Best of Show HN of May, 2025


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#1 Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

1122 points | 275 comments | May 06, 2025 | by felixrieseberg

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#2 Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor

791 points | 182 comments | May 03, 2025 | by philjohnson

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#3 Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

597 points | 443 comments | May 28, 2025 | by katrinarodri

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#4 Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins

529 points | 165 comments | May 27, 2025 | by simonw

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#5 Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency

524 points | 227 comments | May 05, 2025 | by koljab

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#6 Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics

512 points | 123 comments | May 02, 2025 | by humbledrone

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#7 Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook

454 points | 109 comments | May 29, 2025 | by petr25102018

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#8 Show HN: Lazy Tetris

438 points | 150 comments | May 27, 2025 | by admtal

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#9 Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

418 points | 68 comments | May 22, 2025 | by kepano

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#10 Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers

408 points | 81 comments | May 29, 2025 | by hoakiet98

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#11 Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning

397 points | 68 comments | May 28, 2025 | by codelion

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#12 Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure

381 points | 132 comments | May 18, 2025 | by brig90

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#13 Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web

352 points | 113 comments | May 20, 2025 | by 90s_dev

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#14 Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor

342 points | 41 comments | May 29, 2025 | by lucemia51

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#15 Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly

338 points | 48 comments | May 26, 2025 | by coolelectronics

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#16 Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver

337 points | 49 comments | May 24, 2025 | by sephalon

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#17 Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

331 points | 93 comments | May 09, 2025 | by jansan

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#18 Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions

307 points | 80 comments | May 26, 2025 | by levkk

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#19 Show HN: My AI Native Resume

301 points | 194 comments | May 05, 2025 | by jhgaylor

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#20 Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet

297 points | 103 comments | May 20, 2025 | by agentkilo

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#21 Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database

279 points | 138 comments | May 05, 2025 | by perone

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#22 Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon

272 points | 40 comments | May 16, 2025 | by dipampaul17

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#23 Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy

259 points | 78 comments | May 08, 2025 | by tylerflint

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#24 Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED

243 points | 102 comments | May 16, 2025 | by Towaway69

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#25 Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)

240 points | 49 comments | May 07, 2025 | by seam_carver

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#26 Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)

237 points | 112 comments | May 13, 2025 | by GeorgeCurtis

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#27 Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

233 points | 142 comments | May 18, 2025 | by monax

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#28 Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent

233 points | 51 comments | May 28, 2025 | by Cyao

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#29 Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders

228 points | 25 comments | May 02, 2025 | by nathan-barry

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#30 Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents

226 points | 51 comments | May 14, 2025 | by edunteman

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#31 Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs

224 points | 129 comments | May 09, 2025 | by vanviegen

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#32 Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions

214 points | 86 comments | May 18, 2025 | by m4xshen

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#33 Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time

207 points | 52 comments | May 02, 2025 | by pncnmnp

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#34 Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses

205 points | 25 comments | May 06, 2025 | by kevinlinxc

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#35 Show HN: Windows 98 themed website in 1 HTML file for my post punk band

204 points | 40 comments | May 19, 2025 | by jealousgelatin

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#36 Show HN: SVG Animation Software

203 points | 98 comments | May 25, 2025 | by msarca

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#37 Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit

203 points | 30 comments | May 01, 2025 | by uncial

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#38 Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser

201 points | 79 comments | May 25, 2025 | by DustinBrett

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#39 Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript

199 points | 57 comments | May 22, 2025 | by marcobambini

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#40 Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

195 points | 143 comments | May 19, 2025 | by xitang

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#41 Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth

193 points | 86 comments | May 28, 2025 | by ucarion

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#42 Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source

188 points | 42 comments | May 04, 2025 | by ValdikSS

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#43 Show HN: hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page

180 points | 82 comments | May 23, 2025 | by postalcoder

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#44 Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context

177 points | 52 comments | May 15, 2025 | by marv1nnnnn

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#45 Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

176 points | 172 comments | May 14, 2025 | by nxa

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#46 Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

176 points | 40 comments | May 12, 2025 | by lennertjansen

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#47 Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL

163 points | 57 comments | May 05, 2025 | by shubhamjain

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#48 Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats

162 points | 61 comments | May 23, 2025 | by tapeo

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#49 Show HN: Goboscript, text-based programming language, compiles to Scratch

162 points | 59 comments | May 19, 2025 | by aspizu

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#50 Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app

162 points | 50 comments | May 23, 2025 | by randomor

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#51 Show HN: OSle – A 510 bytes OS in x86 assembly

160 points | 32 comments | May 02, 2025 | by shikaan

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#52 Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker

159 points | 52 comments | May 14, 2025 | by GreenGames

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#53 Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation

158 points | 36 comments | May 23, 2025 | by vimgrinder

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#54 Show HN: Chat with 19 years of HN

156 points | 124 comments | May 18, 2025 | by vercantez

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#55 Show HN: 1 min workouts for people who sit all day

153 points | 85 comments | May 24, 2025 | by melvinzammit

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#56 Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel

