Best of Show HN of 2021


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#1 Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server

1998 points | 249 comments | Feb 26, 2021 | by jart

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#2 Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

1422 points | 289 comments | Feb 25, 2021 | by sexy_year

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#3 Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning

1359 points | 272 comments | Sep 20, 2021 | by tracyhenry

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#4 Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web

1216 points | 345 comments | Aug 17, 2021 | by somebee

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#5 Show HN: Lofi.cafe

1192 points | 230 comments | Apr 14, 2021 | by linuz90

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#6 Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos

1180 points | 405 comments | Aug 29, 2021 | by vishnumohandas

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#7 Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

1102 points | 262 comments | May 12, 2021 | by epermyakov

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#8 Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

1070 points | 226 comments | Sep 07, 2021 | by hyferg

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#9 Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

962 points | 486 comments | Jan 20, 2021 | by erohead

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#10 Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

938 points | 357 comments | Jan 04, 2021 | by _andychung

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#11 Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

919 points | 157 comments | Mar 24, 2021 | by maximilienandi

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#12 Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

866 points | 157 comments | Jun 23, 2021 | by tonyhawkins

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#13 Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

796 points | 189 comments | Jul 30, 2021 | by segfall

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#14 Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

769 points | 325 comments | Jul 11, 2021 | by bndw

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#15 Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

760 points | 318 comments | Jul 12, 2021 | by ericax

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#16 Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera

753 points | 95 comments | Jan 02, 2021 | by dheera

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#17 Show HN: PDFs from HTML

742 points | 265 comments | Apr 04, 2021 | by abhinav22

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#18 Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React

683 points | 191 comments | May 08, 2021 | by oh-renovamen

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#19 Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development

681 points | 216 comments | Sep 15, 2021 | by jasonlaster11

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#20 Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

667 points | 280 comments | Jan 20, 2021 | by CoffeePython

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#21 Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office

659 points | 200 comments | Oct 25, 2021 | by the2ndfloorguy

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#22 Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems

632 points | 96 comments | Feb 24, 2021 | by andrewnc

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#23 Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI

624 points | 272 comments | Mar 05, 2021 | by LinguaBrowse

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#24 Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash

623 points | 351 comments | Aug 19, 2021 | by anishathalye

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#25 Show HN: Video Game in a Font

605 points | 76 comments | Mar 17, 2021 | by ghub-mmulet

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#26 Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

603 points | 242 comments | Sep 30, 2021 | by pabue

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#27 Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator

591 points | 150 comments | May 12, 2021 | by xhfloz

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#28 Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

582 points | 223 comments | Feb 08, 2021 | by colinclerk

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#29 Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative

562 points | 157 comments | May 27, 2021 | by rnavi

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#30 Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way

559 points | 159 comments | Mar 18, 2021 | by knuptfad

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#31 Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose

547 points | 227 comments | Feb 03, 2021 | by mawise

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#32 Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

543 points | 91 comments | Apr 30, 2021 | by dang

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#33 Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable

528 points | 74 comments | Jan 22, 2021 | by onassar

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#34 Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors

509 points | 127 comments | Jul 05, 2021 | by Vinnl

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#35 Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves

506 points | 89 comments | Oct 05, 2021 | by cbutner

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#36 Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP

501 points | 194 comments | Aug 26, 2021 | by mrhichem

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#37 Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua

496 points | 97 comments | May 23, 2021 | by adnzzzzZ

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#38 Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption

494 points | 88 comments | Sep 06, 2021 | by FiloSottile

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#39 Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance

479 points | 255 comments | Apr 28, 2021 | by scubakid

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#40 Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader

473 points | 173 comments | Feb 14, 2021 | by rand_net

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#41 Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp

465 points | 219 comments | Feb 15, 2021 | by aidangrimshaw

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#42 Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS

452 points | 138 comments | Jan 04, 2021 | by GRVYDEV

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#43 Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS

452 points | 100 comments | Sep 19, 2021 | by sixtyfourbits

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#44 Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help

451 points | 248 comments | Feb 22, 2021 | by mcadenhe

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#45 Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar

450 points | 239 comments | May 04, 2021 | by dannyaziz97

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#46 Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies

447 points | 374 comments | Jan 18, 2021 | by ageitgey

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#47 Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use

443 points | 147 comments | Sep 12, 2021 | by meteo-jeff

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#48 Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News

437 points | 120 comments | May 22, 2021 | by Aaronmacaron

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#49 Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus

436 points | 167 comments | Apr 20, 2021 | by djyde

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#50 Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

429 points | 68 comments | Jun 07, 2021 | by navaneethpk

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#51 Show HN: My personal website is a shell

425 points | 171 comments | Apr 05, 2021 | by aavshr

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#52 Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

418 points | 217 comments | Aug 27, 2021 | by par

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#53 Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs

