Top 1901–2000 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. 1901.
    Tectonic · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    that's what I use personally for local PDF generation
  2. 1902.
    FreeTaxUSA · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    I moved to FreeTaxUSA last year and it's like a breath of fresh air
  3. 1903.
    Sharp · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    It is an amazing library! Been using it for years.
  4. 1904.
    Fastly · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Infrastructure and DevOps
    Fastly (US) and BunnyCDN (EU) are excellent options
  5. 1905.
    Avidemux · 5 recommenders · Media and creative
    It's a simple tool which is great for many things, it has filters and there are most of the formats.
  6. 1906.
    Kitten TTS · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · AI models and assistants
    I'd also recommend checking out KittenTTS[2], I use it and it's great for the size/performance.
  7. 1907.
    Matomo · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Monitoring and analytics
    Matomo, self-hosted, loading data from webserver logs. No cookies or privacy notices needed.
  8. 1908.
    Runbox · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Email and chat
    have only ever been met with warmth and kindness in my interactions in the tickets
  9. 1909.
    Sylve · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Infrastructure and DevOps
    It's new-ish, but it looks like a possible sweet spot replacement for both proxmox and TrueNAS
  10. 1910.
    Deno Sandbox · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Security and passwords
    They also have a new Deno sandbox feature which is great for running untrusted code
  11. 1911.
    Common Crawl · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    You could probably extract a lot from https://commoncrawl.org/
  12. 1912.
    Bastille · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Infrastructure and DevOps
    I’ve found Bastille really simple and great for creating and managing jails
  13. 1913.
    Apple Arcade · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    For people with iPhones I recommend an "Apple Arcade" subscription, especially if you have kids.
  14. 1914.
    Jolt · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    Glad to see some healthy physics simulation options, next to Jolt, PhysX and https://github.com/newton-physics/newton
  15. 1915.
    Rewind · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Productivity
    I used the Rewind app on Mac and it was very nice to have the ability to search almost anything you did / saw on the computer.
  16. 1916.
    Lunr.js · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Libraries and frameworks
    it has lots of options for things like different fields, complex queries, fuzzy searching and wildcards.
  17. 1917.
    yolobox · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · AI models and assistants
  18. 1918.
    OpenRailwayMap · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    I used it recently to find a land and sea route from Southampton to Marrakesh
  19. 1919.
    Forgejo Actions · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Infrastructure and DevOps
    One of the nice things about switching to Forgejo Actions is that the runner is lightweight, fast, and reliable
  20. 1920.
    s3proxy · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Self-hosted and home server
    my pick would be s3proxy, been using it for a while, works really well in local dev
  21. 1921.
    CLion · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Editors and IDEs
    I've had no issues running CLion on a 2020 M1 Macbook Air
  22. 1922.
    gdu · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Terminal and shell
    I have personally moved to gdu (https://github.com/dundee/gdu) as I found it to be way faster than ncdu
  23. 1923.
    SciPy · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    There's a module for it in scipy, so it should be rather straightforward to try your analysis
  24. 1924.
    imapsync · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Email and chat
    imapsync (https://imapsync.lamiral.info/) made the migration very easy.
  25. 1925.
    workerd · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    My go-to solution is to make ad-hoc proxies with workerd that work just the way i need
  26. 1926.
    Semgrep · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Security and passwords
    For a tool that actually legitimately does this, look at Semgrep.
  27. 1927.
    git bisect · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Git and code hosting
    I used git bisect in anger for the first time recently and it felt like magic.
  28. 1928.
    basedpyright · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    For Python I recommend basedpyright as an alternative to Pyright/Pylance.
  29. 1929.
    PgBouncer · 5 recommenders · 5 warn · Databases
    PgBouncer is a great piece of software. We use that heavily
  30. 1930.
    Spectacle · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Operating systems and desktop
    It has the same features as Flameshot and is .. well, native.
  31. 1931.
    ProseMirror · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    Lexical, Slate, and ProseMirror (especially ProseMirror, in our opinion!) are all excellent rich text libraries
  32. 1932.
    Instapaper · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    Instapaper has excellent text-to-speech with their Premium subscription.
  33. 1933.
    RenderDoc · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Media and creative
    RenderDoc (or another frame debugger if you have one) is a nice tool as well.
  34. 1934.
    o3 · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · AI models and assistants
    switched to o3-thinking with web search enabled after that came out because it was 80% of the thoroughness with 20% of the time
  35. 1935.
