Best Show HN projects of 2026

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN in 2026.


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#1 Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

2935 points | 359 comments | Jul 19, 2026 | by section33

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#2 Show HN: Elevators

1680 points | 415 comments | Jul 31, 2026 | by Jrh0203

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#3 Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

1481 points | 363 comments | Jun 11, 2026 | by mikemcquaid

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#4 Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

1325 points | 241 comments | Jan 22, 2026 | by cannoneyed

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#5 Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes

1181 points | 213 comments | Jun 08, 2026 | by lizhang

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#6 Show HN: 18 Words

1160 points | 366 comments | Jul 09, 2026 | by pompomsheep

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#7 Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

1033 points | 239 comments | Jul 22, 2026 | by starfallg

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#8 Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

964 points | 187 comments | Apr 04, 2026 | by Jaso1024

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#9 Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

937 points | 240 comments | Jul 09, 2026 | by vforno

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#10 Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

919 points | 344 comments | Jul 29, 2026 | by gitpusher42

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#11 Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

915 points | 134 comments | Apr 06, 2026 | by armanified

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#12 Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

822 points | 156 comments | Jun 25, 2026 | by ytkimirti

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#13 Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

786 points | 240 comments | Apr 07, 2026 | by sam-bee

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#14 Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

783 points | 195 comments | Apr 03, 2026 | by ramkarthikk

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#15 Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

776 points | 211 comments | May 12, 2026 | by HenryNdubuaku

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#16 Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

743 points | 157 comments | Apr 03, 2026 | by franze

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#17 Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

730 points | 356 comments | May 18, 2026 | by zakirullin

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#18 Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986

721 points | 240 comments | Feb 10, 2026 | by benstopics

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#19 Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

712 points | 141 comments | Jun 14, 2026 | by tamnd

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#20 Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

706 points | 326 comments | Aug 27, 2026 | by Labo333

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#21 Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks

687 points | 252 comments | May 19, 2026 | by zambelli

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#22 Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

670 points | 214 comments | Jan 21, 2026 | by huntergemmer

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#23 Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

657 points | 218 comments | Feb 19, 2026 | by cpcloud

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#24 Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller

648 points | 137 comments | Mar 24, 2026 | by Heff

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#25 Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

627 points | 99 comments | Aug 04, 2026 | by automatoney

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#26 Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV

604 points | 179 comments | Mar 11, 2026 | by kilroy123

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#27 Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

598 points | 117 comments | Aug 20, 2026 | by simedw

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#28 Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery

577 points | 167 comments | Feb 01, 2026 | by deofoo

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#29 Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

570 points | 153 comments | Mar 02, 2026 | by nicktikhonov

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#30 Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

566 points | 168 comments | May 01, 2026 | by sleepingNomad

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#31 Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

565 points | 171 comments | Jan 09, 2026 | by vunderba

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#32 Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

561 points | 181 comments | Mar 19, 2026 | by rohan_joshi

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#33 Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

553 points | 120 comments | May 24, 2026 | by pantelisk

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#34 Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

537 points | 185 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by HenryNdubuaku

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#35 Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete

534 points | 153 comments | Jan 21, 2026 | by williamzeng0

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#36 Show HN: NanoClaw – β€œClawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

533 points | 224 comments | Feb 01, 2026 | by jimminyx

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#37 Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry

530 points | 200 comments | May 19, 2026 | by danybittel

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#38 Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public

526 points | 276 comments | Jun 11, 2026 | by matthewbarras

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#39 Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

524 points | 146 comments | Jan 10, 2026 | by pmaze

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#40 Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS

520 points | 308 comments | Apr 12, 2026 | by a-ve

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#41 Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

501 points | 276 comments | Apr 11, 2026 | by vidluther

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#42 Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust

500 points | 158 comments | Jan 01, 2026 | by max_lt

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#43 Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

499 points | 152 comments | Apr 17, 2026 | by binsquare

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#44 Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

496 points | 99 comments | Feb 22, 2026 | by MilkMp

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#45 Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs

495 points | 126 comments | Mar 10, 2026 | by dnhkng

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#46 Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

488 points | 103 comments | Feb 16, 2026 | by dvrp

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#47 Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

484 points | 228 comments | Jul 23, 2026 | by adam_rida

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#48 Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

484 points | 209 comments | Apr 08, 2026 | by anonfunction

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#49 Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room

477 points | 193 comments | Jul 23, 2026 | by aplavin

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#50 Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

