Best of Show HN of May, 2026


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

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

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

710 points | 347 comments | May 18, 2026 | by zakirullin

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

646 points | 238 comments | May 19, 2026 | by zambelli

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#4 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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#5 Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry

517 points | 195 comments | May 19, 2026 | by danybittel

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

441 points | 150 comments | May 17, 2026 | by Bibabomas

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

430 points | 228 comments | May 10, 2026 | by imtomt

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#8 Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

324 points | 135 comments | May 18, 2026 | by stephenlthorn

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#9 Show HN: Hallucinopedia

317 points | 267 comments | May 06, 2026 | by bstrama

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#10 Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

292 points | 85 comments | May 09, 2026 | by marcingas

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#11 Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks

283 points | 68 comments | May 15, 2026 | by andyyyy64

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#12 Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

254 points | 140 comments | May 13, 2026 | by babel16

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#13 Show HN: Rust but Lisp

218 points | 74 comments | May 09, 2026 | by thatxliner

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#14 Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

215 points | 83 comments | May 05, 2026 | by ouli

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#15 Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

205 points | 133 comments | May 06, 2026 | by ozkatz

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#16 Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake

203 points | 47 comments | May 14, 2026 | by c1b

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#17 Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

200 points | 80 comments | May 11, 2026 | by ciwrl

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#18 Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

185 points | 46 comments | May 03, 2026 | by bring-shrubbery

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#19 Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989

178 points | 90 comments | May 07, 2026 | by wojtczyk

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#20 Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

169 points | 48 comments | May 06, 2026 | by oahmadov

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#21 Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

168 points | 87 comments | May 02, 2026 | by yunusabd

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

164 points | 35 comments | May 20, 2026 | by kageroumado

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#23 Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

156 points | 48 comments | May 05, 2026 | by mtricot

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#24 Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes

154 points | 39 comments | May 10, 2026 | by rocketpastsix

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#25 Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)

134 points | 30 comments | May 15, 2026 | by dtnewman

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#26 Show HN: Git for AI Agents

129 points | 68 comments | May 08, 2026 | by doshay

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#27 Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier

126 points | 140 comments | May 01, 2026 | by keepamovin

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#28 Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable

126 points | 59 comments | May 12, 2026 | by azurewraith

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#29 Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay

125 points | 41 comments | May 14, 2026 | by rdme

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#30 Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

123 points | 79 comments | May 03, 2026 | by bschoepke

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#31 Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

122 points | 28 comments | May 09, 2026 | by tsiry

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#32 Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

117 points | 44 comments | May 16, 2026 | by tsiry

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#33 Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity

106 points | 30 comments | May 11, 2026 | by ab613

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#34 Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

105 points | 40 comments | May 01, 2026 | by mayerwin

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#35 Show HN: Nibble

102 points | 25 comments | May 14, 2026 | by glouwbug

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#36 Show HN: AI CAD Harness

101 points | 96 comments | May 01, 2026 | by zachdive

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#37 Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents

99 points | 44 comments | May 02, 2026 | by lahfir

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#38 Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows

98 points | 49 comments | May 01, 2026 | by kernalix7

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#39 Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

97 points | 50 comments | May 12, 2026 | by sai18

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#40 Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI

90 points | 48 comments | May 16, 2026 | by jolaflow

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#41 Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

89 points | 27 comments | May 06, 2026 | by asmodios

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#42 Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists

87 points | 32 comments | May 19, 2026 | by augustvdv

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#43 Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code

85 points | 55 comments | May 11, 2026 | by adamthegoalie

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#44 Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application

83 points | 6 comments | May 02, 2026 | by lsferreira42

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#45 Show HN: Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows

82 points | 23 comments | May 07, 2026 | by enmanuelmag

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#46 Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak

81 points | 51 comments | May 05, 2026 | by qrush

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#47 Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs

79 points | 37 comments | May 07, 2026 | by darkrishabh

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#48 Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop

76 points | 93 comments | May 09, 2026 | by canergl

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#49 Show HN: Torrix, self hosted, LLM Observability,(no Postgres, no Redis)

74 points | 4 comments | May 13, 2026 | by AdarshRao23

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#50 Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks

73 points | 18 comments | May 02, 2026 | by pplonski86

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#51 Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

71 points | 80 comments | May 18, 2026 | by surganov

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#52 Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

71 points | 52 comments | May 02, 2026 | by patillacode

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#53 Show HN: Site Mogging

70 points | 77 comments | May 01, 2026 | by jilles

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#54 Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs

70 points | 45 comments | May 19, 2026 | by Magnanten

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#55 Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management

64 points | 61 comments | May 15, 2026 | by jlengelbrecht

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#56 Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

