Best Show HN projects from Jan, 2018

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Jan, 2018.


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#1 Show HN: Observable Notebooks

654 points | 128 comments | Jan 31, 2018 | by jashkenas

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#2 Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb

644 points | 166 comments | Jan 23, 2018 | by sdubois

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#3 Show HN: Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework

410 points | 209 comments | Jan 02, 2018 | by rich_harris

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#4 Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT

362 points | 138 comments | Jan 04, 2018 | by CiPHPerCoder

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#5 Show HN: A game my 12-year-old daughter wrote

341 points | 98 comments | Jan 02, 2018 | by david927

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#6 Show HN: A simple Go web server with logging, tracing, health check

318 points | 91 comments | Jan 07, 2018 | by enricofoltran

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#7 Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS

316 points | 127 comments | Jan 31, 2018 | by paulogr

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#8 Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac

309 points | 116 comments | Jan 24, 2018 | by kogir

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#9 Show HN: A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications

275 points | 107 comments | Jan 31, 2018 | by danielecook

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#10 Show HN: Paper Programs – Run JavaScript on pieces of paper

235 points | 52 comments | Jan 23, 2018 | by janpaul123

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#11 Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

208 points | 80 comments | Jan 03, 2018 | by caroherm

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#12 Show HN: Eel – a simple Python library for making little HTML GUI applications

201 points | 44 comments | Jan 06, 2018 | by ChrisKnott

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#13 Show HN: How to store a set of four 5-bit values in one 16-bit value

188 points | 140 comments | Jan 28, 2018 | by andromeduck

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#14 Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

183 points | 102 comments | Jan 23, 2018 | by howiem

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#15 Show HN: PonziCoin, a transparent, decentralized Ponzi Scheme you can trust

182 points | 79 comments | Jan 24, 2018 | by vertoc

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#16 Show HN: Interactive Ansible Tutorial

170 points | 50 comments | Jan 26, 2018 | by erkanerol

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#17 Show HN: Monthly subscription airline with SFO-LAX flights starting at $78

168 points | 162 comments | Jan 10, 2018 | by dannyminutillo

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#18 Show HN: 2D multiplayer battle royale game

163 points | 40 comments | Jan 21, 2018 | by rnl

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#19 Show HN: Card Proxy Generator – Generate printable game cards from JSON

162 points | 44 comments | Jan 29, 2018 | by konamacona

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#20 Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

159 points | 123 comments | Jan 12, 2018 | by jjuliano

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#21 Show HN: On-disk B+ tree for Python 3

159 points | 21 comments | Jan 21, 2018 | by nicolaslem

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#22 Show HN: Languagecrunch – NLP server Docker image

152 points | 24 comments | Jan 14, 2018 | by artpar

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#23 Show HN: TensorFlow-Resources – Organized and Useful Resources about TensorFlow

152 points | 11 comments | Jan 11, 2018 | by irsina

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#24 Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project

149 points | 64 comments | Jan 27, 2018 | by bloatedcarpel

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#25 Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

145 points | 25 comments | Jan 09, 2018 | by krammer

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#26 Show HN: Pushup alarm – A React app that uses your webcam to count pushups

134 points | 45 comments | Jan 08, 2018 | by faris-ssj

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#27 Show HN: Nerv – A fast React alternative, compatible with IE8 and React 16

133 points | 73 comments | Jan 10, 2018 | by yuche

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#28 Show HN: Genact – A nonsense activity generator

131 points | 25 comments | Jan 17, 2018 | by Svenstaro

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#29 Show HN: CodeOwl – Organize your notes, todos, and code snippets in one place

130 points | 64 comments | Jan 10, 2018 | by charbz

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#30 Show HN: An illustration of Web Developer tools in 2018

130 points | 38 comments | Jan 04, 2018 | by kamranahmed_se

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#31 Show HN: Low cost COβ‚‚ monitoring (your office) with Prometheus and Go

127 points | 35 comments | Jan 20, 2018 | by leastangle

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#32 Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool

126 points | 19 comments | Jan 20, 2018 | by sharkdp

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#33 Show HN: Ipfs-dropzone, a subclass of Dropzone.js that publishes to IPFS

109 points | 80 comments | Jan 05, 2018 | by fiatjaf

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#34 Show HN: Bootrino.com – Netboot Run-From-RAM OS's on AWS, Google and Digital Ocean

109 points | 20 comments | Jan 19, 2018 | by andrewstuart

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#35 Show HN: detecting cache latency inside a Web browser

107 points | 47 comments | Jan 06, 2018 | by Marat_Dukhan

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#36 Show HN: Simple Pascal interpreter written in Swift

