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Top of Year 2020
  1. Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
    (6 Oct 2020 | 1589 points | Comments)

  2. Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
    (7 Oct 2020 | 1392 points | Comments)

  3. Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
    (27 May 2020 | 1087 points | Comments)

  4. Show HN: SHA-256 Animation
    (13 May 2020 | 1053 points | Comments)

  5. Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
    (17 Apr 2020 | 971 points | Comments)

  6. Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist
    (13 May 2020 | 956 points | Comments)

  7. Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
    (4 Aug 2020 | 868 points | Comments)

  8. Show HN: Fraidycat
    (11 Mar 2020 | 807 points | Comments)

  9. Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
    (1 May 2020 | 785 points | Comments)

  10. Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
    (5 Sep 2020 | 780 points | Comments)

  11. Show HN: Caddy 2
    (4 May 2020 | 778 points | Comments)

  12. Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
    (8 Apr 2020 | 770 points | Comments)

  13. Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi
    (23 Jul 2020 | 756 points | Comments)

  14. Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
    (8 May 2020 | 732 points | Comments)

  15. Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
    (29 Nov 2020 | 726 points | Comments)

  16. Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?
    (29 Oct 2020 | 719 points | Comments)

  17. Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page
    (28 May 2020 | 696 points | Comments)

  18. Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers
    (13 Jan 2020 | 695 points | Comments)

  19. Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
    (26 May 2020 | 685 points | Comments)

  20. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC
    (30 Dec 2020 | 676 points | Comments)

  21. Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs
    (30 Aug 2020 | 667 points | Comments)

  22. Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
    (10 Dec 2020 | 647 points | Comments)

  23. Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper
    (27 Jun 2020 | 638 points | Comments)

  24. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator
    (20 Jul 2020 | 638 points | Comments)

  25. Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
    (28 Jun 2020 | 627 points | Comments)

  26. Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
    (23 Feb 2020 | 614 points | Comments)

  27. Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
    (9 May 2020 | 607 points | Comments)

  28. Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
    (12 May 2020 | 607 points | Comments)

  29. Show HN: This website is valid JSON
    (8 Dec 2020 | 604 points | Comments)

  30. Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
    (13 Jul 2020 | 575 points | Comments)

  31. Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs
    (24 May 2020 | 574 points | Comments)

  32. Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
    (26 Jan 2020 | 560 points | Comments)

  33. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop
    (14 Apr 2020 | 552 points | Comments)

  34. Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission
    (17 May 2020 | 551 points | Comments)

  35. Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes
    (4 May 2020 | 550 points | Comments)

  36. Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
    (11 Jun 2020 | 550 points | Comments)

  37. Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners
    (2 Apr 2020 | 539 points | Comments)

  38. Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
    (11 Nov 2020 | 537 points | Comments)

  39. Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language
    (8 Jan 2020 | 533 points | Comments)

  40. Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects
    (28 Feb 2020 | 528 points | Comments)

  41. Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS
    (14 Jun 2020 | 528 points | Comments)

  42. Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games
    (16 Jan 2020 | 520 points | Comments)

  43. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
    (21 Apr 2020 | 519 points | Comments)

  44. Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
    (14 Jan 2020 | 515 points | Comments)

  45. Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
    (25 Mar 2020 | 515 points | Comments)

  46. Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
    (23 May 2020 | 515 points | Comments)

  47. Show HN: Visual SQL
    (11 Mar 2020 | 512 points | Comments)

  48. Show HN: Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform
    (7 Dec 2020 | 510 points | Comments)

  49. Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code
    (28 Aug 2020 | 509 points | Comments)

  50. Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL
    (17 Jan 2020 | 505 points | Comments)

  51. Show HN: RegEx for Regular Folk – A visual, example-based introduction
    (1 May 2020 | 502 points | Comments)

  52. Show HN: Skynet Simulator
    (25 Mar 2020 | 500 points | Comments)

  53. Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet
    (31 Jan 2020 | 499 points | Comments)

  54. Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online
    (14 Mar 2020 | 494 points | Comments)

  55. Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes
    (14 Aug 2020 | 482 points | Comments)

  56. Show HN: Interface for all digital aspects of my life
    (7 May 2020 | 478 points | Comments)

  57. Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
    (25 Mar 2020 | 471 points | Comments)

  58. Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
    (27 Jul 2020 | 462 points | Comments)

  59. Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones
    (14 Oct 2020 | 462 points | Comments)

  60. Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative
    (18 Jan 2020 | 459 points | Comments)

  61. Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
    (14 Jun 2020 | 457 points | Comments)

  62. Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
    (4 Jul 2020 | 457 points | Comments)

  63. Show HN: A dependently-typed programming language with static memory management
    (23 May 2020 | 456 points | Comments)

  64. Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN
    (7 Aug 2020 | 442 points | Comments)

  65. Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
    (15 Dec 2020 | 442 points | Comments)

  66. Show HN: From Markdown to Video
    (29 Mar 2020 | 441 points | Comments)

  67. Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb
    (28 Aug 2020 | 441 points | Comments)

  68. Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform
    (4 Nov 2020 | 441 points | Comments)

  69. Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack
    (26 Jan 2020 | 438 points | Comments)

  70. Show HN: A set of standard document templates
    (19 Jan 2020 | 433 points | Comments)

  71. Show HN: Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable
    (16 Jan 2020 | 429 points | Comments)

  72. Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace
    (5 Mar 2020 | 429 points | Comments)

  73. Show HN: Editly – Declarative command-line video editing
    (28 Apr 2020 | 429 points | Comments)

  74. Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
    (28 Sep 2020 | 426 points | Comments)

  75. Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages
    (7 Jul 2020 | 425 points | Comments)

  76. Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary
    (14 Dec 2020 | 424 points | Comments)

  77. Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
    (21 May 2020 | 420 points | Comments)

  78. Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course
    (13 Oct 2020 | 419 points | Comments)

  79. Show HN: 33 line React
    (4 Apr 2020 | 418 points | Comments)

  80. Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero
    (24 Mar 2020 | 406 points | Comments)

  81. Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira
    (30 Apr 2020 | 406 points | Comments)

  82. Show HN: Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code
    (3 Oct 2020 | 405 points | Comments)

  83. Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world
    (29 Dec 2020 | 405 points | Comments)

  84. Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
    (9 Sep 2020 | 403 points | Comments)

  85. Show HN: Zfs.rent
    (19 Nov 2020 | 403 points | Comments)

  86. Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature
    (11 Jul 2020 | 402 points | Comments)

  87. Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia
    (6 Apr 2020 | 398 points | Comments)

  88. Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening
    (29 Jul 2020 | 393 points | Comments)

  89. Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere
    (4 Jun 2020 | 390 points | Comments)

  90. Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript
    (22 Jul 2020 | 390 points | Comments)

  91. Show HN: Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor
    (27 Jun 2020 | 389 points | Comments)

  92. Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes
    (29 Mar 2020 | 388 points | Comments)

  93. Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation
    (20 Feb 2020 | 386 points | Comments)

  94. Show HN: I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes
    (14 Oct 2020 | 382 points | Comments)

  95. Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine
    (8 Jul 2020 | 380 points | Comments)

  96. Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript
    (13 Nov 2020 | 377 points | Comments)

  97. Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation
    (30 Aug 2020 | 375 points | Comments)

  98. Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old
    (9 Dec 2020 | 375 points | Comments)

  99. Show HN: Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook
    (2 Aug 2020 | 371 points | Comments)

  100. Show HN: Ameelio.org – Free Prison Communication Platform
    (1 May 2020 | 364 points | Comments)