Tools Hacker News recommends

GrapheneOS ↗Operating systems

A privacy- and security-focused Android distribution for Pixel phones.

OpenRouter ↗AI & ML

A marketplace that routes API requests to many LLM inference providers.

Mastodon Hosting & SaaS

A decentralized, open-source social network built on the ActivityPub protocol.

Tailscale Networking

A WireGuard-based mesh VPN service for private networking between devices.

GLM ↗AI & ML

An open-weights large language model family from Zhipu AI.

Debian Operating systems

A community Linux distribution with its own packaged PHP and security updates.

F-Droid Dev tools

An app store distributing free and open-source Android apps.

GoModel ↗AI & ML

LLM gateway written in Go, offered as a LiteLLM alternative.

llama.cpp AI & ML

A C/C++ engine for running LLMs locally.

All Brains Belong ↗Other

An organisation publishing resources on health issues comorbid with autism and ADHD.

Astro ↗Frameworks & libraries

A content-focused web framework that ships minimal JavaScript and supports islands of interactive UI frameworks.

BLIK ↗Finance & payments

A Polish mobile payment system.

Bluesky Hosting & SaaS

A social network built on the AT Protocol.

Canarytokens ↗Security & privacy

Free service for planting tripwire tokens that alert you when they are accessed.

Careless People Learning & books

A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.

Cloudflare WAF ↗Security & privacy

Cloudflare's managed web application firewall.

Convergence ↗Security & privacy

Moxie Marlinspike's 2011 proposal for client-chosen notary-based TLS certificate verification.

Crux ↗Frameworks & libraries

A Rust framework for cross-platform apps with a shared core and native UI shells.

Dagger ↗DevOps & CI

A programmable CI/CD engine with its own container runtime, from Docker's creator.

Embassy ↗Frameworks & libraries

An async framework for embedded Rust that avoids heap allocation.

Ente Photos Security & privacy

An end-to-end encrypted photo storage service.

Forvo ↗Learning & books

A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.

GNU Guix ↗Operating systems

A functional package manager and Linux distribution with transactional upgrades.

HAProxy Networking

A high-performance TCP/HTTP proxy and load balancer.

Hetzner Hosting & SaaS

German hosting and cloud infrastructure provider.

Inform 7 ↗Languages & runtimes

A natural-language-style programming language for writing text adventures.

Jellyfin Design & media

Free, open-source self-hosted media server.

Lean ↗Languages & runtimes

An interactive theorem prover and programming language used to formalize mathematical proofs.

Lobster ↗Languages & runtimes

A high-level programming language by Wouter van Oortmerssen, focused on ease of use with good performance.

Lockdown Mode ↗Security & privacy

An optional iOS hardening mode that restricts attachments, web features and connections.

OpenCode Dev tools

An open-source terminal coding agent harness.

OpenCode Go ↗AI & ML

A subscription plan for accessing models through the OpenCode coding tool.

OrbStack Dev tools

A macOS app for running Docker containers and Linux VMs.

Paranoid Crypto ↗Security & privacy

Google's open-source library for detecting weaknesses in cryptographic keys and signatures.

Pi ↗Dev tools

An extensible terminal coding agent that can switch between models.

Qt Frameworks & libraries

A cross-platform C++ application and GUI framework.

Renovate DevOps & CI

An automated dependency update bot that opens or merges update pull requests.

Rust Languages & runtimes

A systems programming language with compile-time memory safety guarantees.

SELinux ↗Security & privacy

A Linux kernel security module for mandatory access control.

Svelte ↗Frameworks & libraries

A compiler-based JavaScript UI framework without a virtual DOM.

Tor Security & privacy

An anonymity network that routes traffic through volunteer relays.

YubiKey Security & privacy

A hardware security key supporting FIDO2, PIV and OpenPGP.

Zed Editors & IDEs

A fast code editor.

deb.sury.org ↗Operating systems

A third-party repository providing PHP packages for Debian and Ubuntu.

integer-mult-bounds-lean ↗Other

A Lean formalization of sub-n log n integer multiplication bounds on Mathlib's TM2 machine model.

lossy-git ↗Dev tools

A toy version control system that stores code by training a neural network and reconstructs it on checkout.

seL4 Operating systems

A formally verified microkernel.

uv Dev tools

Fast Python package and project manager.

1.1.1.1 Networking

Cloudflare's public DNS resolver and companion app for encrypted DNS.

1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled ↗Learning & books

A 2019 Slate Star Codex essay by Scott Alexander on von Foerster's hyperbolic population model.

1Password ↗Security & privacy

A commercial password manager with a built-in SSH agent that can be unlocked with Touch ID.

3M Thinsulate Climate Control 75 ↗Other

A self-adhesive window film that blocks RF from 100 MHz to 4.5 GHz while letting visible light through.

A Perfect Vacuum Learning & books

Stanisław Lem's collection of reviews of nonexistent books.

ACME Renewal Information Security & privacy

An ACME extension that lets CAs tell clients when to renew certificates early.

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English ↗Learning & books

A controlled English standard originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation.

AT Protocol Networking

An open protocol for decentralized social networking that supports third-party custom feeds.

AWS WAF Security & privacy

Amazon's managed web application firewall service.

AWS-LC Security & privacy

AWS's general-purpose cryptographic library derived from BoringSSL.

AYN Odin 2 Portal Hardware

An Android handheld gaming device.

Accelerando Learning & books

A Charles Stross novel about accelerating technological change and autonomous AI agents.

Accrescent Security & privacy

A security-focused Android app store.

AdGuard Security & privacy

AdGuard is an ad-blocking and privacy protection tool for devices and networks.

Aeneas ↗Dev tools

A toolchain that translates safe Rust programs into proof assistants like Lean for verification.

AirFanta 3Pro Hardware

A portable air purifier built from PC fans and multiple filter panels.

AirGradient One Hardware

An indoor air quality monitor available assembled or as a kit.

Airwallex Finance & payments

Financial platform offering virtual card issuing among other payment services.

Allica Bank Finance & payments

A UK bank serving small and medium-sized businesses.

Alloy ↗Dev tools

A lightweight formal modeling language and analyzer for software designs.

AlmaLinux Operating systems

A free, community-run Linux distribution binary-compatible with RHEL.

Amazon Luna Hosting & SaaS

Amazon's cloud game streaming service.

American Fiction ↗Other

A 2023 satirical film about a writer who mocks publishing's appetite for stereotyped stories.