103 points | 9 comments | Jan 13, 2018 | by ig0r0

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#37 Show HN: Datasette Publish – Turn CSVs into a SQLite-Backed JSON API

101 points | 21 comments | Jan 17, 2018 | by simonw

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#38 Show HN: Collateralized Debt Agreements Using Smart Contracts and Virtual Cats

97 points | 57 comments | Jan 18, 2018 | by nahollander

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#39 Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization

96 points | 22 comments | Jan 26, 2018 | by chroem-

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#40 Show HN: Bistro – A light-weight column-oriented data processing engine

95 points | 29 comments | Jan 16, 2018 | by asavinov

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#41 Show HN: Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles

95 points | 28 comments | Jan 19, 2018 | by rabyss

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#42 Show HN: Mask R-CNN Neural Network for Mapping Sport Fields in OpenStreetMap

94 points | 10 comments | Jan 02, 2018 | by jasonremillard

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#43 Show HN: Cobrowse.io – Add screen sharing to any iOS or Android mobile app

94 points | 7 comments | Jan 26, 2018 | by headlessme

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#44 Show HN: HyperLogLog intersections

88 points | 16 comments | Jan 08, 2018 | by seiflotfy

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#45 Show HN: HardyPress – Use WordPress as a static site generator

86 points | 45 comments | Jan 16, 2018 | by zener79

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#46 Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript IPFS

86 points | 30 comments | Jan 22, 2018 | by p2pchatter

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#47 Show HN: Plait.py – a fake data modeler

85 points | 19 comments | Jan 09, 2018 | by logv

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#48 Show HN: PL/Swift – PostgreSQL Functions in Swift

84 points | 13 comments | Jan 07, 2018 | by helge5

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#49 Show HN: Gymphy – Create Free Shareable Workout Plans

81 points | 26 comments | Jan 27, 2018 | by matthewhartmans

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#50 Show HN: VNote, a fresh Markdown note-taking app

80 points | 86 comments | Jan 15, 2018 | by tamlok

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#51 Show HN: Compiler using Lisp’s macro system for metaprogramming C-like languages

80 points | 32 comments | Jan 05, 2018 | by dis0rdr

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#52 Show HN: Cipher – Mobile Ethereum Web3 DApp Browser

76 points | 49 comments | Jan 03, 2018 | by raingrove

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#53 Show HN: VidDistill – Automated YouTube Video Summarization Using Captions

69 points | 16 comments | Jan 03, 2018 | by rkindi

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#54 Show HN: A blockchain alternative to Airbnb

67 points | 63 comments | Jan 27, 2018 | by Delta0

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#55 Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection

67 points | 23 comments | Jan 22, 2018 | by pixeltwenty

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#56 Show HN: HNNotify – Get emailed when a users reply to your HN Posts and Comments

66 points | 65 comments | Jan 04, 2018 | by jermaustin1

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#57 Show HN: Cixl – a minimal, decently typed scripting language

64 points | 22 comments | Jan 05, 2018 | by sifoo

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#58 Show HN: Turn a source image into an animated party emoji

63 points | 28 comments | Jan 20, 2018 | by scotchfield

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#59 Show HN: Terminal, a sandboxed command-line interface for iOS

62 points | 47 comments | Jan 06, 2018 | by louisdh

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#60 Show HN: Read My Book Notes

61 points | 15 comments | Jan 01, 2018 | by latishsehgal

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#61 Show HN: My first HTML Demo

60 points | 41 comments | Jan 05, 2018 | by GlennTheAlien

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#62 Show HN: Making a bike route of every road in Atlanta

57 points | 20 comments | Jan 11, 2018 | by durkie

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#63 Show HN: Etymap – interactive visualization of Wiktionary words and etymologies

54 points | 4 comments | Jan 05, 2018 | by zifeo

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#64 Show HN: CryptoRoulette how much is worth now $1,000 of cryptos from last year

53 points | 21 comments | Jan 07, 2018 | by ciocan42

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#65 Show HN: Rufus – a free, open source RSS reader

53 points | 19 comments | Jan 11, 2018 | by jtanza

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#66 Show HN: The ZynAddSubFX open source musical synthesizer

53 points | 17 comments | Jan 29, 2018 | by fundamental

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#67 Show HN: Hyperlogs – Easy time tracking

51 points | 46 comments | Jan 31, 2018 | by eibrahim

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#68 Show HN: Noticeable – Easily keep your audience updated on what's new

