Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2018

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


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#1 Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

1072 points | 283 comments | Aug 29, 2018 | by liamilan

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#2 Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding

611 points | 71 comments | Aug 08, 2018 | by wmnn

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#3 Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster

592 points | 109 comments | Aug 09, 2018 | by dvdhsu

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#4 Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git

551 points | 229 comments | Aug 05, 2018 | by jesseduffield

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#5 Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++

527 points | 170 comments | Aug 10, 2018 | by adamjs

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#6 Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance

455 points | 166 comments | Aug 03, 2018 | by DanFau

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#7 Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

447 points | 94 comments | Aug 17, 2018 | by michaelmure

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#8 Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support

334 points | 75 comments | Aug 31, 2018 | by dschep

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#9 Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C

332 points | 122 comments | Aug 16, 2018 | by ddevault

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#10 Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

269 points | 124 comments | Aug 12, 2018 | by misterman0

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#11 Show HN: A side project in medical devices

267 points | 45 comments | Aug 13, 2018 | by chrisseaton

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#12 Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

266 points | 104 comments | Aug 02, 2018 | by jpincheira

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#13 Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

256 points | 124 comments | Aug 17, 2018 | by gits1225

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#14 Show HN: Curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL

246 points | 20 comments | Aug 10, 2018 | by wawhal

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#15 Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC

237 points | 60 comments | Aug 09, 2018 | by hauxir

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#16 Show HN: Rb – Turns Ruby into a command line utility

232 points | 73 comments | Aug 14, 2018 | by redka

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#17 Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

229 points | 69 comments | Aug 12, 2018 | by _mlxl

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#18 Show HN: Windows 95 in an Electron App

213 points | 110 comments | Aug 23, 2018 | by felixrieseberg

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#19 Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site?

200 points | 41 comments | Aug 26, 2018 | by octosphere

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#20 Show HN: A Rust macro that parses Java-like syntax and runs it as a Rust program

195 points | 31 comments | Aug 10, 2018 | by jD91mZM2

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#21 Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology

183 points | 40 comments | Aug 02, 2018 | by tboyd47

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#22 Show HN: Toy – A thin C++ game engine

180 points | 38 comments | Aug 01, 2018 | by hugoamnov

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#23 Show HN: Remote jobs for people with disabilities

177 points | 53 comments | Aug 24, 2018 | by zaheerbaloch

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#24 Show HN: TinyGo – LLVM-based Go compiler for microcontrollers

177 points | 22 comments | Aug 18, 2018 | by ngaut

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#25 Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO

166 points | 36 comments | Aug 23, 2018 | by itwasntandy

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#26 Show HN: Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to

159 points | 33 comments | Aug 13, 2018 | by calebm

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#27 Show HN: SVG 3D Builder – Build 3D Models with SVG

157 points | 66 comments | Aug 22, 2018 | by captainwz

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#28 Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles

152 points | 55 comments | Aug 06, 2018 | by Tjorvens

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#29 Show HN: Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in C

144 points | 25 comments | Aug 31, 2018 | by epermyakov

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#30 Show HN: Map of Related Books for β€œDesigning Data Intensive Apps”

138 points | 4 comments | Aug 17, 2018 | by anvaka

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#31 Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative

132 points | 75 comments | Aug 19, 2018 | by franciscop

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#32 Show HN: A parser for electronic component descriptions

126 points | 19 comments | Aug 11, 2018 | by kasbah

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#33 Show HN: unicode.style

125 points | 66 comments | Aug 13, 2018 | by ekmartin

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#34 Show HN: Polyhedra Viewer

123 points | 30 comments | Aug 04, 2018 | by tesseralis

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#35 Show HN: Paperkast

121 points | 59 comments | Aug 14, 2018 | by dogancan

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#36 Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform WebAssembly VM in Go

111 points | 44 comments | Aug 02, 2018 | by twokei

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#37 Show HN: FreshJobs – An aggregator of junior and entry-level jobs

106 points | 31 comments | Aug 19, 2018 | by lukehero

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#38 Show HN: Wikipedia2Vec – A tool for learning embeddings of words and entities

105 points | 16 comments | Aug 02, 2018 | by ikuyamada

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#39 Show HN: Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative

102 points | 65 comments | Aug 15, 2018 | by simonrepp

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#40 Show HN: Ledger-analytics – Analytics for ledger-cli