Another World Other

A 1991 cinematic platform game by Éric Chahi.

Ansible DevOps & CI

An open-source automation tool for configuring and managing servers.

Apache Kafka Infrastructure & cloud

A distributed event streaming platform built around an append-only log.

AppArmor Security & privacy

A Linux kernel security module that confines programs with per-application profiles.

Archil Infrastructure & cloud

A cloud storage service that offers filesystem access backed by object storage.

Arnis ↗Dev tools

An open-source Rust tool that generates Minecraft worlds from real-world geographic data.

Ashton Manual Learning & books

A guide by Heather Ashton describing slow benzodiazepine tapering schedules, often via diazepam substitution.

Atlas Obscura ↗Other

A guide to unusual and hidden places around the world.

Atomic Physics for Everyone Learning & books

An introduction to atomic physics, quantum mechanics and precision spectroscopy with no college prerequisites.

Aurora Store Dev tools

An open-source alternative client for downloading apps from Google Play.

Axiomatic ↗Learning & books

A short story collection by Greg Egan.

Baldur's Gate 3 Other

A party-based role-playing game developed by Larian Studios.

Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics ↗Learning & books

An introductory book by L. V. Tarasov using dialogues between the author and personas.

Battlezone 98 Redux ↗Other

A remastered re-release of the 1998 first-person tank and strategy game Battlezone.

Bazarr ↗Other

A subtitle manager that is part of the *arr media stack.

Below the Root restoration ↗Other

A restored and translated version of the 1984 Apple II game Below the Root.

BentoPDF ↗Productivity

A browser-based, self-hostable PDF toolkit that processes files locally.

Big O Speedrun ↗Learning & books

A website tracking successive improvements to algorithmic complexity bounds, including integer multiplication.

BigQuery Databases

Google Cloud's serverless data warehouse.

Bitchat ↗Security & privacy

A decentralized messaging app designed to work without central servers.

Blink Shell Dev tools

A terminal emulator and SSH/Mosh client for iOS.

Booking.com Hosting & SaaS

An online travel agency for booking hotels and other accommodation.

Boomi ↗Hosting & SaaS

An integration and automation platform with low-code and AI agent tooling.

BoringSSL Security & privacy

Google's fork of OpenSSL used in Chrome and Android.

Branch Output ↗Design & media

An OBS filter plugin that adds separate recording or streaming outputs to individual sources and scenes.

Brazil Other

Terry Gilliam's 1985 dystopian satire.

Bridge of Waves Learning & books

A book by W.A. Mathieu about what music is and how listening changes the world.

Btrfs Operating systems

A copy-on-write Linux filesystem with snapshot support.

CAN bus Hardware

A robust multi-node serial bus protocol widely used in vehicles and industrial systems.

CRACI CVE Publication Trends ↗Security & privacy

A web page charting CVE publication trends with severity filters.

CRLite ↗Security & privacy

Firefox's compressed, privacy-preserving system for checking whether leaf certificates have been revoked.

CSS Painting API ↗Frameworks & libraries

A CSS Houdini API that lets developers paint element backgrounds and borders with canvas-like code.

CSS containment Browsers

A CSS feature (contain property) that isolates elements' layout and paint from the rest of the page.

CTVC newsletter ↗Other

A newsletter covering climate tech venture funding rounds.

CUID2 Frameworks & libraries

A library for generating secure, collision-resistant, hard-to-guess IDs.

Cap ↗Design & media

An open-source screen recording app.

Catala Languages & runtimes

A programming language for translating legal statutes into executable code.

Cecil ↗Dev tools

A static website generator written in PHP.

Cerebras ↗AI & ML

A hosted fast inference service offering Qwen models.

Certificate Transparency ↗Security & privacy

A public logging framework that records issued TLS certificates so misissuance can be detected.

Chainguard Images ↗DevOps & CI

A vendor of hardened, frequently rebuilt container images.

Channel Surfer ↗Design & media

A website that presents YouTube videos as traditional TV-style channels.

Chase UK Finance & payments

The UK retail bank of J.P. Morgan.

Chaum eCash ↗Finance & payments

David Chaum's blind-signature electronic cash system and its newer revival.

Chronovisor ↗Design & media

A feature film.

Claude AI & ML

Anthropic's AI model and command-line assistant.

Claude Code Dev tools

Anthropic's terminal-based coding agent harness.

Claude Code gateways ↗AI & ML

Documented setup for routing Claude Code through an LLM gateway for centralized control and alternate model providers.

CleanShot X Design & media

Paid macOS screenshot and screen recording app.

Clicks Communicator ↗Hardware

A new phone design with a built-in physical QWERTY keyboard.

Climatebase ↗Other

A job board and community for climate-focused careers.

Cloudflare Workers AI ↗AI & ML

Cloudflare's serverless platform for running hosted AI models.

Coalton Languages & runtimes

A statically typed functional language embedded in Common Lisp.

CodeCarbon ↗AI & ML

An open-source Python library for estimating the carbon emissions of compute workloads.

Codeberg ↗Hosting & SaaS

A non-profit hosted Git forge for free and open source projects.

Codex AI & ML

OpenAI's coding agent.

Codex for OSS ↗AI & ML

An OpenAI program that gives open source maintainers direct access to its models.

Cognitive behavioral therapy Other

A structured talk therapy aimed at changing thought and behaviour patterns.

Collie ↗Dev tools

A mobile interface to desktop agent sessions via tmux, zellij or herdr.

Colmena ↗DevOps & CI

A deployment tool for pushing NixOS configurations to multiple hosts.

Colossus ↗Learning & books

D.F. Jones's 1966 novel, the first of a trilogy, on which the film is based.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Learning & books

A memoir by John Perkins about his work as an economic consultant advancing US interests abroad.

Coronary CT angiography Other

A contrast CT scan that images coronary arteries including non-calcified plaque.

Cowrie ↗Security & privacy

An SSH/Telnet honeypot that logs attacker interaction and supports an LLM backend.

Credible Data ↗Data & analytics

A platform for building AI-driven BI on top of Malloy semantic models.

Crest ↗Browsers

A browser that aims to replicate Arc's features on either a Chrome or Safari engine.

Creusot ↗Dev tools

A deductive verifier for Rust code.

CrowdSec Security & privacy

Collaborative open-source intrusion detection and IP blocklist system.

Crush ↗Dev tools

An open-source terminal AI coding agent from Charmbracelet.

