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#1 Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

1102 points | 262 comments | May 12, 2021 | by epermyakov

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#2 Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system

928 points | 405 comments | Sep 12, 2024 | by kwiens

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#3 Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel

670 points | 179 comments | Jan 25, 2023 | by anakic

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#4 Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

560 points | 275 comments | Jan 26, 2020 | by junkern

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#5 Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++

527 points | 170 comments | Aug 10, 2018 | by adamjs

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#6 Show HN: Space Invaders in C

478 points | 105 comments | Dec 06, 2019 | by loadzero

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#7 Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++

399 points | 87 comments | Dec 06, 2022 | by ggerganov

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#8 Show HN: I spent 6 months building a C debugger as a 17-year-old

393 points | 129 comments | Nov 11, 2023 | by D4ckard

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#9 Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game

386 points | 175 comments | Nov 02, 2012 | by Omicron3141

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#10 Show HN: Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in the browser

356 points | 33 comments | Feb 10, 2019 | by vasyop

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#11 Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant

344 points | 92 comments | May 13, 2024 | by nkaz123

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#12 Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C

332 points | 122 comments | Aug 16, 2018 | by ddevault

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#13 Show HN: A new hobby OS from “scratch” in C#

310 points | 63 comments | Mar 05, 2017 | by amaneureka

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#14 Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server

303 points | 155 comments | Sep 24, 2024 | by cozis

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#15 Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online

287 points | 149 comments | Dec 10, 2013 | by fogleman

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#16 Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself

275 points | 128 comments | Dec 03, 2024 | by keyvank

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#17 Show HN: Lumix Engine – Open source C++ 3D game engine

260 points | 117 comments | Mar 01, 2017 | by mikulas_florek

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#18 Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices

251 points | 47 comments | Jan 04, 2020 | by Sean-Der

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#19 Show HN: Lambda-8cc – An x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus

249 points | 29 comments | Oct 06, 2022 | by woodrush

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#20 Show HN: Mako – a full Bitcoin implementation in C

239 points | 124 comments | Nov 15, 2021 | by chjj

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#21 Show HN: State-of-the-art German speech recognition in 284 lines of C++

231 points | 128 comments | Aug 10, 2022 | by fxtentacle

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#22 Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C

223 points | 100 comments | Jul 31, 2021 | by jpegqs

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#23 Show HN: How to compile C/C++ for WASM, pure Clang, no libs, no framework

217 points | 42 comments | Apr 11, 2022 | by ern0

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#24 Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C

212 points | 91 comments | Aug 04, 2014 | by tekknolagi

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#25 Show HN: TG – Fast geometry library for C

201 points | 32 comments | Sep 22, 2023 | by tidwall

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#26 Show HN: Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++

193 points | 170 comments | Jun 22, 2017 | by dbartolini

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#27 Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C

192 points | 60 comments | Dec 20, 2019 | by mkirchner

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#28 Show HN: Homebrew 16bit CPU from 74HC logic with C compiler and Unix-like OS

192 points | 42 comments | Dec 08, 2023 | by pconst167

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#29 Show HN: Drogon – A C++14/17 based high performance HTTP application framework

189 points | 105 comments | Mar 19, 2019 | by an-tao

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#30 Show HN: Xmake, a modern C/C++ build utility

186 points | 183 comments | Apr 09, 2019 | by waruqi

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#31 Show HN: Richard – A CNN written in C++ and Vulkan (no ML or math libs)

184 points | 24 comments | Mar 15, 2024 | by rjinman

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#32 Show HN: C3 – A C alternative that looks like C

182 points | 136 comments | Jul 06, 2022 | by lerno

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#33 Show HN: Bic – a C interpreter and API explorer

181 points | 26 comments | Sep 12, 2019 | by hexagonal-sun

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#34 Show HN: Toy – A thin C++ game engine

180 points | 38 comments | Aug 01, 2018 | by hugoamnov

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#35 Show HN: A little web server in C

178 points | 116 comments | May 16, 2023 | by robdelacruz

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#36 Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++

178 points | 102 comments | Jan 15, 2020 | by jamie-vesoft

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#37 Show HN: A portable hash map in C

