan 17, 2017 | by amzans

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#51 Show HN: An open source cross-platform minimalistic cryptocurrency tracker

74 points | 17 comments | Jan 05, 2017 | by harshjv

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#52 Show HN: Fluor a macOS app to switch Fn keys depending on active application

71 points | 31 comments | Jan 10, 2017 | by Pyroh13453

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#53 Show HN: Target almost all platforms at once with react native

70 points | 44 comments | Jan 23, 2017 | by amoghbanta

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#54 Show HN: Deep Learning Gallery – A curated list of deep learning projects

70 points | 1 comments | Jan 02, 2017 | by alecmgo

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#55 Show HN: Shadowsocks-rust – A fast SOCKSv5 proxy in Rust

68 points | 6 comments | Jan 01, 2017 | by loggerhead

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#56 Show HN: Track UK car price depreciation – get alerted when prices change

64 points | 15 comments | Jan 28, 2017 | by dabeeeenster

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#57 Show HN: Stranded by Trump

64 points | 12 comments | Jan 29, 2017 | by richardlitt

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#58 Show HN: PyBites Code Challenges

63 points | 12 comments | Jan 08, 2017 | by bbelderbos

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#59 Show HN: Phorth – A Forth-like language on the Python VM

62 points | 14 comments | Jan 20, 2017 | by joejev

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#60 Show HN: Sodium_compat, a Pure PHP implementation of libsodium

62 points | 10 comments | Jan 17, 2017 | by CiPHPerCoder

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#61 Show HN: CSSRooster – A Bot that Writes CSS Classes for HTML with Deep Learning

59 points | 8 comments | Jan 31, 2017 | by huula

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#62 Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork

58 points | 59 comments | Jan 07, 2017 | by themaveness

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#63 Show HN: Generate SVG parliament charts (JavaScript)

56 points | 5 comments | Jan 27, 2017 | by juliuste

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#64 Show HN: Posixcube, a shell script automation framework alternative to Ansible

53 points | 53 comments | Jan 12, 2017 | by schizoidboy

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#65 Show HN: Staffjoy V2 – Text message-based employee scheduling app

52 points | 37 comments | Jan 10, 2017 | by philip1209

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#66 Show HN: Finch, Simple and Open Source Scheduler for Your Apps

52 points | 15 comments | Jan 20, 2017 | by emreler

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#67 Show HN: ExcelJSON – Convert JSON To/from CSV, TSV Easily

50 points | 26 comments | Jan 17, 2017 | by palerdot

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#68 Show HN: A Travis CI Elixir client

50 points | 23 comments | Jan 10, 2017 | by kddeisz

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#69 Show HN: Functions as a Service (FaaS) on Docker Swarm

49 points | 5 comments | Jan 04, 2017 | by alexellisuk

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#70 Show HN: MyHours – Time tracking for digital nomads

48 points | 46 comments | Jan 12, 2017 | by johngorse

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#71 Show HN: FUSE filesystems in Emacs Lisp

46 points | 6 comments | Jan 31, 2017 | by vkazanov

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#72 Show HN: SoundMoose – open source music discovery app based on Angular 2, Redux

45 points | 35 comments | Jan 26, 2017 | by stefan_r

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#73 Show HN: Chrome Extension to Filter HN Stories by Keyword

43 points | 28 comments | Jan 24, 2017 | by alistproducer2

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#74 Show HN: Pymterm – A multiple tab terminal emulator implemented in Python

40 points | 12 comments | Jan 10, 2017 | by stonewell

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#75 Show HN: RxJS Diagrams – A React library for visualising Rx operators

37 points | 6 comments | Jan 15, 2017 | by philplckthun

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#76 Show HN: Industrial I/O solutions for developers, AI and robots

35 points | 18 comments | Jan 14, 2017 | by gpioMaris

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#77 Show HN: A Virtual NYC Snow Globe - Built with aframe.io

35 points | 5 comments | Jan 04, 2017 | by mcat

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#78 Show HN: Boilerplate for Node.js and TypeScript with Jest tests

33 points | 29 comments | Jan 22, 2017 | by jsynowiec

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#79 Show HN: Botpress – Open-Source Bots Platform Written in JavaScript

33 points | 9 comments | Jan 12, 2017 | by slvnperron

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#80 Show HN: Skuuddle – Arrange face-to-face interactions with online acquaintances

32 points | 49 comments | Jan 25, 2017 | by suhas_oodi

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#81 Show HN: NLP analysis of Trump’s Inaugural

32 points | 2 comments | Jan 23, 2017 | by jeffnv

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#82 Show HN: Ballotter, an Online Video Debating Platform for Our Discussions

30 points | 27 comments | Jan 04, 2017 | by grif-fin

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#83 Show HN: Select Star from Movies

29 points | 4 comments | Jan 03, 2017 | by crobertsbmw

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#84 Show HN: Guild Wars 2 Armory Made with React and Node

28 points | 7 comments | Jan 09, 2017 | by madou

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#85 Show HN: My Django book, Hello Web App, is now free online

28 points | 4 comments | Jan 26, 2017 | by limedaring

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#86 Show HN: RSA Public Key Encryption in Python

26 points | 5 comments | Jan 01, 2017 | by ridwanmsharif

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#87 Show HN: UI builder for web developers

25 points | 8 comments | Jan 30, 2017 | by crcn

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#88 Show HN: Web Maker – Blazing fast & open-source Codepen like playground

25 points | 5 comments | Jan 09, 2017 | by chinchang

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#89 Show HN: A simple way to create personas for design or marketing

25 points | 3 comments | Jan 30, 2017 | by seanperkins

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#90 Show HN: DocHUB – An easy way to create dynamic project docs with Markdown

25 points | 2 comments | Jan 26, 2017 | by knutmartin

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#91 Show HN: HamPanda – You Get Hams for Playing and Pandas for Winning

24 points | 11 comments | Jan 12, 2017 | by stephensonsco

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#92 Show HN: Mutagen – Simple, cross-platform, continuous, bidirectional file sync

24 points | 2 comments | Jan 04, 2017 | by jacobu9

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#93 Show HN: Cloud computing easier than ever with CodePicnic CLI

24 points | 0 comments | Jan 26, 2017 | by raymi_s

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#94 Show HN: Juicebox – Listen to music with others

23 points | 12 comments | Jan 26, 2017 | by lawrencewu

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#95 Show HN: Most Used SDKs in the Top 200 iOS and Android Apps

22 points | 2 comments | Jan 25, 2017 | by kilimchoi

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#96 Show HN: AdBlock detection by abusing the streaming parser

21 points | 25 comments | Jan 10, 2017 | by mechazawa

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#97 Show HN: $80,000 profit in December with an 8-page website (Case study)

21 points | 3 comments | Jan 11, 2017 | by viperchill

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#98 Show HN: Get a free, hosted static website and help me out of debt

20 points | 21 comments | Jan 09, 2017 | by siddharthgdas

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#99 Show HN: Simple Multiplayer 3D render with threejs, Tile38 and websockets

20 points | 10 comments | Jan 08, 2017 | by juanpabloaj

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#100 Show HN: Filesystem for Telegram attachments

20 points | 1 comments | Jan 22, 2017 | by firemoon777

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