Best Show HN projects from Oct, 2017

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


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#1 Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages

721 points | 134 comments | Oct 23, 2017 | by bfirsh

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#2 Show HN: Metaballs

673 points | 93 comments | Oct 17, 2017 | by winkerVSbecks

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#3 Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript charting with zero dependencies

474 points | 87 comments | Oct 31, 2017 | by rushabh

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#4 Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

469 points | 203 comments | Oct 31, 2017 | by twiss

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#5 Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

456 points | 215 comments | Oct 08, 2017 | by sharkdp

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#6 Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp

344 points | 117 comments | Oct 03, 2017 | by ontoillogical

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#7 Show HN: Paint yourself in the style of classic art, in your browser

266 points | 99 comments | Oct 02, 2017 | by reiinakano

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#8 Show HN: Gutenberg – A static site engine as a single executable

241 points | 148 comments | Oct 19, 2017 | by Keats

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#9 Show HN: A platform for sharing DIY solar projects

236 points | 61 comments | Oct 07, 2017 | by nikodunk

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#10 Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

209 points | 116 comments | Oct 06, 2017 | by rohanm93

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#11 Show HN: An API for filling out PDF forms

209 points | 85 comments | Oct 08, 2017 | by nathan_f77

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#12 Show HN: Screen.rip – API for capturing web screenshots

195 points | 120 comments | Oct 19, 2017 | by laktek

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#13 Show HN: Rejection Conditioner for YC Applications

177 points | 69 comments | Oct 09, 2017 | by davidlee1435

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#14 Show HN: US Stock Screener

173 points | 93 comments | Oct 25, 2017 | by iShrimp

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#15 Show HN: Baby Buddy

172 points | 105 comments | Oct 26, 2017 | by cdubzzz

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#16 Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

164 points | 96 comments | Oct 07, 2017 | by lasserafn

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#17 Show HN: Open Source alternative to services like Intercom.io and Smooch

163 points | 24 comments | Oct 30, 2017 | by mihok

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#18 Show HN: CoinMall Alpha: A Crypto Marketplace for Digital Goods

156 points | 1 comments | Oct 13, 2017 | by coinmall

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#19 Show HN: Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision

153 points | 21 comments | Oct 30, 2017 | by tsy

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#20 Show HN: Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required

152 points | 75 comments | Oct 16, 2017 | by kunle

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#21 Show HN: Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing

141 points | 90 comments | Oct 07, 2017 | by westoncb

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#22 Show HN: Twitter bot which tweets Magic cards with appropriate GIFs superimposed

138 points | 38 comments | Oct 11, 2017 | by minimaxir

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#23 Show HN: BOOLR – A digital logic simulator

136 points | 21 comments | Oct 17, 2017 | by GGBRW

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#24 Show HN: API to check where a TV show or movie is available

133 points | 53 comments | Oct 30, 2017 | by utelly

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#25 Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

133 points | 48 comments | Oct 17, 2017 | by josephernest

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#26 Show HN: nEXT Browser – A Lisp-based browser

132 points | 44 comments | Oct 06, 2017 | by jmercouris

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#27 Show HN: Simple Deep Learning Tutorials using Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit

126 points | 19 comments | Oct 29, 2017 | by irsina

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#28 Show HN: Cockpit – create tmux panes and windows with ease

125 points | 47 comments | Oct 09, 2017 | by jaisonjustus

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#29 Show HN: Build circuit boards faster with computer vision

124 points | 51 comments | Oct 02, 2017 | by natashabaker

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#30 Show HN: Encrypted VPN in 2k lines of Go

123 points | 64 comments | Oct 05, 2017 | by twitchyliquid64

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#31 Show HN: Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL

123 points | 40 comments | Oct 31, 2017 | by kasra85

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#32 Show HN: 1 KB JavaScript library for building applications

116 points | 8 comments | Oct 13, 2017 | by jbucaran

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#33 Show HN: Ruby static type checker – proof of concept

115 points | 24 comments | Oct 22, 2017 | by stereobooster

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#34 Show HN: WebGL Voxel Engine

113 points | 39 comments | Oct 31, 2017 | by nergal

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#35 Show HN: Vue-Model – Models with HTTP Actions for Vue.js

109 points | 44 comments | Oct 12, 2017 | by aarondf

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#36 Show HN: 4chan on the Ethereum blockchain

103 points | 91 comments | Oct 27, 2017 | by baby

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#37 Show HN: Product Substitutes – what software top companies are replacing

