The Best Show HN Posts of All Time
We track 7,555 stories from Hacker News, averaging 235 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 2,411 stories. Together they drew 611,441 comments, 81 per story on average.
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Show HN: This up votes itself
news.ycombinator.com · olalonde · 23 Mar 2012
3.5k pts
82 comments
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Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
dosaygo-studio.github.io · keepamovin · 9 Dec 2025
3.3k pts
965 comments
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Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
byran.ee · byran · 22 Jan 2025
3.2k pts
323 comments
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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
section33 · 19 Jul 2026
2.9k pts
360 comments
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Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
ytch.xyz · hadisafa · 14 Aug 2024
2.7k pts
514 comments
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Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
internalregister.github.io · pkiller · 14 Mar 2019
2.7k pts
210 comments
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Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
justine.lol · jart · 26 Feb 2021
2k pts
249 comments
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Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
non.io · jjcm · 12 Jun 2023
1.9k pts
590 comments
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Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
dogbunnypuzzle.com · drcode · 18 Sep 2022
1.9k pts
464 comments
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Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
giza.mused.org · lukehollis · 27 Oct 2022
1.8k pts
280 comments
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Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes
jgthms.com · bbx · 26 Jul 2016
1.6k pts
152 comments
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Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
typelit.io · Octouroboros · 6 Oct 2020
1.6k pts
378 comments
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Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
newobj · 26 Feb 2025
1.6k pts
356 comments
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Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
jmail.world · lukeigel · 20 Dec 2025
1.6k pts
363 comments
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Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
jameshard.ing · jamesharding · 27 Jun 2025
1.5k pts
197 comments
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Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game
airma.sh · fivesigma · 10 Dec 2017
1.5k pts
304 comments
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Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
beeper.com · erohead · 5 Dec 2023
1.5k pts
874 comments
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Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
github.com · sexy_year · 25 Feb 2021
1.4k pts
289 comments
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Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
phind.com · rushingcreek · 12 Apr 2023
1.4k pts
414 comments
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Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
buyforlifeproducts.com · hubraumhugo · 7 Oct 2020
1.4k pts
398 comments
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Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
meteor.com · geoffschmidt · 10 Apr 2012
1.4k pts
322 comments
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Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
obsidian.md · ericax · 20 Dec 2022
1.4k pts
387 comments
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Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning
hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app · tracyhenry · 20 Sep 2021
1.4k pts
273 comments
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Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
openship.org · theturtletalks · 2 Sep 2022
1.3k pts
301 comments
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Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
cannoneyed.com · cannoneyed · 22 Jan 2026
1.3k pts
241 comments
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Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately
mprimi.github.io · mprime1 · 21 Dec 2022
1.3k pts
376 comments
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Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
th0mas.nl · ThomasRinsma · 9 Jan 2025
1.3k pts
223 comments
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Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
bitsnpieces.dev · random_moonwalk · 12 Nov 2025
1.3k pts
209 comments
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Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
github.com · ent101 · 4 Mar 2024
1.3k pts
319 comments
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Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 29 Apr 2017
1.3k pts
211 comments
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Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
looptap.vasanthv.com · vasanthv · 13 Jan 2022
1.2k pts
170 comments
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Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
sha256algorithm.com · manceraio · 7 Feb 2022
1.2k pts
137 comments
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Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm
github.com · ExUtumno · 30 Sep 2016
1.2k pts
122 comments
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Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
somebee · 17 Aug 2021
1.2k pts
345 comments
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Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child
spotthedrowningchild.com · omegaworks · 28 Jul 2015
1.2k pts
378 comments
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Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
instant.page · dieulot · 9 Feb 2019
1.2k pts
337 comments
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Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
touchgrass.now · risquer · 24 Feb 2025
1.2k pts
268 comments
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Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
anycrap.shop · kafked · 13 Sep 2025
1.2k pts
333 comments
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Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
skytorrents.in · kasumis_ · 18 Jan 2017
1.2k pts
346 comments
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Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
vorpus.github.io · lizhang · 8 Jun 2026
1.2k pts
213 comments
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Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
vishnumohandas · 29 Aug 2021
1.2k pts
405 comments
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Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
sixdegreesofwikipedia.com · jwngr · 26 Feb 2018
1.2k pts
324 comments
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Show HN: Make a programmable mirror
github.com · hannahmitt · 11 Sep 2015
1.2k pts
136 comments
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Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
blog.jwilm.io · jwilm · 6 Jan 2017
1.2k pts
476 comments
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Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
boringreport.org · aquaVitae · 11 May 2023
1.2k pts
332 comments
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Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
iliketrains · 1 Jun 2022
1.2k pts
279 comments
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Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
pikimov.com · clementpiki · 1 Jul 2024
1.2k pts
258 comments
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Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
wyldcard.io · jonahss · 30 Nov 2022
1.1k pts
291 comments
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Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
github.com · nezaj · 22 Aug 2024
1.1k pts
297 comments
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Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
benholmen.com · benholmen · 4 Aug 2025
1.1k pts
144 comments
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Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong
lessmilk.com · lessmilk · 1 Mar 2022
1.1k pts
181 comments
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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
felixrieseberg.github.io · felixrieseberg · 6 May 2025
1.1k pts
275 comments
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Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
lanparty.house · kentonv · 16 Nov 2024
1.1k pts
381 comments
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Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties
cssreference.io · bbx · 24 Nov 2016
1.1k pts
122 comments
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