Every Show HN launch from September 2026 that reached 50 or more points, most points
first. For what is launching right now, see the live list.
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An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
github.com
Bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. On an e-ink panel, a TV, or any screen. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme
▲ 2391 · 267 comments · 18d ago
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Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
bastardica.mitpit.com
A type foundry for bastard web fonts.
▲ 862 · 123 comments · 9d ago
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What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
rivendell.dmitrybrant.com
▲ 633 · 290 comments · 23d ago
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I made a flight simulator
inflightsimulator.com
except you're just a passenger
▲ 446 · 205 comments · 19d ago
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Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
opentrailpaper.com
Open-source bike computer firmware for the LilyGO T5S3 4.7" E-Paper PRO, with offline maps, GPX routes, FIT recording and Bluetooth sensors.
▲ 424 · 134 comments · 28d ago
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Whiteboard (YC W26)
github.com
An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
▲ 423 · 142 comments · 8d ago
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A diagram language where you decide where to place things
▲ 411 · 119 comments · 6d ago
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Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
space.bl2.net
▲ 401 · 110 comments · 3d ago
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Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
▲ 380 · 167 comments · 18d ago
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Bodily Oddities
vester.si
A collection, normal things human bodies can (sometimes) do: reflexes, illusions, sounds, tricks and rare abilities.
▲ 341 · 216 comments · 22d ago
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Lofi Cities
loficities.com
Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
▲ 317 · 138 comments · 5d ago
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Jev Plays Pokémon Red
jev-pokemon.vercel.app
Jev, an AI decision model, plays Pokémon Red all the way to the Hall of Fame. Watch the highlights.
▲ 282 · 124 comments · 8d ago
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Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
▲ 277 · 81 comments · 12d ago
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Share your AI Setup
mysetup.ai
Learn from others
▲ 251 · 140 comments · 16d ago
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Cursor for circuit boards
▲ 250 · 115 comments · 25d ago
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Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
github.com
Run a 105 GB AI model on a Mac that can't hold it. Slotstream streams Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B mixture of experts) from your SSD and caches the busiest experts in memory, so it runs on Macs wit...
▲ 240 · 118 comments · 1 Sep 2026
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Cactus Needle 3
cactuscompute.com
8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash
▲ 236 · 93 comments · 15d ago
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watch some fish and regain your balance
▲ 228 · 65 comments · 8d ago
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A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
▲ 225 · 45 comments · 29d ago
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Videos of all Hacker News posts
▲ 221 · 97 comments · 5d ago
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Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
bkovac.github.io
▲ 210 · 37 comments · 18d ago
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without AI
▲ 207 · 85 comments · 22d ago
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Runnable Markdown Notes
▲ 202 · 88 comments · 3d ago
Without AI
▲ 198 · 82 comments · 21d ago
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Destroy Any Website with Stickman
destroy.spritefusion.com
Type an address, break everything. Any website becomes a destructible pixel-art level, solo or with friends.
▲ 195 · 41 comments · 4d ago
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A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
▲ 193 · 63 comments · 11d ago
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Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model
▲ 186 · 28 comments · 20d ago
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Weedout
masteranza.github.io
Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos
▲ 185 · 84 comments · 1 Sep 2026
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A reconstructed source code of the infamous cyber-weapon
▲ 179 · 51 comments · 25d ago
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LLM Attention Visualization
ishamf.dev
A visualization of the attention mechanism in LLMs.
▲ 177 · 32 comments · 24d ago
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A Meetup.com Alternative
▲ 169 · 87 comments · 12d ago
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Neobrutalism.dev
neobrutalism.dev
Just added Base UI support and added new color theme
▲ 166 · 77 comments · 18d ago
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WSL for Linux
▲ 164 · 111 comments · 4d ago
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JevBench
benchmarkheaven.com
a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models
▲ 153 · 39 comments · 11d ago
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e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page
▲ 151 · 62 comments · 5d ago
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Free alternative to graphics design giants
scissor.studio
A vector design editor that runs entirely in your browser. Draw, edit and export without uploading anything.
