Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2026

Browse the top 49 projects launched on Hacker News Show HN during Aug, 2026.

Best Show HN projects from Aug, 2026

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

#2 Show HN: SmokeVPN – All-in-One WireGuard VPN Hub – Switch Exits in Realtime

#3 Show HN: Wisp – a Linux shell with Lua scripting and structured pipelines

#4 Show HN: Aurora – AI Gateway built in Go

#5 Show HN: Open source React Native debugging studio

#6 Show HN: Random OS I made using C

#7 Show HN: Heartbeats.dorianmarie.com

#8 Show HN: I'm tracking TikTok music charts across countries over time

#9 Show HN: Wienerdog – memory and self-improving skills for Claude Code/Codex

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#10 Show HN: Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage server

#11 Show HN: Netmnt 0.2.0

#12 Show HN: DSCode – Coding Agent Powered by DeepSeek

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#13 Show HN: MCP inspection for live Avalonia, WPF, WinUI and MAUI apps

#14 Show HN: SendPage – Paste AI-generated HTML, get a link clients can open

#15 Show HN: Best Books Guide – curated books list with tracking, rating, reviews

#16 Show HN: Habit Dungeon – RPG gamification that helps good habits stick

#17 Show HN: TikTok Coin Calculator – viewer costs vs. creator earnings

#18 Show HN: I built a Python obfuscator that keeps production traces debuggable

#19 Show HN: WhisperKeys - Offline macOS dictation, key-by-key

#20 Show HN: Bribes.fyi - Update on Know before you go feature

#21 Show HN: Free AI Prompt Gen – A local-first, open-source prompt engineering tool

#22 Show HN: TUFHub – Autosync TakeUForward DSA Solutions to GitHub Accepted Verdict

#23 Show HN: Warpgate 0.27 (FOSS Teleport alternative) adds RDP/VNC support

#24 Show HN: Agent Architect Skill for building agentic systems

#25 Show HN: Horus-runtime – Train your own tiny LLM from scratch

#26 Show HN: utils.foo > developer utilities that run client-side without ads

#27 Show HN: One no-subscriptions online search for all your agent needs

#28 Show HN: Sanitizer – Strip sensitive data from documents locally before an LLM

#29 Show HN: BugDetect AI – AI-powered code debugging assistant

#30 Show HN: Cross-platform AirDrop replacement but over internet using Iroh

#31 Show HN: OpenLongevity – Longevity × AI – open, verifiable, for everyone

#32 Show HN: SteerPlane – Deterministic runtime guardrails for AI agents

#33 Show HN: MakerStack: a pay-once maker page (SSR, OG images, custom domains)

#34 Show HN: AllMCPs – Directory of MCP Servers

#35 Show HN: Agentmetry – local-first flight recorder for AI coding agents

#36 Show HN: An AI radio station that draws a live comic of its hosts' thoughts

#37 Show HN: Goulash – heckler/helper to local-LLM your shell as little as possible

#38 Show HN: An MCP server that knows what that error message means

#39 Show HN: BillDesk – Offline invoicing for freelancers (Windows and Mac)

#40 Show HN: Rad – A New Relational Database

#41 Show HN: WordJS – Node.js CMS where plugins run in separate OS processes

#42 Show HN: CSP Validator and Generator

#43 Show HN: Reimagine place photos with Nano Banana

#44 Show HN: Job board and MCP server for AI developers

#45 Show HN: I built an RPG engine where an LLM narrates the GM, not the rules

#46 Show HN: BlazeRules – YAML rule engine for streaming data, 5M records/SEC

#47 Show HN: Weightlift – the missing package manager for downloading model weights

#48 Show HN: I rewrote my ML web apps to run in-browser and deleted the server

#49 Show HN: Equivalency Kernel – mapping emotions to recursive system states

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