Best of Show HN of Aug, 2025

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#1 Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

1145 points | 144 comments | Aug 04, 2025 | by benholmen

#2 Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

1003 points | 361 comments | Aug 06, 2025 | by divamgupta

#3 Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

865 points | 132 comments | Aug 20, 2025 | by damarberlari

#4 Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

788 points | 160 comments | Aug 09, 2025 | by dlazaro

#5 Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings

699 points | 118 comments | Aug 12, 2025 | by wilsonzlin

#6 Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS

693 points | 181 comments | Aug 25, 2025 | by __bb

#7 Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

690 points | 305 comments | Aug 16, 2025 | by adrianhacar

#8 Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

591 points | 152 comments | Aug 18, 2025 | by braden-w

#9 Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

537 points | 199 comments | Aug 17, 2025 | by nextdns

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#10 Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

471 points | 99 comments | Aug 17, 2025 | by panphora

#11 Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

470 points | 126 comments | Aug 10, 2025 | by indiehackerman

#12 Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

437 points | 130 comments | Aug 15, 2025 | by camil

#13 Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine

423 points | 71 comments | Aug 26, 2025 | by chromy

#14 Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

402 points | 196 comments | Aug 18, 2025 | by Wowfunhappy

#15 Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

377 points | 266 comments | Aug 30, 2025 | by tkgally

#16 Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer

357 points | 95 comments | Aug 14, 2025 | by bobsingor

#17 Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years

322 points | 158 comments | Aug 04, 2025 | by barbinbrad

#18 Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere

310 points | 168 comments | Aug 12, 2025 | by kmansm27

#19 Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

289 points | 75 comments | Aug 14, 2025 | by yujonglee

#20 Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers

281 points | 130 comments | Aug 18, 2025 | by tbird24

#21 Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C

261 points | 95 comments | Aug 10, 2025 | by beariish

#22 Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

261 points | 72 comments | Aug 17, 2025 | by w108bmg

#23 Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras

233 points | 66 comments | Aug 24, 2025 | by roryclear

#24 Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python

214 points | 63 comments | Aug 11, 2025 | by danterolle

#25 Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

211 points | 114 comments | Aug 22, 2025 | by Evidlo

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#26 Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor

203 points | 32 comments | Aug 27, 2025 | by IdreesInc

#27 Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step

202 points | 97 comments | Aug 26, 2025 | by yaoke259

#28 Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)

198 points | 45 comments | Aug 21, 2025 | by alexmrv

#29 Show HN: PageIndex – Vectorless RAG

192 points | 128 comments | Aug 27, 2025 | by page_index

#30 Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye

178 points | 24 comments | Aug 24, 2025 | by zorlack

#31 Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code

175 points | 112 comments | Aug 20, 2025 | by aroussi

#32 Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs

165 points | 46 comments | Aug 14, 2025 | by blackmanta

#33 Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python

161 points | 49 comments | Aug 20, 2025 | by sammycage

#34 Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game

156 points | 76 comments | Aug 18, 2025 | by maxraven

#35 Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler

153 points | 60 comments | Aug 20, 2025 | by jafioti

#36 Show HN: Doom port to pure Go – Gore

148 points | 42 comments | Aug 12, 2025 | by EstIgnavus

#37 Show HN: I integrated my from-scratch TCP/IP stack into the xv6-riscv OS

147 points | 12 comments | Aug 26, 2025 | by pandax381

#38 Show HN: WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser – demo site with AI chat

145 points | 54 comments | Aug 02, 2025 | by andreinwald

#39 Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game

141 points | 58 comments | Aug 05, 2025 | by babel16

#40 Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer

140 points | 51 comments | Aug 13, 2025 | by dduplex

#41 Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem

134 points | 24 comments | Aug 18, 2025 | by evxxan

#42 Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown

133 points | 72 comments | Aug 29, 2025 | by _mattt

#43 Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor

128 points | 48 comments | Aug 24, 2025 | by lexokoh

#44 Show HN: Bicyclopedia

125 points | 40 comments | Aug 24, 2025 | by lemoing

#45 Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session

124 points | 52 comments | Aug 10, 2025 | by anajimi

#46 Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN

118 points | 19 comments | Aug 29, 2025 | by pj4533

#47 Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

117 points | 65 comments | Aug 27, 2025 | by orbanlevi

#48 Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework

116 points | 68 comments | Aug 24, 2025 | by vgr-land

#49 Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser

111 points | 31 comments | Aug 21, 2025 | by jackdaniel

#50 Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

110 points | 42 comments | Aug 12, 2025 | by richmans

#51 Show HN: Async – Claude code and Linear and GitHub PRs in one opinionated tool

107 points | 46 comments | Aug 25, 2025 | by wjsekfghks

#52 Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude

107 points | 31 comments | Aug 07, 2025 | by reissbaker

#53 Show HN: Kimu – Open-Source Video Editor

106 points | 35 comments | Aug 04, 2025 | by robinroy03

#54 Show HN: Strix - Open-source AI hackers for your apps

102 points | 15 comments | Aug 18, 2025 | by ahmedallam2

#55 Show HN: Game demo made with my homemade game engine

101 points | 54 comments | Aug 22, 2025 | by delduca

#56 Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams

101 points | 13 comments | Aug 21, 2025 | by Jonathanfishner

#57 Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech

99 points | 23 comments | Aug 16, 2025 | by superstarryeyes

#58 Show HN: An ncurses CUDA-based fluid simulation

97 points | 12 comments | Aug 27, 2025 | by goosethe

#59 Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist

96 points | 44 comments | Aug 06, 2025 | by dominis

#60 Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI

93 points | 40 comments | Aug 18, 2025 | by jeffchuber

#61 Show HN: OpenAI/reflect – Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life

