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Top of Year 2021

1. Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
   (26 Feb 2021 | 1998 points | Comments)

2. Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
   (25 Feb 2021 | 1422 points | Comments)

3. Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning
   (20 Sep 2021 | 1359 points | Comments)

4. Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
   (17 Aug 2021 | 1216 points | Comments)

5. Show HN: Lofi.cafe
   (14 Apr 2021 | 1192 points | Comments)

6. Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
   (29 Aug 2021 | 1180 points | Comments)

7. Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
   (12 May 2021 | 1102 points | Comments)

8. Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
   (5 Nov 2021 | 1077 points | Comments)

9. Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly
   (7 Sep 2021 | 1070 points | Comments)

10. Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer
    (9 Nov 2021 | 985 points | Comments)

11. Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
    (6 Dec 2021 | 979 points | Comments)

12. Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
    (20 Jan 2021 | 962 points | Comments)

13. Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
    (4 Jan 2021 | 938 points | Comments)

14. Show HN: I wrote a book about Go
    (24 Mar 2021 | 919 points | Comments)

15. Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
    (12 Nov 2021 | 876 points | Comments)

16. Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
    (23 Jun 2021 | 866 points | Comments)

17. Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file
    (30 Jul 2021 | 796 points | Comments)

18. Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
    (11 Jul 2021 | 769 points | Comments)

19. Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
    (12 Jul 2021 | 760 points | Comments)

20. Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera
    (2 Jan 2021 | 753 points | Comments)

21. Show HN: PDFs from HTML
    (4 Apr 2021 | 742 points | Comments)

22. Show HN: Emoji to Scale
    (3 Dec 2021 | 713 points | Comments)

23. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website
    (17 Nov 2021 | 707 points | Comments)

24. Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
    (19 Nov 2021 | 693 points | Comments)

25. Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React
    (8 May 2021 | 683 points | Comments)

26. Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development
    (15 Sep 2021 | 681 points | Comments)

27. Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office
    (25 Oct 2021 | 674 points | Comments)

28. Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
    (20 Jan 2021 | 667 points | Comments)

29. Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems
    (24 Feb 2021 | 632 points | Comments)

30. Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI
    (5 Mar 2021 | 624 points | Comments)

31. Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash
    (19 Aug 2021 | 623 points | Comments)

32. Show HN: Video Game in a Font
    (17 Mar 2021 | 605 points | Comments)

33. Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
    (30 Sep 2021 | 603 points | Comments)

34. Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator
    (12 May 2021 | 591 points | Comments)

35. Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
    (8 Feb 2021 | 582 points | Comments)

36. Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative
    (27 May 2021 | 562 points | Comments)

37. Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
    (18 Mar 2021 | 559 points | Comments)

38. Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose
    (3 Feb 2021 | 547 points | Comments)

39. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool
    (30 Apr 2021 | 543 points | Comments)

40. Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable
    (22 Jan 2021 | 528 points | Comments)

41. Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes
    (20 Dec 2021 | 513 points | Comments)

42. Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors
    (5 Jul 2021 | 509 points | Comments)

43. Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves
    (5 Oct 2021 | 506 points | Comments)

44. Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP
    (26 Aug 2021 | 501 points | Comments)

45. Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua
    (23 May 2021 | 496 points | Comments)

46. Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption
    (6 Sep 2021 | 494 points | Comments)

47. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
    (28 Apr 2021 | 479 points | Comments)

48. Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
    (14 Feb 2021 | 473 points | Comments)

49. Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp
    (15 Feb 2021 | 465 points | Comments)

50. Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts
    (3 Nov 2021 | 462 points | Comments)

51. Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
    (4 Jan 2021 | 452 points | Comments)

52. Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS
    (19 Sep 2021 | 452 points | Comments)

53. Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help
    (22 Feb 2021 | 451 points | Comments)

54. Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar
    (4 May 2021 | 450 points | Comments)

55. Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies
    (18 Jan 2021 | 447 points | Comments)

56. Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use
    (12 Sep 2021 | 443 points | Comments)

57. Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
    (27 Oct 2021 | 443 points | Comments)

58. Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine
    (26 Dec 2021 | 441 points | Comments)

59. Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News
    (22 May 2021 | 437 points | Comments)

60. Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus
    (20 Apr 2021 | 436 points | Comments)

61. Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites
    (10 Dec 2021 | 433 points | Comments)

62. Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
    (7 Jun 2021 | 429 points | Comments)

63. Show HN: My personal website is a shell
    (5 Apr 2021 | 425 points | Comments)

64. Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
    (25 Feb 2021 | 418 points | Comments)

65. Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
    (27 Aug 2021 | 418 points | Comments)

66. Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language
    (26 Oct 2021 | 415 points | Comments)

67. Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix
    (26 Feb 2021 | 412 points | Comments)

68. Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
    (19 May 2021 | 411 points | Comments)

69. Show HN: Virtual breadboard in the browser, inspired by Ben Eater's 6502
    (19 Jan 2021 | 409 points | Comments)

70. Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
    (22 Apr 2021 | 409 points | Comments)

71. Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
    (19 Sep 2021 | 408 points | Comments)

72. Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche
    (26 May 2021 | 406 points | Comments)

73. Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings
    (20 May 2021 | 405 points | Comments)

74. Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
    (9 Nov 2021 | 403 points | Comments)

75. Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs
    (6 Jul 2021 | 401 points | Comments)

76. Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly
    (18 Aug 2021 | 399 points | Comments)

77. Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database
    (14 Jun 2021 | 396 points | Comments)

78. Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
    (1 Apr 2021 | 395 points | Comments)

79. Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
    (14 Nov 2021 | 395 points | Comments)

80. Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
    (27 Sep 2021 | 392 points | Comments)

81. Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code
    (17 Feb 2021 | 384 points | Comments)

82. Show HN: Side project passed $2.5k/mo revenue after 2 years (Phoenix and Vue)
    (18 Apr 2021 | 381 points | Comments)

83. Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game
    (15 Jun 2021 | 379 points | Comments)

84. Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
    (25 Mar 2021 | 375 points | Comments)

85. Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
    (10 Sep 2021 | 373 points | Comments)

86. Show HN: Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners
    (17 Apr 2021 | 369 points | Comments)

87. Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources
    (16 Feb 2021 | 368 points | Comments)

88. Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
    (24 May 2021 | 365 points | Comments)

89. Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
    (9 Nov 2021 | 361 points | Comments)

90. Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0
    (20 May 2021 | 359 points | Comments)

91. Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale
    (5 May 2021 | 357 points | Comments)

92. Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV
    (9 Mar 2021 | 354 points | Comments)

93. Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment
    (10 Feb 2021 | 353 points | Comments)

94. Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app
    (22 Jun 2021 | 347 points | Comments)

95. Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”
    (12 Oct 2021 | 347 points | Comments)

96. Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative
    (29 Mar 2021 | 345 points | Comments)

97. Show HN: Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP
    (12 Oct 2021 | 344 points | Comments)

98. Show HN: I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs.
    (7 Jan 2021 | 343 points | Comments)

99. Show HN: Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's
    (20 Dec 2021 | 343 points | Comments)

100. Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo
     (25 Aug 2021 | 339 points | Comments)