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Top of Year 2016

1. Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes
   (26 Jul 2016 | 1624 points | Comments)

2. Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm
   (30 Sep 2016 | 1226 points | Comments)

3. Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties
   (24 Nov 2016 | 1117 points | Comments)

4. Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration
   (10 Aug 2016 | 1004 points | Comments)

5. Show HN: Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
   (12 Oct 2016 | 911 points | Comments)

6. Show HN: Primitive Pictures
   (20 Sep 2016 | 894 points | Comments)

7. Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet
   (21 Apr 2016 | 847 points | Comments)

8. Show HN: New calendar app idea
   (6 Jun 2016 | 825 points | Comments)

9. Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
   (9 Feb 2016 | 819 points | Comments)

10. Show HN: Primitive for macOS
    (15 Nov 2016 | 798 points | Comments)

11. Show HN: I made a database of remote companies
    (13 Jun 2016 | 747 points | Comments)

12. Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
    (12 Oct 2016 | 727 points | Comments)

13. Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
    (24 Nov 2016 | 673 points | Comments)

14. Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app
    (5 Nov 2016 | 648 points | Comments)

15. Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment
    (24 Aug 2016 | 628 points | Comments)

16. Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform
    (11 Feb 2016 | 613 points | Comments)

17. Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers
    (9 Nov 2016 | 571 points | Comments)

18. Show HN: What every browser knows about you
    (1 Apr 2016 | 553 points | Comments)

19. Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git
    (2 Aug 2016 | 508 points | Comments)

20. Show HN: Antd – A set of high-quality React components
    (28 Nov 2016 | 507 points | Comments)

21. Show HN: React Native Express – Learn React Native Through Interactive Examples
    (28 Nov 2016 | 496 points | Comments)

22. Show HN: Rocket – Web Framework for Rust
    (23 Dec 2016 | 484 points | Comments)

23. Show HN: Hire an Oldster
    (16 Dec 2016 | 475 points | Comments)

24. Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News
    (26 Aug 2016 | 463 points | Comments)

25. Show HN: Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it
    (21 Jan 2016 | 454 points | Comments)

26. Show HN: I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images
    (9 Jan 2016 | 448 points | Comments)

27. Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics
    (2 Feb 2016 | 441 points | Comments)

28. Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X
    (26 May 2016 | 429 points | Comments)

29. Show HN: Ascii to SVG
    (2 Oct 2016 | 416 points | Comments)

30. Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
    (10 Aug 2016 | 415 points | Comments)

31. Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
    (22 Nov 2016 | 405 points | Comments)

32. Show HN: Podcat – Imdb for podcasts
    (15 Mar 2016 | 401 points | Comments)

33. Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks
    (1 Sep 2016 | 396 points | Comments)

34. Show HN: Learn to Code for Free
    (22 Nov 2016 | 395 points | Comments)

35. Show HN: Anycomplete
    (29 Nov 2016 | 390 points | Comments)

36. Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
    (14 Jul 2016 | 388 points | Comments)

37. Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
    (10 May 2016 | 384 points | Comments)

38. Show HN: Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers
    (18 Apr 2016 | 382 points | Comments)

39. Show HN: I made a Hacker News for podcasts
    (16 Apr 2016 | 367 points | Comments)

40. Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform
    (5 Oct 2016 | 364 points | Comments)

41. Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager
    (10 Oct 2016 | 361 points | Comments)

42. Show HN: Windows 98 in browser
    (22 Feb 2016 | 356 points | Comments)

43. Show HN: 3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk
    (13 Jan 2016 | 350 points | Comments)

44. Show HN: Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons
    (2 Aug 2016 | 350 points | Comments)

45. Show HN: A fork of sudo with Touch ID support
    (31 Oct 2016 | 347 points | Comments)

46. Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way
    (13 Dec 2016 | 339 points | Comments)

47. Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writing Common Lisp apps
    (2 Jun 2016 | 338 points | Comments)

48. Show HN: Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes
    (16 Feb 2016 | 337 points | Comments)

49. Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month
    (27 Nov 2016 | 336 points | Comments)

50. Show HN: GPU text rendering with vector textures
    (1 Jan 2016 | 334 points | Comments)

51. Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with
    (9 Nov 2016 | 334 points | Comments)

52. Show HN: 2D field of view demo
    (7 Jun 2016 | 333 points | Comments)

53. Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
    (3 Feb 2016 | 322 points | Comments)

54. Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
    (23 Dec 2016 | 322 points | Comments)

55. Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
    (19 Mar 2016 | 314 points | Comments)

56. Show HN: The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction
    (11 Apr 2016 | 311 points | Comments)

57. Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos
    (22 Jan 2016 | 310 points | Comments)

