Top 701–800 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.
- 701.Loved for Heavy document work, Familiarity · Caveat Lock-in
- 702.Loved for Everyone uses it, Family chat · Caveat Meta ownership
- 703.Loved for Industry standard, Familiar workflow · Caveat Subscription cost
- 704.Loved for Curatable feed, Tech discussion · Caveat Toxic content
- 705.Loved for Coding help, Everyday troubleshooting · Caveat Forced integration
- 706.Loved for Polish vs Android, App permissions · Caveat Bugginess
- 707.Every night my laptop and homelab both back up to each other and to B2.
- 708.You punch a request into radarr and after some time it magically appears in Jellyfin.
- 709.Stripe's API is great, especially the pre-built checkout and the ability to attach any metadata to charges.
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- 711.the shell, awk, sed and other commands (Chapter 12) were invaluable
- 712.QGIS is great. One of the truly good open source projects.
- 713.With Apple Silicon virtualization, having macos and arch and fedora all going at once is amazing.
- 714.For the start menu I replace it with Open Shell, which seems to find apps much more reliably.
- 715.I recently switched from Shotcut to Kdenlive. Kdenlive's UX is much more intuitive.
- 716.I would absolutely encourage everyone reading this to check out Reticulum [1] if you haven't already.
- 717.When I need "async" in a http cycle flow, I use celery and run it in background.
- 718.I learned to CAD on Fusion 360 with no formal education and it just worked.
- 719.I recently changed to Maki and have been reasonably satisfied so far.
- 720.I used Expo recently and loved the development experience.
- 721.fly.io is doing really good work. I've super enjoyed building our product on their platform.
- 722.I stick with release because it is extremely stable
- 723.PgBouncer is a great piece of software. We use that heavily
- 724.I never liked iptables, but nftables is pretty nice to write and use.
- 725.BBEdit's still pretty great. I love, love, LOVE that I can extend it with shell scripts or Python tools or Rust apps
- 726.in less than a week it has now become essential to all of us. I was shocked how accurate it is
- 727.I use this on news sites to get rid of the paywall.
- 728.a pay-once use forever app (pushover), that works great on my phone
- 729.Strongly recommend getting BetterTouchTool for this - changed my life.
- 730.Even though we love their agent SDK, after claude agent SDK it feels like peanuts.
- 731.I have found out that it is very efficient to use phaser.js/three.js for fast, vibe coding
- 732.stumbled on KDE/kate. It's been a perfect substitute.
- 733.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.
- 734.an haproxy load balancer was much, much better on HTTP load balancing than Python code was
- 735.JOE [0] for editing directly in terminal (Linux, macOS)
- 736.Bevy has an extremely impressive voxel collision system
- 737.apt is/was the best thing since recycled electrons
- 738.the shell, awk, sed and other commands (Chapter 12) were invaluable
- 739.using easy effects made them plenty "fine". Without, it sounded like absolute trash.
- 740.bitwig, renoise and reaper all support linux for those who want or need commercial audio applications on linux
- 741.Tidal is basically completely satisfying as a Spotify replacement for me
- 742.Rhino is unusually suitable for AI agentic generation
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- 744.I have been using Sites a few months now, really underrated feature IMO.
- 745.I'd rather just use cheap tokens from OpenCode Zen and Go.
- 746.I tested docling by giving it the Ronin TTRPG rulebook PDF and it did an astounding job of converting it all into .txt and .md.
- 747.tantivy's BM25 search is faster, more expressive, and more scalable than SQLite.
- 748.has "smolvm" microvms with better performance and ergonomics and security than docker, you might want to give it a try. (No affiliation, I just like what they're doing.)
- 749.I use it for outgoing SMTP from my gmail agent, identified as coming from me@mydomain.com
- 750.I use Wholfin (https://github.com/damontecres/Wholphin) on my TV and it's really nice
- 751.I started with Ableton Live six years or so ago and it's been a wonderful hobby.
