Top 2901–3000 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. 2901.
    Lidarr · 3 recommenders · Self-hosted and home server
    The stack I use now: Docker, Lidarr, slskd, Tubifarry, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Blissful and Soulmate.
  2. 2902.
    KeyKOS · 3 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    I find the emphasis on minimizing process and kernel state
  3. 2903.
    YunoHost · 3 recommenders · Self-hosted and home server
    Yunohost is a fantastic attempt to get closer to this ideal
  4. 2904.
    Duke Nukem 3D · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
  5. 2905.
    T3 Chat · 3 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    You don't need to self host. T3 Chat, for example.
  6. 2906.
    SafeReddit · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    Now, I am using the alternative, like https://safereddit.com.
  7. 2907.
    Nuke · 3 recommenders · Productivity
    We use Nuke for this purpose and I really like it.
  8. 2908.
    Quake III Arena · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
  9. 2909.
    timeout · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    https://www.dejal.com/timeout/ does this with a lot of flexibility.
  10. 2910.
    Remind · 3 recommenders · Productivity
    For me it's not "overcomplication," it's strong interoperability with a workflow I like
  11. 2911.
    JSpecify · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    Plus JSpecify annotations get you null denotation that's almost as good as Kotlin's.
  12. 2912.
    JS Paint · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
  13. 2913.
    pg_textsearch · 3 recommenders · Databases
    we have been using pg_textsearch in production for a few weeks now, and it's been fairly stable and super speedy
  14. 2914.
    CORE-MATH · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    That's beautiful. Here's the Git repo with implementation.
  15. 2915.
    Loop Habit Tracker · 3 recommenders · Other software
    clone the repo for the open source Loop habit tracker
  16. 2916.
    pi-sandbox · 3 recommenders · Security and passwords
    pi-sandbox is good at allowing me to configure sandbox access
  17. 2917.
    mini-swe-agent · 3 recommenders · AI coding tools
    Check out [1] a 100 LoC "LLM in a loop with just terminal access", it is now above last year's heavily harnessed SotA.
  18. 2918.
    Eden AI · 3 recommenders · AI models and assistants
  19. 2919.
    Webamp · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
    I'm not saying iTunes (Music.app bleh!) would be better reimagined as Winamp 2 but I'm not not saying it.
  20. 2920.
    wgrep · 3 recommenders · Search
    I used that for a long time and it's been one of my favorite tools.
  21. 2921.
    Quiver · 3 recommenders · Editors and IDEs
    my friend and I used Quiver [0] to make quake maps on macos - it was very fun.
  22. 2922.
    HarmonyOS NEXT · 3 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    My daily driver is a HarmonyOS NEXT device these days.
  23. 2923.
    BitlBee · 3 recommenders · Email and chat
    Bitlbee saved (and still saves) my ass with tons of the protocols available via IRC
  24. 2924.
    1Password CLI · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    1Password CLI has a similar feature I use all the time and share with the team.
  25. 2925.
    multi-scrobbler · 3 recommenders · Self-hosted and home server
    shoutout to FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler[0] for keeping all my music databases in sync.
  26. 2926.
    VICE · 3 recommenders · Other software
    One uses emulator while developing anyways. Try with C64 and VICE
  27. 2927.
    pi-mcp-adapter · 3 recommenders · Browsers and extensions
  28. 2928.
    StGit · 3 recommenders · Git and code hosting
    StGit/Stacked Git is a proven tool for this and has worked wonders
  29. 2929.
    QBasic · 3 recommenders · Editors and IDEs
    I too had my life changed by how convenient and complete QBASIC's help feature was.
  30. 2930.
    wasm-bindgen · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    Shoutout to the [wasm-bindgen](https://github.com/wasm-bindgen/wasm-bindgen) maintainers who do an awesome job of allowing Rust to be compiled to WASM smoothly.
  31. 2931.
    Keyboard Maestro · 3 recommenders · Productivity
    It takes some fiddling to get set up, but then it just becomes a part of how I use my Mac.
  32. 2932.
    MCP Inspector · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    It’s a nice tool, can be used interactively, can be used as a CLI.
  33. 2933.
