Top 1601–1700 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.

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  1. 1601.
    iMessage · 6 recommenders · 12 warn · Email and chat
    iMessage is a legitimately superior experience to other messaging apps
  2. 1602.
    WebStorm · 6 recommenders · 7 warn · Editors and IDEs
    WebStorm seems to be a lot more reliable than VSCode nowadays
  3. 1603.
    Dependabot · 6 recommenders · 10 warn · Productivity
    I love bots like Renovate and Dependabot for taking care of updating my projects' dependencies.
  4. 1604.
    GraphQL · 6 recommenders · 6 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    I use GraphQL. It has a higher learning curve. But it addresses the shortcomings listed by the referenced blog article.
  5. 1605.
    thiserror · 6 recommenders · 7 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    thiserror for libraries, helping you create the standard library error types
  6. 1606.
    Phind · 6 recommenders · 8 warn · AI models and assistants
    I used Phind successfully about 2 years ago to make my way around an old codebase
  7. 1607.
    Spring · 6 recommenders · 11 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    I am a Java dev and Spring user for about 10 years now.
  8. 1608.
    Algolia · 6 recommenders · 8 warn · Search
    It's pretty good. You appreciate it more when you try to use Reddit's!
  9. 1609.
    NATS · 6 recommenders · 10 warn · Email and chat
    NATS and its built-in Jetstream stream persistence engine are a miracle. I love them both so much.
  10. 1610.
    Amazon RDS · 6 recommenders · 12 warn · Databases
    Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache.
  11. 1611.
    LocalStack · 6 recommenders · 11 warn · Infrastructure and DevOps
    Although I love localstack and am grateful for what they have done
  12. 1612.
    Bing · 6 recommenders · 15 warn · Search
    Right now Bing is working better for me (Bing! WTF?)
  13. 1613.
    MATLAB · 6 recommenders · 17 warn · Other software
    Matlab is successful because of precisely one thing, which nobody has replicated.
  14. 1614.
    Polymarket · 6 recommenders · 26 warn · Other software
    there is no issue with using polymarket to get the odds on anything
  15. 1615.
    Netflix · 6 recommenders · 27 warn · Media and creative
    Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.
  16. 1616.
    Rocq · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    look into Rocq (which uses CoIC, like Lean, but is more rigorous about it)
  17. 1617.
    Pushover · 5 recommenders · Other software
    a pay-once use forever app (pushover), that works great on my phone
  18. 1618.
    LanceDB · 5 recommenders · Databases
    the embedded lancedb is convenient and has benchmarks
  19. 1619.
    Chimera Linux · 5 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    Have a look at Chimera Linux if you want to give it a try
  20. 1620.
    Bifrost · 5 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    i use this for my personal projects. some features are gated behind a license but the basics like provider proxy, logs, metrics are covered in the free version.
  21. 1621.
    Automerge · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    They are themselves full CRDTs, with strong proofs about their characteristics under stress.
  22. 1622.
    w3m · 5 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    I recently discovered how well it works to do exactly what you are asking.
  23. 1623.
    CLIP · 5 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    CLIP should give the images that actually look similar.
  24. 1624.
    Google Keep · 5 recommenders · Notes and knowledge
    The only note taking app I’ve found to be fun to browse is Google Keep. I love the layout
  25. 1625.
    CodeMirror · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Editors and IDEs
    It takes a bit of time to get used to the abstractions, but I think it is worthwhile.
  26. 1626.
    PowerDNS · 5 recommenders · Networking and VPN
    This is convenient because you don't have to synchronize zone files on multiple hosts.
  27. 1627.
    qutebrowser · 5 recommenders · Browsers and extensions
    My favorite example of keyboard power is qutebrowser
  28. 1628.
    RunPod · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Infrastructure and DevOps
    Try Runpod or similar services: you can fine-tune stuff for the price of a latte.
  29. 1629.
    Adventure Game Studio · 5 recommenders · Editors and IDEs
  30. 1630.
    bootc · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Operating systems and desktop
    I recently converted my NAS from plain Debian to a custom bootc image based on Fedora 43 and I love it
  31. 1631.
    Qwen Coder · 5 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    This was with a 30b model at 4-bit quantization, so pretty tiny by LLM standards.
  32. 1632.
    Vitess · 5 recommenders · Databases
    as a heavy Vitess/MySQL user I do fear the split focus from PlanetScale
  33. 1633.
    MapLibre · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    we used Protomaps, OpenStreetMap, MapLibre and other free tools to craft a stylized version
  34. 1634.
