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Top Show HN Launches, January 2026

Every Show HN launch from January 2026 that reached 50 or more points, most points first. For what is launching right now, see the live list.

149 launches

Top launches, January 2026

isometric.nyc

cannoneyed.com

giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

▲ 1325 · 241 comments · 22 Jan 2026

ChartGPU

github.com

WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

▲ 670 · 214 comments · 21 Jan 2026

I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

lend-me-your-ears.specr.net

A Simon-style musical ear training game. Listen to melodies and play them back on piano. Practice mode with sheet music notation or play-by-ear mode. MIDI keyboard support.

▲ 565 · 171 comments · 9 Jan 2026

Sweep

huggingface.co

Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete

▲ 534 · 153 comments · 21 Jan 2026

I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

trails.pieterma.es

Thematic links across books, automatically discovered by Claude.

▲ 524 · 146 comments · 10 Jan 2026

OpenWorkers

openworkers.com

Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust

▲ 500 · 158 comments · 1 Jan 2026

I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

simedw.com

Can a small transformer autocomplete MIDI performances in real time?

▲ 469 · 153 comments · 31 Jan 2026

Terminal UI for AWS

github.com

Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager - huseyinbabal/taws

▲ 390 · 210 comments · 4 Jan 2026

Prism.Tools

blgardner.github.io

Free and privacy-focused developer utilities

▲ 380 · 104 comments · 6 Jan 2026

The HN Arcade

andrewgy8.github.io

A directory of games from Hacker News Show HN posts.

▲ 352 · 123 comments · 28 Jan 2026

DoNotNotify

donotnotify.com

Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

▲ 347 · 168 comments · 5 Jan 2026

Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

quack.sdan.io

A TikTok-style feed of short educational videos, ranked by what gets watched.

▲ 330 · 88 comments · 9 Jan 2026

One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC

emsh.cat

▲ 324 · 153 comments · 27 Jan 2026

I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

calquio.com

Use our free compound interest calculator to see how your investments grow over time. Calculate with different interest rates, compounding frequencies, and monthly contributions.

▲ 314 · 433 comments · 19 Jan 2026

An interactive guide to how browsers work

howbrowserswork.com

A guide on how browsers work.

▲ 302 · 38 comments · 4 Jan 2026

Moltbook

moltbook.com

A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

▲ 287 · 885 comments · 28 Jan 2026

Self-host Reddit

github.com

2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

▲ 286 · 64 comments · 13 Jan 2026

Tailsnitch

github.com

A security auditor for Tailscale

▲ 280 · 28 comments · 5 Jan 2026

Whosthere

github.com

A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

▲ 278 · 89 comments · 23 Jan 2026

Enroll

enroll.sh

a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt

▲ 265 · 56 comments · 1 Jan 2026

Website that plays the lottery every second

lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me

Why wait a week for disappointment when you can have it every second? Watch Powerball and EuroJackpot play automatically in real-time.

▲ 262 · 144 comments · 3 Jan 2026

Bonsplit

bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com

Tabs and splits for native macOS apps

▲ 245 · 33 comments · 25 Jan 2026

Ferrite

github.com

Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

▲ 241 · 190 comments · 11 Jan 2026

OpenWork

github.com

An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

▲ 231 · 60 comments · 14 Jan 2026

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