- 752.Thanks to faster-whisper and local models using quantization, I use it in all places
- 753.Ive been using mouseless for a while now and I've been enjoying it!
- 754.I've switched to D2Lang for its easier syntax and the fact Mermaid is hard pushing AI.
- 755.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.
- 756.Make has long been my go-to script runner and build tool, simple and ubiquitous
- 757.I use plannotator with claude a lot and have much better time
- 758.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.
- 759.I love using Palmier, specially the multi-cam feature! It saves me A TON of time on editing my YouTube videos
- 760.When it comes to mobile app development I'll stick to Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose Multiplatform.
- 761.I use the third-party app Harmonic to browse HN and it has a dark mode. It's quite nice, actually.
- 762.For boxes.dev we use E2B - they had everything we needed at the time.
- 763.Antigravity CLI is quite decent, it's a huge step up from Gemini CLI
- 764.I've pretty much switched to Lemmy. It's one of the few Fediverse systems that actually seems to live up to its private counterpart.
- 765.I have been using droid-ify on GrapheneOS for a few years now; because F-Droid ui is terrible
- 766.The first thing I recommend everyone using is devcontainers
- 767.try https://bearblog.dev (no connection, just appreciate Herman’s work).
- 768.I mostly use TUI markdown viewers that render the document via ANSI escape codes beautifully. Check out glow project.
- 769.check out omnigent for building workflows across multiple harnesses
- 770.I use suckless tools and made so many modifications to st, dwm and such it feels like home.
- 771.I switched to Hotwire/Stimulus and found it to be a significantly better implementation of the same core concepts.
- 772.I've been using PyInfra for a while, albeit just for simple automation (Updating systems, checking certain stats) and I'm a big fan.
- 773.I can highly recommend TypeScript/JavaScript with AI SDK
- 774.I switched from brew to https://asdf-vm.com/ for this very reason.
- 775.I've moved from pgbouncer to pgdog a few months ago without issue. Huge fan.
- 776.I have been using tree style tabs on Firefox for so long, I can't function without it.
- 777.It's totally helpful and useful, and as a bonus, has an excellent and intuitive display
- 778.I'm very fond of Puppy Linux, it's how I learned a lot of Linux skills as a preteen!
- 779.I've been using it as a Tailscale replacement for a few weeks, including hosting game servers, with about equivalent latency, and it seemed pretty stable.
- 780.Roger is doing amazing work and I urge anyone wanting to fully utilize SQLite to try apsw.
- 781.I have been using Quint for some time now, both for verification of my designs via simulation and model checking
- 782.Heidi has been my go-to SQL tool for longer than I can remember.
- 783.We use the golang wrapper at work and love the simplicity and speed
- 784.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.
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- 788.It one-shotted generation of Java bindings for this project
- 789.I use Spokenly, offline-only mode with the Nvidia model. All local, totally free. Highly recommend
- 790.I love this but I can’t figure out how to have my two computers have remote control sessions at once
- 791.now I use a custom consult document picker (with rich annotations) to perform actions on different kinds of XML documents
- 792.I've spent 374M tokens this month and it only cost me $18 on energy-based pricing.
- 793.I liked using this software last time I was doing that to my ancient phone and have had zero issues using the preset lists to disable stuff.
- 794.Been using Aegis for a while now, the encrypted backup alone makes it worth it over Google Authenticator.
- 795.I used this to check if I could see today's eclipse in Barcelona from my apartment buildings roof. Worked pretty well.
- 796.I had a minio instance that was replaced flawlessly with silo. This is an excellent project
- 797.I switched to https://bento.page/ when it showed up here on HN and that’s been much more accurate
- 798.I highly recommend running your tests through Miri (cargo miri nextest) and seeing what spills out.
- 799.TCC is fantastic! I use it a lot to do fast native-code generation for language projects
- 800.I always end up back at "st" though. It is fast enough for my purposes and does just about exactly what I want and not more.