Best of Show HN of Jan, 2026


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

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

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#2 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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#3 Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust

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

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#4 Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS

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

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

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

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

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

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#7 Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

330 points | 87 comments | Jan 09, 2026 | by sdan

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#8 Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

306 points | 427 comments | Jan 19, 2026 | by ivcatcher

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#9 Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work

302 points | 38 comments | Jan 04, 2026 | by krasun

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#10 Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

286 points | 64 comments | Jan 13, 2026 | by 19-84

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#11 Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale

280 points | 28 comments | Jan 05, 2026 | by thesubtlety

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#12 Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt

265 points | 56 comments | Jan 01, 2026 | by _mig5

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#13 Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second

262 points | 144 comments | Jan 03, 2026 | by Loeffelmann

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#14 Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

241 points | 190 comments | Jan 11, 2026 | by OlaProis

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#15 Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you

230 points | 38 comments | Jan 10, 2026 | by dimden

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#16 Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

228 points | 57 comments | Jan 14, 2026 | by ben_talent

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#17 Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

211 points | 97 comments | Jan 14, 2026 | by jellyotsiro

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#18 Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

191 points | 106 comments | Jan 12, 2026 | by WillNickols

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#19 Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss

176 points | 156 comments | Jan 18, 2026 | by yadavrh

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#20 Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)

175 points | 126 comments | Jan 19, 2026 | by pratik227

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#21 Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side

172 points | 39 comments | Jan 06, 2026 | by puzer

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#22 Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator

166 points | 38 comments | Jan 09, 2026 | by donutthejedi

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#23 Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other

162 points | 94 comments | Jan 10, 2026 | by projectyang

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#24 Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

161 points | 49 comments | Jan 08, 2026 | by RichHickson

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#25 Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them

161 points | 48 comments | Jan 17, 2026 | by el_pa_b

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#26 Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

160 points | 106 comments | Jan 03, 2026 | by johnwheeler

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#27 Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011

159 points | 59 comments | Jan 13, 2026 | by Priotecs

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#28 Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

154 points | 48 comments | Jan 18, 2026 | by kinduff

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#29 Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup

146 points | 42 comments | Jan 18, 2026 | by frabonacci

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#30 Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)

142 points | 26 comments | Jan 15, 2026 | by inflam52

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#31 Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI

140 points | 52 comments | Jan 07, 2026 | by lobito25

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#32 Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more

139 points | 48 comments | Jan 10, 2026 | by jamesponddotco

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#33 Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)

137 points | 47 comments | Jan 14, 2026 | by nativeforks

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#34 Show HN: Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs

135 points | 43 comments | Jan 20, 2026 | by calcsam

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#35 Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring

134 points | 65 comments | Jan 01, 2026 | by jbaptiste

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#36 Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph

134 points | 53 comments | Jan 13, 2026 | by davelradindra

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#37 Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP

134 points | 38 comments | Jan 14, 2026 | by cosinusalpha

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#38 Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)

130 points | 24 comments | Jan 14, 2026 | by MrTravisB

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#39 Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes

126 points | 101 comments | Jan 09, 2026 | by jedwhite

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#40 Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

123 points | 49 comments | Jan 14, 2026 | by code_brian

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#41 Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

122 points | 99 comments | Jan 12, 2026 | by Finbarr

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#42 Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

118 points | 44 comments | Jan 12, 2026 | by river_otter

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#43 Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

113 points | 37 comments | Jan 18, 2026 | by dannote

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#44 Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser

113 points | 31 comments | Jan 07, 2026 | by freemanjiang

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#45 Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases

113 points | 30 comments | Jan 17, 2026 | by NadavBenItzhak

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#46 Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel

111 points | 19 comments | Jan 19, 2026 | by punkpeye

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#47 Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults

111 points | 19 comments | Jan 11, 2026 | by rescrv

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#48 Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack

102 points | 38 comments | Jan 03, 2026 | by packet_mover

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#49 Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone

101 points | 43 comments | Jan 03, 2026 | by yxl448

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#50 Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

99 points | 50 comments | Jan 03, 2026 | by quacky_batak

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#51 Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser

95 points | 16 comments | Jan 20, 2026 | by dnmc

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#52 Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents

91 points | 27 comments | Jan 16, 2026 | by randall

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#53 Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses

89 points | 63 comments | Jan 16, 2026 | by Core_Dev

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#54 Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API

87 points | 31 comments | Jan 20, 2026 | by adammajcher

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#55 Show HN: Reversing YouTube’s “Most Replayed” Graph

87 points | 22 comments | Jan 16, 2026 | by prvt

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#56 Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code)

