minimaxir

13 Show HNs that got attention, 2015 to 2026. 1,666 points in all, 11 with 50 or more.

minimaxir on HN

Dev tools

2015

Big List of Naughty Strings

Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data

Curious514 points79 comments

AI

2020

aitextgen

A Python tool for text-based AI training and generation using GPT-2

Curious174 points41 comments

AI

2019

automl-gs

Provide a CSV and a target field, generate a model and code to run it

Mixed172 points26 comments

Consumer and social

2017

magic-the-gifening

Twitter bot which tweets Magic cards with appropriate GIFs superimposed

Mixed138 points38 comments

AI

2023

simpleaichat

Python package for interfacing with ChatGPT with minimized complexity

Curious129 points35 comments

AI

2019

GPT-2 MTG card generator

Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

Debated126 points43 comments

Languages and libraries

2019

stylecloud

Python package and CLI to generate stylistic word clouds

Mixed112 points16 comments

Data

2016

facebook-page-post-scraper

Scrape all posts from a Facebook Page, with individual Reaction counts

Quiet75 points7 comments

Games

2026

ballin

An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal

Debated75 points15 comments

Creative

2026

Miditui

A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback

Quiet66 points13 comments

Dev tools

2015

copy-syntax-highlight-osx

Copy any code to clipboard in OS X, adding proper syntax highlighting

Debated55 points42 comments

AI

2019

download-tweets-ai-text-gen

Script to download Tweets into a format ideal for training an AI model

Quiet16 points0 comments

AI

2017

textgenrnn

Python module to easily generate text using a pretrained char-rnn

Quiet14 points1 comments

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