    RAD Debugger · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    Probably the most responsive debugger out there is RAD Debugger
  36. 1936.
    WhatCable · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Other software
    I cannot recommend enough https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
  37. 1937.
    Return of the Obra Dinn · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Media and creative
    similar to Return of the Obra Dinn, the whole universe story is weaved perfectly
  38. 1938.
    mimalloc · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    Loved for Performance, Musl malloc replacement
  39. 1939.
    Vikunja · 5 recommenders · Productivity
    Vikunja https://vikunja.io/ - todo list manager, I use it on all my computers, and phone
  40. 1940.
    Quod Libet · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Media and creative
    Cross platform and its plugin system should be enough reason on its own
  41. 1941.
    AGENTS.md · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · AI coding tools
    I recently switched to using only AGENTS.md and SKILLS. I appreciate the standardization from this perspective.
  42. 1942.
    GitHub Projects · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Productivity
    Loved for AI agent tracking, Simple kanban · Caveat Small teams only
  43. 1943.
    Bruno · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Other software
    Bruno ticks the boxes for this https://www.usebruno.com/
  44. 1944.
    Ray · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    We wrote up the full Ray architecture we use in production on KubeRay/GKE.
  45. 1945.
    Panoramax · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Files, sync and backup
    Check out panoramax if you don't know about it already.
  46. 1946.
    Chawan · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Terminal and shell
  47. 1947.
    HeidiSQL · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Databases
    Heidi has been my go-to SQL tool for longer than I can remember.
  48. 1948.
    Open Camera · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Other software
    It's far superior to anything I've seen natively installed on any device.
  49. 1949.
    DavMail · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Email and chat
    Basically DavMail connects to outlook at creates a local smtp and imap server
  50. 1950.
    Boost · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    There is Boost in C++. It is very mature and honestly modern C++ has a lot of extremely powerful stdlib functionality
  51. 1951.
    Zoo · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Media and creative
    it's really nice having two-way capabilities (not just code -> model, but also the reverse).
  52. 1952.
    Amazon Route 53 · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Networking and VPN
    We moved to Route 53; our expected bill is around $5K/year.
  53. 1953.
    libjxl · 5 recommenders · 4 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    I like libjxl (and cjpegli) because they are really good at generating reasonably compact, high-quality images.
  54. 1954.
    Woxi · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Other software
    You could add support also for the Woxi[1][2] for most of the symbolic math, also should be way faster
  55. 1955.
    Statichost.eu · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Infrastructure and DevOps
    am super happy with the free plan and the support I got
  56. 1956.
    YaCy · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Search
    solutions like hister and yacy that is so privacy conscious
  57. 1957.
    Cursor Bugbot · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · AI models and assistants
    BugBot in Cursor has been great, I rarely find myself looking at it and disagreeing
  58. 1958.
    Monolisa · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Other software
    Bought MonoLisa back in 2022, never even considered switching coding typeface since.
  59. 1959.
    Fedora KDE · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Operating systems and desktop
    I'd recommend Fedora KDE, it's vanilla and well used enough to be able to easily find answers.
  60. 1960.
    TeX · 5 recommenders · 4 warn · Other software
    so if you are looking for stability, look no further
  61. 1961.
    lnav · 5 recommenders · 1 warns · Terminal and shell
    `lnav` is also an excellent local log viewer if you allow TUIs.
  62. 1962.
    BetterMouse · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Other software
    I replaced it with BetterMouse https://better-mouse.com/
  63. 1963.
    Conan · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    We use conan2, and while it can be very challenging to use, I've yet to find something better
  64. 1964.
    Aperture · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Media and creative
    Aperture was so Mac native and was such a joy to use on OS X.
  65. 1965.
    ScreenZen · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Other software
    I use ScreenZen to enforce limited short session for a short list of harmful apps and websites
  66. 1966.
    Buf · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Other software
    with the advantage that you can just keep Protobuf and all the battle hardened tooling that comes with it
  67. 1967.
    frontend-design · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · AI coding tools
    You really have to a) use Opus and b) use the frontend-design skill for decent results.
  68. 1968.
    Apache HTTP Server · 5 recommenders · 7 warn · Other software
    Apache was more than adequate for what I was doing, I had no issues with it in the past, and the setup was dead simple.
  69. 1969.
    Stitch · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · AI models and assistants
    pre google stitch which is my current preferred tool
  70. 1970.
