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#1 Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

1589 points | 378 comments | Oct 06, 2020 | by Octouroboros

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#2 Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

1392 points | 398 comments | Oct 07, 2020 | by hubraumhugo

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#3 Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

1087 points | 477 comments | May 27, 2020 | by ericax

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#4 Show HN: SHA-256 Animation

1053 points | 102 comments | May 13, 2020 | by inersha

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#5 Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]

971 points | 162 comments | Apr 17, 2020 | by swighton

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#6 Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

956 points | 342 comments | May 13, 2020 | by turtlesoup

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#7 Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

868 points | 291 comments | Aug 04, 2020 | by michaelaubry

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#8 Show HN: Fraidycat

807 points | 150 comments | Mar 11, 2020 | by kickscondor

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#9 Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms

785 points | 102 comments | May 01, 2020 | by leeoniya

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#10 Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on

780 points | 83 comments | Sep 05, 2020 | by snori74

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#11 Show HN: Caddy 2

778 points | 240 comments | May 04, 2020 | by mholt

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#12 Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

770 points | 186 comments | Apr 08, 2020 | by linschn

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#13 Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

756 points | 279 comments | Jul 23, 2020 | by mtlynch

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#14 Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

732 points | 202 comments | May 08, 2020 | by mumphster

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#15 Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

726 points | 290 comments | Nov 29, 2020 | by partyguy

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#16 Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

719 points | 149 comments | Oct 29, 2020 | by felipereigosa

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#17 Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page

696 points | 74 comments | May 28, 2020 | by shihn

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#18 Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers

695 points | 234 comments | Jan 13, 2020 | by jstanier

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#19 Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

685 points | 349 comments | May 26, 2020 | by HermanMartinus

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#20 Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC

676 points | 171 comments | Dec 30, 2020 | by hauxir

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#21 Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs

667 points | 72 comments | Aug 30, 2020 | by Sean-Der

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#22 Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

647 points | 313 comments | Dec 10, 2020 | by gigamick

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#23 Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

638 points | 122 comments | Jun 27, 2020 | by thesephist

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#24 Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

638 points | 87 comments | Jul 20, 2020 | by scastiel

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#25 Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

627 points | 133 comments | Jun 28, 2020 | by wolfgang42

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#26 Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

614 points | 155 comments | Feb 23, 2020 | by danfox

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#27 Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

607 points | 256 comments | May 09, 2020 | by rxi

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#28 Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

607 points | 168 comments | May 12, 2020 | by baicunko

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#29 Show HN: This website is valid JSON

604 points | 229 comments | Dec 08, 2020 | by gpnt

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#30 Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator

575 points | 209 comments | Jul 13, 2020 | by mmmateo

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#31 Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs

574 points | 308 comments | May 24, 2020 | by davehcker

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#32 Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

560 points | 275 comments | Jan 26, 2020 | by junkern

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#33 Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

552 points | 127 comments | Apr 14, 2020 | by bertrandom

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#34 Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission

551 points | 166 comments | May 17, 2020 | by anegri

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#35 Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes

550 points | 86 comments | May 04, 2020 | by doronlinder

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#36 Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

550 points | 51 comments | Jun 11, 2020 | by therecb

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#37 Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners

539 points | 48 comments | Apr 02, 2020 | by asicsp

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#38 Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history

537 points | 158 comments | Nov 11, 2020 | by graderjs

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#39 Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language

533 points | 277 comments | Jan 08, 2020 | by beefdev

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#40 Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS

528 points | 120 comments | Jun 14, 2020 | by callumprentice

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#41 Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

528 points | 95 comments | Feb 28, 2020 | by andrewash

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#42 Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

520 points | 264 comments | Jan 16, 2020 | by stavros

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#43 Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing

519 points | 138 comments | Apr 21, 2020 | by namukang

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#44 Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

515 points | 284 comments | Jan 14, 2020 | by kossnocorp

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#45 Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

515 points | 203 comments | Mar 25, 2020 | by l1am0

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#46 Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document

515 points | 111 comments | May 23, 2020 | by doerig

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#47 Show HN: Visual SQL

512 points | 126 comments | Mar 11, 2020 | by thingsilearned

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#48 Show HN: Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform

510 points | 93 comments | Dec 07, 2020 | by benwilber0

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#49 Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

509 points | 61 comments | Aug 28, 2020 | by Gehinnn

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#50 Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL

505 points | 79 comments | Jan 17, 2020 | by mattatkeyboard

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#51 Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction

502 points | 108 comments | May 01, 2020 | by shreyasminocha

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#52 Show HN: Skynet Simulator