Cup of Ambition ↗Other

A Dolly Parton coffee line from Community Coffee.

Current Account Switch Service ↗Finance & payments

A UK service that moves direct debits, balances and incoming payments to a new bank account.

Curve Finance & payments

A card aggregation service that can link to other bank cards.

D3 Frameworks & libraries

A JavaScript library for data-driven visualizations.

DANE Security & privacy

A protocol for binding TLS certificates to domains via DNSSEC-signed DNS records.

DBeaver Databases

Universal database GUI client.

DNS over HTTPS Networking

A protocol for resolving DNS queries over encrypted HTTPS connections.

DQYDJ Stock Return Calculator ↗Data & analytics

A web calculator that computes historical stock returns including reinvested dividends.

DaVinci Resolve Studio Design & media

A professional video editing and color grading application from Blackmagic Design.

Daemon Learning & books

A 2006 techno-thriller novel by Daniel Suarez about an autonomous software agent.

Dan Callaway Learning & books

A vocal coach who publishes singing lessons on YouTube.

Data diode Security & privacy

Hardware that physically allows data to flow in only one direction between networks.

De Kat ↗Other

A historic wind-powered paint and pigment mill at the Zaanse Schans in the Netherlands.

Dear Esther ↗Other

A narrative exploration game on Steam.

Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins Learning & books

A book by Garry Kasparov on his matches against computers and on human-machine collaboration.

DeepSeek AI & ML

A family of large language models offered via a low-cost API.

DeepSeek Flash AI & ML

A fast, low-cost open-weight language model from DeepSeek.

DeepSeek V4 Flash AI & ML

A mixture-of-experts open-weight language model from DeepSeek.

DeepSeek V4.1 AI & ML

An open-weight large language model family from DeepSeek.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash AI & ML

A low-cost DeepSeek language model available via API.

Delaunay32 ↗Frameworks & libraries

A divide-and-conquer constrained Delaunay triangulator with polygon and hole support.

Demon Seed Other

A 1977 film about an AI that seeks to escape its confines.

Denthor's demoscene tutorials ↗Learning & books

Classic 1990s tutorial series on demoscene graphics programming hosted on scene.org.

Dependabot DevOps & CI

GitHub's automated dependency update and vulnerability alert service.

Deus Ex Other

An immersive-sim action RPG series.

Diaspora Hosting & SaaS

Decentralized social network software run on independently hosted pods.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Other

A comic novel by Douglas Adams.

Djot ↗Languages & runtimes

A light markup syntax by John MacFarlane derived from CommonMark with simpler parsing.

Dohm ↗Hardware

A sound machine that produces noise with an internal fan rather than a speaker.

Downdetector Observability

A site that charts user-reported service problems.

DroidDeck ↗Operating systems

An Android tool for running PC games on ARM handhelds.

Dune Learning & books

Frank Herbert's science fiction novel whose backstory includes the Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines.

Durable Objects Infrastructure & cloud

Cloudflare's stateful serverless objects with built-in SQLite storage.

E Unibus Pluram Learning & books

An essay by David Foster Wallace on television and its influence on American fiction.

EDRi ↗Security & privacy

A European network of digital rights organisations.

ESP-IDF ↗Frameworks & libraries

Espressif's development framework for ESP32 chips, including an x509 certificate bundle API.

EU.org ↗Networking

A long-running free domain registry offering subdomains under eu.org.

Earth Platform ↗Other

A commenter's project building the whole Earth in Minecraft at real scale.

Ecosia ↗Other

A search engine that funds tree planting with its ad revenue.

Electricity Maps ↗Data & analytics

A service showing real-time and historical carbon intensity of electricity grids worldwide.

Elixir Languages & runtimes

A functional language on the Erlang VM.

Emby Design & media

Self-hosted media server with client apps.

Emergency escape ladder Other

A portable folding or chain ladder that hooks onto a window or balcony for emergency exit from upper floors.

Emotion Frameworks & libraries

A CSS-in-JS styling library for JavaScript applications.

Enshittification Learning & books

Cory Doctorow's book on how tech platforms degrade over time.

Epoch Capabilities Index ↗AI & ML

Epoch AI's aggregate index of model capabilities over time.

Etymotic earplugs Hardware

Earplugs designed to attenuate sound evenly across frequencies.

Europeana ↗Other

A European digital platform aggregating tens of millions of cultural heritage objects from museums, libraries and archives.

Eutelsat Networking

European satellite operator providing satellite internet and video services.

Exploring Musical Spaces Learning & books

A book synthesising mathematical approaches to music theory.

F# Languages & runtimes

A functional-first programming language on .NET.

F* Languages & runtimes

A proof-oriented functional programming language with dependent types.

FUTO ASR4All ↗AI & ML

FUTO's small CPU-optimised streaming English ASR models.

Fairphone Hardware

A modular, repairable Android smartphone.

Fallout: New Vegas Other

An open-world role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment.

Fastmail Hosting & SaaS

A paid email hosting provider.

Fearless Genius ↗Learning & books

Doug Menuez's photo book documenting Silicon Valley in the 1980s and 90s.

Fil-C Languages & runtimes

A memory-safe implementation of C/C++ that compiles existing code with runtime safety checks.

FileZilla ↗Networking

Open-source FTP and SFTP client.

Filter Box Builder ↗Other

An open source tool that calculates designs for DIY box-fan air purifiers.

First Direct Finance & payments

A UK bank offering phone and online banking.

Fish Dev tools

A user-friendly interactive Unix shell.

Flatland Learning & books

Edwin Abbott's novella about beings in a two-dimensional world unaware of a third dimension.

Flux ↗Dev tools

A refinement type checker for Rust.

Fly.io Hosting & SaaS

A platform for running app containers close to users.

Fooled by Randomness Learning & books

A book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb about the role of luck and randomness in success.

Forgejo Dev tools

A self-hostable community-driven software forge.

Fossil ↗Dev tools

A distributed version control system from the SQLite authors.

Framework Laptop 13 Pro ↗Hardware

A modular, repairable laptop that ships with LPCAMM2 memory.

FrankenPHP Infrastructure & cloud

A modern PHP application server built on Caddy, with static binary builds available.

Free42 Productivity

A free re-implementation of the HP-42S RPN calculator.

FreeBSD Operating systems

An open-source Unix-like operating system with integrated ZFS support.