418 points | 122 comments | Feb 25, 2021 | by osy

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#54 Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix

412 points | 83 comments | Feb 26, 2021 | by SubGenius

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#55 Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]

411 points | 151 comments | May 19, 2021 | by Akcium

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#56 Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

409 points | 140 comments | Apr 22, 2021 | by pattle

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#57 Show HN: Virtual breadboard in the browser, inspired by Ben Eater's 6502

409 points | 73 comments | Jan 19, 2021 | by Tejotron

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#58 Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots

408 points | 164 comments | Sep 19, 2021 | by aarondf

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#59 Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

406 points | 181 comments | May 26, 2021 | by thisissidhant

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#60 Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings

405 points | 73 comments | May 20, 2021 | by javierbyte

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#61 Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

401 points | 105 comments | Jul 06, 2021 | by ryry

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#62 Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

399 points | 152 comments | Aug 18, 2021 | by mfi

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#63 Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

396 points | 188 comments | Jun 14, 2021 | by sitesuniverse

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#64 Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails

395 points | 209 comments | Apr 01, 2021 | by martinaglv

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#65 Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment

392 points | 136 comments | Sep 27, 2021 | by flusteredBias

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#66 Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

384 points | 123 comments | Feb 17, 2021 | by thomaspaulmann

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#67 Show HN: Side project passed $2.5k/mo revenue after 2 years (Phoenix and Vue)

381 points | 88 comments | Apr 18, 2021 | by enraged_camel

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#68 Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game

379 points | 112 comments | Jun 15, 2021 | by jawslouis

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#69 Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

375 points | 104 comments | Mar 25, 2021 | by miketromba

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#70 Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

373 points | 80 comments | Sep 10, 2021 | by owjuhl

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#71 Show HN: Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners

369 points | 73 comments | Apr 17, 2021 | by PolarizedPoutin

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#72 Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources

368 points | 94 comments | Feb 16, 2021 | by kmcquade

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#73 Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

365 points | 118 comments | May 24, 2021 | by baobabKoodaa

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#74 Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0

359 points | 121 comments | May 20, 2021 | by jmercouris

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#75 Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale

357 points | 50 comments | May 05, 2021 | by gregdoesit

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#76 Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV

354 points | 60 comments | Mar 09, 2021 | by aperrin

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#77 Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment

353 points | 217 comments | Feb 10, 2021 | by thanato0s

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#78 Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app

347 points | 253 comments | Jun 22, 2021 | by theoblank

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#79 Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”

347 points | 80 comments | Oct 12, 2021 | by jacobn

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#80 Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative

345 points | 116 comments | Mar 29, 2021 | by andrasbacsai

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#81 Show HN: Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP

344 points | 205 comments | Oct 12, 2021 | by chiefofgxbxl

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#82 Show HN: I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs.

343 points | 162 comments | Jan 07, 2021 | by defx

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#83 Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

338 points | 235 comments | Aug 25, 2021 | by mono-bob

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#84 Show HN: I wrote a program to convert lines of text into trees

333 points | 53 comments | Mar 29, 2021 | by birchb

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#85 Show HN: I built a sonar into my surfboard

331 points | 91 comments | Oct 18, 2021 | by foobarbecue

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#86 Show HN: I built a Guitar Hero robot [video]

328 points | 119 comments | Apr 17, 2021 | by nik12795

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#87 Show HN: A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux

327 points | 122 comments | May 11, 2021 | by drumnickydrum

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#88 Show HN: A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, Inspired by I3wm

327 points | 95 comments | Feb 28, 2021 | by mcyoloswagham

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#89 Show HN: Motion One – New animation library, built on the Web Animations API

327 points | 58 comments | Sep 22, 2021 | by SirHound

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#90 Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

324 points | 112 comments | Apr 13, 2021 | by wolfgarbe

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#91 Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen

321 points | 80 comments | May 22, 2021 | by schappim

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#92 Show HN: Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC)

317 points | 66 comments | Feb 14, 2021 | by tosh

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#93 Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore

313 points | 152 comments | Apr 20, 2021 | by bwb

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#94 Show HN: Verilog2factorio

313 points | 70 comments | Apr 25, 2021 | by linux_is_nice

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#95 Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

297 points | 69 comments | Jan 28, 2021 | by javapnews

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#96 Show HN: Simplenetes – I replaced Kubernetes with 17k lines of shell script

296 points | 148 comments | Apr 01, 2021 | by thomasbacklund

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#97 Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images

296 points | 69 comments | Apr 22, 2021 | by rh12503

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#98 Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

294 points | 163 comments | Jul 15, 2021 | by scubakid

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#99 Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

292 points | 64 comments | Oct 11, 2021 | by b-3-n

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#100 Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

285 points | 158 comments | Aug 13, 2021 | by svnsch

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