153 points | 63 comments | May 18, 2025 | by parsabg

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#57 Show HN: Bracket – selfhosted tournament system

153 points | 38 comments | May 05, 2025 | by tripleseven

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#58 Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone

152 points | 78 comments | May 21, 2025 | by mohyware

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#59 Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview

151 points | 105 comments | May 28, 2025 | by leeny

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#60 Show HN: PunchCard Key Backup

148 points | 49 comments | May 31, 2025 | by ciprian_craciun

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#61 Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool

146 points | 84 comments | May 17, 2025 | by p-s-v

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#62 Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required

146 points | 77 comments | May 13, 2025 | by hunvreus

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#63 Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents

145 points | 66 comments | May 02, 2025 | by calebhwin

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#64 Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting

144 points | 53 comments | May 15, 2025 | by markisus

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#65 Show HN: MCP Server SDK in Bash

144 points | 36 comments | May 30, 2025 | by muthuishere

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#66 Show HN: I made a Zero-config tool to visualize your code

136 points | 47 comments | May 29, 2025 | by lezhu

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#67 Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants

132 points | 55 comments | May 10, 2025 | by malux85

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#68 Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt

130 points | 49 comments | May 06, 2025 | by vaibhavdubey97

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#69 Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

126 points | 35 comments | May 01, 2025 | by andres

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#70 Show HN: CLI that spots fake GitHub stars, risky dependencies and licence traps

122 points | 72 comments | May 12, 2025 | by artski

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#71 Show HN: HNRelevant – Add a "related" section to Hacker News

122 points | 32 comments | May 24, 2025 | by imadj

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#72 Show HN: F2 – Cross-Platform CLI Batch Renaming Tool

122 points | 24 comments | May 24, 2025 | by ayoisaiah

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#73 Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting

121 points | 78 comments | May 11, 2025 | by delduca

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#74 Show HN: Juvio – UV Kernel for Jupyter

118 points | 27 comments | May 20, 2025 | by okost1

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#75 Show HN: Malai – securely share local TCP services (database/SSH) with others

117 points | 63 comments | May 27, 2025 | by amitu

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#76 Show HN: Code Claude Code

117 points | 25 comments | May 10, 2025 | by sean_

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#77 Show HN: Undetectag, track stolen items with AirTag

116 points | 98 comments | May 15, 2025 | by pompidoo

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#78 Show HN: US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the US

114 points | 26 comments | May 07, 2025 | by ivanbelenky

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#79 Show HN: Turn any workflow diagram into compilable, running and stateful code

109 points | 33 comments | May 14, 2025 | by yaronsc

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#80 Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent system for scientific manuscript analysis

108 points | 95 comments | May 31, 2025 | by rjakob

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#81 Show HN: A minimalist web timer for focus and time tracking

107 points | 40 comments | May 26, 2025 | by StephenAlvin

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#82 Show HN: Oliphaunt – A native Mastodon client for macOS

105 points | 39 comments | May 09, 2025 | by anosidium

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#83 Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

105 points | 37 comments | May 16, 2025 | by danthebaker

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#84 Show HN: Buckaroo – Data table UI for Notebooks

105 points | 9 comments | May 18, 2025 | by paddy_m

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#85 Show HN: Confidential computing for high-assurance RISC-V embedded systems

103 points | 9 comments | May 21, 2025 | by mrnoone

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#86 Show HN: Use Third Party LLM API in JetBrains AI Assistant

102 points | 40 comments | May 03, 2025 | by Stream

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#87 Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support

98 points | 52 comments | May 30, 2025 | by sinisterMage

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#88 Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)

96 points | 14 comments | May 06, 2025 | by SurvivorTed

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#89 Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer

95 points | 46 comments | May 14, 2025 | by BSTRhino

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#90 Show HN: Zli – A Batteries-Included CLI Framework for Zig

95 points | 39 comments | May 25, 2025 | by caeser

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#91 Show HN: A5

95 points | 29 comments | May 13, 2025 | by pheelicks

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#92 Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps when safety rules break

94 points | 83 comments | May 21, 2025 | by zeenolife

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#93 Show HN: A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps

92 points | 34 comments | May 09, 2025 | by zero-st4rs

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#94 Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash

91 points | 75 comments | May 24, 2025 | by dhax_or

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#95 Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator

91 points | 41 comments | May 30, 2025 | by andrewzeno

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#96 Show HN: Lumoar – Free SOC 2 tool for SaaS startups

91 points | 32 comments | May 12, 2025 | by asdxrfx

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#97 Show HN: Tkintergalactic - Declarative Tcl/Tk UI Library for Python

86 points | 10 comments | May 05, 2025 | by leontrolski

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#98 Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python

85 points | 35 comments | May 16, 2025 | by pgjones

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#99 Show HN: Python Simulator of David Deutsch’s “Constructor Theory of Time”

84 points | 11 comments | May 18, 2025 | by SandroG

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#100 Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app

82 points | 126 comments | May 11, 2025 | by WilliamCranna

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