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1. Show HN: This up votes itself
   (23 Mar 2012 | 3531 points | Comments)

2. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
   (9 Dec 2025 | 3342 points | Comments)

3. Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
   (22 Jan 2025 | 3237 points | Comments)

4. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
   (14 Aug 2024 | 2741 points | Comments)

5. Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
   (14 Mar 2019 | 2690 points | Comments)

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

7. Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
   (12 Jun 2023 | 1943 points | Comments)

8. Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
   (18 Sep 2022 | 1859 points | Comments)

9. Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
   (27 Oct 2022 | 1752 points | Comments)

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

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

12. Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
    (26 Feb 2025 | 1581 points | Comments)

13. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
    (20 Dec 2025 | 1554 points | Comments)

14. Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
    (27 Jun 2025 | 1539 points | Comments)

15. Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game
    (10 Dec 2017 | 1535 points | Comments)

16. Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
    (5 Dec 2023 | 1521 points | Comments)

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

18. Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
    (12 Apr 2023 | 1401 points | Comments)

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

20. Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
    (10 Apr 2012 | 1386 points | Comments)

21. Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
    (20 Dec 2022 | 1380 points | Comments)

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

23. Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
    (2 Sep 2022 | 1335 points | Comments)

24. Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
    (22 Jan 2026 | 1324 points | Comments)

25. Show HN: Show HN
    (3 Jul 2014 | 1302 points | Comments)

26. Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately
    (21 Dec 2022 | 1290 points | Comments)

27. Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
    (9 Jan 2025 | 1289 points | Comments)

28. Show HN: Bel
    (12 Oct 2019 | 1288 points | Comments)

29. Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
    (12 Nov 2025 | 1278 points | Comments)

30. Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
    (4 Mar 2024 | 1274 points | Comments)

31. Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
    (29 Apr 2017 | 1264 points | Comments)

32. Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
    (13 Jan 2022 | 1241 points | Comments)

33. Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
    (7 Feb 2022 | 1241 points | Comments)

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

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

36. Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child
    (28 Jul 2015 | 1215 points | Comments)

37. Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
    (9 Feb 2019 | 1214 points | Comments)

38. Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
    (24 Feb 2025 | 1203 points | Comments)

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

40. Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
    (18 Jan 2017 | 1183 points | Comments)

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

42. Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
    (26 Feb 2018 | 1176 points | Comments)

43. Show HN: Make a programmable mirror
    (11 Sep 2015 | 1172 points | Comments)

44. Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
    (6 Jan 2017 | 1170 points | Comments)

45. Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
    (11 May 2023 | 1166 points | Comments)

46. Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
    (1 Jun 2022 | 1157 points | Comments)

47. Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
    (1 Jul 2024 | 1150 points | Comments)

48. Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
    (30 Nov 2022 | 1149 points | Comments)

49. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
    (22 Aug 2024 | 1145 points | Comments)

50. Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
    (4 Aug 2025 | 1145 points | Comments)

51. Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong
    (1 Mar 2022 | 1135 points | Comments)

52. Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
    (6 May 2025 | 1122 points | Comments)

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

54. Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
    (16 Nov 2024 | 1117 points | Comments)

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

56. Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
    (14 Jun 2017 | 1100 points | Comments)

57. Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions
    (22 Jan 2023 | 1098 points | Comments)

58. Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
    (6 Jun 2017 | 1097 points | Comments)

59. Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
    (18 Dec 2015 | 1093 points | Comments)

60. Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript
    (12 Mar 2018 | 1087 points | Comments)

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

62. Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
    (9 Jan 2019 | 1079 points | Comments)

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

64. Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
    (29 Aug 2018 | 1072 points | Comments)

65. Show HN: Markov chains explained visually
    (29 Jul 2014 | 1070 points | Comments)

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

67. Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
    (22 Dec 2023 | 1063 points | Comments)

68. Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries
    (20 Jun 2024 | 1054 points | Comments)

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

70. Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
    (9 Sep 2025 | 1040 points | Comments)

71. Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right
    (23 Jul 2025 | 1030 points | Comments)

72. Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
    (25 Jul 2014 | 1020 points | Comments)

73. Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML
    (19 Feb 2024 | 1020 points | Comments)

74. Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
    (7 Sep 2025 | 1015 points | Comments)

75. Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
    (25 Aug 2014 | 1013 points | Comments)

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

77. Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
    (6 Aug 2025 | 1003 points | Comments)

78. Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
    (10 Jul 2023 | 993 points | Comments)

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

80. Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python
    (28 Apr 2025 | 983 points | Comments)

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

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

83. Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
    (19 Sep 2018 | 968 points | Comments)

84. Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
    (9 Jul 2018 | 967 points | Comments)

85. Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
    (17 Jan 2024 | 963 points | Comments)

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

87. Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
    (4 Apr 2026 | 961 points | Comments)

88. Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
    (10 Jul 2025 | 958 points | Comments)

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

90. Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort
    (18 Mar 2013 | 948 points | Comments)

91. Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0
    (10 Feb 2022 | 947 points | Comments)

92. Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
    (5 Apr 2022 | 946 points | Comments)

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

94. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll
    (5 Jul 2023 | 937 points | Comments)

95. Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
    (20 Sep 2018 | 935 points | Comments)

96. Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
    (29 Jul 2025 | 935 points | Comments)

97. Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
    (15 Apr 2025 | 930 points | Comments)

98. Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system
    (12 Sep 2024 | 928 points | Comments)

99. Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker
    (6 Sep 2024 | 924 points | Comments)

100. Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials
     (19 Apr 2025 | 923 points | Comments)