    Lip Gloss · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    bubbletea and lipgloss (and wish, if you want SSH stuff) are really excellent tools
  35. 1635.
    Privacy Badger · 5 recommenders · Browsers and extensions
    Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, two extensions I rely on.
  36. 1636.
    IRIX · 5 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    IRIX 6.x had one of the most beautiful (and colourful) GUIs ever.
  37. 1637.
    Sonarr · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Self-hosted and home server
    they aren't especially heavy to run and are not fragile
  38. 1638.
    Templ · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I pair it with a-h/templ for a bit more type safety on the template, components and partials.
  39. 1639.
    Eve · 5 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    I have been using eve - https://eve.dev/ recently and it was just really nice and well thought out.
  40. 1640.
    Morphe · 5 recommenders · Media and creative
    use an app patcher like https://github.com/morpheapp which can remove all in-app advertisements
  41. 1641.
    Ledger · 5 recommenders · Finance
    I used https://ledger-cli.org/ and the accompanying Emacs mode for a long long time.
  42. 1642.
    JOE · 5 recommenders · Editors and IDEs
    JOE [0] for editing directly in terminal (Linux, macOS)
  43. 1643.
    sandbox-exec · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Security and passwords
    OSX is the best, we use the in-built (seatbelt) sandbox via sandbox-exec.
  44. 1644.
    Numba · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    Numba is a little magic because you get to write stuff that feels like numpy, but get literal bytecode perf.
  45. 1645.
    XFS · 5 recommenders · Files, sync and backup
    I'm running XFS on all filesystems (besides /boot and /efi), and they report being full often enough without any crashes/reboots.
  46. 1646.
    Alpine · 5 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    A stupid setup, perhaps, but it was productive, and I wrote.
  47. 1647.
    PCPartPicker · 5 recommenders · Other software
    It has Amazon as well as many other stores, and several other filtering options.
  48. 1648.
    Monkeytype · 5 recommenders · AI models and assistants
  49. 1649.
    Ecto · 5 recommenders · Databases
    check out ecto, i would say it has less magic than django
  50. 1650.
    OpenCV · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    it remains hands down the best library for simply loading images and video
  51. 1651.
    Synthetic · 5 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    https://synthetic.new with Kimi K2.5 works surprisingly well for small tasks where I still make all the decisions.
  52. 1652.
    Tolaria · 5 recommenders · Notes and knowledge
    It is like you have taken all the things I want from Obsidian (plus plug-ins) and made them into a single, well designed app.
  53. 1653.
    ZeroFS · 5 recommenders · Files, sync and backup
    Works pretty awesomely with git workloads, even Linux sized trees.
  54. 1654.
    Cap'n Proto · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    Some nice Object Capability technologies not mentioned in the Wikipedia article
  55. 1655.
    OpenRA · 5 recommenders · Other software
    I Love this project, works on Mac, Linux & Windows!
  56. 1656.
    xv · 5 recommenders · Media and creative
    For just looking at images I use xv all the time. Fast, and with some editing options
  57. 1657.
    Dioxus · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    Dioxus is a React clone that is somehow leagues better than React (and Next.js, too)
  58. 1658.
    Komodo · 5 recommenders · Infrastructure and DevOps
    wasnt a big fan of coolify but i love https://komo.do/
  59. 1659.
    claudish-to-english · 5 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    Check out the awesome [Claudish-to-English plugin]
  60. 1660.
    Codefloe · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Git and code hosting
    I'm more than happy with https://codefloe.com for private repos
  61. 1661.
    Loco · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I use Loco extensively on many projects and it's great.
  62. 1662.
    Grimmory · 5 recommenders · Self-hosted and home server
    I’ve been using Grimmory[1] and like it. Opds, kobo api, kindle email and web reader cover pretty much every use case.
  63. 1663.
    ejabberd · 5 recommenders · Email and chat
    it was just a fire and forget/good defaults/good logging/self-healing experience. Highly recommend.
  64. 1664.
    Wholphin · 5 recommenders · Media and creative
    I use Wholfin (https://github.com/damontecres/Wholphin) on my TV and it's really nice
  65. 1665.
    aria2 · 5 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    uses aria2 for HTTP download, which has resumability.
  66. 1666.
    ChromeOS Flex · 5 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    I booted chromeos flex on a >12 year old laptop earlier this year and had a good experience with it.
  67. 1667.
    Kotlin Multiplatform · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    When it comes to mobile app development I'll stick to Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose Multiplatform.
