Top 1201–1300 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.

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  1. 1201.
    zx · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    I use ZX for this - it's basically JS/TS with some extra stuff that makes it good for shell scripts.
  2. 1202.
    Site Spy · 3 recommenders · Monitoring and analytics
    Sitespy is legit one of the most underrated web dev tools I’ve found lately!
  3. 1203.
    Brave Origin · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Browsers and extensions
    I just started using Brave Origin after trying to switch to Safari for a while.
  4. 1204.
    zsh-bench · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    Check out zsh-bench⁽¹⁾ for a more authoritative approach, including first prompt lag, first command lag, input lag and exit lag.
  5. 1205.
    FVWM · 3 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
  6. 1206.
    SilverBullet · 3 recommenders · Notes and knowledge
    I have been using it since February 2025. Loving it.
  7. 1207.
    RedwoodSDK · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    The main reasons for choosing it were its simplicity, adherence to web standards, and how easy it is for students to grasp.
  8. 1208.
    0 A.D. · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I love 0 A.D., and I’m endlessly grateful to all the developers and volunteers who made it happen.
  9. 1209.
    Beautiful Mermaid · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I used a native CoreGraphics renderer for Mermaid (BeautifulMermaid) so the diagrams update without any flicker.
  10. 1210.
    which-key · 3 recommenders · Editors and IDEs
    The only thing I use is his which-key, and there are alternatives, such as mini.clue.
  11. 1211.
    FolderSync · 3 recommenders · Files, sync and backup
    the amazing Android FolderSync app that I used for realtime synchronization for several years without a single issue
  12. 1212.
    Typora · 3 recommenders · Notes and knowledge
    typora is actually one time purchase and one of the rare apps that is priced well with good business model.
  13. 1213.
    Plexamp · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Media and creative
    Plexamp is not perfect and not open source unfortunately, but it's a really good non-enshitified product.
  14. 1214.
    Gemini Canvas · 3 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    One week I created 4 different scripts with Gemini Canvas to automate some tedious work, it took my I don't know, 3 hours?
  15. 1215.
    DigitalOcean App Platform · 3 recommenders · Infrastructure and DevOps
    I've a number of apps on their App Platform and it works great.
  16. 1216.
    Monodraw · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I will also shout out monodraw as a really nice little application for building generic ASCII diagrams
  17. 1217.
    llm · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    I hand Simon's `llm` command lone tool access to its own todo list and read/write access to the cwd
  18. 1218.
    JUCE · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    i have been using JUCE for decades and it's been very reliable and stable with a well maintained forum
  19. 1219.
    Tasker · 3 recommenders · Productivity
    Tasker to automatically activate my wifi hotspot for the car's Android headunit
  20. 1220.
    Kvaesitso · 3 recommenders · Productivity
    I switched to Kvaesitso from Nova about a month ago and it's been amazing and it's open source.
  21. 1221.
    Xray-core · 3 recommenders · Networking and VPN
    popular opensource implementations and their documentation. Sing-box, Xray core, hiddify
  22. 1222.
    Clang · 3 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    Clang already had the full C99 designated init feature set in C++ mode implemented long before C++20 and it worked just fine.
  23. 1223.
    Tailsnitch · 3 recommenders · Security and passwords
    I love the idea of this tool and will for sure be using it
  24. 1224.
    Keycloak · 3 recommenders · 2 warn · Security and passwords
    Or just stick with KeyCloak that offers a full self hosted product...
  25. 1225.
    Claude Skills · 3 recommenders · AI coding tools
    I'm regularly extracting parts of my workflow to small, focused skills.
  26. 1226.
    Chafa · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    I use chafa extensively, and it really is the best tool for terminal graphics in my opinion.
  27. 1227.
    Accrescent · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I’ve started donating monthly to Accrescent instead, download as many apps as I can from there
  28. 1228.
    zig cc · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    It let's you target specific glibc versions. It's a pretty amazing C toolchain.
  29. 1229.
    Ly · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I use this on NixOS[0] with the Matrix digital rain animation and enjoy it way too much :)
  30. 1230.
    Asciidoctor · 3 recommenders · Notes and knowledge
    it's quite old, it's battle-tested, and offers me many options to produce various forms of output
  31. 1231.
    Meld · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I remember enjoying https://meldmerge.org/ in the past for interactive visual file merging.
  32. 1232.
    Kea DHCP · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I migrated to from ISC to Kea in OPNSense and it was relatively painless, and it's been working well since.