    Free Pascal · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    I love it so much, it has a great balance between: readability, fast write/compile/debug cycle and great performance.
  71. 1971.
    Skia · 5 recommenders · 4 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    Most of the big ones are things like skia, harfbuzz, wgpu - all totally reasonable IMO.
  72. 1972.
    ForgeCode · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · AI coding tools
    I'm using forge code (https://forgecode.dev/) with various local and cloud models and I really like it
  73. 1973.
    Path Finder · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Files, sync and backup
    chose Path Finder, and have been using it ever since
  74. 1974.
    Google Calendar · 5 recommenders · 5 warn · Productivity
    I use Google Calendar as my todo list. Syncs across devices.
  75. 1975.
    Biome · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Other software
    we use Biome for 99% of the linting/formatting, and then an eslint plugin for a few specific i18n scenarios that Biome doesn't cover.
  76. 1976.
    Cloudflare Zero Trust · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Networking and VPN
    I protect the admin interface with Cloudflare Zero Trust, using email-based authentication
  77. 1977.
    Unix · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Operating systems and desktop
    Unix and Linux would be your quintessential examples.
  78. 1978.
    MikroTik · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Networking and VPN
    MikroTik has become a serious, and affordable means to power a small-to-midsize ISP in the recent years.
  79. 1979.
    bcachefs · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Other software
    I do run bcachefs for a secondary drive that is used for storage purpose and it has been great.
  80. 1980.
    Gemma 4 12B · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · AI models and assistants
    I use Gemma 4 12B in the 4-bit quantization for all sorts of vision tasks (image sorting, classification, description).
  81. 1981.
    SpacetimeDB · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Databases
    I am continually impressed with the speed at which it operates
  82. 1982.
    Pion · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    I wrote a custom SFU using the Pion library to handle WebRTC signaling and RTP forwarding
  83. 1983.
    MSVC · 5 recommenders · 6 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    I chose VC++ on purpose, because it is what I know better
  84. 1984.
    Mac OS 9 · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · Operating systems and desktop
    both considered to be great examples of principled interface execution
  85. 1985.
    sudo · 5 recommenders · 7 warn · Terminal and shell
    I love the hell out of the program; it's an essential part of how I get shit done on my PC.
  86. 1986.
    GitButler · 5 recommenders · 4 warn · Git and code hosting
    GitButler handles all of this pretty automatically
  87. 1987.
    yap · 5 recommenders · 2 warn · AI models and assistants
    If you want to use this on the CLI: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap.
  88. 1988.
    tldraw · 5 recommenders · 4 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    I've been a happy user of tldraw as a whiteboard for ages.
  89. 1989.
    MSYS2 · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Terminal and shell
    the work the MSYS2 team put into their layered environments mechanism
  90. 1990.
    Azure Artifact Signing · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · Other software
    Instead of hundreds or thousands for a cert it’s $10/month
  91. 1991.
    Weave · 5 recommenders · 4 warn · Git and code hosting
    I find the organization level view and pivots useful and aligned with intuitive expectations.
  92. 1992.
    gstack · 5 recommenders · 3 warn · AI coding tools
    GStack is a brilliant setup for maximizing Claude Code's velocity.
  93. 1993.
    Canva · 5 recommenders · 6 warn · Media and creative
    Check out Canva. It might even be what they're using at school already.
  94. 1994.
    gRPC · 5 recommenders · 7 warn · Libraries and frameworks
    I've only enjoyed using Protobuf + gRPC after we've started using https://buf.build.
  95. 1995.
    Android Studio · 5 recommenders · 7 warn · Editors and IDEs
    I use Android Studio on Linux for the vast majority of my development.
  96. 1996.
    Scion · 5 recommenders · 4 warn · Infrastructure and DevOps
    I really enjoy how Scion operates with existing tools really well.
  97. 1997.
    ZCode · 5 recommenders · 7 warn · AI coding tools
    ZCode was surprisingly good, which is surprising for a tool that came out of nowhere
  98. 1998.
    browser-use · 5 recommenders · 6 warn · Productivity
    I've been using browser-use for automated password rotation
  99. 1999.
    LangChain · 5 recommenders · 17 warn · AI models and assistants
    Python has won for me: fastapi, pytorch, langchain, streamlit, and so on and on.
  100. 2000.
    Max · 5 recommenders · 4 warn · Media and creative
    Max goes a lot deeper than wiring some GUI boxes together
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