176 points | 90 comments | Dec 08, 2024 | by e-dant

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#38 Show HN: CFR[]: Very minimal drawing language with 5 commands: C, F, R, [, ]

176 points | 70 comments | Oct 20, 2023 | by susam

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#39 Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)

175 points | 185 comments | Apr 03, 2025 | by lerno

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#40 Show HN: Muon, a low-level programming language inspired by C, C# and Go

175 points | 114 comments | Apr 07, 2019 | by nickmqb

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#41 Show HN: Compile-time HTML parsing in C++14

175 points | 81 comments | Jul 31, 2017 | by rep_movsd

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#42 Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go

175 points | 57 comments | Aug 20, 2020 | by omn1

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#43 Show HN: My own C compiler (just for fun)

175 points | 50 comments | Jun 14, 2016 | by rcorcs

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#44 Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly

174 points | 71 comments | Oct 07, 2024 | by syrusakbary

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#45 Show HN: Krep a High-Performance String Search Utility Written in C

173 points | 74 comments | Mar 11, 2025 | by daviducolo

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#46 Show HN: A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C

172 points | 54 comments | Jan 30, 2015 | by oso2k

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#47 Show HN: A hash array-mapped trie implementation in C

171 points | 56 comments | Jul 10, 2023 | by mkirchner

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#48 Show HN: Run Python, Ruby, Node.js, C++, Lua in the Browser via x86 to WASM JIT

171 points | 31 comments | Nov 22, 2021 | by apignotti

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#49 Show HN: Fast C-based HTML 5 parsing for Python

169 points | 71 comments | Jun 19, 2017 | by aumerle

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#50 Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)

168 points | 61 comments | Aug 30, 2024 | by velorek

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#51 Show HN: Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing

166 points | 140 comments | Nov 17, 2021 | by zanellia

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#52 Show HN: C# 6.0 Functional Language Extensions

164 points | 87 comments | Nov 19, 2014 | by louthy

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#53 Show HN: A dbg(...) macro for C++

162 points | 51 comments | Sep 21, 2019 | by sharkdp

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#54 Show HN: Sed to C translator written in sed

160 points | 14 comments | Jul 12, 2020 | by lhoursquentin

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#55 Show HN: A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch

159 points | 42 comments | Aug 03, 2021 | by r1chardnl

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#56 Show HN: Learned Objective C as a high schooler and made this iPhone game

158 points | 48 comments | Sep 21, 2012 | by Firecracker

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#57 Show HN: C#-to-JavaScript compiler powered by Microsoft Roslyn

155 points | 96 comments | Jan 15, 2015 | by DuoCode

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#58 Show HN: Compile Ruby to C

153 points | 109 comments | Sep 21, 2020 | by agrafix

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#59 Show HN: Lisp with copying GC in 537 lines of C (plus Lisp 1.5 on top)

152 points | 34 comments | Oct 14, 2018 | by krig

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#60 Show HN: Chan – pure C implementation of Go channels

150 points | 44 comments | Aug 29, 2014 | by tylertreat

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#61 Show HN: Ecosim – A cellular ecosystem simulator toy for Linux written in C

150 points | 29 comments | Feb 27, 2020 | by connor-brooks

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#62 Show HN: Online C/C++ to assembly visualizer [Weekend Project]

149 points | 44 comments | Sep 23, 2012 | by ynh

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#63 Show HN: Introducting C+

148 points | 47 comments | Oct 31, 2012 | by orangeduck

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#64 Show HN: My friend's project to simulate an entire C. Elegans

147 points | 42 comments | May 08, 2013 | by SlyShy

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#65 Show HN: A simple way to write standalone C programs for i386

147 points | 34 comments | Sep 30, 2019 | by qx89l4

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#66 Show HN: I wanted to measure CO2 in my office, so I build a C++ WebServer/App

146 points | 120 comments | Jan 25, 2019 | by stackmad

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#67 Show HN: Async tasks in 350 lines of C

146 points | 52 comments | Mar 11, 2024 | by rkaehn

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#68 Show HN: C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs

146 points | 40 comments | Aug 24, 2014 | by tuhdo

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#69 Show HN: Compile C to Not Gates

