Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2017

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


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#1 Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

845 points | 188 comments | Aug 15, 2017 | by AlexMuir

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#2 Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?

813 points | 325 comments | Aug 07, 2017 | by truffle_pig

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#3 Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists

614 points | 155 comments | Aug 12, 2017 | by paulgb

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#4 Show HN: The best time to visit any city

395 points | 118 comments | Aug 22, 2017 | by ignostic

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#5 Show HN: Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor

358 points | 56 comments | Aug 13, 2017 | by buiducnha

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#6 Show HN: Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative

268 points | 192 comments | Aug 26, 2017 | by kbr

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#7 Show HN: Product Graveyard – Commemorating the most memorable dead products

265 points | 126 comments | Aug 17, 2017 | by ndduong

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#8 Show HN: An interactive guide to compression basics

256 points | 66 comments | Aug 08, 2017 | by unwttng

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#9 Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8

254 points | 87 comments | Aug 02, 2017 | by atomashpolskiy

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#10 Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome

235 points | 79 comments | Aug 22, 2017 | by esbenp

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#11 Show HN: Nim in Action

229 points | 40 comments | Aug 08, 2017 | by dom96

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#12 Show HN: Short-term rental estimate for sites like Airbnb

220 points | 97 comments | Aug 07, 2017 | by edouard1234567

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#13 Show HN: Kozmos – A Personal Library

197 points | 72 comments | Aug 10, 2017 | by _fwu1

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#14 Show HN: Play rock-paper-scissors against your computer via webcam, neural nets

196 points | 33 comments | Aug 10, 2017 | by antimatter15

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#15 Show HN: Kubernetes as a back-end for OpenFaaS

194 points | 67 comments | Aug 28, 2017 | by alexellisuk

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#16 Show HN: Make Medium Readable Again

193 points | 153 comments | Aug 29, 2017 | by thebaer

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#17 Show HN: Bitcoin investing using Dollar Cost Averaging strategy

170 points | 120 comments | Aug 28, 2017 | by _b3dj

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#18 Show HN: Transformation Invariant Reverse Image Search

166 points | 30 comments | Aug 09, 2017 | by pippy360

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#19 Show HN: A neural net that critiques your logo

152 points | 61 comments | Aug 30, 2017 | by Jack000

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#20 Show HN: AsciiDots – a 2D esoteric language inspired by circuits

148 points | 33 comments | Aug 07, 2017 | by aaronduino

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#21 Show HN: RNN that generates Game of Thrones text

143 points | 38 comments | Aug 22, 2017 | by zthoutt

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#22 Show HN: Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping

142 points | 37 comments | Aug 29, 2017 | by emadehsan

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#23 Show HN: RESTful Doom – HTTP+JSON API inside Doom

136 points | 29 comments | Aug 03, 2017 | by jeff_harris

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#24 Show HN: Idea Generator That Uses YC as Data

132 points | 40 comments | Aug 22, 2017 | by jtraffic

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#25 Show HN: Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records

131 points | 92 comments | Aug 26, 2017 | by tompec

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#26 Show HN: Crackle – keyboard layout for programmers

114 points | 110 comments | Aug 10, 2017 | by jackcouch1

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#27 Show HN: Twitch Plays Doom

113 points | 41 comments | Aug 06, 2017 | by dddanmar

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#28 Show HN: One hostname to rule them all

111 points | 76 comments | Aug 15, 2017 | by mrkurt

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#29 Show HN: Pest – Fast parser generator written in Rust

108 points | 27 comments | Aug 27, 2017 | by dragostis

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#30 Show HN: Simple Bhagavad Gita Search Web App

103 points | 32 comments | Aug 06, 2017 | by cvaidya1986

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#31 Show HN: Minimal build system using just /bin/sh

100 points | 63 comments | Aug 18, 2017 | by akkartik

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#32 Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL

90 points | 35 comments | Aug 30, 2017 | by mrkurt

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#33 Show HN: Gorillaz – Andromeda Music Video in WebGL

88 points | 16 comments | Aug 08, 2017 | by yagizgurgul

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#34 Show HN: Cancelable async primitives for JavaScript

84 points | 97 comments | Aug 08, 2017 | by Mitranim

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#35 Show HN: A Node.js open source library to send transactional notifications

84 points | 17 comments | Aug 11, 2017 | by bdav24

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#36 Show HN: C++ runtime/compile-time detection in constexpr functions

83 points | 21 comments | Aug 08, 2017 | by CuriousThinker

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#37 Show HN: Appster – Free Bootstrap 4 App Landing Page Template

