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Top Show HN Launches, October 2025

Every Show HN launch from October 2025 that reached 50 or more points, most points first. For what is launching right now, see the live list.

93 launches

Top launches, October 2025

Strange Attractors

blog.shashanktomar.com

A visualisation of Strange Attractors using a Threejs particle system. In this post, I will try to explain the basics of dynamical systems, chaos theory, attractors and the butterfly effect.

▲ 804 · 78 comments · 31 Oct 2025

I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR

discrete-distribution-networks.github.io

Novel Generative Model with Simple Principles and Unique Properties

▲ 656 · 91 comments · 10 Oct 2025

Timelinize

timelinize.com

Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

▲ 630 · 163 comments · 7 Oct 2025

SQLite Online

sqliteonline.com

11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

▲ 465 · 142 comments · 13 Oct 2025

I built a web framework in C

github.com

a lightweight web framework in c. Contribute to ashtonjamesd/lavandula development by creating an account on GitHub.

▲ 420 · 218 comments · 9 Oct 2025

I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard

github.com

Firmware & goodies for making a KEYER (one-handed chorded keyboard). - mafik/keyer

▲ 411 · 107 comments · 9 Oct 2025

I'm building a browser for reverse engineers

nullpt.rs

In the expanding world of AI my heart still lies in AST transforms, browser fingerprinting, and anti-bot circumvention. But my workflow felt... primitive.

▲ 348 · 55 comments · 6 Oct 2025

I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia

detective.wiki

Detective Wiki is a discovery game that challenges your knowledge of the world through endless questions about ideas, people, places, and things.

▲ 318 · 43 comments · 17 Oct 2025

I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions

ambisounds.app

White noise & sleep sounds to sleep, focus and relax.

▲ 314 · 118 comments · 12 Oct 2025

Write It Down

write-it-down.com

Personal finance tracker

▲ 271 · 173 comments · 6 Oct 2025

Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations

github.com

Diagram as Code Tool Written in Rust with Draggable Editing - RohanAdwankar/oxdraw

▲ 266 · 60 comments · 25 Oct 2025

I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews

0github.com

Open source applied AI lab building next-gen devtools

▲ 265 · 68 comments · 30 Oct 2025

In a single HTML file

roberdam.com

an app to encourage my children to invest

▲ 247 · 437 comments · 30 Oct 2025

MyraOS

github.com

My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)

▲ 247 · 55 comments · 26 Oct 2025

Bash Screensavers

github.com

Turn your idle shell into a visual playground with this collection of Bash screensav­ers - attogram/bash-screensavers

▲ 246 · 77 comments · 28 Oct 2025

Kent Dybvig's Scheme Machine in 400 Lines of C (Heap-Memory Model)

gist.github.com

Nuke Insta Slop. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

▲ 226 · 44 comments · 6 Oct 2025

Baby's first international landline

wip.tf

Téléfonefix is a kid-friendly telephone system allowing kids to safely call relatives, locally and abroad.

▲ 222 · 57 comments · 8 Oct 2025

Duck-UI

demo.duckui.com

Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB

▲ 213 · 60 comments · 19 Oct 2025

Rift

github.com

A tiling window manager for macOS

▲ 212 · 122 comments · 12 Oct 2025

Cadence

cadenceguitar.com

A guitar theory app

▲ 195 · 89 comments · 13 Oct 2025

Playwright Skill for Claude Code

github.com

Less context than playwright-MCP

▲ 189 · 45 comments · 20 Oct 2025

I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does

deadstack.net

▲ 188 · 97 comments · 23 Oct 2025

Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots

abstractboardgames.com

Play abstract strategy board games online for free. Challenge friends or the computer AI in Hex, Connect6, Amazons, Breakthrough, and Tumbleweed.

▲ 180 · 87 comments · 16 Oct 2025

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