  33. 1233.
    difftastic · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I love using [difftastic] for my diffing tool to get context aware diffs.
  34. 1234.
    Wealthfolio · 3 recommenders · Finance
    for someone who moves investments more frequently, Wealthfolio looks awesome.
  35. 1235.
    Squarespace · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    if you want all the bells and whistles on a platter: Squarespace, Wix, etc.
  36. 1236.
    Streamlit · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    Python has won for me: fastapi, pytorch, langchain, streamlit, and so on and on.
  37. 1237.
    PGP · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Security and passwords
    I never encountered any significant difficulties and could successfully exchange messages with my peers
  38. 1238.
    DuckDuckGo Browser · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Browsers and extensions
    DuckDuckGo is the browser I use most all the time.
  39. 1239.
    dnsmasq · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Networking and VPN
    I use dnsmasq mostly for its fantastic integration with DNS.
  40. 1240.
    Tailwind Plus · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    If you are using Tailwind, I highly recommend Tailwind Plus.
  41. 1241.
    Instapaper · 3 recommenders · Other software
    Instapaper has excellent text-to-speech with their Premium subscription.
  42. 1242.
    oh-my-openagent · 3 recommenders · AI coding tools
    You should consider looking at oh-my-opencode for inspiration
  43. 1243.
    Uruky · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Search
    I discovered uruky today via alternativeto.net and I love it.
  44. 1244.
    browser-use · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Productivity
    we love Browser-Use <3 and we still work together closely!
  45. 1245.
    RabbitMQ · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    I don't know the internals of Kafka, RabbitMQ, or PostgreSQL. I just know how to use them. And yet they work fine.
  46. 1246.
    Screen Studio · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money?
  47. 1247.
    Phosh · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Terminal and shell
    100mb more ram and 1% more battery drain for an OS aiming to be a daily driver is something that's worth it.
  48. 1248.
    Xorg · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    Removing Xorg while Nvidia users make up the majority is insane.
  49. 1249.
    Selenium · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Productivity
    I'm specifically suggesting Selenium because it's been around so long so I assume there's a lot of Selenium in the LLMs training data
  50. 1250.
    AOSP · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Operating systems and desktop
    AOSP is far more private, secure, usable and compatible with a far broader amount of apps.
  51. 1251.
    GCC · 3 recommenders · 3 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    GCC and LLVM having won the compiler wars and being extremely high quality
  52. 1252.
    MonoGame · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    it's one of the best frameworks I've ever used for gamedev
  53. 1253.
    Autolith · 3 recommenders · AI coding tools
  54. 1254.
    Symfonium · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Media and creative
    I have a self-hosted streaming setup, so I've personally found Symfonium (1) to be my go-to.
  55. 1255.
    ChromeOS · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Operating systems and desktop
    the ChromeOS is so lean, and basically doesn't need to add a bunch of drivers or 3rd party software at all
  56. 1256.
    jQuery · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    I love jQuery syntax. It's still way tigheter than standards-based stuff
  57. 1257.
    Zoho Mail · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Email and chat
    I use zoho with three low usage domains and pay $1 a month.
  58. 1258.
    Delphi · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Editors and IDEs
    Delphi was magical. Nothing compares to Delphi's productivity.
  59. 1259.
    Aurora · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Operating systems and desktop
    there are awesome distros like Bazzite and Aurora that are rock-solid like MacOS and ChromeOS
  60. 1260.
    Alloy · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Monitoring and analytics
    Credit goes to agentic coding tools for making it a reality.
  61. 1261.
    SimpleLogin · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Email and chat
    I highly recommend either SimpleLogin or Fastmail aliases.
  62. 1262.
    Fedora KDE · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Operating systems and desktop
    Have not looked back and loving my experience deep ingrained in Linux.
  63. 1263.
    Entire · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Git and code hosting
    I've been using Entire for a while now (specifically checkpoints, but also testing Trails more recently) and there's no going back! It's amazing!
  64. 1264.
    PydanticAI · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · AI models and assistants
    I really like https://ai.pydantic.dev/ as it builds on existing developer knowledge and there is not much to learn in the framework itself.
  65. 1265.
    Berkeley Mono · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I have bought Berkeley Mono back in the day, and I use it everywhere, everyday.
  66. 1266.
    Tweeks · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Browsers and extensions
    this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche
  67. 1267.
    Solaris · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Operating systems and desktop
    our workloads benefited from the trinity of Solaris' threading, ZFS tiered storage, and zones/containers
  68. 1268.
