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: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

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

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#2 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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#3 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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#4 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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#5 Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

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

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

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

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#7 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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#8 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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#9 Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

314 points | 46 comments | Aug 12, 2026 | by adius

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

312 points | 141 comments | Aug 03, 2026 | by leonickson

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

306 points | 245 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by aemerson_

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

295 points | 123 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by Alen123

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

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

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#14 Show HN: Laser Graffiti

253 points | 61 comments | Aug 29, 2026 | by con

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#15 Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum

243 points | 103 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by BaselAshraf81

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#16 Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders

240 points | 48 comments | Aug 24, 2026 | by ssx360

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#17 Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

231 points | 58 comments | Aug 27, 2026 | by elyosh

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#18 Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

231 points | 30 comments | Aug 28, 2026 | by WilsonHarper

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#19 Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

227 points | 120 comments | Aug 07, 2026 | by v0id_isgood

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#20 Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model

222 points | 47 comments | Aug 27, 2026 | by SilenN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#24 Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

190 points | 54 comments | Aug 25, 2026 | by smiths1999

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#25 Show HN: ssh ssh.place

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

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

173 points | 165 comments | Aug 02, 2026 | by pshirshov

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#27 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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#28 Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline

169 points | 93 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by ubermon

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

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

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#30 Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

166 points | 76 comments | Aug 17, 2026 | by vlowrian

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#31 Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games

161 points | 97 comments | Aug 19, 2026 | by wkfauna

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#32 Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage

159 points | 31 comments | Aug 24, 2026 | by adesh_nalpet

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#33 Show HN: Voronoi Go

158 points | 26 comments | Aug 27, 2026 | by igpay

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#34 Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines

156 points | 44 comments | Aug 23, 2026 | by Gorsefound

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#35 Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

146 points | 68 comments | Aug 25, 2026 | by petruspennanen

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

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

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#37 Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer

137 points | 40 comments | Aug 24, 2026 | by guillaumec

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#38 Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

136 points | 63 comments | Aug 15, 2026 | by chatchan

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#39 Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are

132 points | 63 comments | Aug 24, 2026 | by DavidD

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#40 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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#41 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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#42 Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

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

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#43 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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#44 Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

121 points | 22 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by Rochus

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#45 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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#46 Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

119 points | 49 comments | Aug 26, 2026 | by andrewww-dev

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#47 Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE

118 points | 64 comments | Aug 11, 2026 | by am-gm

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#48 Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

118 points | 28 comments | Aug 25, 2026 | by swimmingbrain

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#49 Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes

114 points | 24 comments | Aug 09, 2026 | by carpdiem

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#50 Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models

113 points | 12 comments | Aug 18, 2026 | by lizhaoliu

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#51 Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal

108 points | 30 comments | Aug 19, 2026 | by robpruzan

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

107 points | 78 comments | Aug 11, 2026 | by danielbilekq

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#53 Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

106 points | 25 comments | Aug 14, 2026 | by adius

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#54 Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

100 points | 14 comments | Aug 14, 2026 | by lajosdeme

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#55 Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter

97 points | 69 comments | Aug 25, 2026 | by gbin

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#56 Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine

97 points | 16 comments | Aug 18, 2026 | by rhgraysonii

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

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

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#58 Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

95 points | 23 comments | Aug 26, 2026 | by CoolNamesAllTkn

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#59 Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

93 points | 59 comments | Aug 21, 2026 | by dariusmonsef

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#60 Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

93 points | 43 comments | Aug 16, 2026 | by johnsillings

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#61 Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

88 points | 69 comments | Aug 27, 2026 | by sachinneravath

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

87 points | 35 comments | Aug 06, 2026 | by jumpalongjim

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#63 Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users

86 points | 75 comments | Aug 16, 2026 | by adjohu

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#64 Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)

84 points | 55 comments | Aug 26, 2026 | by RobinL

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#65 Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative

83 points | 37 comments | Aug 20, 2026 | by tinyprojects

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#66 Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux

82 points | 9 comments | Aug 07, 2026 | by xiaoyu2006

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#67 Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

81 points | 88 comments | Aug 22, 2026 | by telecuda

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#68 Show HN: How to mentally calculate the day of the week for any date

80 points | 24 comments | Aug 24, 2026 | by yang140

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#69 Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim

79 points | 38 comments | Aug 12, 2026 | by epaga

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

79 points | 33 comments | Aug 10, 2026 | by mikeayles

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#71 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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#72 Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

78 points | 51 comments | Aug 28, 2026 | by IbrahimF96

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#73 Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours

77 points | 38 comments | Aug 20, 2026 | by knaught

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#74 Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI?

74 points | 48 comments | Aug 26, 2026 | by beekthos

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#75 Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP

73 points | 69 comments | Aug 14, 2026 | by turborigby

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

73 points | 49 comments | Aug 11, 2026 | by mcptokensaver

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#77 Show HN: Openleetcode – Local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo

73 points | 19 comments | Aug 18, 2026 | by therepanic

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#78 Show HN: MCP-stama – An ultra-fast Rust MCP server with no dependencies

73 points | 0 comments | Aug 13, 2026 | by stammanif

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#79 Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

72 points | 42 comments | Aug 17, 2026 | by enjoyyourlife

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#80 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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#81 Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized

70 points | 61 comments | Aug 17, 2026 | by mcclowes

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

70 points | 36 comments | Aug 13, 2026 | by pcbmaker20

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#83 Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon

70 points | 9 comments | Aug 24, 2026 | by realexweb

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#84 Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive

69 points | 39 comments | Aug 23, 2026 | by skylensspace

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#85 Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager

66 points | 85 comments | Aug 28, 2026 | by d0mkaaa

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#86 Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

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

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#87 Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

63 points | 19 comments | Aug 25, 2026 | by ygagaga

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#88 Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown

62 points | 27 comments | Aug 25, 2026 | by Dramatize

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#89 Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection

61 points | 16 comments | Aug 21, 2026 | by laszlokorte

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#90 Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it

60 points | 26 comments | Aug 20, 2026 | by radeeyate

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#91 Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3

59 points | 26 comments | Aug 24, 2026 | by ovenpasta

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

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

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#93 Show HN: Build your own theme park

58 points | 26 comments | Aug 26, 2026 | by thealexanderlee

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#94 Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)

58 points | 13 comments | Aug 21, 2026 | by jardy

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#95 Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

57 points | 45 comments | Aug 20, 2026 | by paulsp

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#96 Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

57 points | 40 comments | Aug 17, 2026 | by artiomyak

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#97 Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext

55 points | 79 comments | Aug 16, 2026 | by bukershok

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#98 Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise

55 points | 39 comments | Aug 15, 2026 | by neverenderr

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

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

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#100 Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing

54 points | 12 comments | Aug 15, 2026 | by oneounceman

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