103 points | 50 comments | Oct 24, 2017 | by ayanb

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#38 Show HN: Nematoduino – Implementing a Worm on the Arduino UNO

101 points | 14 comments | Oct 03, 2017 | by nategri

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#39 Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based on what you have starred

99 points | 47 comments | Oct 01, 2017 | by c5urf3r

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#40 Show HN: Playing music with your voice and machine learning

92 points | 18 comments | Oct 27, 2017 | by rammo92

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#41 Show HN: Find and follow journalists relevant to your startup using ML

92 points | 13 comments | Oct 11, 2017 | by dtran

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#42 Show HN: Unity 3D in Docker

88 points | 50 comments | Oct 30, 2017 | by nenadg

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#43 Show HN: Node.js port of WhisperSystem's libsignal

88 points | 16 comments | Oct 16, 2017 | by tooker

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#44 Show HN: Token Spread – Bitcoin/crypto spread tracking for arbitrage

83 points | 28 comments | Oct 11, 2017 | by wbelk

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#45 Show HN: Audiovisual sequencer for tweet-sized JavaScript animations

83 points | 16 comments | Oct 27, 2017 | by atesgoral

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#46 Show HN: A site to look up DNS records

82 points | 59 comments | Oct 26, 2017 | by freekmurze

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#47 Show HN: JSRobot – A platform game you play by coding in JavaScript

79 points | 34 comments | Oct 23, 2017 | by reaal

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#48 Show HN: Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux

78 points | 58 comments | Oct 18, 2017 | by joshwcomeau

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#49 Show HN: Appraise – Visual test automation

78 points | 22 comments | Oct 22, 2017 | by adzicg

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#50 Show HN: Pg_blkchain – Postgres blockchain extension

75 points | 31 comments | Oct 21, 2017 | by gtrubetskoy

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#51 Show HN: Bubbly – animated backgrounds in 662 bytes

75 points | 28 comments | Oct 03, 2017 | by teledig

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#52 Show HN: Who's Mentoring?

75 points | 18 comments | Oct 07, 2017 | by quickthrower2

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#53 Show HN: Amazon S3 API Support for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Service

74 points | 18 comments | Oct 03, 2017 | by y4m4b4

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#54 Show HN: Eclipse Deeplearning4j

73 points | 38 comments | Oct 04, 2017 | by vonnik

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#55 Show HN: Xmysql – One command to serve REST APIs for any MySql database

72 points | 49 comments | Oct 29, 2017 | by o1lab

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#56 Show HN: Hypewatching – crowdsourced, geolocated trends around the world

71 points | 33 comments | Oct 24, 2017 | by toomasb

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#57 Show HN: Cyborg Writer - In-Browser Text Editor with Neural Autocomplete

71 points | 27 comments | Oct 25, 2017 | by antimatter15

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#58 Show HN: FenΓͺtre – Picture-in-picture for your mac

70 points | 45 comments | Oct 05, 2017 | by NeekGerd

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#59 Show HN: Reddit’s favorite learning books, from 3.5B comments

69 points | 15 comments | Oct 30, 2017 | by truffle_pig

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#60 Show HN: Mockoon – mock REST APIs in seconds

68 points | 29 comments | Oct 10, 2017 | by 255kb

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#61 Show HN: Serverless Scripting for GitHub, Asana, Airtable, and more

66 points | 20 comments | Oct 11, 2017 | by hackerews

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#62 Show HN: Trickle/tritty, a 600 baud pipe/terminal

65 points | 33 comments | Oct 25, 2017 | by sjmulder

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#63 Show HN: Dffer – Get notified when a website changes

63 points | 50 comments | Oct 06, 2017 | by dffer

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#64 Show HN: Yopp – A very quick way to transfer a file from phone to computer

62 points | 69 comments | Oct 24, 2017 | by josephernest

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#65 Show HN: UnderExpress – A free, ready to use website UI kit for hustlers

62 points | 35 comments | Oct 15, 2017 | by ankyth27

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#66 Show HN: Vixl44 – Create pixel art inside your terminal using vim movements

62 points | 23 comments | Oct 20, 2017 | by sebashwa

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#67 Show HN: Javascript face recognition game using TensorFlow

62 points | 7 comments | Oct 01, 2017 | by icoxfog417

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#68 Show HN: I made an RSS News Reader that prioritizes topics you care about

61 points | 29 comments | Oct 20, 2017 | by eugenv

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#69 Show HN: Two grpc microservices with mutual TLS and token authentication in Go

