Top 1001–1100 of 3,800
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.
- 1001.Loved for Electron alternative, Developer productivity · Caveat Platform confusion
- 1002.I used a native CoreGraphics renderer for Mermaid (BeautifulMermaid) so the diagrams update without any flicker.
- 1003.Loved for Privacy, Free access · Caveat Weaker models
- 1004.I highly recommend either SimpleLogin or Fastmail aliases.
- 1005.My main device uses MicroG with LineageOS. It works really well, and I recommend it.
- 1006.realised what a huge jump it was compared to the dOS/Windows 3.x/Windows 9x lineage
- 1007.i use opencode zen as a convenient pay-as-you-go way to try out all these new models.
- 1008.I’ve been using Render for close to 5 years, and it’s excellent.
- 1009.Loved for Server management, Systemd integration · Caveat RAID disk swaps
- 1010.I love using [difftastic] for my diffing tool to get context aware diffs.
- 1011.Gitlab CI with some remote runners on a VPS that I already have (so I can keep myself on the free tier). Works perfectly.
- 1012.I built this with the fantastic ghostty-web project
- 1013.This was so bad that I switched to OpenAI API instead.
- 1014.it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.
- 1015.this is a convenient one that is better than typical containers.
- 1016.
- 1017.It has worked well for me as a way to read mutable (by any client) parameters during synthesis
- 1018.Ice is an open source app solves this problem through an overflow menu:
- 1019.They are cheaper (by almost one order of magnitude compared to Claude) and still do the job pretty well.
- 1020.Starting it with the wm keybinds is as snappy as opening a new Firefox tab.
- 1021.I used this to figure out a Cloudflare setting by navigating their dashboard for me, it worked well
- 1022.binding data to controls was dead simple, it felt surprisingly modern
- 1023.Loved for Tiled UI, User loyalty · Caveat Abandonment
- 1024.I have been using synapse for years with little issue.
- 1025.When I need "async" in a http cycle flow, I use celery and run it in background.
- 1026.rustdesk[0] works pretty well for casual use despite wayland support being labelled experimental
- 1027.It's a really good way to share check definitions between local development and CI
- 1028.I can recommend... iTunes. It is actually really decent
- 1029.learn from examples set by the Linux kernel, SQLite, OpenSSL, FFMpeg
- 1030.Mattermost (https://mattermost.com) is quite excellent and IMO is better than Slack
- 1031.I use Spotlight all the time to search for the contents of files.
- 1032.If I'm teaching you programming and you've learned Scratch, I'm going to hand you Snap! (https://snap.berkeley.edu/) next.
- 1033.Because you can throw lava at it and it will eat it.
- 1034.Loved for Cloudflare integration, Low cost · Caveat Timeouts
- 1035.I’ve had far fewer issues with this app than the likes of Bluesky (react native) and Discord
- 1036.Absolutely amazing framework and you should absolutely check them out.
- 1037.We recently migrated our core SaaS architecture to TanStack Start, dropping our local dev startup time from 12 seconds down to just 2.
- 1038.I use Phoenix/LiveView for most of my stuff, and it works phenomenally well
- 1039.Take a look at what was possible in the late 1980s with 8 MB of RAM
- 1040.nowadays I'd recommend that https://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html pre-greet checks are just as good at stopping spam
- 1041.Loved for Daily driver, Two-pane workflow · Caveat Paid license
- 1042.For the start menu I replace it with Open Shell, which seems to find apps much more reliably.
- 1043.I switched to Hotwire/Stimulus and found it to be a significantly better implementation of the same core concepts.
- 1044.which is extremely powerful when applied to problems that generalize well to it
- 1045.Been using Aegis for a while now, the encrypted backup alone makes it worth it over Google Authenticator.
- 1046.I love your design! I used it in a prototype BBS game
- 1047.Doesn't do any actually clustering like https://github.com/exo-explore/exo does.
- 1048.I used Slug at a previous job. It is an excellent, artfully crafted library; really the pinnacle of software engineering in my opinion.
- 1049.I use adb to uninstall all of the system apps like facebook, youtube, web browser, etc.
- 1050.Axum made building the API surprisingly pleasant once I got past the type system fighting me.