61 points | 41 comments | May 14, 2026 | by knuaym9

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#57 Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

61 points | 27 comments | May 12, 2026 | by namanyayg

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#58 Show HN: Race to the Bottom

60 points | 50 comments | May 14, 2026 | by maxwellito

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#59 Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

60 points | 29 comments | May 02, 2026 | by nip

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#60 Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents

60 points | 7 comments | May 18, 2026 | by mrcoldbrew

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#61 Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk

58 points | 12 comments | May 01, 2026 | by todience

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#62 Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s

57 points | 20 comments | May 02, 2026 | by brettnbutter

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#63 Show HN: Reducing LLM input tokens by 70%

56 points | 33 comments | May 12, 2026 | by Jbunga

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#64 Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

56 points | 15 comments | May 20, 2026 | by cleardusk

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#65 Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust

53 points | 7 comments | May 19, 2026 | by suis_siva

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#66 Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands

50 points | 28 comments | May 15, 2026 | by detkin

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#67 Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM

50 points | 4 comments | May 03, 2026 | by Flex247A

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#68 Show HN: UIGen – Production UI from any API spec with full override control

49 points | 5 comments | May 12, 2026 | by ombedzi

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#69 Show HN: E2a – Open-source email gateway for AI agents

48 points | 3 comments | May 11, 2026 | by mnexa

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#70 Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library

47 points | 20 comments | May 09, 2026 | by ccheshirecat

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#71 Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally

46 points | 32 comments | May 07, 2026 | by cpan22

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#72 Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data

44 points | 20 comments | May 02, 2026 | by holg

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#73 Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos

44 points | 15 comments | May 20, 2026 | by mrkn1

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#74 Show HN: Haystack – Review the PRs that need human attention

43 points | 16 comments | May 18, 2026 | by akshaysg

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#75 Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres

42 points | 24 comments | May 01, 2026 | by calebhwin

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#76 Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill

41 points | 41 comments | May 01, 2026 | by xodn348

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#77 Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents

40 points | 54 comments | May 19, 2026 | by pranshuchittora

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#78 Show HN: Mezz, a curl-able WiFi sandbox for IoT pentesting

40 points | 10 comments | May 15, 2026 | by ABGEO

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#79 Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB

39 points | 44 comments | May 08, 2026 | by nezaj

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#80 Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit

39 points | 4 comments | May 02, 2026 | by kn81198

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#81 Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds

37 points | 35 comments | May 02, 2026 | by trangram

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#82 Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD

37 points | 14 comments | May 08, 2026 | by ttouch

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#83 Show HN: Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB

37 points | 1 comments | May 19, 2026 | by tee-es-gee

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#84 Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend

35 points | 4 comments | May 20, 2026 | by philipisik

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#85 Show HN: Vibe Coding a $20k /Year Enterprise Logistics Platform

32 points | 7 comments | May 15, 2026 | by ryanckulp

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#86 Show HN: Codiff, a local diff review tool

30 points | 21 comments | May 17, 2026 | by cpojer

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#87 Show HN: Social Network for Corporate Cringe

29 points | 26 comments | May 07, 2026 | by CringeOut

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#88 Show HN: Full Python GUI apps in the browser – no JavaScript, no server

29 points | 16 comments | May 07, 2026 | by pstomi

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#89 Show HN: Yt-x v0.8.0 – Browse, play, and download YouTube from the terminal

27 points | 4 comments | May 19, 2026 | by Benex254

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#90 Show HN: An implementation of Common Lisp in development, reached version 1.6

27 points | 3 comments | May 12, 2026 | by andreamonaco

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#91 Show HN: I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success

26 points | 23 comments | May 03, 2026 | by margotli

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#92 Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm

26 points | 14 comments | May 12, 2026 | by keepamovin

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#93 Show HN: Orch8 – Durable workflow engine in Rust, one binary, Postgres or SQLite

26 points | 5 comments | May 05, 2026 | by _alphageek

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#94 Show HN: I made a vertical-pedalling bike with a novel drivetrain [video]

26 points | 0 comments | May 07, 2026 | by tonyonodi

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#95 Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents

25 points | 8 comments | May 04, 2026 | by Parkado

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#96 Show HN: Kstack – Skill pack for monitoring/troubleshooting K8s in Claude Code

25 points | 7 comments | May 07, 2026 | by andres

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#97 Show HN: Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands

25 points | 4 comments | May 02, 2026 | by mikolajw

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#98 Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs

25 points | 3 comments | May 05, 2026 | by aragoss

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#99 Show HN: Adam – An embeddable cross-platform AI agent library

24 points | 9 comments | May 06, 2026 | by marcobambini

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#100 Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved

24 points | 3 comments | May 05, 2026 | by lieret

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