Frida Security & privacy

A dynamic instrumentation toolkit for injecting scripts into running apps.

Frigate ↗Other

An open-source network video recorder with object detection.

Futhark ↗Languages & runtimes

A purely functional, data-parallel array language that compiles to GPU and CPU code.

GOG.com Other

Digital game store selling DRM-free games.

GPT-Live ↗AI & ML

OpenAI's real-time full-duplex voice model.

GStreamer Design & media

An open-source multimedia framework built on pipelines, with an OBS integration plugin.

Gabriel Zucman Learning & books

An economist known for research on wealth inequality and tax avoidance.

GeForce Now Hosting & SaaS

Nvidia's cloud gaming service for streaming PC games you own on your own accounts.

GeneCards ↗Data & analytics

A database that collates known gene functions and disease associations.

Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations Learning & books

David Lewin's foundational text on transformational music theory.

Ghidra Security & privacy

An open-source software reverse engineering suite from the NSA.

GhidraSQL ↗Dev tools

Exposes Ghidra reverse-engineering data to AI agents as virtual SQL tables.

GitHub CLI Dev tools

GitHub's official command-line tool wrapping its API.

Go Languages & runtimes

A compiled, garbage-collected language from Google with goroutines.

Gonic ↗Design & media

Lightweight Subsonic-compatible music streaming server.

Google Cloud Run Infrastructure & cloud

Google Cloud's managed serverless container platform.

Google Inactive Account Manager ↗Security & privacy

Google feature that notifies chosen contacts or shares data after an account has been inactive for a set period.

Google Street View Other

Google's panoramic street-level imagery service.

Gravitas: Communicate with Confidence, Influence, and Authority Learning & books

A book by Caroline Goyder on communicating with confidence and authority.

Gravity Code ↗AI & ML

An AI coding agent interface supporting multiple model providers.

Grist Productivity

Spreadsheet-database hybrid for structured data and workflows.

Ground News Other

A news aggregator that groups coverage of a story from many outlets and rates their bias and factuality.

HN No AI ↗Other

A Hacker News reader that hides AI-related stories.

Hatching Twitter Learning & books

A book by Nick Bilton on the early history of Twitter.

Helium ↗Browsers

A browser built on ungoogled Chromium with minimal extra features.

Hermes AI & ML

A personal AI agent framework that can run locally with local or cloud models.

Hermes WebUI ↗AI & ML

A web interface for the Hermes agent.

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Other

A new entry in the Heroes of Might and Magic series.

Hex ↗Data & analytics

A collaborative data notebook and analytics platform.

Hexane AfD leak index ↗Other

A website indexing the leaked AfD emails with summaries and a torrent of the original mbox files.

HiPER Calc Pro ↗Productivity

A scientific calculator app for Android.

Home Manager Dev tools

A Nix-based tool for declaratively managing user environments and dotfiles.

Hoopla Hosting & SaaS

A library-based digital media borrowing service for video, music and books.

Horn of the Abyss ↗Other

A fan-made expansion mod for Heroes of Might and Magic III.

How I Became Stupid ↗Learning & books

A novel by Martin Page about a man who deliberately tries to become less intelligent to be happier.

How to Win Friends and Influence People Learning & books

Dale Carnegie's classic book on interpersonal skills.

Hugo ↗Dev tools

A fast static site generator written in Go.

Hurricane Electric Free DNS ↗Networking

A free authoritative DNS hosting service from Hurricane Electric.

Hydroxyzine Other

An antihistamine with mild anxiolytic and sedative effects.

Hyundai Kona Electric Hardware

A compact electric crossover SUV made by Hyundai.

IKEA FÖRNUFTIG Hardware

A compact IKEA air purifier with replaceable filters.

IRIS² Networking

Planned EU-funded secure satellite communications constellation.

Ignition! Learning & books

John D. Clark's informal history of liquid rocket propellant development.

Immich Design & media

A self-hosted photo and video management server.

In-Flight Simulator ↗Other

A web-based ambient airplane window simulator.

Include Security ↗Security & privacy

A security consultancy offering penetration testing and application security reviews.

Incorruptible Learning & books

A book by Eric Ries on corporate structures and governance designed to keep companies true to their mission.

Incus ↗Infrastructure & cloud

A community-managed system container and VM manager forked from LXD.

InferenceX Profit Estimator ↗AI & ML

A SemiAnalysis tool that estimates profit margins of LLM inference on different GPUs.

Inferno ↗Dev tools

A QEMU-based emulator project for running modern iOS on non-Apple hardware, by ChefKiss.

Infisical Security & privacy

An open source secrets management platform.

Infuse Design & media

Video player app for Apple platforms that can connect to Plex and Jellyfin servers.

Innioasis Y1 ↗Hardware

An inexpensive offline music player loosely modeled on the iPod Classic.

Inquire ↗Other

A phone app showing nearby Wikipedia articles on a map.

Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? ↗Learning & books

Paul McKenney's book on parallel programming drawn from Linux kernel experience.

Isar Aerospace Infrastructure & cloud

German startup developing commercial orbital launch vehicles.

Janet Languages & runtimes

A lightweight, embeddable Lisp-family language influenced by Clojure.

Jeff Rolka Learning & books

A singing teacher offering vocal instruction.

Jeffy ↗AI & ML

An open-source library bundling pretrained task-specific classifiers that train and run locally on CPU.

JetKVM Hardware

A compact IP KVM providing remote video and USB input control.

Journey of the Mind ↗Learning & books

A book about the evolution of mind and intelligence.

Jujutsu ↗Dev tools

A version control system that can use git as a storage backend.

Jupyter Data & analytics

An open-source interactive notebook environment for code, data and visualization.

KDE Plasma Operating systems

A desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like systems.

Kagi News Other

Kagi's aggregated news summary service.

Kanopy Hosting & SaaS

A video streaming service provided free through public libraries.

Keep Android Open ↗Other

An advocacy campaign site opposing Google's Android developer verification requirements.

Kensington SlimBlade ↗Hardware

A trackball where scrolling is done by twisting the ball.

Kilo Code Editors & IDEs

A coding agent extension for VS Code.

Kimi AI & ML

A large language model family from Moonshot AI.

Kimi K3.1 Pro AI & ML

An open weight language model from Moonshot AI.

Kiosk / commercial signage displays Hardware

Commercial displays sold by TV makers for lobbies and conference rooms without consumer smart-TV software.