- 1051.The reason I switched to XMonad over a decade ago was actually so that I could have a tiling window manager but still have all the normal desktop environment conveniences.
- 1052.Bevy has an extremely impressive voxel collision system
- 1053.check out omnigent for building workflows across multiple harnesses
- 1054.For LLM generated Python code, pydantic's monty is awesome
- 1055.Check out privacy.com, you can make your own cards. One per service if you want.
- 1056.Loved for Usage metrics, Transcript browsing · Caveat Agent filtering
- 1057.I used Ergo, enforced TLS, enforced authentication
- 1058.You can do this with libkrun. I use it as a podman backend
- 1059.you can try this https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec its apache license
- 1060.They are as good as it gets when it comes to not choking on unusual binaries
- 1061.the CLI + skill is much lighter on token usage. So far so good.
- 1062.QNX microkernel operating system, which is highly secure even when the software is never patched
- 1063.If you're looking for an alternative to Discord, check out Stoat (formerly Revolt).
- 1064.Each time I use it, there is very little in terms of use cases that don't fit me.
- 1065.Loved for Cross-platform, Authy/Aegis alternative · Caveat Confusing branding
- 1066.Loved for Rust integration, Works with LLMs · Caveat Custom syntax
- 1067.There is also ZLUDA, which is open source and works on pre-compiled binaries.
- 1068.I used this to check if I could see today's eclipse in Barcelona from my apartment buildings roof. Worked pretty well.
- 1069.showing an incredible level of image/video understanding and generation capability
- 1070.it can be combined with agent-browser to get the best of both worlds
- 1071.I now use Forge to plan css too because I don't want to show broken css states
- 1072.Loved for Great podcatcher, Android staple · Caveat Missing audio features
- 1073.So I personally like/stick with the kimi cli for kimi coding.
- 1074.Last I heard, it was getting pretty close to being usable as a daily driver. lots of cool tech
- 1075.I use https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist for that. ~10k blocked domains and rules.
- 1076.wonderful Datasette plus the mbox-to-sqlite extension is exactly what you want
- 1077.I would recommend running a Java server with the Geyser and Floodgate plugins for compatibility reasons.
- 1078.I use the piping feature of less to add some interactivity to git-log.
- 1079.Never had to touch the configuration, out of the box has been sufficient for me.
- 1080.I have been using droid-ify on GrapheneOS for a few years now; because F-Droid ui is terrible
- 1081.Loved for Long-term use, Key-use visibility · Caveat Native alternative
- 1082.Every Door is very good if you know what info you'd like to edit.
- 1083.I think the future of having lean as a tool is mathematicians using this or similar software
- 1084.I recommend llmfit. It shows you exactly what models you can run and at what speeds
- 1085.projectivy launcher which allows me to set a customized and very clean interface with the just the apps I use and nothing else. I definitely recommend it.
- 1086.and redbean (redbean.dev - although the tls certs are expired and it seems scrubbed off of github)
- 1087.They have a coding agent called Shelley (https://exe.dev/shelley) that works fine in a web browser on my laptop, tablet, and phone.
- 1088.Plexamp is not perfect and not open source unfortunately, but it's a really good non-enshitified product.
- 1089.consider LAN mode with OrcaSlicer and this open source reverse engineered networking plugin
- 1090.This is delightful! I found a bunch of interesting sites in just a few minutes.
- 1091.Loved for Low cost, Cache hits · Caveat Data to China
- 1092.i have been using posteo.de for the last decade with no problems at all.
- 1093.waypipe + xwayland-satellite works even for forwarding X11 clients over waypipe. I use it myself every day
- 1094.Loved for DNS validation, Self-hosted certs · Caveat ZeroSSL default
- 1095.Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude
- 1096.https://github.com/noonghunna/club-3090 is the way to go.
- 1097.Loved for Lightroom alternative, Output quality · Caveat Library performance
- 1098.my current favorite alternative HN frontend https://hcker.news
- 1099.if you're a CS language nerd Racket might be a good fit for you
- 1100.there's Audacious[1], which is an excellent and cross-platform player, with support for Winamp skins