50 points | 25 comments | Jan 17, 2018 | by lpellegr

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#69 Show HN: Stylepill – Share your project's UI components with your coworkers

49 points | 17 comments | Jan 26, 2018 | by seruda

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#70 Show HN: Go version of HighwayHash with optimized assembly implementations

48 points | 13 comments | Jan 10, 2018 | by y4m4b4

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#71 Show HN: One Click Shrug Emoji Copy

47 points | 48 comments | Jan 31, 2018 | by davidjnelson

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#72 Show HN: Pay-per-minute video/audio calls with WebRTC

47 points | 40 comments | Jan 20, 2018 | by danieka

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#73 Show HN: Levels.fyi – Compare career ladders across companies

46 points | 6 comments | Jan 23, 2018 | by Zaheer

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#74 Show HN: Revenue Forecasting for SaaS Apps

45 points | 19 comments | Jan 22, 2018 | by Doches

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#75 Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using subrequests

45 points | 8 comments | Jan 19, 2018 | by TimWolla

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#76 Show HN: A Digital Marketplace I Built, with Git Integration

44 points | 22 comments | Jan 08, 2018 | by zschuessler

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#77 Show HN: Switchboard – makes it easy to route incoming calls and messages

43 points | 18 comments | Jan 27, 2018 | by marvinpinto

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#78 Show HN: Amp – A text editor for your terminal, written in Rust

43 points | 9 comments | Jan 26, 2018 | by wasted_intel

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#79 Show HN: ML data annotations and tagging made easy

41 points | 17 comments | Jan 27, 2018 | by mohi13

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#80 Show HN: Create React Native Apps with TypeScript and Ignite

41 points | 2 comments | Jan 15, 2018 | by ascorbic

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#81 Show HN: GigaDiff – derisk your release with automated bug prediction

38 points | 21 comments | Jan 01, 2018 | by onlyrealcuzzo

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#82 Show HN: Athena – A community-curated repository of great learning resources

38 points | 9 comments | Jan 02, 2018 | by juhaszhenderson

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#83 Show HN: Jail-Testing How Internet Chemotherapy Works

37 points | 4 comments | Jan 06, 2018 | by jayjohnson

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#84 Show HN: Appenguin – Turn your website into an Android app

36 points | 9 comments | Jan 27, 2018 | by prez

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#85 Show HN: AirHelp flight scanner finds all past flights and checks for eligibility

35 points | 37 comments | Jan 18, 2018 | by henrikzillmer

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#86 Show HN: Flaws: learn about common mistakes and gotchas when using AWS

35 points | 3 comments | Jan 10, 2018 | by neomatrix

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#87 Show HN: `curl parrot.live`

35 points | 2 comments | Jan 17, 2018 | by hsx

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#88 Show HN: Hacker101 – A Free Web Security Class

33 points | 4 comments | Jan 24, 2018 | by daeken

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#89 Show HN: Connect to Your Data, Clean, Wrangle, Combine, Explore, Publish

32 points | 7 comments | Jan 22, 2018 | by fasteRstat

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#90 Show HN: lit – a 549 byte responsive CSS microframework

30 points | 10 comments | Jan 03, 2018 | by ajusa

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#91 Show HN: Command Line Tool to Sort CSV and TSV Files by Multiple Headings in Go

29 points | 19 comments | Jan 05, 2018 | by johnweldon

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#92 Show HN: RockingPage.com – Find the best trending websites

29 points | 17 comments | Jan 16, 2018 | by itrinity

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#93 Show HN: Markdown Guide

29 points | 10 comments | Jan 14, 2018 | by mcone

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#94 Show HN: 5400 TED talk texts open sourced

29 points | 4 comments | Jan 25, 2018 | by svig

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#95 Show HN: Rhythm – a daily markdown notebook, calendar, and task list

28 points | 8 comments | Jan 01, 2018 | by blazingemblem

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#96 Show HN: The last person to use this button gets $200+ USD, via Smart Contracts

27 points | 45 comments | Jan 25, 2018 | by masterspy7

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#97 Show HN: I spent a few weeks building a private label brand for Amazon – AMA

27 points | 25 comments | Jan 03, 2018 | by zbruhnke

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#98 Show HN: DFPM – Chrome extension to detect JavaScript fingerprinting

25 points | 5 comments | Jan 23, 2018 | by liltim404

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#99 Show HN: Decentralized web framework based on XMPP (Salut Γ  Toi)

25 points | 1 comments | Jan 25, 2018 | by goffi

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#100 Show HN: Automatic Slack reminders for pull requests

22 points | 4 comments | Jan 30, 2018 | by geekjock

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