500 points | 210 comments | Mar 25, 2020 | by mr-ron

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#53 Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet

499 points | 129 comments | Jan 31, 2020 | by geongeorgek

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#54 Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

494 points | 93 comments | Mar 14, 2020 | by hauxir

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#55 Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes

482 points | 106 comments | Aug 14, 2020 | by pickledcods

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#56 Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life

478 points | 93 comments | May 07, 2020 | by karlicoss

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#57 Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements

471 points | 91 comments | Mar 25, 2020 | by awb

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#58 Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones

462 points | 184 comments | Oct 14, 2020 | by Aurum197

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#59 Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices

462 points | 165 comments | Jul 27, 2020 | by echelon

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#60 Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative

459 points | 94 comments | Jan 18, 2020 | by robinshen

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#61 Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

457 points | 227 comments | Jun 14, 2020 | by alecrosa

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#62 Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

457 points | 180 comments | Jul 04, 2020 | by bennettfeely

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#63 Show HN: A dependently-typed programming language with static memory management

456 points | 78 comments | May 23, 2020 | by u2zv1wx

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#64 Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

442 points | 210 comments | Dec 15, 2020 | by sanity

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#65 Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN

442 points | 78 comments | Aug 07, 2020 | by mcovalt

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#66 Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb

441 points | 283 comments | Aug 28, 2020 | by antcas

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#67 Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

441 points | 155 comments | Nov 04, 2020 | by bloopbloop10000

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#68 Show HN: From Markdown to Video

441 points | 76 comments | Mar 29, 2020 | by adzicg

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#69 Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack

438 points | 85 comments | Jan 26, 2020 | by ftreml

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#70 Show HN: A set of standard document templates

433 points | 34 comments | Jan 19, 2020 | by kostarelo

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#71 Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace

429 points | 141 comments | Mar 05, 2020 | by aforensics

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#72 Show HN: Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable

429 points | 118 comments | Jan 16, 2020 | by asadm

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#73 Show HN: Editly – Declarative command-line video editing

429 points | 75 comments | Apr 28, 2020 | by mifino

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#74 Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations

426 points | 191 comments | Sep 28, 2020 | by phpnode

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#75 Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

425 points | 147 comments | Jul 07, 2020 | by tjchear

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#76 Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary

424 points | 80 comments | Dec 14, 2020 | by jabo

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#77 Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website

420 points | 194 comments | May 21, 2020 | by kizy25

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#78 Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course

419 points | 37 comments | Oct 13, 2020 | by nbaksalyar

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#79 Show HN: 33 line React

418 points | 156 comments | Apr 04, 2020 | by leontrolski

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#80 Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero

406 points | 203 comments | Mar 24, 2020 | by jsherwani

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#81 Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

406 points | 176 comments | Apr 30, 2020 | by iba99

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#82 Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world

405 points | 131 comments | Dec 29, 2020 | by oguzcanhuner

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#83 Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code

405 points | 102 comments | Oct 03, 2020 | by nidhaloff

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#84 Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

403 points | 272 comments | Sep 09, 2020 | by njhaveri

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#85 Show HN: Zfs.rent

403 points | 219 comments | Nov 19, 2020 | by ryanmjacobs

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#86 Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature

402 points | 128 comments | Jul 11, 2020 | by samcrawford

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#87 Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia

398 points | 104 comments | Apr 06, 2020 | by aaronjanse

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#88 Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening

393 points | 60 comments | Jul 29, 2020 | by maxraz

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#89 Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere

390 points | 132 comments | Jun 04, 2020 | by afshinmeh

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#90 Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript

390 points | 92 comments | Jul 22, 2020 | by James0x57

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#91 Show HN: Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor

389 points | 58 comments | Jun 27, 2020 | by anfractuosity

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#92 Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes

388 points | 51 comments | Mar 29, 2020 | by picdit

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#93 Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation

386 points | 106 comments | Feb 20, 2020 | by hliyan

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#94 Show HN: I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes

382 points | 108 comments | Oct 14, 2020 | by gregdoesit

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#95 Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine

380 points | 196 comments | Jul 08, 2020 | by chris_f

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#96 Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript

377 points | 55 comments | Nov 13, 2020 | by tomxor

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#97 Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

375 points | 97 comments | Dec 09, 2020 | by moksha256

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#98 Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation

375 points | 73 comments | Aug 30, 2020 | by dexterleng

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#99 Show HN: Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook

371 points | 101 comments | Aug 02, 2020 | by protoduction

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#100 Show HN: Ameelio.org – Free Prison Communication Platform

364 points | 90 comments | May 01, 2020 | by jessehorne

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