Kokoro ↗AI & ML

A small open-weight text-to-speech model with 82M parameters.

Komodo ↗DevOps & CI

A tool for building and deploying self-hosted services and containers.

LIME ↗AI & ML

A technique for locally explaining individual predictions of any classifier.

LLM UI Smells ↗AI & ML

A gist listing telltale markers of LLM-generated writing and UI.

LTspice Dev tools

A SPICE-based analog circuit simulator from Analog Devices.

La Suite numérique ↗Productivity

A suite of open-source collaboration tools sponsored by the French government.

Lacuna Research MCP ↗AI & ML

An MCP server that lets Claude or Codex search the Lacuna corpus of generated research proposals.

Lagrange Browsers

A desktop client for Gemini and Gopher.

Laika ↗Design & media

A stop-motion animation studio known for films like Coraline and Wildwood.

Laravel Frameworks & libraries

A PHP web application framework.

Layoutit Grid ↗Dev tools

An interactive web tool for building CSS grid layouts.

Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Hardware

A Lenovo business laptop with partly socketed RAM.

Let's Encrypt Security & privacy

A free, nonprofit certificate authority.

LibreOffice ↗Productivity

A free, open-source desktop office suite.

LibreSSL ↗Security & privacy

OpenBSD's fork of OpenSSL focused on code cleanup and security.

Lima ↗Infrastructure & cloud

A tool for running Linux virtual machines on macOS and Linux.

LineageOS Operating systems

A free, community Android distribution for many devices.

Liquid AI Decision Models ↗AI & ML

Models from Liquid AI trained specifically to produce decisions with calibrated confidence.

Listers ↗Other

A documentary about competitive birdwatching in the US.

Lit Frameworks & libraries

A lightweight library for building web components.

Litestream Databases

A tool that continuously replicates SQLite databases to object storage like S3.

Little Snitch Security & privacy

A macOS application firewall that shows and controls outgoing network connections.

Local vacation rental agencies Other

Regional property management companies that rent out vacation homes directly.

Loco ↗Frameworks & libraries

A Rust web framework built on Axum that follows Ruby on Rails conventions.

Long-Term Stock Exchange ↗Finance & payments

A US stock exchange whose listing standards are aimed at companies focused on long-term value.

LÖVE Potion ↗Frameworks & libraries

A LÖVE-compatible Lua game framework for building homebrew games on Nintendo consoles including the 3DS.

Magisk ↗Dev tools

A systemless rooting and modification tool for Android devices.

Magit Editors & IDEs

A Git interface that runs inside Emacs.

Major Tom ↗Browsers

A native macOS GUI client for Gemini.

Make WordArt ↗Design & media

A web tool for generating WordArt-style text.

Make: Electronics Learning & books

Charles Platt's project-based introduction to electronics.

Maki ↗AI & ML

An AI coding agent harness.

Malloy Data & analytics

A semantic modelling and query language from Looker's original founder.

March ↗Languages & runtimes

A new programming language with Claude skills for search, debugging and language rules.

MarkEdit ↗Editors & IDEs

A free, open-source TextEdit-like Markdown editor for macOS.

Markdown Reader ↗Browsers

A Firefox add-on that renders Markdown files in the browser.

Math.NET Numerics ↗Data & analytics

A numerical computing library for .NET.

MedSigLIP AI & ML

Google's open-weight medical image-language embedding model.

Mercury Finance & payments

An online banking service for businesses and individuals.

Mercury 3 AI & ML

A fast language model offered via API.

Mere Christianity ↗Learning & books

A book by C. S. Lewis setting out core Christian beliefs.

Merlin Bird ID Other

A bird identification app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that can identify birds by sound and photo.

MeshCore Networking

A LoRa-based mesh messaging system that uses public-key prefixes for addressing and routing.

Mess With DNS ↗Learning & books

A web-based DNS playground for experimenting with and learning DNS records.

Mindscape ↗Learning & books

A podcast hosted by physicist Sean Carroll featuring conversations on science and philosophy.

Miniflux Productivity

A minimalist self-hosted RSS reader.

Miri Dev tools

An interpreter for Rust's mid-level IR that detects undefined behaviour in unsafe code.

Mistral AI AI & ML

French company building large language models.

MoaV Security & privacy

A modular stack that runs 10+ censorship circumvention tools on a small VPS or Raspberry Pi.

Money Stuff ↗Learning & books

Matt Levine's Bloomberg Opinion newsletter on finance and markets.

Moneymaker ↗Other

A board game whose mechanics are modelled on fractional reserve banking.

Monzo ↗Finance & payments

A UK digital bank.

Monzo Stand-in ↗Infrastructure & cloud

Monzo's backup platform that keeps core banking services running during a full cloud outage.

Movies Anywhere Hosting & SaaS

A service that consolidates digital movie purchases from multiple stores into one library.

MuckRock Other

A platform for filing and tracking public records requests.

Murena ↗Hardware

A vendor selling smartphones preinstalled with a de-Googled Android OS.

Music Assistant Design & media

Self-hosted music library manager and player with multi-room support.

NEXTSPACE ↗Operating systems

A desktop environment for Linux aiming to recreate the NeXTSTEP experience on modern hardware.

NXP LPC11C00 ↗Hardware

An NXP microcontroller series with an integrated CAN transceiver.

NanoKVM Hardware

A low-cost IP KVM device for remote machine control.

NatWest Finance & payments

A major UK retail and commercial bank.

Navidrome Design & media

Self-hosted music streaming server.

NeXTWORLD Archive ↗Learning & books

An online archive of NeXT-related magazines and materials.

Neocities ↗Hosting & SaaS

A free static website hosting service with subdomains.

NerdTV ↗Learning & books

Cringely's early-2000s online video interview series with tech figures.

Network Other

A 1976 film satirising television news and corporate power.

Neural Viz ↗Design & media

A solo creator's AI-assisted comedic video series.

NeuroPace RNS System ↗Hardware

An implanted responsive neurostimulation device that treats epilepsy.

Never Split the Difference Learning & books

A book by former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss on negotiation tactics.

NewPipe Other

An open-source lightweight YouTube client for Android.

Nick Zentner Learning & books

A geology educator who makes video lectures on Pacific Northwest geology.

Nikon Coolpix P1000 Hardware

A superzoom bridge camera with a 24-3000mm equivalent lens.

Nomad Network Networking

An off-grid communication and content platform built on Reticulum.

