Elevators
john.fun
How elevators push your buttons
Top Show HN Launches, July 2026
Every Show HN launch from July 2026 that reached 50 or more points, most points first. For what is launching right now, see the live list.
126 launches
Top launches, July 2026
18 Words
18words.com
Unscramble 18 words against the clock. Official home at 18words.com. Play on PZL Games.
Bento
bento.page
An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
github.com
Run frontier MoE models on hardware you already own — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦 - JustVugg/colibri
Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
github.com
Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series MacBook - drumih/turbo-fieldfare
Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room
blackhole.plav.in
I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
github.com
Backchannel brings the internet's conversations into whatever you're reading. It blends Hacker News, Bluesky, Reddit, and more into a single discussion thread beside any page, then brings t...
Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops
workerowned.info
Browse worker owned online stores by category or search 50,000+ products from cooperatives and employee-owned companies.
Super Dario
superdario.pawb.de
Davit
davit.app
a Apple Containers UI
Microsoft releases Flint
microsoft.github.io
a visualization language for AI agents
Ant
antjs.org
A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
CheapFoodMap
cheapfoodmap.com
A map of good meals under $10
Juggler
github.com
an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE
Firefox in WebAssembly
developer.puter.com
Reverse Minesweeper
sunflowersgame.com
A new logic puzzle game. Use number clues to plant sunflowers around your logical garden. Unlimited free puzzles across 6 different difficulty levels.
Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco
vincentwoo.com
I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data
globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io
Interactive simulator of the global oil trade network on UN Comtrade data. Pick a chokepoint, set severity, watch the cascade unfold week by week.
Yamanote.fun
yamanote.fun
A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line
Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years
homegames.io
Brolly
brolly.sh
a plain-text weather forecast site
Clawk
github.com
Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
I mapped every US golf course
golfcoursebrowser.com
Every US golf course on one map — scorecards, ratings, weather, and tee times.
HN Hall of Fame
orangecrumbs.com
browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
Rowboat
github.com
Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
I made some transistor animations
brandonli.net
Gander
github.com
an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions
Learn by rebuilding Redis
shipthatcode.com
Git, a database from scratch
Justif
justif.lyall.co
Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web
A Handwritten Blogging Platform
handwritten.blog
Some thoughts deserve more time. Writing by hand slows us down. A place for authentic thinking. No algorithms or feeds or likes. Just your pages, published as…
Palmier Pro
github.com
Open-source macOS video editor built for AI
Cactus Hybrid
github.com
We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong
Opening lines of famous literary works
verbaprima.com
Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time
honeypotlive.cc
IKEA Complexity Index
ikea.greg.technology
Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
ctgt.ai
DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 45 points more censored on China-sensitive questions than on matched controls. Every model trained on it stays at the level of the untouched American base.
misa77
github.com
a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)
Mindwalk
github.com
Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase
I worked on a new browser for 2 years
code.intellios.ai
today it passed Acid 3
DOM-docx
github.com
HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)
Follow London Trains in 3D
ride.nexttrain.london
Board a live London Tube train and ride it through a 3D London.
Bramble
github.com
Local-first password manager
Clx
github.com
Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20
Kedge
kedge.dev
Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite
CheapSecurity
github.com
Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs
What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
marbleos.com
A workspace with visible files, tools, tasks, and outputs — not buried in chat threads.
XY
github.com
A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library
ZeroFS
zerofs.net
A log-structured filesystem for S3
FeyNoBg
usefeyn.com
Automatic background removal model and training library
I implemented a neural network in SQL
github.com
An experiment to query Xarray datasets with SQL. Contribute to xqlsystems/xarray-sql development by creating an account on GitHub.
A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events
app.everything.diena.co
Explore the timeline of everything, from the Big Bang to the present day, and beyond. Discover the history of the universe, life on Earth, and human civilization in a new and interactive way.
Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection
ryanjk5.github.io
If you’ve ever tried using type erasure for something more complicated than std::any or std::function, you’ve either written 100+ lines of easy-to-mess-up code or reached for a boilerplate-heavy library like Boost.TypeEr
Formally verified 3D CSG
github.com
Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code
Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you
github.com
Keeps your Claude session warm for you. Contribute to izeigerman/claude-thermos development by creating an account on GitHub.
KiCad in the Browser
demo.pcbjam.com
Early-access alpha of PCBJam — KiCad running in your browser. Open the example boards or your own KiCad project. No install, nothing uploaded.
OneCLI
github.com
OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents
A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy
github.com
Contribute to Kalcode/spaceprojectsim development by creating an account on GitHub.
YouTube Guitar Tab Parser
github.com
CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. - marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser
I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k)
github.com
RL-training an AI agent to RL-train AI agents. Contribute to Danau5tin/ai-trains-ai development by creating an account on GitHub.
Analog Watch
analog.watch
Read 3 analog clocks as fast as you can!