79 points | 34 comments | Aug 17, 2017 | by attacomsian

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#38 Show HN: Run Code Snippets in Any Language Inside Your Blog

75 points | 13 comments | Aug 10, 2017 | by theloup

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#39 Show HN: Anonymous Discussion Platform For Any Topic (think Reddit meets Slack)

72 points | 57 comments | Aug 04, 2017 | by _aaya

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#40 Show HN: Neutron Academy, Google Assistant Powered Learning

69 points | 22 comments | Aug 01, 2017 | by cyberpanther

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#41 Show HN: Spongedown

64 points | 28 comments | Aug 23, 2017 | by ivanceras

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#42 Show HN: Shareable reasons to upgrade to Python 3

62 points | 50 comments | Aug 10, 2017 | by kichik

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#43 Show HN: SQLCheck – Automatically identify anti-patterns in SQL queries

61 points | 26 comments | Aug 15, 2017 | by jarulraj

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#44 Show HN: Marina.io, an open source Docker Hub with ARM support

59 points | 10 comments | Aug 20, 2017 | by DoubleMalt

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#45 Show HN: Link.fish – Boomarking meets web-parsing with archiving

58 points | 34 comments | Aug 25, 2017 | by linkfish

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#46 Show HN: Chaotic Life – deterministic behavior from unsynchronized threads

58 points | 13 comments | Aug 13, 2017 | by omazurov

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#47 Show HN: Startuper's life – Damn True moments from startuper's life

57 points | 33 comments | Aug 07, 2017 | by archiolidius

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#48 Show HN: Serverless Code Editor framework for any programming language

57 points | 11 comments | Aug 05, 2017 | by jockdarock

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#49 Show HN: Freezetab – What browser bookmarks should've been

55 points | 27 comments | Aug 31, 2017 | by ksbrooksjr

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#50 Show HN: Echo Show – RaspberryPi Security Camera

54 points | 22 comments | Aug 07, 2017 | by sammachin

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#51 Show HN: Freeciv WebGL with Anaglyph 3D support

54 points | 1 comments | Aug 14, 2017 | by roschdal

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#52 Show HN: Off-premises insight for on-premises Prometheus servers

53 points | 13 comments | Aug 21, 2017 | by discordianfish

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#53 Show HN: Flying Carpet – Ad-hoc wireless, cross-platform, encrypted file sharing

50 points | 14 comments | Aug 10, 2017 | by spieglt

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#54 Show HN: Reddit Top Books – Weekly list of the Most Popular Tech Books on Reddit

50 points | 6 comments | Aug 20, 2017 | by danthelion

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#55 Show HN: Delaware Public Benefit Corporations on Clerky (YC S11)

47 points | 6 comments | Aug 17, 2017 | by swampthing

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#56 Show HN: Cornea AI – Using Deep Learning to Predict Photo Popularity

45 points | 15 comments | Aug 24, 2017 | by parths

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#57 Show HN: Discovering fonts with a vector space model

44 points | 5 comments | Aug 16, 2017 | by Jack000

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#58 Show HN: Connect Pub/Sub to BigQuery with an open source Dataflow pipeline

44 points | 2 comments | Aug 09, 2017 | by homosaphien

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#59 Show HN: Unlimited UI design

41 points | 23 comments | Aug 13, 2017 | by fairpx

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#60 Show HN: HardyPress, zero-maintenance, “static” Wordpress hosting service

41 points | 20 comments | Aug 29, 2017 | by steffoz

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#61 Show HN: Scratchwork – a tool for drawing technical equations and diagrams

40 points | 11 comments | Aug 02, 2017 | by jstogin

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#62 Show HN: A pure Swift port of the Cassowary linear constraints solver

39 points | 5 comments | Aug 18, 2017 | by andybest

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#63 Show HN: How to discuss with opinionated people using the Socratic method[video]

38 points | 49 comments | Aug 23, 2017 | by xchip

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#64 Show HN: Open-Source Selenium IDE Light Extension for Chrome, Kantu for Chrome

38 points | 9 comments | Aug 06, 2017 | by a9t9

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#65 Show HN: React-hint – 150LoC Tooltip Component for React, Preact and Inferno

37 points | 15 comments | Aug 27, 2017 | by slmgc

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#66 Show HN: Chirr App splits text into tweets and posts it as a thread

36 points | 31 comments | Aug 29, 2017 | by kossnocorp

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#67 Show HN: 10 Best Web Animations

