Top 901–1000 of 1,346
Products recommended by at least 3 HN commenters (Nov 2025 to Oct 2026), ranked by distinct recommenders: one vote per HN user, ties broken by recency. Warnings are shown beside each product, and comments by a product's own makers don't count.
- 901.I miss the Windows 8 UI - one of my unpopular opinions
- 902.check out gnu stow for this! i place my config files in ~/dots, mirroring the structure as if it were my home directory, and gnu stow can symlink everything
- 903.I spent a couple of nights working out how to configure beets to my liking and have loved it ever since.
- 904.Gas Town has a very clear "mad scientist/performance art" sort of thing going on, and I love that.
- 905.Windsurf - $20 gives u access to nearlly all models.
- 906.Mistral OCR is really good and their small models are great for simple translations, I use them regularly.
- 907.I recommend you look up https://github.com/github/spec-kit. It’s a project out of Microsoft/Github that encodes a rigorous spec-then-implement multi pass workflow.
- 908.But 1/ it’s much simpler for doing simple things and 2/ we can drop down to AppKit when needed. All in all, it’s good that we have it.
- 909.I use Angular 2+, and I find it quite pleasant to use.
- 910.This is pretty awesome, and at a $3 price point is an auto purchase for me!
- 911.I'm totally sold on Guix, and have been using it on an old laptop for the last few months.
- 912.I used Lotus Notes in the 00s and 10s and greatly preferred it to Outlook.
- 913.I am currently on 10 so much that I installed the LTSC version that has support until 2032.
- 914.I love ImageMagick. I've used it a few times to make a PDF look scanned.
- 915.rustdesk[0] works pretty well for casual use despite wayland support being labelled experimental
- 916.Nova remembers app locations when I change phones.
- 917.Because with iTunes, I could and did have regular playlists and smart playlists using conditions like ratings, last played, play count
- 918.I couldn't get off Google Photos, it's just too useful
- 919.Notepad is the best version so far, I use it as a todo list
- 920.Heroku when you just want your app to work forever without having to think about it.
- 921.a more modern Next.js-powered stack that's faster, lighter weight, and easier for them to manage
- 922.I've really struggled with file managers that are not Finder.
- 923.The major benefit of Instagram, for me, is that it allows me to maintain relationships with people I am unable to physically see for long periods.
- 924.So I use it (including its Messenger component) a lot to keep in touch!
- 925.This is why I use installable PWAs wherever possible. On my Android phone right now, the Outlook PWA uses 281kB.
- 926.I switched to Kiro and it's essentially identical.. well a bit better because you get a better idea of what the harness is doing
- 927.I use k3s for my home network because it's simple and easy
- 928.boringBar addressing the "show me what is in this Space" problem is exactly right.
- 929.tokio gives me most of the concurrency goodies I like
- 930.Goose was the only harness that didnt bloat context too much with system prompts
- 931.I use traefik so with docker compose/labels it's real easy to give things a reverse proxy with an auth gate and other middleware
- 932.Lightroom isn’t perfect. But it is fast, it is intuitive
- 933.they aren't especially heavy to run and are not fragile
- 934.Yes, I use Dagger, it's much more than building containers
- 935.I’m used to using Hono and really enjoy working with it
- 936.there's literally zero risk of the MariaDB server suddenly going closed-source
- 937.This is the most useful calculator.. bit shifts..radix conversations...
- 938.Zola[1] is less well-known, but it's easy to install and fast.
- 939.MTurk was pure magic if you knew how to use it to its full potential.
- 940.The Windows Terminal (and no, not what opens running Command Line or Powershell, it is a different application
- 941.you can connect to your local library with an app named "libby". I used this frequently on my Android phone to download books and magazines
- 942.Privacy.com won that dispute and I got that money back.
- 943.Quartz for converting obsidian-generated .md files into static websites
- 944.Please do yourself a favour and check out GLM-5.2, Qwen-3.7-Max, MiMo-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro.
- 945.https://synthetic.new with Kimi K2.5 works surprisingly well for small tasks where I still make all the decisions.
- 946.I love Hax. After a month on Codex, I switched to Hax.
- 947.I love the idea of a gaming box that can host multiple instances; that would be very very good.
- 948.Babashka is my go-to tool for starting all new projects now.
- 949.Plus, it gives us a clear spec for implementing complex parts like time travel, snapshots, etc.
- 950.Its been excellent for self hosting email on a small hetzner instance. Highly recommended
- 951.you'll realize this is obviously the future interface.
