38,824 Show HNs that got attention, 2008 to now

24 picks for 2026-11-06, new every day.

Dev tools

2025

Engineering.fyi

Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

Mixed470 points126 comments

Productivity

2024

A simple and powerful RSS reader for the web

Roasted68 points21 comments

Consumer and social

2015

Bento

Delivering custom bento boxes in 15 minutes in SF

Mixed33 points20 comments

Learning and science

2024

Explanations

A cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

Debated391 points187 comments

Consumer and social

2014

Airport Cat

Travel tips for airports

Mixed39 points18 comments

Languages and libraries

2014

TouchstoneJS

A React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

Mixed92 points27 comments

Infrastructure

2024

Porter Cloud

PaaS with an eject button

Curious258 points95 comments

Productivity

2025

hys

A fast RSS reader in Zig

Mixed90 points32 comments

Creative

2019

Sewing Pattern Generator

Slopers are like a 'second skin', which are the basis for making more custom fitting patterns…

Curious5 points13 comments

Creative

2022

This Hacker News Does Not Exist

Curious252 points125 comments

Games

2012

binb

A simple project i made to learn node.js

Loved12 points8 comments

Productivity

2021

iMessage Wrapped

your year in texts

Mixed62 points37 comments

Dev tools

2022

Mitmproxy2swagger

Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs

Loved691 points85 comments

Web and SaaS

2013

itch.io

A site for hosting/selling indie games

Mixed155 points75 comments

Consumer and social

2015

Tookapic

Take one photo a day for 365 days

Mixed32 points20 comments

Dev tools

2023

Ladder

Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io

Curious377 points150 comments

Data

2016

postgresql-cpp

C++11 port of Postgres

Curious4 points11 comments

Learning and science

2025

techbook.digital

I converted my notebook into a searchable database of IT keywords

Mixed78 points27 comments

Infrastructure

2019

Listmonk

Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

Loved343 points50 comments

Web and SaaS

2014

Closing Call

Hacker News for Sales

Roasted64 points37 comments

Games

2026

Waiting for LLMs Suck

Give your user a game

Curious36 points18 comments

Web and SaaS

2017

ORY Editor

A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

Mixed369 points98 comments

Learning and science

2026

lairner

I speak 5 languages. Common apps taught me none. So I built lairner

Roasted35 points89 comments

Infrastructure

2012

AzureFS

I mounted Azure Cloud Storage as filesystem on Linux

Curious66 points16 comments