58. Show HN: InstaPart – Build circuit boards faster with instant parts
    (24 Sep 2016 | 309 points | Comments)

59. Show HN: U.S. Legal Concepts for Founders – Online Handbook
    (8 Dec 2016 | 309 points | Comments)

60. Show HN: Handicareers.com – A simple job board for disabled people
    (3 Dec 2016 | 303 points | Comments)

61. Show HN: ThreadTone – Halftone images made of thread
    (25 Dec 2016 | 303 points | Comments)

62. Show HN: A flask app to make dashboards, easily
    (9 Sep 2016 | 302 points | Comments)

63. Show HN: Deepstream.io – open-source real-time server with pub/sub and data sync
    (10 Feb 2016 | 301 points | Comments)

64. Show HN: Killing Procrastination by Making Everything Fit
    (25 Oct 2016 | 301 points | Comments)

65. Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors
    (28 Apr 2016 | 300 points | Comments)

66. Show HN: My first web app – PDF memo creator
    (1 Nov 2016 | 297 points | Comments)

67. Show HN: 1M rows/s from Postgres to Python
    (4 Aug 2016 | 296 points | Comments)

68. Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists
    (3 Jun 2016 | 295 points | Comments)

69. Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
    (6 Jun 2016 | 294 points | Comments)

70. Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
    (21 Nov 2016 | 291 points | Comments)

71. Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600
    (25 Dec 2016 | 289 points | Comments)

72. Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework
    (6 Jan 2016 | 288 points | Comments)

73. Show HN: Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half
    (7 Dec 2016 | 285 points | Comments)

74. Show HN: Anime.js – Polyvalent JavaScript Animation Engine
    (27 Jun 2016 | 283 points | Comments)

75. Show HN: Riko – A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes
    (21 Jul 2016 | 283 points | Comments)

76. Show HN: Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms
    (15 Mar 2016 | 279 points | Comments)

77. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
    (16 Oct 2016 | 277 points | Comments)

78. Show HN: OpenGL in super slow motion – visualising Z-buffering
    (4 Jul 2016 | 276 points | Comments)

79. Show HN: Randomly generated metal riffs using Web Audio API and React
    (1 Jul 2016 | 275 points | Comments)

80. Show HN: Get encrypted data from people that don’t know how to encrypt
    (19 Oct 2016 | 275 points | Comments)

81. Show HN: how2 – stackoverflow.com from the terminal
    (22 Feb 2016 | 272 points | Comments)

82. Show HN: Learn how to build electronics with monthly kits
    (26 Dec 2016 | 272 points | Comments)

83. Show HN: The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency
    (9 Feb 2016 | 269 points | Comments)

84. Show HN: Mega Boilerplate
    (8 Jun 2016 | 268 points | Comments)

85. Show HN: A secure, open source U2F token you can make with $4.5 worth of parts
    (22 Jun 2016 | 267 points | Comments)

86. Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Spreadsheet and Calendar
    (23 Nov 2016 | 264 points | Comments)

87. Show HN: Build your first real world React.js application
    (7 Sep 2016 | 261 points | Comments)

88. Show HN: ICanHazData – Data URI Swiss Army Knife
    (28 Nov 2016 | 257 points | Comments)

89. Show HN: Whosfiring
    (15 Nov 2016 | 256 points | Comments)

90. Show HN: Simple and elegant Markdown-based resumes
    (3 Feb 2016 | 255 points | Comments)

91. Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
    (1 Dec 2016 | 254 points | Comments)

92. Show HN: Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library
    (1 Feb 2016 | 253 points | Comments)

93. Show HN: Homemade 32-bit CPU and OS (2015) [video]
    (6 Jun 2016 | 253 points | Comments)

94. Show HN: CSS ICON, an icon set crafted by pure CSS
    (17 Oct 2016 | 250 points | Comments)

95. Show HN: Host your status page on GitHub
    (7 Mar 2016 | 248 points | Comments)

96. Show HN: Mitmproxy 1.0 released, now with a web interface
    (26 Dec 2016 | 248 points | Comments)

97. Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
    (21 Nov 2016 | 246 points | Comments)

98. Show HN: StockDroids.com – A curated list of near-stock Android devices
    (20 Nov 2016 | 245 points | Comments)

99. Show HN: I'm a professor who has developed an interactive Powerpoint alternative
    (12 Jan 2016 | 244 points | Comments)

100. Show HN: MapHub – A Google My Maps Alternative, Based on OpenStreetMap Data
     (30 Mar 2016 | 244 points | Comments)