▲ 145 · 50 comments · 5d ago
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Compute polynomials twice as fast
thomasahle.com
Evaluate a degree-n polynomial with about n/2 multiplications. Type a polynomial, pick ℚ, ℝ, ℂ, a Mersenne prime or a binary field, and get the preprocessed evaluation chain as math, C code or a circuit — everything runs
▲ 139 · 42 comments · 24d ago
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Pelican-bicycle alternatives
gally.net
Thirty SVG drawing prompts in the style of Simon Willison's pelican-riding-a-bicycle test, given to language models in 2025 and 2026.
▲ 133 · 45 comments · 19d ago
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JBR-001
projecthub.arduino.cc
An open-source 3D printable desktop robot
▲ 132 · 32 comments · 4d ago
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Dental Scope
dental-scope.com
Interactive 3D dental anatomy
▲ 130 · 70 comments · 4d ago
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HN Match Maker
hnmatchmaker.com
Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"
▲ 125 · 46 comments · 1 Sep 2026
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Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band
▲ 122 · 46 comments · 19d ago
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TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out
tinyaiarena.com
▲ 120 · 45 comments · 6d ago
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Jigsaw Haiku
jigsawhaiku.com
▲ 118 · 34 comments · 28d ago
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a chess clock for your day's priorities
▲ 118 · 67 comments · 1 Sep 2026
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Interactive Tree of Life
ptree.org
An interactive tree of life explorer connecting ancestry, traits and ecological relationships. Compare species and whole groups, and inspect the scientific evidence.
▲ 117 · 28 comments · 29d ago
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A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games
tinybrains.dev
A ranked ladder for small neural networks that play strategy games. Train a model, write an adapter, upload two files, and get measured into a weight class from 8 KiB up.
▲ 116 · 41 comments · 13d ago
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A working 3D model of an Enigma machine
enigma.design
Explore 3D Enigma models, follow their electrical circuits and rotor mechanisms, and learn how the machines were used.
▲ 113 · 41 comments · 3d ago
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A TUI for Hacker News
▲ 112 · 66 comments · 5d ago
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Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup
▲ 112 · 53 comments · 15d ago
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GET Together
gettogether.dev
A social network where you don't need POST to Post
▲ 107 · 59 comments · 26d ago
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Make math automatic with Mathy
gmays.com
I finally built Mathy, a little project I’ve been thinking about for a couple years. It’s free, and no account is required if you want to try it on iOS or web. I use Math Academy daily…
▲ 102 · 37 comments · 12d ago
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Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple
▲ 101 · 35 comments · 26d ago
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I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app
flat.social
A playful virtual space for team socials, events and classes. Spatial audio, mini games and no downloads. Free for up to 5 people, right in the browser.
▲ 98 · 53 comments · 16d ago
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Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization
github.com
A set of Nix Flakes and scripts to get Office 365 working on Linux without virtualization. - Tombert/office365_flake
▲ 97 · 91 comments · 15d ago
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Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)
github.com
Godot-based Rust multi-PTY emulator desktop application - godot-pty/gpty
▲ 97 · 50 comments · 21d ago
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A System One Model for Computer Use
▲ 95 · 10 comments · 14d ago
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A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs
▲ 93 · 64 comments · 26d ago
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Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR
narilabs.com
High accuracy, low latency and cost
▲ 92 · 31 comments · 18d ago
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Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page
cms-sfx-demo.apeleg.com
▲ 90 · 32 comments · 9d ago
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Hacker Atlas
hackeratlas.com
A map of what Hacker News talks about
▲ 88 · 41 comments · 8d ago
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Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS
github.com
Do things with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedalboard in MacOS - JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd
▲ 87 · 21 comments · 18d ago
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draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it
▲ 86 · 34 comments · 28d ago
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How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
stale.jock.pl
Your model shipped days ago. Its knowledge stopped months ago. Both clocks, ticking live, for every major lab.
▲ 85 · 50 comments · 17d ago
retro biplane flying game
▲ 85 · 67 comments · 1 Sep 2026
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dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality
▲ 83 · 20 comments · 5d ago
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a by default in-terminal IDE
▲ 82 · 89 comments · 21d ago
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FrontierHarness Eval
frontierharness.org
9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x
▲ 82 · 56 comments · 30d ago
cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI
▲ 81 · 35 comments · 14d ago
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Pac-Bench
jonclegg.github.io
How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?