A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser
freegraphpaper.net
Free printable graph paper PDFs plus a custom graph paper maker — grid, dot, isometric, lined and more. No login, prints true to scale.
Q3Edit
q3edit.com
Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser
Pulpie
usefeyn.com
Models for Cleaning the Web
ReadKinetic
readkinetic.com
a free, local-first speed reader for your own books
Yap
github.com
OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download
Mail Memories
mailmemories.com
A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail
I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates
select.supply
A collection of the best-designed products.
Jacquard
github.com
a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code
Remux
github.com
an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone
Neil the Seal Game
neiltheseal.app
A free browser game where Neil barrels through suburban Tasmania, pushes cars, flattens fences, and causes lovable mischief.
FableCut
github.com
A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)
Fast
whimfiles.com
native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)
BitBang
github.com
Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account
Qwen Scribe
github.com
local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon
PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types
postgres.saneengineer.com
Find the cheapest AWS EC2 instance that clears your PostgreSQL throughput target — real benchmarks of 26 instance types across 8 families.
Nobie
nobie.com
an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
Let's Seal
github.com
Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted
Leaves
github.com
A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer
One More Letter
playonemoreletter.com
One More Letter is a daily word game where every round adds one letter and rearranges them into a new answer.
CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models
github.com
Embedding-based discovery of duplicated logic for projects too large or messy to maintain reliably - rafal-qa/slopo
Shirei
github.com
cross-platform GUI framework in native Go
Orbit
nagylukas.github.io
AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
A new kind of FPS aim trainer
openaim.pramit.gg
I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas
tomesphere.com
The map of human research — pick a field, see where the work is most active, drill into sub-clusters.
Scala Tutorials
scalatutorials.com
interactive Scala 3 lessons in the browser
Wyrm
github.com
Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine
I left Figma to build a diffusion-based UI design tool
diffui.ai
Why Diffui uses diffusion as the design engine for agents, and how its designs become products and reusable brands.
Web swing through midtown NYC
swingnyc.com
Mojibake
mojibake.zaerl.com
A low-level Unicode library written in C
Bribes.fyi
bribes.fyi
Know before you go. New feature added
Chiptune Radio
chiptune-radio.alephvoid.com
A 24/7 chiptune music stream on YouTube — 8-bit soundchips, trackers, and demoscene energy, broadcast by Aleph Void, LLC.
Inkwell
kendal.codeberg.page
An RSS reader for e-ink devices
tale.fyi
tale.fyi
we deserve a home for fiction
Imagin Raw
github.com
A 9MB Open-Source Alternative to Adobe Bridge for Mac
BillAI Bass
github.com
an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents
Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost
github.com
Experiential is the open source, zero markup gateway for BYOK, self-hosted and 1000+ marketplace models. It learns from your traffic to cut costs, recommend better models, and train a specialized m...
How far do I have to go to run into 100k people?
imjasonh.github.io
How far must a 5° slice go in each direction before it hits N people?
Read the Tape
readthetape.cc
Wordle for daytrading, five blind S&P 500 charts a day
Docx-CLI
github.com
agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens
zkGolf
zk.golf
Competitive optimization of formally verified circuits
Freeport
ptrinh.github.io
a P2P ride-hailing marketplace I built on Nostr
Frugon
github.com
Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT)
Bullshit Detector
github.com
agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
ctx
github.com
Search the coding agent history already on your machine
Mcpsnoop
github.com
Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)
Pieces
try.piecesof.me
Social network for people
A canvas-based note taking and organizer app
passinote.app
CodeAlmanac
github.com
Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations
Hackney
hackney.app
Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices
Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership
anti-forbes-list.vercel.app
Jeff Bezos asked for a list that ranks people by how much wealth they've created for other people. This is that list — every number traceable to an SEC filing, updated every 15 minutes.
Reame
github.com
a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs
The Federalist Papers
federalistreader.org
typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in
Reviving my 2001 college band with AI
fadingmaize.com
Original human-written college band songs, transparently reimagined with 2026 AI tools.
Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains
search.cerast-intelligence.com
Be the ChatBOT
bethechatbot.com
An experimental role-reversal chatbot: you play the AI and answer users’ prompts.
Earth Game
github.com
An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests
Claude-account
github.com
switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again
Agent Draw
techstackups.com
An agent draws while you talk, built on TLDraw
GolemUI
golemui.com
Declarative Form Engine
DeepSQL
deepsql.ai
A self-hostable DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL
Ex Situ
exsitu.app
Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Free Mermaid Diagram Editor
moxiedocs.com
Free online Mermaid live editor. Create, preview, and export clean SVG and PNG diagrams directly in your browser. 100% free with no sign-up required.
GeoImageTagger
geoimagetagger.com
AI image geotagging and metadata editor
Whetuu
yamafaktory.github.io
a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig
I've built a words game based on binary search
hilogame.cc
Hi. Lo. Solve. Guess the 7-letter word in 5 tries.
Claudoro
github.com
Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline
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.