102 points | 19 comments | Aug 26, 2018 | by kendrick__

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#41 Show HN: HugeGraph – An open source fast and highly scalable graph database

98 points | 22 comments | Aug 03, 2018 | by ngaut

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#42 Show HN: A Go implementation of TensorFlow's streaming quantiles estimator

98 points | 6 comments | Aug 15, 2018 | by seiflotfy

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#43 Show HN: Inko – A safe and concurrent object-oriented programming language

95 points | 45 comments | Aug 06, 2018 | by YorickPeterse

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#44 Show HN: StyleURL – Edit CSS via Chrome Devtools and turn the diff into a gist

94 points | 22 comments | Aug 01, 2018 | by firloop

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#45 Show HN: Favioli – Replace blank tab icons with unique per-domain emoji

94 points | 17 comments | Aug 18, 2018 | by Sephr

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#46 Show HN: Quetree – A Q&A site that is tree-based and hierarchical

91 points | 41 comments | Aug 27, 2018 | by schwanray

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#47 Show HN: A smarthome dashboard concept using zircle-ui

90 points | 21 comments | Aug 29, 2018 | by tinchox5

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#48 Show HN: De-sk, modular office desk system

86 points | 39 comments | Aug 28, 2018 | by jfren

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#49 Show HN: BetterSlack – A Chrome extension to make Slack better

80 points | 71 comments | Aug 27, 2018 | by g3rv4

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#50 Show HN: I made wits.io where writers can earn money with book summaries

79 points | 79 comments | Aug 17, 2018 | by zaheerbaloch

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#51 Show HN: Local Sheriff – Browser extension to show PII leaks to third-parties

79 points | 11 comments | Aug 12, 2018 | by kkm

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#52 Show HN: DomTerm – a web-based rich terminal emulator and console

78 points | 19 comments | Aug 02, 2018 | by Per_Bothner

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#53 Show HN: I built Analytics for my Ghost blog

76 points | 35 comments | Aug 09, 2018 | by dburgos

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#54 Show HN: A decentralized index of banned users and where to find their content

74 points | 100 comments | Aug 10, 2018 | by Mattasher

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#55 Show HN: ASCII line chart with console, HTML and image outputs, written in PHP

74 points | 12 comments | Aug 05, 2018 | by noximo

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#56 Show HN: Weltschmerz by age

72 points | 33 comments | Aug 23, 2018 | by stared

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#57 Show HN: Dankenstein – Markov Chain Twitter Bot Generator

72 points | 4 comments | Aug 10, 2018 | by eivarv

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#58 Show HN: Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker News

70 points | 38 comments | Aug 08, 2018 | by eat_veggies

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#59 Show HN: Interactive Wallpaper animated art tool (symmetry groups)

64 points | 10 comments | Aug 18, 2018 | by alexberke

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#60 Show HN: Unyt – Handle, manipulate, and convert data with units in Python

64 points | 4 comments | Aug 15, 2018 | by ngoldbaum

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#61 Show HN: Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams

63 points | 17 comments | Aug 28, 2018 | by wolframhempel

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#62 Show HN: Flip gender in Python

62 points | 42 comments | Aug 12, 2018 | by Old_Thrashbarg

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#63 Show HN: Penc – Trackpad-oriented window manager for macOS

61 points | 16 comments | Aug 15, 2018 | by dgurkaynak

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#64 Show HN: Buzzngo.io – Real-time public polls using RethinkDB

60 points | 37 comments | Aug 16, 2018 | by lionpixel

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#65 Show HN: CattlePi automated setup and updates for Raspberry Pi(s)

60 points | 17 comments | Aug 11, 2018 | by mirceal

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#66 Show HN: A simple interactive resume-making tool

59 points | 13 comments | Aug 12, 2018 | by gjiam

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#67 Show HN: Just Get Me Food

58 points | 49 comments | Aug 12, 2018 | by loeber

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#68 Show HN: A cross platform app for mirroring the clipboard between synced devices

57 points | 29 comments | Aug 11, 2018 | by tiagovtristao

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#69 Show HN: Crypto Table – A Periodic Table of Cryptocurrencies

57 points | 14 comments | Aug 22, 2018 | by jesalg

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#70 Show HN: PJON v11.1 an independent, decentralized, open-source protocol

56 points | 35 comments | Aug 05, 2018 | by gioscarab

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#71 Show HN: Create a restaurant website in one click