92 points | 52 comments | Aug 19, 2025 | by Sean-Der

#62 Show HN: Sidequest.js – Background jobs for Node.js using your database

89 points | 29 comments | Aug 04, 2025 | by merencia

#63 Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies

89 points | 20 comments | Aug 21, 2025 | by djsdjs

#64 Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning

88 points | 48 comments | Aug 17, 2025 | by bobnarizes

#65 Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi

87 points | 52 comments | Aug 16, 2025 | by GSGBen

#66 Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids

87 points | 37 comments | Aug 04, 2025 | by min2bro

#67 Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM

86 points | 61 comments | Aug 06, 2025 | by takigon

#68 Show HN: Trayce – Burp Suite for developers

84 points | 14 comments | Aug 07, 2025 | by ev_dev3

#69 Show HN: Synchrotron, a real-time DSP engine in pure Python

82 points | 5 comments | Aug 08, 2025 | by andromedaM31

#70 Show HN: Anchor Relay – A faster, easier way to get Let's Encrypt certificates

80 points | 57 comments | Aug 20, 2025 | by geemus

#71 Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing

80 points | 40 comments | Aug 20, 2025 | by brgross

#72 Show HN: A Sinclair ZX81 retro web assembler+simulator

80 points | 26 comments | Aug 11, 2025 | by andromaton

#73 Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux

79 points | 48 comments | Aug 22, 2025 | by timeoperator

#74 Show HN: Mathpad – Physical keypad for typing math symbols

78 points | 26 comments | Aug 02, 2025 | by MagneLauritzen

#75 Show HN: FilterQL – A tiny query language for filtering structured data

77 points | 21 comments | Aug 24, 2025 | by genshii

#76 Show HN: Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability

76 points | 40 comments | Aug 07, 2025 | by ogandreakiro

#77 Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS

74 points | 24 comments | Aug 28, 2025 | by mi12-root

#78 Show HN: Gonzo – A Go-based TUI for log analysis (OpenTelemetry/OTLP support)

74 points | 15 comments | Aug 25, 2025 | by J0nR

#79 Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust

72 points | 55 comments | Aug 07, 2025 | by stasher-dev

#80 Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification

71 points | 85 comments | Aug 31, 2025 | by jwally

#81 Show HN: Pinch – macOS voice translation for real-time conversations

65 points | 23 comments | Aug 20, 2025 | by christiansafka

#82 Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?

64 points | 62 comments | Aug 12, 2025 | by samdychen

#83 Show HN: FFmpeg Pages – because I was tired of fighting FFmpeg

62 points | 30 comments | Aug 29, 2025 | by CodeWithNeer

#84 Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs

62 points | 23 comments | Aug 01, 2025 | by rakeda

#85 Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI

62 points | 20 comments | Aug 18, 2025 | by wiso

#86 Show HN: Nestable.dev – local whiteboard app with nestable canvases, deep links

60 points | 26 comments | Aug 20, 2025 | by anorak27

#87 Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email

59 points | 85 comments | Aug 26, 2025 | by kilroy123

#88 Show HN: JMAP MCP – Email for your agents

55 points | 11 comments | Aug 15, 2025 | by wyattjoh

#89 Show HN: Smooth – Faster, cheaper browser agent API

54 points | 16 comments | Aug 26, 2025 | by liukidar

#90 Show HN: Timep – A next-gen profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code

53 points | 12 comments | Aug 25, 2025 | by jkool702

#91 Show HN: Reactive: A React Book for the Reluctant (written by Claude)

49 points | 41 comments | Aug 11, 2025 | by DavidCanHelp

#92 Show HN: Aha Domain Search

48 points | 33 comments | Aug 04, 2025 | by slig

#93 Show HN: Typed-arrow – compile‑time Arrow schemas for Rust

48 points | 8 comments | Aug 18, 2025 | by ethegwo

#94 Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme

48 points | 4 comments | Aug 01, 2025 | by funkaster

#95 Show HN: Spotilyrics – See synchronized Spotify lyrics inside VS Code

47 points | 5 comments | Aug 31, 2025 | by therepanic

#96 Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

46 points | 50 comments | Aug 05, 2025 | by juliangoetze

#97 Show HN: I built a text-based birthday reminder app

46 points | 31 comments | Aug 05, 2025 | by samfeldman

#98 Show HN: Zig-DbC – A design by contract library for Zig

46 points | 10 comments | Aug 12, 2025 | by habedi0

#99 Show HN: Pontoon – Open-source customer data syncs

46 points | 10 comments | Aug 01, 2025 | by alexdriedger

#100 Show HN: Rust framework for advanced file recognition and identification

46 points | 7 comments | Aug 07, 2025 | by reimisdev

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