61 points | 6 comments | Oct 15, 2017 | by enricofoltran

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#70 Show HN: Tably – Python script for converting .csv to LaTeX tables

57 points | 13 comments | Oct 09, 2017 | by narimiran

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#71 Show HN: Zircle UI – a circular zooming user interface library based on Vue.js

56 points | 27 comments | Oct 30, 2017 | by tinchox5

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#72 Show HN: Xstatic docs – like Google Docs inside an S3 bucket

56 points | 6 comments | Oct 31, 2017 | by ronilan

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#73 Show HN: DatoCMS – Headless CMS for static websites

55 points | 15 comments | Oct 27, 2017 | by steffoz

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#74 Show HN: Hackend – A Fast Serverless Backend Generator

54 points | 18 comments | Oct 12, 2017 | by catchmeifyoucan

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#75 Show HN: Stdcore, a toy container library

54 points | 8 comments | Oct 28, 2017 | by nbingham

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#76 Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

53 points | 38 comments | Oct 04, 2017 | by ishansgupta

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#77 Show HN: I built a handful of Bootstrap 4 themes with an interactive code picker

53 points | 18 comments | Oct 25, 2017 | by arechsteiner

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#78 Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection

52 points | 56 comments | Oct 25, 2017 | by deepdesai

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#79 Show HN: Using machine learning to recommend dashboards during incidents

52 points | 27 comments | Oct 13, 2017 | by shinryudbz

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#80 Show HN: Bender – Let's Standardize Serverless ETL

52 points | 21 comments | Oct 02, 2017 | by stlava

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#81 Show HN: PlaidML, open source deep learning for any GPU

52 points | 16 comments | Oct 20, 2017 | by hedgehog

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#82 Show HN: SimAirport – Our 'pivot' from web dev

51 points | 19 comments | Oct 05, 2017 | by adanto6840

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#83 Show HN: HeatMap.TV – Realtime Google Analytics Heatmap for Big-Screen TVs

51 points | 17 comments | Oct 01, 2017 | by Fileformat

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#84 Show HN: Moebius – HTML5 Canvas Drag and Drop Website Builder (macOS Alpha)

50 points | 55 comments | Oct 18, 2017 | by jamarante

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#85 Show HN: CSVshare – Instantly share data with anyone and make it searchable

50 points | 20 comments | Oct 17, 2017 | by jasoncrawford

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#86 Show HN: Pyrexecd – Standalone SSH Server for Windows

50 points | 13 comments | Oct 23, 2017 | by euske

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#87 Show HN: CoinHub for iOS

49 points | 32 comments | Oct 04, 2017 | by electic

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#88 Show HN: JAZZARI: A programmable band in your browser

49 points | 4 comments | Oct 12, 2017 | by jackschaedler

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#89 Show HN: ciTools – Quickly calculate uncertainty intervals in R

48 points | 7 comments | Oct 08, 2017 | by jth0

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#90 Show HN: A simple SMTP proxy that bridges legacy software to modern SMTP servers

47 points | 23 comments | Oct 09, 2017 | by whitehat2k9

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#91 Show HN: Octotrack – automatic dependency and security manager for Ruby apps

46 points | 33 comments | Oct 17, 2017 | by alvesjtiago

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#92 Show HN: Apify – Turn any website into an API

45 points | 21 comments | Oct 26, 2017 | by jancurn

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#93 Show HN: TorProxy, a kernel module which routes all network traffic through Tor

41 points | 11 comments | Oct 08, 2017 | by raw23

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#94 Show HN: LearnSearch – User Curated Learning Resources built with Vue, Firestore

39 points | 24 comments | Oct 12, 2017 | by hsikka

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#95 Show HN: BillBuddy – Automated Invoice Processing

39 points | 20 comments | Oct 10, 2017 | by frits1993

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#96 Show HN: My IFComp entry that aims to be 'Skyrim rendered in text'

39 points | 19 comments | Oct 01, 2017 | by filiph

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#97 Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser

37 points | 32 comments | Oct 22, 2017 | by projectant

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#98 Show HN: Codekeeper – Source Code Escrow for Developers

37 points | 15 comments | Oct 18, 2017 | by ddewit

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#99 Show HN: Single-file components for React

37 points | 13 comments | Oct 05, 2017 | by MunGell

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#100 Show HN: LogDNA – Embed server logs onto any web page

37 points | 7 comments | Oct 12, 2017 | by leeab

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