55 points | 17 comments | Aug 30, 2018 | by kirium

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#72 Show HN: A single command terminal configuration installer

51 points | 37 comments | Aug 21, 2018 | by aaronkjones

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#73 Show HN: I built OLEDify to help save battery by pure-blacking your wallpapers

49 points | 13 comments | Aug 09, 2018 | by busymom0

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#74 Show HN: Greetings cards that don't skirt around your emotions

46 points | 9 comments | Aug 16, 2018 | by willyams

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#75 Show HN: Reducing the size of PCSA to that of HyperLogLog

45 points | 3 comments | Aug 23, 2018 | by seiflotfy

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#76 Show HN: P2p IRC-inspired browser chat on WebTorrent

44 points | 16 comments | Aug 16, 2018 | by chr15m

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#77 Show HN: A raytracer to shade and visualize topographic maps in R, part 3

42 points | 5 comments | Aug 06, 2018 | by tylermw

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#78 Show HN: A Chrome extension that extracts used CSS and combines it into one file

40 points | 9 comments | Aug 09, 2018 | by grezql

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#79 Show HN: LambdaTest launched on Product Hunt

39 points | 5 comments | Aug 07, 2018 | by kankanaads786

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#80 Show HN: A syntax-diagram generator for rust's macro_rules()

36 points | 10 comments | Aug 12, 2018 | by lukaslueg

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#81 Show HN: Sketch.sh - Interactive OCaml and ReasonML Sketchbook

36 points | 5 comments | Aug 23, 2018 | by thangngoc89

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#82 Show HN: Mind Maps with org

35 points | 5 comments | Aug 24, 2018 | by HaoZeke

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#83 Show HN: Comp.fyi – Open compensation data by company and level

34 points | 13 comments | Aug 08, 2018 | by zuhayeer

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#84 Show HN: Efficient data loading using zeta distributions

34 points | 7 comments | Aug 27, 2018 | by fed135

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#85 Show HN: Simple way to obtain pseudorandomness from CPU context switch in Go

34 points | 7 comments | Aug 15, 2018 | by maxamel

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#86 Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets

33 points | 14 comments | Aug 30, 2018 | by WhiteRiceWill

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#87 Show HN: HSTR – easily view, navigate, search and manage your shell history

33 points | 5 comments | Aug 13, 2018 | by dvorka

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#88 Show HN: A free and open-source command line note organizer

32 points | 11 comments | Aug 16, 2018 | by gkutiel

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#89 Show HN: Telegram is the new IRC – list of communities, bots and channels

31 points | 2 comments | Aug 14, 2018 | by lenilsonjr

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#90 Show HN: Woye – Insert plain text, get information from YouTube and Wikipedia

29 points | 10 comments | Aug 01, 2018 | by alxpez

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#91 Show HN: A chrome extension that fades out old links on HN/Reddit/News sites

28 points | 17 comments | Aug 15, 2018 | by Veuxdo

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#92 Show HN: Nion, declarative API data management library built on Redux

28 points | 4 comments | Aug 28, 2018 | by meagher

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#93 Show HN: VueToolbox – Collection of the best Vue.js libraries

27 points | 6 comments | Aug 23, 2018 | by alvesjtiago

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#94 Show HN: An online drawing tool that lets you change colors via MIDI controller

26 points | 3 comments | Aug 08, 2018 | by rhklein

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#95 Show HN: Condenser – A database subsetting project

26 points | 1 comments | Aug 09, 2018 | by akamor

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#96 Show HN: Eternity – Chrome Extension to track the progress of time and tasks

25 points | 10 comments | Aug 02, 2018 | by mubaris

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#97 Show HN: Shade – a quick-and-dirty glsl prototyping tool

25 points | 1 comments | Aug 03, 2018 | by foxhill

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#98 Show HN: Fancy PNG/JPEG/SVG optimization with trade-off charts, 100% in-browser

24 points | 10 comments | Aug 13, 2018 | by jrd79

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#99 Show HN: BountyGraph: Crowdfunded Bug Bounties and Security Audits

23 points | 8 comments | Aug 01, 2018 | by justicz

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#100 Show HN: Castr – Livestream to Facebook, YouTube, Twitch and More Simultaneously

22 points | 9 comments | Aug 01, 2018 | by g0vz

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