    Catbox · 3 recommenders · Infrastructure and DevOps
    This one is a favorite among Mongolian basket weavers: https://catbox.moe/
  34. 2934.
    rrdtool · 3 recommenders · Monitoring and analytics
  35. 2935.
    ELK · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    Elk (Eclipse Layout Kernel) is a very good package solving that
  36. 2936.
    Brain.fm · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
    lately I’ve moved toward those long focus playlists on YouTube and things like Brain.fm. They seem to help me
  37. 2937.
    Solaar · 3 recommenders · Other software
    For Linux, there is https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar
  38. 2938.
    gccrs · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    It is fully self-hosting and can be built from source.
  39. 2939.
    Vosk · 3 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    I went with Vosk because it's pretty trivial to lock input down to a set vocabulary
  40. 2940.
    Ibis · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I highly recommend using it as a backend for the Ibis dataframe library
  41. 2941.
    Clingo · 3 recommenders · Other software
    We use it in the Spack package manager for resolving dependencies
  42. 2942.
    YoWASP · 3 recommenders · Browsers and extensions
    Especially given that it can even run in the browser
  43. 2943.
    Zink · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    don't forget to protect private information in your prompts - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/zink
  44. 2944.
    Thundermail · 3 recommenders · Email and chat
    Sign up for the waitlist at https://thundermail.com
  45. 2945.
    Chutes · 3 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    They tell you exactly which model/quant and server config they use
  46. 2946.
    ggml · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I found [ggml] is really easy, educational and fun to use.
  47. 2947.
    Tern · 3 recommenders · AI coding tools
    It's hard to find a decent terminal on Windows (corporate device) but this is the best I've found so far.
  48. 2948.
    Expect · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    I use Expect for this, and have for a long time. It’s amazing.
  49. 2949.
    Tcl/Tk · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    Now I wish it had won instead of the unholy abomination we have with Electron apps.
  50. 2950.
    purego · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    The purego lib generalizes this idea. I haven't got round to trying this yet but it looks very promising.
  51. 2951.
    GNU Octave · 3 recommenders · Other software
    Try GNU Octave; it is a free software alternative to MATLAB.
  52. 2952.
    Whisper Large · 3 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    for my needs, nothing could beat Whisper Large v3.
  53. 2953.
    ATV Launcher Pro · 3 recommenders · Productivity
    Replacing the Google launcher (I used ATV Launcher Pro) was one of the best quality of life upgrades I've ever done, if you haven't already I highly recommend it.
  54. 2954.
    Cyberpunk 2077 · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
    Here are some games that have worked pretty well out of the box
  55. 2955.
    Weball · 3 recommenders · Browsers and extensions
    Horrible framerate after a few hundred words, but super fun until then!
  56. 2956.
    Readeck · 3 recommenders · Self-hosted and home server
    I really like Readeck because contrary to Wallaback (which I also used because there is a KOReader plugin for it) it captures the content from a page from the client-side
  57. 2957.
    OpenAI Tokenizer · 3 recommenders · Other software
    Great for getting particular about how to save tokens in prompt and tool definitions
  58. 2958.
    Ito · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    This is cool and I love how enthusiastic you are about it
  59. 2959.
    Hurl · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
  60. 2960.
    opencode-dynamic-context-pruning · 3 recommenders · AI coding tools
    It works great for long-horizon tasks, and feels like it saves a boatload of tokens.
  61. 2961.
    Vibium · 3 recommenders · Productivity
    The "sense-think-act" architecture is exactly what's needed for agentic workflows
  62. 2962.
    MiSTer · 3 recommenders · Other software
    It's a super cool project, and I highly recommend checking it out
  63. 2963.
    MuJoCo · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Other software
    The best thing is that we do not need to fight with NVIDIA software and that it runs on macOS.
  64. 2964.
    pgTAP · 3 recommenders · Databases
    it's an excellent mature tool for unit-testing your database
  65. 2965.
    eSpDR · 3 recommenders · Self-hosted and home server
    This same devloper also built an SDR out of an ESP32 Wi-Fi microcontroller [1], this is awesome!
  66. 2966.
    OpenTelemetry Collector · 3 recommenders · Monitoring and analytics
    I strongly recommend pre-filtering with the open source `opentelemetry-collector`
  67. 2967.
    Pianoteq · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
    look at Pianoteq - 50MB of math code that simulates $100k+ pianos
  68. 2968.