36 points | 6 comments | Aug 07, 2017 | by chrisgannon

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#68 Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service

35 points | 49 comments | Aug 02, 2017 | by adfreelife

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#69 Show HN: Checking 320M passwords in milliseconds with serverless bloom filters

33 points | 8 comments | Aug 15, 2017 | by thomasj

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#70 Show HN: Take the AI Box challenge

32 points | 30 comments | Aug 12, 2017 | by gfysfm

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#71 Show HN: I open-sourced my Twitter Automation platform

32 points | 4 comments | Aug 25, 2017 | by zackproser

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#72 Show HN: Diva – Python package for creating interactive dashboards

31 points | 2 comments | Aug 29, 2017 | by mgriley

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#73 Show HN: Docker Cheat Sheet

31 points | 1 comments | Aug 23, 2017 | by eon01

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#74 Show HN: Social experiment with live textboxes

29 points | 13 comments | Aug 01, 2017 | by penpapersw

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#75 Show HN: Electron Webpack Dashboard

28 points | 2 comments | Aug 22, 2017 | by thekenwheeler

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#76 Show HN: Aredis–redis client for Python(also has support for sentinel and cluster)

26 points | 2 comments | Aug 05, 2017 | by jason0916

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#77 Show HN: A Hacker News Reader in Vanilla JavaScript

25 points | 8 comments | Aug 04, 2017 | by k2052

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#78 Show HN: Fast IP to CIDR Block Lookup in Golang

25 points | 0 comments | Aug 31, 2017 | by yl2chen

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#79 Show HN: Get a push notification on model training completion

24 points | 4 comments | Aug 07, 2017 | by taroth

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#80 Show HN: IsomorĆ’, an experimental software development paradigm

23 points | 18 comments | Aug 23, 2017 | by aaron_kent

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#81 Show HN: DIY Intercom Replacement for React Apps

23 points | 10 comments | Aug 19, 2017 | by dharness

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#82 Show HN: Eul – a lightweight native desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail

23 points | 3 comments | Aug 17, 2017 | by amedvednikov

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#83 Show HN: Open source hyper-live chatroom using WebSockets, Node.js, and Vue.js

22 points | 13 comments | Aug 05, 2017 | by penpapersw

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#84 Show HN: All available Emoji domains in one place

22 points | 11 comments | Aug 15, 2017 | by marc

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#85 Show HN: Deep learning assisted logo design

22 points | 10 comments | Aug 10, 2017 | by Jack000

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#86 Show HN: Dynamic image size generator

21 points | 14 comments | Aug 16, 2017 | by ryan21030

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#87 Show HN: GitPoint – The most feature-rich GitHub mobile client that is 100% free

21 points | 7 comments | Aug 03, 2017 | by MrAwesomeSauce

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#88 Show HN: BookAuthority – personalized book recommendations from industry leaders

21 points | 2 comments | Aug 02, 2017 | by montigo

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#89 Show HN: How hacking my wife's Etsy business turned into my first SaaS product

21 points | 2 comments | Aug 01, 2017 | by adaro

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#90 Show HN: Functions as a Service for Kubernetes

19 points | 5 comments | Aug 02, 2017 | by alexellisuk

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#91 Show HN: Stock Screener

19 points | 0 comments | Aug 24, 2017 | by iShrimp

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#92 Show HN: A simple upload library inspired by flow.js and resumable.js

18 points | 1 comments | Aug 31, 2017 | by dolymood

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#93 Show HN: Trillo – Assemble UIs in the Cloud

17 points | 6 comments | Aug 15, 2017 | by re1man

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#94 Show HN: A minesweeper clone in the terminal, written in Elixir

17 points | 3 comments | Aug 17, 2017 | by kevlar1818

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#95 Show HN: Codenail 2.0 – A code art generation tool

17 points | 2 comments | Aug 22, 2017 | by FrancescoA

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#96 Show HN: How to use xmake to build the cross–platform c/c++ project

17 points | 1 comments | Aug 17, 2017 | by waruqi

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#97 Show HN: Automatic bullet point notes in real time [video]

16 points | 12 comments | Aug 22, 2017 | by sudotong

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#98 Show HN: A make-like build utility based on Lua

16 points | 3 comments | Aug 10, 2017 | by waruqi

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#99 Show HN: Monsterz puzzle game

16 points | 3 comments | Aug 03, 2017 | by cowabungamann

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#100 Show HN: Application operations platform for serverless

16 points | 1 comments | Aug 15, 2017 | by adjohn

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