Notes from Underground Learning & books

An 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky narrated by a bitter, isolated man.

Notesnook Productivity

An end-to-end encrypted note-taking app.

Numbat ↗Dev tools

A statically typed programming language and calculator for scientific computations with physical units.

Nushell ↗Dev tools

A cross-platform shell that treats command output as structured data tables.

OCaml Languages & runtimes

A statically typed functional programming language with a garbage collector.

OCaml Elm Playground ↗Frameworks & libraries

A collection of small browser games written in OCaml, including a Battlezone-style game.

Obsidian Productivity

A Markdown-based note-taking and knowledge management app.

Odin Languages & runtimes

A systems programming language with configurable allocators such as bump and scratch allocators.

Oh My Posh Dev tools

A customizable prompt theme engine for shells including PowerShell.

Okular Productivity

KDE's universal document viewer.

OneCRL ↗Security & privacy

Mozilla's centrally pushed list of revoked intermediate certificates for Firefox.

OnlyOffice Productivity

Office suite with Microsoft-format compatibility and a ribbon-style interface.

Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components Learning & books

A photographic book showing cross-sections of electronic components.

Open Domains ↗Networking

A free subdomain service backed by Cloudflare DNS.

Open Policy Agent Security & privacy

A general-purpose policy engine for evaluating rules as code.

OpenAI Trusted Access for Cyber ↗Security & privacy

OpenAI program granting verified users access for defensive cybersecurity work.

OpenClaw AI & ML

An open personal AI assistant agent platform.

OpenCloud Hosting & SaaS

A self-hosted file sync and collaboration platform.

OpenTTD Other

An open-source remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

OpenZFS on OS X Operating systems

A port of OpenZFS for macOS, installable via Homebrew.

Oppo Find N6 Hardware

A book-style Android foldable phone from Oppo.

Orion ↗Browsers

A WebKit browser from Kagi that supports Chrome and Firefox extensions.

OsmAnd Other

An offline maps app based on OpenStreetMap data.

OutGuess ↗Security & privacy

A steganography tool that hides data in the redundant bits of JPEG images.

PARI/GP Data & analytics

A computer algebra system focused on number theory computations.

PJ Library Learning & books

A program mailing free Jewish-themed children's books to families with kids aged 0 to 8.

Pandoc Productivity

A command-line universal document converter.

Parakeet AI & ML

NVIDIA's family of open speech recognition models.

Paseo AI & ML

A tool for running and managing coding agents.

PatchWave ↗DevOps & CI

A service that analyses, fixes and optionally auto-merges Dependabot pull requests.

Patreon Finance & payments

A membership platform for funding creators.

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Learning & books

Martin Fowler's book cataloguing enterprise application design patterns.

Paulina ↗Other

A Toolforge tool for browsing public domain works and creators using Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

PayPal Finance & payments

An online payments service.

Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs ↗Learning & books

A book by Denis Bakhvalov on CPU performance analysis and tuning.

Photopea Design & media

A browser-based image editor modeled on Photoshop, built by Ivan Kutskir.

Physical Intelligence API ↗AI & ML

A beta API from Physical Intelligence for running its robot foundation models, fine-tuned per task and robot.

Picturing Quantum Processes ↗Learning & books

A book by Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger presenting quantum theory through diagrammatic reasoning.

Pigsty Databases

A distribution for deploying and managing self-hosted PostgreSQL.

Plane Crazy ↗Learning & books

A PBS documentary in which Cringely builds and flies his own airplane.

Playwright Dev tools

A browser automation framework for end-to-end testing.

Plone Frameworks & libraries

An open-source enterprise CMS built on Python.

Ploopy Adept ↗Hardware

An open-hardware trackball with discrete scroll wheels.

Pocket TTS ↗AI & ML

Kyutai's lightweight open text-to-speech model.

Porkbun Hosting & SaaS

A domain registrar that also offers hosting.

PowerShell Crescendo ↗Dev tools

A Microsoft module for generating PowerShell cmdlets that wrap native command-line tools.

Prela ↗Languages & runtimes

A relational query language with simpler semantics than SQL.

PrintFriendly ↗Productivity

A browser plugin and service that strips ads and clutter from web pages for printing or PDF export.

Privacy Guides ↗Security & privacy

A community website recommending privacy tools, including VPN providers.

Privatemode ↗Security & privacy

A European AI inference service that runs models inside secure enclaves.

Priyom.org ↗Networking

A website documenting military and numbers radio stations, including the US HFGCS network.

Publii Productivity

A desktop static site CMS with a WYSIWYG editor.

Pullboard ↗Dev tools

An open-source tool for coordinating coding agents through shared state.

Purelymail ↗Hosting & SaaS

A low-cost email hosting service supporting custom domains.

Pydantic AI AI & ML

Python agent framework with abstractions over LLM providers.

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Learning & books

Richard Feynman's popular lectures on quantum electrodynamics.

Qalculate! ↗Productivity

A multi-purpose desktop calculator with unit and currency conversion and symbolic math.

Qobuz Design & media

A high-resolution music streaming and download service.

Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur ↗Learning & books

A textbook introducing quantum field theory to readers with some mathematical background.

Quantum Mechanics for Engineers ↗Learning & books

A free online quantum mechanics text by Leon van Dommelen aimed at engineers.

Quikscript ↗Other

A phonetic alphabet for English designed by Kingsley Read, intended for fast handwriting.

Qwen 3.8 AI & ML

A family of open weight language models from Alibaba.

Qwen 3.8 Flash Next AI & ML

A Qwen open-weight model that can be run locally.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B AI & ML

An open-weight mixture-of-experts language model from Alibaba's Qwen team.

RSS Networking

A web feed format for subscribing to site updates.

Radiolab ↗Learning & books

A science podcast from WNYC Studios.

Rambalac ↗Design & media

A YouTube channel of first-person walking videos.

Ranked Robin Other

A Condorcet-style ranked voting method that picks the candidate winning the most head-to-head matchups.

Red Hot City ↗Learning & books

A UC Press book about real estate development and politics in Atlanta.

Remark42 ↗Frameworks & libraries

A self-hosted, privacy-focused comment engine for websites.

Remi's RPM repository ↗DevOps & CI

A third-party repository providing PHP packages for Red Hat-derived distributions.

Reticulum Networking

An encrypted mesh networking stack that can run over LoRa, WiFi, IP, serial links and other media.

