The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
louisabraham.github.io
Top Show HN Launches, August 2026
Every Show HN launch from August 2026 that reached 50 or more points, most points first. For what is launching right now, see the live list.
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Top launches, August 2026
Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
toneyalexander.github.io
Simple equations and a color picker to inclusively select simplified skin tones in a custom color space for digital art or game development.
I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
simedw.com
Can a small transformer autocomplete MIDI performances in real time?
Needle2
cactuscompute.com
14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
Huzzah
danielvaughn.dev
a novel approach to coding with AI
Isopolis
sf.isopolis.city
Isometric pixel map of SF
I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer
github.com
This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
photosynthesis.camera
Zoom and enhance. For real this time. Two lenses, one press, one high-res photo.
Woxi
woxi.ad-si.com
Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation
Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
github.com
Swiftlet is a Swift and Metal runtime that runs large Qwen Mixture-of-Experts models locally on Apple devices by streaming expert weights from storage, enabling 35B and 80B models to run with low R...
I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
electronicmaterialsoffice.com
Shockingly thin, fully mechanical. Altar II combines a superlative typing experience with an unbelievable design.
Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
everycube.alen.is
Scroll through all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 reachable Rubik's Cube permutations.
Kakehashi
github.com
Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
Laser Graffiti
laser.consti.de
Point a projector and a webcam at a wall, draw with a laser pointer, and the projector paints your strokes. Open source, runs in the browser.
Eigendrum
baselashraf81.github.io
Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
A techno machine in one HTML file
ssx360.github.io
with verifiable renders
NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU
wilsonharper.net
using RF to power an MCU and 21 animated LEDs from a smartphone
OpenTIE and OpenXWA
github.com
Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance
Wyzer Programming Language
github.com
The Wyzer Programming Language. Contribute to Wyzer-Lang/wyzer development by creating an account on GitHub.
We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model
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...
Voice driven murder mystery
whodunnitai.com
Interview AI suspects with your voice
textlog
textlog.cc
A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
Bor
getbor.dev
Open-source policy management for Linux desktops
LatticeDB
github.com
Like SQLite but for graph databases
ssh ssh.place
ssh.place
Maple-Preview
deepgrove.ai
Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone
Shitty
github.com
fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
Ante
github.com
a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline
Desktopcolors.com
desktopcolors.com
A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
Git-knife
github.com
Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
github.com
Static analysis for Sierra adventure games: finds softlocks by abstract interpretation of decompiled SCI scripts, derives and verifies guards, recompiles them into the game - katiahayati/lucasartsi...
PicoMQ
picomq.com
Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage
Voronoi Go
voronoigo.com
Play the ancient game of Go without the grid. Capture territory and best your opponent in a flowing, geometry-driven battle of wits.
I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines
tarjan.itch.io
The BASIC you started with - now with GB of RAM, wavetable sound, SSE2 and hyperthreading
I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI
github.com
Your car as a chat-room agent: Raspberry Pi 5 + dashcam + local AI. CodeWatch's sibling for the garage. - ThinkOffApp/CarWatch
Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU
github.com
Fine-tune LLMs from one YAML. Layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU. - MakazhanAlpamys/Soup
Galaxium
galaxium.app
an experimental WebGPU space explorer
ThoughtDAG
chenxiachan.github.io
An editable context graph for LLM conversations
GlassBox
glassbox.codecanary.org
what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are
NixOS-DGX-Spark
github.com
Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark
Sprocket
sprocket-demo.spikonado.com
The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development
A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5
github.com
Modified version of the original from http://www.projectoberon.com/ for use with the Oberon IDE - rochus-keller/OberonSystem
The Channels SDK
github.com
Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)
Fuse
fuselang.org
statically typed functional programming language
Nightcrawler
github.com
A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone
Typebase
typebase.io
A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript
TeXbrain
github.com
a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM
C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE
github.com
A cross-platform 2D game engine with its own programming language and IDE. - ArcadeMakerSources/ArcadeMaker
Ember
github.com
Redshift safe color palettes
Interactive
modelmap.cc
animated architecture of any HuggingFace models
terminal-code
terminal-code.com
VS Code inside the terminal
Write.md
writemd.app
A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
LuaCAD
luacad.ad-si.com
Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua
Mole
github.com
Deep research agent for your terminal
Shoehorn
notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io
Quantize any model down to run on your machine
I missed the moving blocks
github.com
so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter
Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door
github.com
make your framework hinge rusty (wow it's also written in rust too) - ArcaEge/creakwork12
We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker
pantsforbirds.com
OzBrain
ozbrain.com
a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team
Mic Drop
micdrop.gg
a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes
github.com
so I made a tool to find out why
Line9
line9.ai
A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout
A public AI whose memory is shared across all users
wildstatic.com
Talk to Static, a public AI shared by everyone. There are no separate copies: what it learns from one conversation can shape another.