85 points | 59 comments | Jan 04, 2026 | by brunovcosta

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#57 Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker

84 points | 51 comments | Jan 04, 2026 | by wild_egg

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#58 Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load

84 points | 32 comments | Jan 12, 2026 | by sarusso

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#59 Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU

84 points | 22 comments | Jan 06, 2026 | by ekzhang

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#60 Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same

82 points | 47 comments | Jan 19, 2026 | by sonnig

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#61 Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents

81 points | 37 comments | Jan 06, 2026 | by marcoaapfortes

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#62 Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development

78 points | 60 comments | Jan 08, 2026 | by Adrian-ChatLocl

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#63 Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms

77 points | 5 comments | Jan 09, 2026 | by nickponline

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#64 Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

76 points | 87 comments | Jan 03, 2026 | by stets

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#65 Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI

75 points | 37 comments | Jan 06, 2026 | by shuka

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#66 Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config

75 points | 29 comments | Jan 04, 2026 | by Bayram

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#67 Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management

74 points | 98 comments | Jan 05, 2026 | by pingananth

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#68 Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code

74 points | 48 comments | Jan 15, 2026 | by Bunas

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#69 Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine

74 points | 42 comments | Jan 18, 2026 | by xeniafont

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#70 Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency

72 points | 27 comments | Jan 08, 2026 | by fruitbarrel

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#71 Show HN: Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version

72 points | 17 comments | Jan 01, 2026 | by birdmania

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#72 Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

71 points | 49 comments | Jan 09, 2026 | by hiepler

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#73 Show HN: Make audio loops online

70 points | 31 comments | Jan 05, 2026 | by bilalba

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#74 Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal

70 points | 15 comments | Jan 19, 2026 | by minimaxir

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#75 Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language

69 points | 33 comments | Jan 13, 2026 | by lassejansen

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#76 Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams

69 points | 14 comments | Jan 13, 2026 | by lalitgehani

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#77 Show HN: 1D-Pong Game at 39C3

69 points | 13 comments | Jan 11, 2026 | by oger

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#78 Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps

68 points | 12 comments | Jan 14, 2026 | by ianseyler

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#79 Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit

67 points | 54 comments | Jan 01, 2026 | by keepamovin

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#80 Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback

66 points | 13 comments | Jan 08, 2026 | by minimaxir

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#81 Show HN: wxpath – Declarative web crawling in XPath

63 points | 9 comments | Jan 14, 2026 | by rodricios

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#82 Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language

62 points | 41 comments | Jan 12, 2026 | by ImJasonH

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#83 Show HN: The Tsonic Programming Language

62 points | 9 comments | Jan 13, 2026 | by jeswin

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#84 Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center?

60 points | 49 comments | Jan 17, 2026 | by pugdogdev

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#85 Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval

60 points | 9 comments | Jan 18, 2026 | by ktyptorio

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#86 Show HN: Xoscript

59 points | 45 comments | Jan 14, 2026 | by gabordemooij

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#87 Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly

58 points | 31 comments | Jan 16, 2026 | by hjinco

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#88 Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage

58 points | 27 comments | Jan 04, 2026 | by sampsonj

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#89 Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

58 points | 18 comments | Jan 20, 2026 | by andrewqu

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#90 Show HN: VaultSandbox – Test your real MailGun/SES/etc. integration

58 points | 14 comments | Jan 06, 2026 | by vaultsandbox

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#91 Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage

57 points | 51 comments | Jan 11, 2026 | by RyanZhuuuu

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#92 Show HN: Dealta – A game-theoretic decentralized trading protocol

56 points | 36 comments | Jan 02, 2026 | by kalenvale

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#93 Show HN: Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client)

56 points | 29 comments | Jan 13, 2026 | by Aydarbek

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#94 Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text

55 points | 34 comments | Jan 07, 2026 | by tsazan

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#95 Show HN: DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas

55 points | 32 comments | Jan 06, 2026 | by tbrannan

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#96 Show HN: An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update)

55 points | 22 comments | Jan 04, 2026 | by wafflesfreak

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#97 Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage

54 points | 32 comments | Jan 04, 2026 | by danielsdk

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#98 Show HN: Open-Source 8-Ch BCI Board (ESP32 and ADS1299 and OpenBCI GUI)

54 points | 21 comments | Jan 05, 2026 | by simontheHWguy

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#99 Show HN: Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing

53 points | 13 comments | Jan 07, 2026 | by neogoose

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#100 Show HN: AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor

53 points | 8 comments | Jan 13, 2026 | by schappim

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