Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2026

Browse the top 100 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Aug, 2026.


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

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

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

527 points | 181 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by HenryNdubuaku

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

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

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#4 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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#5 Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

327 points | 302 comments | Aug 08, 2026 | by sajomes

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#6 Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

312 points | 142 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by leonickson

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#7 Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

306 points | 45 comments | Aug 12, 2026 | by adius

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#8 Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

303 points | 242 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by aemerson_

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#9 Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

290 points | 125 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by Alen123

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#10 Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

254 points | 64 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by vlad_kalinkin

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#11 Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

226 points | 119 comments | Aug 07, 2026 | by v0id_isgood

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#12 Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice

211 points | 89 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by MrRowTheBoat

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#13 Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

206 points | 83 comments | Aug 07, 2026 | by stagas

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#14 Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

197 points | 30 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by eniac111

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#15 Show HN: ssh ssh.place

186 points | 120 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by jeninh

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#16 Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

173 points | 163 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by pshirshov

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#17 Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone

173 points | 53 comments | Aug 04, 2026 | by edwardbzhang

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#18 Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

164 points | 101 comments | Aug 11, 2026 | by YonathanTesfaye

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#19 Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline

164 points | 90 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by ubermon

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#20 Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

138 points | 28 comments | Aug 04, 2026 | by MakazhanAlpamys

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#21 Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

132 points | 40 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by graham33

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#22 Show HN: Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development

124 points | 15 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by amronos

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#23 Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

121 points | 48 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by the_unproven

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#24 Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

121 points | 24 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by davidmckayv

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#25 Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

121 points | 19 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by Rochus

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#26 Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone

120 points | 35 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by NickySlicks

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#27 Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

105 points | 77 comments | Aug 11, 2026 | by danielbilekq

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#28 Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

96 points | 19 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by arcaege

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#29 Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout

86 points | 33 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by jumpalongjim

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#30 Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux

81 points | 8 comments | Aug 07, 2026 | by xiaoyu2006

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#31 Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo)

79 points | 30 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by mikeayles

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#32 Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores

79 points | 29 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by quambo

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#33 Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client

73 points | 45 comments | Aug 11, 2026 | by mcptokensaver

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#34 Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge

72 points | 39 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by uneven9434

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#35 Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

64 points | 11 comments | Aug 04, 2026 | by brian-armstrong

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#36 Show HN: PokΓ©mon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2

58 points | 28 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by mdeeds

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#37 Show HN: A terminal glued to the macOS dock

53 points | 18 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by leopalamim

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#38 Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents

52 points | 25 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by asim

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#39 Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

52 points | 11 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by postalcoder

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#40 Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5

49 points | 31 comments | Aug 13, 2026 | by pcbmaker20

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#41 Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

46 points | 18 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by login588

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#42 Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP

42 points | 8 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by screm

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#43 Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents

41 points | 59 comments | Aug 12, 2026 | by Tintly

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#44 Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism

41 points | 41 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by geekamongus

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#45 Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM

40 points | 8 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by gste

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#46 Show HN: Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python

37 points | 8 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by kamalf

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#47 Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

36 points | 43 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by johnchinjew

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#48 Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more

36 points | 22 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by pradiptasarma

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#49 Show HN: Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI

36 points | 14 comments | Aug 04, 2026 | by yylyyl

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#50 Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

36 points | 10 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by dosinga

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#51 Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API

32 points | 12 comments | Aug 13, 2026 | by danielkimber

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#52 Show HN: 35k+ paper psychedelic library that knows LSD from Lumpy Skin Disease

31 points | 12 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by elliotec

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#53 Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space

30 points | 24 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by nmitchko

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#54 Show HN: Programmable timer web app (for gym workouts or stretching sessions)

29 points | 13 comments | Aug 12, 2026 | by jotaen

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#55 Show HN: My local climbing gym from photogrammetry

29 points | 11 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by a_c

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#56 Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore

26 points | 28 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by kuberwastaken

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#57 Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses

26 points | 13 comments | Aug 04, 2026 | by aadisang

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#58 Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode

26 points | 1 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by adam_rida

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#59 Show HN: Jido Assembly; Slack Clone in Pure Elixir with Integrated Agents

25 points | 1 comments | Aug 04, 2026 | by mikehostetler

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#60 Show HN: Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content