▲ 79 · 50 comments · 4d ago
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open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS
▲ 79 · 34 comments · 27d ago
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Reactor Atlas
reactoratlas.com
Reactor Atlas is an interactive nuclear power plant map of the world: every reactor since 1954, technical sheets, 3D plants and live signals updated hourly.
▲ 79 · 26 comments · 30d ago
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Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network
haveibeenproxied.com
Check whether your public IP has been observed participating in a residential proxy network. A free tool powered by Spur Intelligence.
▲ 76 · 48 comments · 18d ago
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A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games
github.com
Claude Code skills for chess post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, HTML viewer, narrated video - brumar/chess-postmortem-skills
▲ 75 · 56 comments · 7d ago
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A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page
3d-retro.com
Free CC0 library of 3d retro graphics you can paste into a site. Plasma, starfield, raytracer, globe, fluid, and more.
▲ 75 · 14 comments · 9d ago
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Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter
▲ 75 · 8 comments · 10d ago
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Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone
arxiv.org
Word-level detectors identify unedited AI-generated text almost perfectly, but the literature documents their brittleness under rewording, and a word-level score neither characterizes a text nor identifies which AI model
▲ 74 · 26 comments · 11d ago
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A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues
▲ 72 · 25 comments · 21d ago
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A lightweight, scalable open source virtualization platform
▲ 72 · 14 comments · 2 Sep 2026
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Building a Markdown editor for Mac
markdown.beauty
iOS and web
▲ 69 · 52 comments · 6d ago
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Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs
▲ 67 · 16 comments · 11d ago
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Lossless-memory
github.com
a personal AI memory that never summarizes
▲ 67 · 34 comments · 12d ago
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Jevstiller
jevstiller.pages.dev
Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound
▲ 66 · 15 comments · 4d ago
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Contribute to antoineleclair/is-it-greg development by creating an account on GitHub.
▲ 65 · 18 comments · 19d ago
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The cheapest GPU cloud
compute.cheap
H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR
▲ 63 · 20 comments · 30d ago
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programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing
▲ 61 · 26 comments · 15d ago
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An inbox for AI agents that work in the background
▲ 61 · 37 comments · 18d ago
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a Promptable Image Background Removal Model
▲ 57 · 8 comments · 23d ago
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train 22KiB transformer in 13s
▲ 56 · 10 comments · 3d ago
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Doom or Bloom
doom-or-bloom.com
map your AI worldview
▲ 56 · 48 comments · 7d ago
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turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks
▲ 56 · 35 comments · 18d ago
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The harness of harnesses, built for RSI
▲ 55 · 51 comments · 4d ago
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An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS
carbon.ms
Run Carbon in your cloud account, on-prem or air-gapped. Keep ERP, MRP, MES and QMS data in a Postgres database you control, with managed BYOC and self-managed options.
▲ 54 · 29 comments · 9d ago
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A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes
▲ 54 · 22 comments · 18d ago
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DOOM in the kernel
ayles.github.io
or fibers in eBPF
▲ 53 · 14 comments · 23d ago
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a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose
▲ 52 · 48 comments · 3d ago
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How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?
github.com
Contribute to karmanyaahm/budget-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.
▲ 51 · 71 comments · 9d ago
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DSL to turn agents into workflows
▲ 51 · 12 comments · 9d ago
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An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams
atlas-sysdes.vercel.app
Concept modules and worked system design problems, with architecture diagrams and trade-offs.
▲ 51 · 23 comments · 11d ago
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Apollo Lunar Module landing simulation
gosandeep.com
Fly the last 500 feet of an Apollo landing over the real ground at Tranquility Base, the Ocean of Storms, Hadley and Taurus-Littrow.
▲ 51 · 5 comments · 23d ago
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Self-hosted company OS
github.com
Claude Code and Codex agents in departments
▲ 50 · 15 comments · 23d ago