Richard E. Borcherds YouTube channel ↗Learning & books

A YouTube channel of math lectures by Fields medalist Richard Borcherds covering number theory, category theory and more.

Rockbox Operating systems

Open-source replacement firmware for digital audio players including iPods.

Rosalina Dev tools

The in-game menu of Luma3DS custom firmware, which includes a GDB stub for debugging 3DS software.

Rosuvastatin Other

A statin medication that lowers LDL cholesterol.

Ruby on Rails Frameworks & libraries

A convention-driven web application framework for Ruby.

Runpod Infrastructure & cloud

A cloud service for renting GPU compute.

SDF Public Access UNIX System Hosting & SaaS

A long-running public access UNIX system offering shells and Gopher hosting.

SHAP ↗AI & ML

A library for explaining machine learning model outputs using Shapley values.

SQLite Databases

An embedded SQL database engine with an FTS5 full-text search extension.

SSHFS-Win Networking

Windows port of SSHFS for mounting remote filesystems over SSH.

STAR voting Other

Score Then Automatic Runoff, a single-winner voting method.

Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models ↗Learning & books

A 2020 OpenAI paper relating language model performance to compute, data and parameter count.

Secretive ↗Security & privacy

A macOS app that stores SSH keys in the Secure Enclave and acts as an SSH agent.

ShareX ↗Design & media

Free Windows screen capture and recording tool with annotations.

Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear? ↗Learning & books

A Slate Star Codex essay by Scott Alexander on how advice tends to reach the people who need it least.

Sidebery Browsers

A Firefox extension for tree-style vertical tabs and tab management.

Signal Security & privacy

An end-to-end encrypted messaging app.

Silexan ↗Other

An oral lavender oil preparation studied for generalized anxiety disorder.

SiteGround Hosting & SaaS

A managed web hosting provider focused on WordPress and PHP sites.

SixtyPical ↗Languages & runtimes

A 6502 assembly-like language with an effect system and flow typing.

Skin Analytics ↗AI & ML

A company offering AI-based skin cancer detection using ensembles of vision models.

Skin in the Game Learning & books

A book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb about risk-sharing and accountability.

Snowflake ID ↗Databases

A time-based distributed ID format originally created at Twitter.

Socket.dev Security & privacy

Service that scans dependencies for supply chain risks.

Songs of Conquest Other

A commercial turn-based fantasy strategy game inspired by HoMM.

Songs of Syx Other

A large-scale colony and city-building strategy game.

SourceHut ↗Hosting & SaaS

A minimalist hosted software forge with mailing-list-based workflows.

Speaker for the Dead ↗Learning & books

An Orson Scott Card novel featuring the AI character Jane.

Spinel ↗Languages & runtimes

Matz's ahead-of-time compiler for a statically typed Ruby subset using RBS.

Splink ↗Data & analytics

Open-source probabilistic record linkage library that can run on DuckDB.

Sprout ↗Hardware

A replacement motherboard for classic iPods adding Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and UI improvements.

Squarespace Hosting & SaaS

A hosted website builder service.

St Helena Independent ↗Other

An online local newspaper covering St. Helena island.

StageX ↗Security & privacy

A minimal Linux distribution focused on supply-chain security with signed, reviewed builds.

Steam Greenlight Other

Valve's former community voting system that decided which games could be published on Steam.

Steve Jobs in Exile Learning & books

A book about Steve Jobs' years running NeXT.

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview ↗Learning & books

A 1995 interview of Steve Jobs by Cringely, released as a film in 2012.

Stewart Hicks ↗Learning & books

A YouTube channel about architecture and design that has also covered fire escapes.

Strattera Other

A non-stimulant ADHD medication.

Stripe Issuing ↗Finance & payments

Stripe's API for programmatically issuing and controlling payment cards.

SubSync ↗Dev tools

A tool that syncs subtitles to a video's audio or to a reference subtitle file.

Sublime Merge Dev tools

A Git GUI client from the makers of Sublime Text.

Sunshine Dev tools

Self-hosted game streaming server for streaming a PC's games to other devices.

Superintelligence Learning & books

Nick Bostrom's book on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.

Sweet Home 3D Design & media

A free interior design application for drawing floor plans and arranging furniture in 3D.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard ↗Learning & books

A book by Chip and Dan Heath about how people and organisations change behaviour.

SwitchBot Bot ↗Hardware

A small Bluetooth device that physically presses buttons or flips switches.

System.Threading.Channels Frameworks & libraries

A .NET library for producer-consumer data passing between async tasks.

T3 AI & ML

A session-oriented interface for working with coding agents.

T3 Code AI & ML

A GUI app for running and managing AI coding agents like Codex and Claude.

TLA+ Dev tools

A formal specification language by Leslie Lamport for designing and checking systems.

Taalas ↗Hardware

Company building ASICs with LLMs such as Llama 3.1 8B baked into silicon.

TabPFN AI & ML

A transformer model that does tabular prediction via in-context learning.

Talos Image Factory Infrastructure & cloud

A service that builds custom Talos Linux images from selected extensions and architectures.

TanStack Start ↗Frameworks & libraries

A full-stack React meta-framework built on TanStack Router with selective server rendering.

Tauri ↗Frameworks & libraries

A framework for building desktop apps with a web frontend and Rust backend.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons Learning & books

A phonics-based book of lessons for parents teaching young children to read.

Telesat Lightspeed Networking

Canadian low-earth-orbit satellite broadband constellation planned for 2028.

Temporal DevOps & CI

A durable workflow execution platform.

Tengwar ↗Other

A constructed script created by J.R.R. Tolkien that has modes for writing English.

Termius Dev tools

An SSH client app for mobile and desktop.

Terra.do ↗Learning & books

A climate education and career-transition platform.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Learning & books

A 2018 book by Shoshana Zuboff on how tech companies monetise behavioural data.

The Art of Electronics ↗Learning & books

Horowitz and Hill's comprehensive electronics textbook and reference, with a companion lab book.

The Battle for Wesnoth ↗Other

A free, open-source turn-based fantasy strategy game.

The Birth of Tragedy Learning & books

Nietzsche's early work on art, tragedy and music building on Schopenhauer.

The China Syndrome Other

A 1979 thriller film about a nuclear power plant cover-up.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich Learning & books

An 1886 novella by Leo Tolstoy about a judge confronting his death.

The Doomsday Machine ↗Learning & books

Daniel Ellsberg's memoir about US nuclear war planning.