    Seal · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
    great UIs around yt-dlp on mobile, for instance Seal
  69. 2969.
    Hoplite · 3 recommenders · AI coding tools
    I recall I enjoyed Hoplite, Data Wing, Mini Metro, Super Mario Run, and a few others.
  70. 2970.
    Verilator · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I used Verilator for a risc-v project in university and it was excellent, substantially faster than Yosys
  71. 2971.
    HedgeDoc · 3 recommenders · Self-hosted and home server
    I use a self hosted HedgeDoc with Fail2Ban to deal with this.
  72. 2972.
    acme-dns · 3 recommenders · Networking and VPN
    it is pretty easy to set up an acme-dns server to handle it
  73. 2973.
    mcp2cli · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    Something more general like this clearly has more utility.
  74. 2974.
    Apache Solr · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Search
    replicated solr in a way that has increased performance and relieved some of the pressure on our main cluster
  75. 2975.
    LineageOS for microG · 3 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    There is a version that makes only the changes to include microg, has OTA updates too
  76. 2976.
    RemovePaywalls · 3 recommenders · Other software
    Works for me. I use only Tor so it is actually far more accessible.
  77. 2977.
    meshcore-open · 3 recommenders · Networking and VPN
    Thankfully there is an open-source client, which has pretty much all the features of the main client
  78. 2978.
    moor · 3 recommenders · Terminal and shell
    Very cool! Why reimplement the "moo code", though?
  79. 2979.
    Veloren · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
  80. 2980.
    Hubris · 3 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    there's already more than enough evidence that safer languages than C are more than capable of it
  81. 2981.
    rbw · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Terminal and shell
    I personally switched to rbw (https://github.com/doy/rbw) and its day and night.
  82. 2982.
    linux-surface · 3 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    Running Linux on Surface works. It's not perfect, but it solves the problem.
  83. 2983.
    Combobulate · 3 recommenders · Editors and IDEs
    This is one of the things Combobulate [0] tries to solve by using the output of tree-sitter.
  84. 2984.
    CodeNomad · 3 recommenders · AI coding tools
    CodeNomad as the web-based GUI. It works perfectly; I can access it from anywhere
  85. 2985.
    NearbyGlasses · 3 recommenders · Other software
    a hand coded, opensource equivalent with no trackers or in-app purchases
  86. 2986.
    Exasol · 3 recommenders · Databases
    Exasol is another MPP database that easily handles super-wide tables
  87. 2987.
    OpenPnP · 3 recommenders · Other software
    the openpnp discord has some pretty interesting projects
  88. 2988.
    VMAF · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
    VMAF is super cool, although not the end-all-be-all of video quality measurement for sure.
  89. 2989.
    MJML · 3 recommenders · Email and chat
    The devs maintaining MJML deserve so much credit for dealing with Gmail/Outlook's monopoly bullshit and 2007 html.
  90. 2990.
    Dreamweaver · 3 recommenders · 1 warns · Editors and IDEs
    It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.
  91. 2991.
    sshuttle · 3 recommenders · Networking and VPN
    it magically solves a bunch of these problems without constant reconfiguration
  92. 2992.
    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
  93. 2993.
    ugrep · 3 recommenders · Search
    ugrep will get you most of the way there relative to gnu grep
  94. 2994.
    Clip Studio Paint · 3 recommenders · Other software
    A permanent Clip Studio Paint forever license with quality pen input devices can be a good option.
  95. 2995.
    asmjit · 3 recommenders · Libraries and frameworks
    I used asmjit to implement JIT compilation. Highly recommend it.
  96. 2996.
    Galene · 3 recommenders · Email and chat
    This one is often overlook but very good, I prefer it over Jitsi
  97. 2997.
    PowerAmp · 3 recommenders · Media and creative
    PowerAmp is an incredible app, used it and loved it before.
  98. 2998.
    turbo-fieldfare · 3 recommenders · AI models and assistants
    All of these run perfectly fine on simple m4 silicone
  99. 2999.
    CoLinux · 3 recommenders · Operating systems and desktop
    I remember being hooked on CoLinux when I had to work on Windows.
  100. 3000.
    hnsansai · 3 recommenders · Other software
    I use this when I need a break https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai.
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