- 952.The only note taking app I’ve found to be fun to browse is Google Keep. I love the layout
- 953.Interestingly this one with its Winamp mode is what I was looking for.
- 954.It's great. Much stronger on the UX side for things that devs need than Claude / Codex.
- 955.Also running bhyve as daily driver with Ubuntu for development purposes. Everything works without issues, perfectly.
- 956.QWEN3 TTS has a “clone” feature. You can use the local version, give it a voice reference and text
- 957.Check out the awesome [Claudish-to-English plugin]
- 958.I've been using https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra which is pretty similar but has workflow visibility and a number of templates.
- 959.providing a VM like QuickJS for running simple code could be enough (thus also cheaper)
- 960.no other software exists with such easy-to-use tools for importing GPS tracks, creating custom points, and exporting KMZ files
- 961.I’ve had far fewer issues with this app than the likes of Bluesky (react native) and Discord
- 962.I use Slint and tried a bunch of the other frameworks and nothing worked as well in embedded and also as mac/linux apps.
- 963.I use gpt image 2 very heavily for my current project (ai UI design tool).
- 964.I would recommend something like SDL if you want a more complete platform abstraction, it even supports software rendering as a context mode.
- 965.microsandbox by default speak ssh without you needing to have a ssh server in the vm.
- 966.i use qwen-30b-vl all the time locally as my goto model because it's just so insanely fast
- 967.Eslint runs as a post-tool use hook on edit and write, so each file an agent writes gets immediate feedback and fixes.
- 968.I use Picard to organise my music into a sensible directory structure
- 969.Langfuse ended up being the observability tool I went with instead over the one I built
- 970.Prosody can run on just about anything and is mostly maintenance-free, give it a try I'd say.
- 971.I suppose you could also try Damn Small Linux 2024.
- 972.Augment kind of became impossible to avoid once we realized the new guy is outpacing the rest of us
- 973.You should look at https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium. It's what I use every day for the things that you mentioned.
- 974.My go-to for spinning up a site has been Jekyll + Bootstrap with the occasional bit of React for well over 10 years now.
- 975.I Love this project, works on Mac, Linux & Windows!
- 976.All of the following products and services are fantastic in 2026:
- 977.For privacy reasons, I use NetGuard to block this and other similar domains.
- 978.It’s been rock solid and it is now the default choice for anything outside of work I’ll do.
- 979.I used Slug at a previous job. It is an excellent, artfully crafted library; really the pinnacle of software engineering in my opinion.
- 980.I now use Forge to plan css too because I don't want to show broken css states
- 981.I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues.
- 982.I use linode and have nothing but praises for their service.
- 983.It’s by far the best open source alternative to Google Drive and Google Docs!
- 984.found its speed, capabilities, and simplicity all significant improvements compared to the MariaDB-based search
- 985.I suggest its clone, Double Commander. Does everything as TC, supports its plugins and is cross platform and open source.
- 986.This has quickly become my favorite TUI text editor
- 987.I've just started playing with it, but so far it seems quite good.
- 988.I switched to deSEC because they allow you to create tokens for DNS-01 validation which are tightly scoped to a single subdomain.
- 989.I use Flubox+UXTerm+a bunch of CLI/TUI tools among mpv, nsxiv and mupdf.
- 990.I've been using iCloud email with a custom domain for a while, and it has been super conveninent, stable and spam-free.
- 991.SQLite + sqlite-vec + Tantivy + a tiny embedding model will stay as my go to.
- 992.I use prowlarr and radarr in my hone proxmox setup.
- 993.I think relying on https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills is sound. It handles global installs for a wide range of coding agents.
- 994.It is a no-effort built-in for LibreElec to use one of these outputs for video, while the other one is dedicated to high-res multichannel PCM audio.
- 995.For microvms, take a look at https://smolmachines.com
- 996.LLD would work fine for the whole tree, and did previously, but is much much slower than mold which is why we switched to mold.
- 997.For learning SICP, I use Chicken 5 with 203 and 216 eggs plus the ~/.csirc and call it done.
- 998.the Textual framework is fantastic. I’ve been using it for years in a small project
- 999.I have been using jcode for past two weeks, honestly I feel its much better compared to Opencode.
- 1000.I run BirdNET-Go as an app on my Home Assistant i7 M710q. I use the GPU-enabled BirdNET model and Perch V2, and it works swimmingly.
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