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Operating systems and desktop
    RedHat backports security fixes into the original code, so open source package updates don’t break your application
  69. 1269.
    Lutris · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Productivity
    I love and use lutris, and I'm extremely grateful that the creator took the time to build it
  70. 1270.
    LMDB · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Databases
    It has worked well for me as a way to read mutable (by any client) parameters during synthesis
  71. 1271.
    Windy · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    I moved to Windy and I just look at the weather radar
  72. 1272.
    Woxi · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    You could add support also for the Woxi[1][2] for most of the symbolic math, also should be way faster
  73. 1273.
    Step Flash · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · AI models and assistants
    Step 3.7 Flash at IQ4_XS beats Qwen 3.6 27B despite the latter having MTP, on all of my actual coding task evaluations in real codebases.
  74. 1274.
    Qwen Image 2.1 · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · AI models and assistants
    With FIBO2 and Qwen Image 2.1, I can transform my raw shots so they look as though they were captured with a high-end digital camera.
  75. 1275.
    ArtifactFS · 3 recommenders · Git and code hosting
  76. 1276.
    one sec · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    It’s extremely effective and I highly recommend it.
  77. 1277.
    yj_nearbyglasses · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    Not sure why you'd use this sketchy vibecoded proprietary app over the same thing that's open source and existed for a while
  78. 1278.
    FEX · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    it plays GTA V and RDR2 almost perfectly, using FEX nonetheless
  79. 1279.
    DBOS · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Infrastructure and DevOps
    I love the product and what you are doing -- it's definitely needed and valuable.
  80. 1280.
    Tor Browser · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Browsers and extensions
    I use Tor (with no scripts addon) for casual browsing, closing it down regularly to clear it.
  81. 1281.
    Claude in Chrome · 3 recommenders · 2 warn · Browsers and extensions
    I used this to figure out a Cloudflare setting by navigating their dashboard for me, it worked well
  82. 1282.
    Box2D · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    Thanks to Erin for such a useful piece of software!
  83. 1283.
    systemd timers · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    I love systemd timers! I've slowly moved all of my ansible-deployed cron jobs to timers
  84. 1284.
    Olmo · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · AI models and assistants
    Olmo and to a lesser extent Nemotron are what you should look at
  85. 1285.
    Synapse · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Self-hosted and home server
    I have been using synapse for years with little issue.
  86. 1286.
    Metal · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Media and creative
    I vibe coded a wgpu version for the grid, but then switched to Metal.
  87. 1287.
    Llama · 3 recommenders · 4 warn · AI models and assistants
    I've actually seen better performance with older ones like Meta Llama 4 or Amazon's Nova
  88. 1288.
    GNU Taler · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    If you don't know the Taler project, it's a very good idea as an alternative to crypto
  89. 1289.
    Inkling · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · AI models and assistants
    Very nice, multi modal, largest open weight model that supports audio.
  90. 1290.
    ZCode · 3 recommenders · 2 warn · AI coding tools
    ZCode was surprisingly good, which is surprising for a tool that came out of nowhere
  91. 1291.
    Apple Keychain · 3 recommenders · 2 warn · Security and passwords
    when you are prompted to create a passphrase it will ask you to put it in your iCloud Keychain. Boom, now it is available across all of those
  92. 1292.
    immich-go · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Self-hosted and home server
    Fortunately immich-go can just pick up the import where it left of
  93. 1293.
    ONNX · 3 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    We use the ONNX runtime for small models in the browser
  94. 1294.
    Git worktree · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Git and code hosting
    the paradigmatic example where git worktree is useful
  95. 1295.
    seL4 · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Operating systems and desktop
    I have had a bit of a dream of building a full desktop operating system around seL4 [1]
  96. 1296.
    DoorDash · 3 recommenders · 2 warn · Other software
    DoorDash has a ton of grocery delivery, it's the only one i use for that now because instacart has a payments bug.
  97. 1297.
    Helm · 3 recommenders · 3 warn · Infrastructure and DevOps
    Helm is a great tool, but you absolutely must keep it simple.
  98. 1298.
    Vicinae · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Productivity
    Now I come full circle to replace raycast with it on the work machine
  99. 1299.
    Plasma Bigscreen · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Operating systems and desktop
    This is really cool and I'd love to see TVs ship with it.
  100. 1300.
    Grab · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    I choose Grab mainly because I always have installed for GrabPay payments.
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