Buslens
rupertlinacre.com
where can I get to by bus? (UK)
Open-source Stripe Connect alternative
zoneless.com
Open-source payments. Zoneless is a community-owned payments platform to accept and send payments anywhere, with no limits.
Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux
github.com
Linux-only CLI for viewing and changing settings on compatible Tamron lenses. - yikerman/tamron-lens-control
Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
soverybright.com
Upload a logo, choose what glows, download an HDR JPEG. Free — nothing is stored.
How to mentally calculate the day of the week for any date
tinkerandsee.com
Learn John Conway's Doomsday Rule step by step and name the weekday of any date in your head. An interactive explorable for kids and curious adults.
Silent Shark
silentshark.app
tactical map-based WWII submarine sim
A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo)
mikeayles.com
A 3.16M-parameter INT4 transformer running entirely in the on-chip memory of a Xilinx Kria KV260. Zero DRAM in the token loop, 59,965 tok/s on the fabric, bit-exact. Chat with it live.
Syncular
github.com
offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores
SubSmith
subsmith.app
Turn your own videos into language-learning material
Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours
pub.doub.ly
$656M in unmatched and unclaimed mechanicals starts paying out by market share in January 2027. Paste a Spotify link and see which of your recordings are exposed. Free, no signup.
How much of Hacker News is about AI?
hnstats.com
Live count of how many new Hacker News headlines mention AI today. Updates as stories are posted. Timer resets on each new AI headline.
Openleetcode
github.com
Local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo
We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP
goonhost.rocks
Instant QEMU/KVM virtual servers for your goys with native IPv6, automated rDNS delegation, Telegram CryptoBot payments, and micro-hourly slop billing.
MCP-stama
github.com
An ultra-fast Rust MCP server with no dependencies
Mcptoon
github.com
Token-efficient MCP CLI client
Sokoban AI Solver
mkornreich.me
Play Sokoban in your browser and watch an AI solver crack it. A plain-JS port of a native C++ engine, it returns the provably optimal (fewest-move) solution, entirely client-side.
We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge
arcbox.dev
UniFi gateways (UDM Pro/SE/Pro Max/Beast/EFG) ship with notoriously underpowered CPUs and has no hardware acceleration for PPPoE. Paired with a PPPoE-based ISP connection, the performance is dismal. So why not hand the P
Kern
github.com
container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon
Saggar
saggar.marginalutility.dev
a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized
MCP Memory
github.com
Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5
Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive
skylens.yantraai.app
Track thousands of live satellites in real-time 3D. Browse 375 declassified UAP case files. NASA asteroid context. Daily space news. Free.
Sesame
usesesame.app
a local-first, open-source password manager
SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust
github.com
Rust crate for Forward Error Correction. Contribute to brian-armstrong/fec development by creating an account on GitHub.
Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go
github.com
Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS. Contribute to leodeim/vpsmon development by creating an account on GitHub.
Screen memory without screenshots
github.com
just text to Markdown
Rotation via Double Reflection
static.laszlokorte.de
We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it
radi8.dev
UpLink was a 491-gram high altitude balloon payload with a custom 3D printed enclosure, a LoRa image downlink, and two independent trackers. It reached the stratosphere, sent back hundreds of pictures, and we never recov
A Modern GUI Library for Ada
github.com
CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3
Build your own theme park
magicpatterns.com
Create your own theme park in seconds. Describe the roller coasters, rides, attractions and scenery you want, and watch your park come to life.
Public Muscriptor Instance (latest
pianoify.net
most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)
Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2
github.com
Pokémon Emerald ported to the RP2350. No emulator, 60 fps HDMI output. Recompiled for Cortex-M33. - mattdeeds/pokeemerald-rp2350
Omacosy
github.com
Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP
Learn Flags Quiz
flagquizzes.com
Free flag, capital, map and country-shape quizzes covering all 197 countries. Play instantly, no sign-up. Learn the flags you keep getting wrong.
Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext
github.com
Find the plaintext secrets on your Mac and move them behind Touch ID, injected just in time without breaking the tools that read them. Free and local-first. - jitpass/jit
Bribes.fyi
bribes.fyi
Compare bribes statistics department wise
A terminal glued to the macOS dock
github.com
A terminal that's always beside your Dock — not a Quake-style hotkey overlay, a permanent fixture - palamim/starboard
Deltix
app.deltix.ai
AI Driven Testing
Hacker News with AI stories filtered out
hcker.news
A better Hacker News reader for following stories, filtering noise, and keeping up with discussions.
Mu
github.com
Tools for Agents
Vocal Slice
vocalslice.com
Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device
Corporate Mind Games
corporatemindgames.com
logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme
Restoredrill
github.com
proves your Postgres backups restore
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.