Top 801–900 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.
- 801.All around, for everything, I cannot recommend the Chris Titus (and friends) WinUtil enough
- 802.I have to say I've never found anything wrong with the alt-tab app I use on macOS.
- 803.Take a look at what was possible in the late 1980s with 8 MB of RAM
- 804.I installed LuLu recently and it's been nice to have that extra peace of mind.
- 805.I use the humanize skill to clean up AI written work before handing it over to colleagues.
- 806.which is just 100M params, and excellent in both speed and quality (English only). I use it in my voice plugin
- 807.But it does them well, and it does all of them because only a coherent system can deliver the promise of allowing you to write production-ready TypeScript.
- 808.and linkding (which I moved to after using Karakeep)
- 809.Moved my Framework laptop to Bluefin and my gaming desktop to Bazzite early last year. Zero regrets, zero issues.
- 810.I was against ORMs until I used EF Core in .NET which I really loved.
- 811.I love it as a note-taking application for anything that complexity-wise sits between a short outline in a plain text file and a ton of Markdown
- 812.Challenging game for sure, but very, very rewarding.
- 813.If you want metadata privacy you should use SimpleX instead anyway.
- 814.Every one of my new projects uses Renovate. Not having to worry about having to check dependencies, manually bump them, etc. is a great thing
- 815.Ice (might be sketchy now; had an ownership change): Lack of menu bar overflow on MacOS is awful.
- 816.Can't recommend pgbackrest enough. It's fantastic software
- 817.I like CUE a lot. We use it pretty heavily for schema enforcement of CRDs.
- 818.tsgo which has dramatically lowered our type checking latency
- 819.I moved to IINA to finally get back to a video Swiss Army knife that just plays video
- 820.We use NX in our monorepo, and it is great at determining which testing/linting tasks need to be run
- 821.Adding github link for those who want to use it (I do)
- 822.I find NetHack more enjoyable to play because it has real character/soul/heart.
- 823.The official aspnet core web framework is (in my opinion) good enough that you don't need anything 3rd party.
- 824.Using things like k9s / btop / lazygit / lazydocker helm / stern
- 825.Fluxer.gg is really good and in my opinion, tries to be the most similar alternative to discord in terms of UI/UX
- 826.I’m a big fan of the Compound Engineering plugin from Every.
- 827.I use Pandora to this day as my primary streaming source, as it has my vibes down perfectly
- 828.Barman has always been solid for backup and restore
- 829.I recommend Mercury (no affiliation, just a happy customer)
- 830.a good framework that follows "AI Agentic Agile Methodology", and specification driven development is BMAD. Really helpful for brainstorming sessions.
- 831.Libraries like [BOSL2](https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2) provide a good set of core ideas and preferences
- 832.that's what I use personally for local PDF generation
- 833.What about using PyPy? You'll probably see a significant improvement in these benchmarks.
- 834.lately I use "DeArrow" which desensationalises all the thumbnails and even titles. That helps a lot.
- 835.I Use Workflowy. The features it adds over plain text/markdown are worth the slight added complexity.
- 836.I switched to opencloud.eu, it might have less features but it's just what I needed
- 837.I recommend checking out Purelymail for a budget, batteries included option
- 838.I use the official Blender MCP to drive Blender from Claude.
- 839.it is a common practice to use the latter to install NixOS on new machines
- 840.I moved to Zen but have subsequently moved to Glide [0] which I find to have less UI fluff and the keyboard shortcuts and scriptability are excellent.
- 841.If you run an Apple HomeKit stack and don’t need all the other stuff HA offers, I recommend checking out https://homebridge.io
- 842.I love squoosh! It’s been one of the few PWAs I have installed and actually use regularly.
- 843.has been the most intuitive music livecoding experience I've come across
- 844.I've been using You Need a Budget for well over a decade, and it is probably the last subscription I'd ever give up.
- 845.when I'm examining experiment data I use the closest modern tool to Lotus: https://www.visidata.org/
- 846.If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.
- 847.if you want an Actually Good Experience I recommend using Claude Code Router
- 848.I use Niagara Launcher because of the simplicity and quick access to every app. I highly recommend to everyone
- 849.ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux/releases) still supports MV3/uBO and is de-Googled.