24 points | 18 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by sammy0910

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#61 Show HN: A free mini game that makes you a smarter fly fisherperson

24 points | 10 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by mpc75

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#62 Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol)

24 points | 4 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by deotman

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#63 Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning

23 points | 6 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by spectraldrift

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#64 Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges

23 points | 3 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by kaipereira

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#65 Show HN: Science for Kids

22 points | 18 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by rahimnathwani

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#66 Show HN: UTC Time - live clock, ISO 8601, Unix timestamp

22 points | 7 comments | Aug 13, 2026 | by nadermx

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#67 Show HN: Silo – S3-compatible object storage, a maintained fork of MinIO

22 points | 2 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by Vonng

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#68 Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

21 points | 11 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by mercutio93

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#69 Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems

21 points | 6 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by zX41ZdbW

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#70 Show HN: I vibecoded a heavy lift drone

21 points | 5 comments | Aug 11, 2026 | by liseman

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#71 Show HN: Minimal LLM Post-Training Experiments on an 8GB GPU (SFT, DPO, GRPO)

21 points | 0 comments | Aug 01, 2026 | by popopanda

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#72 Show HN: CostPerPrompt – Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators

20 points | 8 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by ahmed_hassan7

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#73 Show HN: MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C++ <1MB binary

19 points | 20 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by paoloanzn

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#74 Show HN: Stackdome – An open source self-hostable Railway alternative on K8s

19 points | 6 comments | Aug 13, 2026 | by ashishmax31

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#75 Show HN: Diffing Binary Files

19 points | 6 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by wennyyustalim

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#76 Show HN: OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data

19 points | 3 comments | Aug 12, 2026 | by fraywing

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#77 Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions

19 points | 1 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by nmaroulis21

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#78 Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status

18 points | 12 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by leog_me

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#79 Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words

18 points | 12 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by LandoLorinse

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#80 Show HN: Higher-dimensional lattices unfolded into the 2D plane

18 points | 1 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by unitX

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#81 Show HN: An AI agent that trades inside limits you set, starting on paper

17 points | 9 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by henryzhangpku

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#82 Show HN: New Parts for Old Computers

17 points | 1 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by joshu

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#83 Show HN: TermDOM – HTML, CSS and JavaScript (With a Real DOM) for TUIs and CLIs

17 points | 0 comments | Aug 11, 2026 | by bikeshaving

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#84 Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges

17 points | 0 comments | Aug 07, 2026 | by thejoin95

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#85 Show HN: Sidebar – a private ESP32 intercom for five kids, no accounts

16 points | 13 comments | Aug 07, 2026 | by nonstopnonsense

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#86 Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang

15 points | 35 comments | Aug 04, 2026 | by shelldweller

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#87 Show HN: Design Engineering, as a Service

15 points | 12 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by krm01

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#88 Show HN: Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rust

15 points | 10 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by ccheshirecat

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#89 Show HN: 100% native Swift harness (NOT Electron)

15 points | 6 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by ljlolel

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#90 Show HN: ExANS – Lossless KV cache compression at 622 GB/s on H100

15 points | 0 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by arnav__1

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#91 Show HN: A free DOCX editor with MCP server for editing

14 points | 3 comments | Aug 08, 2026 | by artursapek

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#92 Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean

14 points | 2 comments | Aug 08, 2026 | by modinfo

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#93 Show HN: Watching browser fingerprinting calls via Chromium's Blink layer

14 points | 0 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by brnbs

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#94 Show HN: Tura – Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results

14 points | 0 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by turaainet

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#95 Show HN: CrossPlay - Games, puzzles and tools for your e-reader

14 points | 0 comments | Aug 07, 2026 | by ma-r-s

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#96 Show HN: Capy – A Git-style platform for managing your team's secrets

13 points | 13 comments | Aug 05, 2026 | by cvince

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#97 Show HN: Smarter Shell History for Zsh

13 points | 6 comments | Aug 12, 2026 | by overflowy

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#98 Show HN: Open-source playground to red-team AI agents against public prompts

13 points | 4 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by zachdotai

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#99 Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust

13 points | 2 comments | Aug 01, 2026 | by evolabs

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#100 Show HN: Tokyo Trains

13 points | 1 comments | Aug 11, 2026 | by greggman65

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