471 points | 247 comments | Jun 18, 2026 | by turtlesoup

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#51 Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

470 points | 68 comments | Feb 17, 2026 | by moWerk

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#52 Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

469 points | 153 comments | Jan 31, 2026 | by simedw

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#53 Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

467 points | 200 comments | Apr 06, 2026 | by MattHart88

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#54 Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

451 points | 74 comments | Jun 23, 2026 | by DominikPeters

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#55 Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep

445 points | 151 comments | May 17, 2026 | by Bibabomas

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#56 Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

442 points | 201 comments | May 28, 2026 | by stagas

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#57 Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

441 points | 142 comments | Feb 02, 2026 | by rebane2001

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#58 Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search

438 points | 108 comments | Mar 24, 2026 | by sohamrj

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#59 Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

433 points | 149 comments | Jun 21, 2026 | by cowboy_henk

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#60 Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

433 points | 126 comments | Jul 28, 2026 | by twalichiewicz

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#61 Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

430 points | 227 comments | May 10, 2026 | by imtomt

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#62 Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs

430 points | 153 comments | Mar 31, 2026 | by PrismML

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#63 Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

428 points | 108 comments | May 20, 2026 | by kageroumado

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#64 Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites

414 points | 218 comments | Mar 12, 2026 | by remywang

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#65 Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth

412 points | 181 comments | Feb 09, 2026 | by tombh

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#66 Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m

408 points | 167 comments | Mar 14, 2026 | by tamnd

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#67 Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste

403 points | 67 comments | Mar 18, 2026 | by visiwig

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#68 Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

402 points | 233 comments | Feb 06, 2026 | by eljojo

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#69 Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

402 points | 72 comments | Jun 07, 2026 | by devenjarvis

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#70 Show HN: Zanagrams

400 points | 107 comments | Jun 28, 2026 | by pompomsheep

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#71 Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops

398 points | 82 comments | Jul 01, 2026 | by IESAI_ski

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#72 Show HN: Super Dario

397 points | 100 comments | Jul 13, 2026 | by thepasch

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#73 Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU

395 points | 101 comments | Feb 21, 2026 | by xaskasdf

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#74 Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

393 points | 148 comments | Apr 27, 2026 | by GodelNumbering

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#75 Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

390 points | 271 comments | May 21, 2026 | by sanity

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#76 Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS

390 points | 210 comments | Jan 04, 2026 | by huseyinbabal

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#77 Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

389 points | 101 comments | Jul 07, 2026 | by xinit

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#78 Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

386 points | 183 comments | Feb 06, 2026 | by vecti

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#79 Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue

386 points | 162 comments | May 28, 2026 | by Wirbelwind

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#80 Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

384 points | 209 comments | Aug 20, 2026 | by danielvaughn

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#81 Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

381 points | 173 comments | Jun 25, 2026 | by engomez

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#82 Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities

380 points | 104 comments | Jan 06, 2026 | by BLGardner

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#83 Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML

380 points | 94 comments | Mar 24, 2026 | by dancablam

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#84 Show HN: The HN Arcade

352 points | 123 comments | Jan 28, 2026 | by yuppiepuppie

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#85 Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

350 points | 137 comments | Jul 08, 2026 | by chenglong-hn

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#86 Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

350 points | 81 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by nuwandavek

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#87 Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

347 points | 168 comments | Jan 05, 2026 | by awaaz

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#88 Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

340 points | 137 comments | Jun 05, 2026 | by bkazez

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#89 Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

340 points | 96 comments | Mar 26, 2026 | by j0rg3

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#90 Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

338 points | 115 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by tomilan

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#91 Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games

337 points | 205 comments | Mar 16, 2026 | by htdt

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#92 Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs

337 points | 43 comments | Mar 28, 2026 | by hauntsaninja

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#93 Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

334 points | 303 comments | Jun 08, 2026 | by baepaul

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#94 Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

331 points | 153 comments | Feb 08, 2026 | by yi_wang

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#95 Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

330 points | 148 comments | Jul 11, 2026 | by theMackabu

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#96 Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

330 points | 88 comments | Jan 09, 2026 | by sdan

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#97 Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

329 points | 305 comments | Aug 08, 2026 | by sajomes

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#98 Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates

328 points | 91 comments | Feb 24, 2026 | by adebayoj

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#99 Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

327 points | 84 comments | Apr 23, 2026 | by russellthehippo

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#100 Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

327 points | 40 comments | Feb 06, 2026 | by isitcontent

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