- 850.it's totally replaced SourceTree for me. Very similar (or better) UI/UX but much more performant.
- 851.now I use croc of getcroc.com for almost everything.
- 852.And kudos for backing it up with real guidance. Great project.
- 853.The thing I pay for is Tuta. The cheapest tier is way more generous than Proton and the product is simpler.
- 854.I pay for iCloud for the family because I don't want to be Oncall 24/7/365.
- 855.We use RustFS in a production system with no issues.
- 856.Now I'm on Actual Budget, a nice FOSS envelope budget app that can import transactions from my bank.
- 857.But we have no issues whatsoever with Azure Devops....ever. It's excellent.
- 858.My memories of windows 95 are very fond. I used to install it on Pentium 133 and boy it flew.
- 859.I've been using jai [1] for sandboxing on linux (although I use opencode and local models and not claude code) and I'm pretty satisfied with it.
- 860.I can only recommend to check out a popular project, maybe Laravel, and read it’s documentation.
- 861.my sleep quality got much better when I turned on f.lux.
- 862.This looks fantastic and I'm excited to try it today!
- 863.I used to be a big advocate for Salesforce in my organization. And it was really great
- 864.I think your usecase better fit with Lima -> https://lima-vm.io/ than microvm.
- 865.I like “talk to it while I’m driving” format a lot
- 866.its PureOS Linux operating system is actively maintained, and patches are still upstreamed
- 867.I love these packages (like this, Spacemacs, Doom, etc.)
- 868.You can also just use the system console with tmux or GNU screen
- 869.in the Claude Code realm I use GSD and it manages all that and keeps token use low.
- 870.I use Google Translate quite a lot and it's pretty good even for obscure languages.
- 871.go with OpenGL, it's cross-platform, old (which is good and bad at the same time) and is the easiest of them all.
- 872.Kagi translate is superior to Google translate, also.
- 873.I've used it every day for years. With a hybrid/remote team it is a fantastic alternative to a physical whiteboard.
- 874.Still love CircleCI. They're one of the most mature in the space.
- 875.I switched to Eglot/Corfu/Vertico/Tempel. I much prefer the new wave.
- 876.I use neovim and k9s mostly and those are such amazinng tools
- 877.I tried to tune it to use MLX on Mac GPUs, and it's so much faster.
- 878.it's very easy to just run a quick tunnel with "cloudflared tunnel --url localhost:XXXX"
- 879.A simple "IceWM" WM (I use the tiling "Awesome WM" but that's too radical for my wife) and she loves it.
- 880.I use Wipr 2 for safari on both ios and macos and I’ve had no problems with it
- 881.for paid workers I'd reach for WarpBuild or similar most of the time (WarpBuild still runs my deploys/iOS builds)
- 882.I use Google Assistant for things like "add a reminder", "set an alarm"
- 883.AppImage actually works and is simple, so I use that.
- 884.So I am glad to see the momentum, the cleanups, and most of all, the continued dedication
- 885.After using a lot of others, including jest and node's built in one, I love vitest.
- 886.Now I just hook up Android Auto and I'm back into the same podcast I had on the flight
- 887.I ditched reCaptcha and switched to Cloudflare Turnstile recently. It’s been a lot more effective.
- 888.for all day to day queries and prompts I have switched to using Proton's Lumo that is really quite good
- 889.lately I've been happy with Drizzle for TS. It's very performant and expressive.
- 890.when I threw cucumber into the mix things suddenly got a lot more stable
- 891.Mikrotik router and unifi everything else has kind of been my go-to for at least 10 or 12y now.
- 892.For the YouTube app, I use proton’s Albania vpn and no ads there either.
- 893.I have used NanoClaw running on my Mac to do the following:
- 894.it's much simpler and it's stable: there's no constantly evolving ecosystem.
- 895.Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude
- 896.The desktop app is actually really good (esp on macos).
- 897.GCC and LLVM having won the compiler wars and being extremely high quality
- 898.Affinity is a great alternative to Photoshop that is free
- 899.For low-volume static sites (which all of mine are) this is free, fast, and convenient.
- 900.numpy/scipy/matplotlib/pandas/plotly/polars/pyarrow/jupyter, which is essential to my work