145 points | 63 comments | Jan 17, 2025 | by tomhee

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#70 Show HN: Neco – Coroutine Library for C

145 points | 36 comments | Apr 08, 2024 | by tidwall

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#71 Show HN: Lisp in C#

144 points | 67 comments | Jul 23, 2024 | by codr7

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#72 Show HN: Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in C

144 points | 25 comments | Aug 31, 2018 | by epermyakov

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#73 Show HN: Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C

143 points | 20 comments | Apr 05, 2020 | by rxi

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#74 Show HN: Automated algorithm translation for Python, C++, C#, JS

142 points | 14 comments | Mar 13, 2016 | by alehander42

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#75 Show HN: The Silicon C++14 Web Framework

140 points | 37 comments | Jan 19, 2015 | by matt42

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#76 Show HN: Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, written in C

136 points | 31 comments | Jul 22, 2021 | by flouthoc_fl

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#77 Show HN: uThreads – Concurrent User Threads in C and C++

135 points | 60 comments | Nov 07, 2016 | by saman_b

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#78 Show HN: A Python with Hindley-Milner-like type annotations, compiling to C

134 points | 27 comments | Jun 25, 2015 | by alehander42

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#79 Show HN: Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++

132 points | 70 comments | Dec 30, 2018 | by ajmmertens

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#80 Show HN: Nanosecond C message logger

131 points | 9 comments | Jan 20, 2019 | by RafaGC

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#81 Show HN: Build a robot with the $9 C.H.I.P. Computer

130 points | 35 comments | Nov 23, 2016 | by johncole

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#82 Show HN: Coros – A Modern C++ Library for Task Parallelism

129 points | 58 comments | Sep 25, 2024 | by singledigits

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#83 Show HN: Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python

128 points | 57 comments | Aug 13, 2021 | by eatonphil

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#84 Show HN: A dynamic C (Hot reloading) module-based Web Framework

128 points | 50 comments | Nov 17, 2024 | by warothia

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#85 Show HN: My platforming game written in C 89

127 points | 43 comments | Jul 07, 2023 | by zamfofex

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#86 Show HN: Smart pointers for the C programming language

126 points | 58 comments | Jan 14, 2015 | by Snaipe

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#87 Show HN: Fist – Persistent Full Text Search and Indexing Server Written in C

124 points | 62 comments | Jun 22, 2019 | by max0563

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#88 Show HN: Iceoryx2 – Fast IPC Library for Rust, C++, and C

122 points | 51 comments | Sep 28, 2024 | by elfenpiff

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#89 Show HN: A tiling window manager like i3wm written entirely in C#

121 points | 35 comments | Apr 15, 2022 | by toothbrush6

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#90 Show HN: C3 – A C alternative that looks like C

120 points | 87 comments | Jul 18, 2021 | by lerno

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#91 Show HN: Underscore.js for Objective-C

120 points | 25 comments | Jun 01, 2012 | by robert-boehnke

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#92 Show HN: ShivyC – Hobby C compiler created in Python

120 points | 11 comments | Mar 30, 2018 | by ssarodia

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#93 Show HN: Add a command-line interface to any C++ program

119 points | 40 comments | Oct 16, 2021 | by chrisaycock

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#94 Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++

118 points | 45 comments | Mar 28, 2025 | by Chaosvex

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#95 Show HN: KySync – A C++ rewrite of Zsync with performance boost

118 points | 35 comments | Sep 19, 2021 | by kyotov

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#96 Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance

117 points | 48 comments | Dec 15, 2024 | by hgs3

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#97 Show HN: I took over Painteresque, a 14 year old Objective-C app and rebuilt it

117 points | 25 comments | Mar 01, 2025 | by busymom0

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#98 Show HN: Poica – Algebraic data types and type introspection for pure C

116 points | 8 comments | Jun 18, 2020 | by Hirrolot

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#99 Show HN: Introduction to Simple Computational Geometry Concepts Using C++

114 points | 10 comments | Feb 21, 2018 | by ArashPartow

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#100 Show HN: PyCParser, C parser and interpreter in Python

112 points | 19 comments | Sep 14, 2019 | by albertzeyer

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