Needle
github.com
We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Top Show HN Launches, May 2026
Every Show HN launch from May 2026 that reached 50 or more points, most points first. For what is launching right now, see the live list.
95 launches
Top launches, May 2026
Files.md
github.com
Open-source alternative to Obsidian
Forge
github.com
Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
WhatCable
github.com
a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
Audiomass
audiomass.co
a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
superspl.at
Shot from 90 perspectives, 88 focus stacked images each. Nikon Z8, full frame, f/7.1, exposure 1/160, ISO 100, Laowa 180mm macro lens, with LED light and blu...
Semble
github.com
Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
Hallucinate
hallucinate.site
Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
github.com
MacOS Web Server written entirely in ARM64 assembly - imtomt/ymawky
I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
github.com
Custom video wallpapers for macOS — any video, on the desktop and the lock screen, picked directly from System Settings' Wallpaper pane - kageroumado/phosphene
Freenet
freenet.org
a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
Continue? Y/N
llmgame.scalex.dev
A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue
Auto-identity-remove
github.com
Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
Hallucinopedia
halupedia.com
An encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it.
I made a Clojure-like language in Go
github.com
boots in 7ms
Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks
github.com
Find the local LLM that actually runs and performs best on your hardware. Ranked by real, recency-aware benchmarks, not parameter count. One command, run it instantly. - Andyyyy64/whichllm
Number Gacha
isabisabel.com
a gacha game distilled to its essence
Rust but Lisp
github.com
Rust but LISP. Contribute to ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp development by creating an account on GitHub.
I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)
github.com
Extracted Maps of the DOS Game Test Drive 3. Contribute to s-macke/Test-Drive-3-Maps development by creating an account on GitHub.
Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
paletteinspiration.com
Browse, search, and filter beautiful color palettes inspired by the Old Masters.
Tiny-vLLM
github.com
high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA
Watch a neural net learn to play Snake
ppo.gradexp.xyz
Tilde.run
tilde.run
Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
TikTok but for scientific papers
andreaturchet.github.io
A quiet, black-and-white research feed with on-device AI, quizzes, and discussion around academic papers.
TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV
tvexplorer.live
Watch over 10,000 free live TV channels from around the world, right in your browser. No signup, no apps, no tracking. Explore free TV by language, country, and category.
Rmux
github.com
A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK
Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web
github.com
Web playground to create Gaussian Splats using Apple's SHARP model - bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web
TRUST
github.com
Coding Rust like it's 1989
I built an open-source email builder
play.templatical.com
alternative to Beefree/Unlayer
ShadowCat
github.com
file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser
State of the Art of Coding Models
hnup.date
According to Hacker News Commenters
500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard
ajin.im
An index of indie web/blog indexes
theindex.fyi
A maintained, canonical meta-index of indie web and small web index sites. 38 entries across 6 categories.
Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
github.com
A privacy-preserving Raspberry Pi home security camera that uses advanced end-to-end encryption. - secluso/core
Burn
github.com
baby, burn (those tokens)
Breathe CLI
github.com
Paced resonance breathing in the macOS terminal
Streambed
github.com
Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire
Git for AI Agents
github.com
Version control for AI agents — track what your agent did, blame any line to a prompt, inspect any step. - regent-vcs/re_gent
Helios
helios.southlondonscientific.com
what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain
Statewright
github.com
Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable
GhostBox
ghost.charity
Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier
I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)
silentshark.app
Plot contacts, solve firing solutions, strike unseen, or surface and fight with the deck gun. Full controller support and Steam Workshop mods. Available now on Steam, with a free demo to try.
Running the second public ODoH relay
numa.rs
Every existing anonymous-DNS option (Apple Private Relay, NextDNS, Cloudflare Families) requires signing up. ODoH (RFC 9230) is the protocol that splits ‘who you are’ from ‘what you asked’ across two independent operator
A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware
github.com
A modern, network-enabled music player platform built on Rockbox technology https://www.rockbox.org - tsirysndr/rockboxd
Ableton Live MCP
github.com
General-purpose MCP bridge for Ableton Live. Contribute to bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.
A nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator
github.com
From FPGA Gates to Scientific Calculator. Contribute to gdevic/FPGA-Calculator development by creating an account on GitHub.
Rocksky
tangled.org
Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol
Write your BPF programs in Go
github.com
not C
Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS
tinycld.org
Free, open-source cloud productivity suite. Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and Drive - faster and leaner than Google Apps. Self-host or use our cloud.
Zot
zot.sh
Yet another coding agent harness
Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps
github.com
Open-source WYSIWYG .docx editor library for React and Vue with canonical OOXML, tracked changes, and real-time collaboration. Agent-ready. - eigenpal/docx-editor
OpenGravity
github.com
A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity
Nibble
github.com
Generating LLVM IR without malloc or external dependencies - glouw/nibble
AI CAD Harness
fusion.adam.new
Install Adam Connector to connect Fusion and Rhino.
Agent-desktop
github.com
Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents
Winpodx
github.com
run Windows apps on Linux as native windows
CPU-only transcription for YouTube
github.com
TikTok, X, Instagram videos
Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL
hypercubic.ai
Hopper is an agentic TN3270 terminal emulator. AI agents navigate ISPF, write column-strict JCL, debug failed jobs and query VSAM inside z/OS.
Ktx
github.com
Open-source executable context layer for data agents
OpenBrief
github.com
Local-first video downloader/summarizer
Epiq
ljtn.github.io
Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI
PHP-fts
github.com
Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions
I made a 3D pose maker for artists
setpose.com
The easy to use pose maker for artists! Adjust the 3D drawing model to create your own custom poses. Combine them with many props to use as a drawing reference
adamsreview
github.com
better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code
I made an emergency page for my family
help.delduca.org
Posthorn
github.com
self-hosted mail gateway
nfsdiag
github.com
A NFS diagnostic application
Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows
ahk.cardor.dev
A collection of open-source TypeScript tools by @enmanuelmag. heimdall-mcp for MCP proxy telemetry. agent-harness-kit for multi-agent orchestration.
I built a new word game
wordtrak.com
Wordtrak
Agent-skills-eval
github.com
Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs
Open-Source AI Racing Harness
elodin.systems
Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop
vouchatlas.com
Would you vouch for this country? A crowd-sourced safety map.
Geomatic
tinyvolt.com
A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff
Superlog (YC P26)
superlog.sh
Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs
Torrix
github.com
self hosted, LLM Observability,(no Postgres, no Redis)
AISlop
github.com
a CLI for catching AI generated code smells
Mljar Studio
mljar.com
local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks
We missed Winamp
advanced-research.net
so we built an audio player for macOS
Piruetas
piruet.app
A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend
Site Mogging
sitemogging.com
Two websites enter. One gets mogged. An AI judge with the eye of an Awwwards critic decides which one looks prettier.
Atomic Editor
kenforthewin.github.io
Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6
Lance
github.com
image/video generation and understanding in one model
GlycemicGPT
github.com
Open-source AI-powered diabetes management
A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes
congress.kadoa.com
Every stock trade disclosed by U.S. Congress and the executive branch under the STOCK Act. 57,000+ trades, searchable, open source.
InsForge
github.com
Open-source Heroku for coding agents
GridTravel
gridtravel.app
A community based travel app for users to share routes
Race to the Bottom
race-to-the-bottom.onrender.com
Ranking battles between industries to determine which are the worst. Vote now.
Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling
copilot.simplepdf.com
AI that helps users fill PDF forms step by step.
Loopsy
github.com
a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk
Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s
snewpapers.com
Search 250 years of American newspapers with AI-powered semantic search. Explore millions of historical articles spanning the 1730s to the 1960s.
Reducing LLM input tokens by 70%
adola.app
OpenAI-compatible inference, streaming responses, and clear usage-based model pricing.
Hsrs
github.com
Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust
Open Envelope
openenvelope.org
an open schema for defining AI agent teams
Sx
github.com
an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands
I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM
github.com
A tiny RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM. Contribute to lalitshankarch/rvcore development by creating an account on GitHub.
Top launches, last 12 months
Every Show HN launch that reached 50 or more points, by the month it was posted. 1344 launches in all.