  68. 1668.
    Turbo · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I've been using it for years and it often really is that easy.
  69. 1669.
    dav1d · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    lovingly hand crafted SIMD ASM instructions it's actually possible to reasonably playback AV1 without hardware acceleration
  70. 1670.
    Camoufox · 5 recommenders · Browsers and extensions
    For browsing, I use camoufox, it tries to hide the fact that it is an AI running a bot and seems to be fairly successful.
  71. 1671.
    Inertia.js · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    It’s the best of both worlds. We use it to bridge svelte with Laravel at work and I couldn’t be happier about this stack.
  72. 1672.
    llamafile · 5 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    Jart's example in her simple LLM-based spam-filter running on a Raspberry Pi
  73. 1673.
    VMware Fusion · 5 recommenders · Infrastructure and DevOps
    I have tested Fusion, Parallels and UTM and Fusion seemed to be the most stable for me.
  74. 1674.
    Epiphany · 5 recommenders · Browsers and extensions
    with Epiphany's webapps it's just there as an app to launch
  75. 1675.
    Harmonic · 5 recommenders · Other software
    I use the third-party app Harmonic to browse HN and it has a dark mode. It's quite nice, actually.
  76. 1676.
    Wish · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I love that library -- perfect for multi-user TUIs
  77. 1677.
    turbopuffer · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Databases
    i use multiple DBs but the primary ones are turbopuffer and chroma for package search. they are really great
  78. 1678.
    GLM-4.7-Flash · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · AI models and assistants
    GLM 4.7 Flash is the main model I use locally for agentic coding work, it's pretty incredible.
  79. 1679.
    GNU Radio · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    It's pretty cool to build a signal flow graph, then have it just work, with output to your speakers
  80. 1680.
    libvips · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    We use the golang wrapper at work and love the simplicity and speed
  81. 1681.
    Box2D · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    Thanks to Erin for such a useful piece of software!
  82. 1682.
    Mouseless · 5 recommenders · Productivity
    Ive been using mouseless for a while now and I've been enjoying it!
  83. 1683.
    FluffyChat · 5 recommenders · Email and chat
    Fluffychat works reasonably well on mobile for me.
  84. 1684.
    Stellarium · 5 recommenders · Other software
    These are also available in the excellent Stellarium software
  85. 1685.
    CRIU · 5 recommenders · Infrastructure and DevOps
    Check out the CRIU patchset (since merged to mainline) which can even resume applications seamlessly across hosts
  86. 1686.
    Jido · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I've been working with jido https://jido.run and would definitely recommend it
  87. 1687.
    Chatterbox · 5 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    Chatterbox-TTS has a MUCH MUCH better output quality though
  88. 1688.
    Langfuse · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · AI models and assistants
    Langfuse ended up being the observability tool I went with instead over the one I built
  89. 1689.
    Paged.js · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    https://pagedjs.org is a pretty good polyfill for [1]
  90. 1690.
    jcode · 5 recommenders · AI coding tools
    I have been using jcode for past two weeks, honestly I feel its much better compared to Opencode.
  91. 1691.
    RabbitMQ · 5 recommenders · 4 warn · Other software
    For simple AMQP, it has performed rather well for our use-cases over the years.
  92. 1692.
    BLIK · 5 recommenders · Finance
    It’s trusted, available for 10+y and generally a successful project.
  93. 1693.
    Microsoft Access · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Databases
    I remember watching one person with Access set up dashboards that worked 1000x better than all of the dozen SAAS tools
  94. 1694.
    TextMate · 5 recommenders · Editors and IDEs
    TM has multiple cursors where vim has none, and I use that every day.
  95. 1695.
    Double Commander · 5 recommenders · Files, sync and backup
    I suggest its clone, Double Commander. Does everything as TC, supports its plugins and is cross platform and open source.
  96. 1696.
    ZGC · 5 recommenders · Other software
    you probably want ZGC (or Shenandoah) because latency is more important than throughput.
  97. 1697.
    openSUSE Kalpa · 5 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    I daily drive kalpa and also installed it on my family computer.
  98. 1698.
    Entity Framework Core · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    EF Core is the gold standard for what I'd look for in an ORM
  99. 1699.
    Eigen · 5 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I use the Eigen matrix library as a replacement for Numpy when I need more performance
  100. 1700.
    DBeaver · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Databases
    I switched to dbeaver already anyway, because pgadmin was annoying about to which postgres versions it could connect.
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