The Hacker Manifesto ↗Learning & books

A 1986 essay published in Phrack about hacker identity.

The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan ↗Learning & books

A long-form essay by the same author about the Gorton engraving typeface.

The Jakarta Method Learning & books

A book by Vincent Bevins on US-backed anti-communist violence in Indonesia and elsewhere.

The Last Dance Other

A documentary series about Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls.

The Last Mountain Other

A documentary about Tom Ballard's family visiting Nanga Parbat, where he died climbing.

The Music Lab ↗Learning & books

A Yale research site with online music perception quizzes, including a relative pitch test.

The Mythical Man-Month Learning & books

Fred Brooks' classic book of essays on software project management.

The Network Pump Security & privacy

A Naval Research Laboratory device that relays data one way, sends back only acknowledgements, and suppresses timing channels.

The Red Queen Learning & books

Matt Ridley's book on evolution and sexual selection, built around the Red Queen hypothesis.

The Reverse Centaur's Guide To Life After AI Learning & books

A non-fiction book by Cory Doctorow about life after AI.

The Road Not Taken ↗Learning & books

Harry Turtledove short story about aliens who missed an easy scientific discovery.

The Tyranny of Merit Learning & books

A book by Michael Sandel critiquing meritocracy and its role in political polarization.

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Learning & books

An essay by Walter Benjamin on how mechanical reproduction affects the aura and value of art.

Tholian Warps ↗Networking

An open-source soft router concept focused on obfuscating traffic to evade censorship.

TinyGo ↗Languages & runtimes

A Go compiler aimed at microcontrollers and WebAssembly.

Token2 Security & privacy

A vendor of FIDO2 hardware security keys.

Toolbit ↗Productivity

A set of locally running utility tools with web and desktop apps.

Topicbox Hosting & SaaS

A hosted group email and mailing list service from the team behind Fastmail.

Torchlight Other

An action RPG by Runic Games, made by former Diablo developers.

Tornado ↗Security & privacy

A web visualization of CVE publication activity by Rogo Labs.

Triangle ↗Frameworks & libraries

Jonathan Shewchuk's two-dimensional quality mesh generator and Delaunay triangulator.

Troubleshooting Analog Circuits Learning & books

Bob Pease's book on diagnosing problems in analog circuits.

TruffleRuby Languages & runtimes

A high-performance Ruby implementation built on GraalVM.

Twilight of the Idols Learning & books

A book by Friedrich Nietzsche critiquing morality and Western philosophy.

Typed Racket Languages & runtimes

A gradually typed dialect of Racket.

Typst Productivity

A markup-based typesetting system that compiles to PDF.

ULID ↗Databases

A specification for lexicographically sortable unique identifiers.

USB-SD-Mux ↗Hardware

A USB-controlled multiplexer that switches an SD card between a device under test and a host.

USB4VC ↗Hardware

An adapter that lets modern USB keyboards, mice and gamepads drive vintage computers.

UTM Infrastructure & cloud

A QEMU-based virtual machine app for Apple platforms, including iOS and iPadOS.

Ubuntu Operating systems

A popular Linux distribution from Canonical.

Ubuntu Pro Operating systems

Canonical's extended security maintenance subscription for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Touch Operating systems

A community-maintained mobile operating system based on Ubuntu.

UniProt ↗Data & analytics

A comprehensive database of protein sequences and functional annotation.

Unslop News ↗Other

A news site that filters out AI-related content.

VCMI ↗Other

An open-source reimplementation of the Heroes of Might and Magic III engine.

VDO.Ninja ↗Design & media

Browser-based tool for sending low-latency video between devices.

VEVOR Alcohol Still ↗Hardware

An 8-gallon stainless steel home distiller kit with a thumper keg, sold on Amazon.

Valheim ↗Other

An indie survival game first built largely by a single developer.

Varnish Networking

An HTTP caching reverse proxy.

Veloren ↗Other

A free, GPLv3 open-world voxel RPG inspired by Cube World.

Visual Studio Code Editors & IDEs

A cross-platform code editor from Microsoft.

Vivaldi Browsers

A highly customizable Chromium-based browser.

Voyager ↗Other

An open-source Lemmy client app for the fediverse.

Wayback Machine Other

The Internet Archive's service for capturing and browsing historical snapshots of web pages.

Web Bluetooth API ↗Browsers

A browser API that lets web pages communicate with Bluetooth Low Energy devices.

Web Origami ↗Dev tools

A JavaScript-like dialect and toolkit for building static sites with built-ins for Markdown and RSS.

WebPKI Observatory ↗Security & privacy

A website tracking data about the Web PKI and certificate authorities.

Welcome to my Garden Other

An app and network that lets travellers camp for free in private gardens.

Wero ↗Finance & payments

A European bank-backed wallet and instant payment scheme built on SEPA transfers.

Whisky Operating systems

A macOS app wrapping Wine to run Windows software on Mac.

Wikipedia Learning & books

A free collaborative online encyclopedia.

Wikipedia Importance Map ↗Data & analytics

A zoomable map of Wikipedia articles sized by PageRank and pageviews.

Wikivoyage ↗Other

A free, wiki-based travel guide from the Wikimedia project.

Windows Terminal ↗Dev tools

Microsoft's modern tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.

Windows-GPU-UNLOCK ↗Hardware

A Windows version of the Nvidia GPU unlock.

Wise Finance & payments

An online money transfer and multi-currency account service.

Wiz ↗Languages & runtimes

A high-level assembly language targeting 8-bit and retro platforms.

Woodpecker CI DevOps & CI

A simple self-hosted CI engine forked from Drone.

WordService ↗Productivity

A macOS app providing text-manipulation Services in the NeXT tradition.

Workato Hosting & SaaS

An enterprise automation and integration platform.

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic ↗Other

A detailed city and economy building game set in a Soviet-style republic.

XGBoost AI & ML

An open-source gradient boosted decision tree library.

Xara 3D Design & media

A Windows program for creating 3D text and graphics.

Xiaomi-Robotics-1 AI & ML

A robotics model from Xiaomi.

You Don't Need JavaScript ↗Learning & books

A book on replacing JavaScript patterns with modern CSS and HTML.

YubiKey-Guide ↗Security & privacy

drduh's guide to using YubiKeys for GPG and SSH.

ZLinq ↗Frameworks & libraries

A zero-allocation LINQ implementation for .NET, Unity and Godot.

Zen Browser ↗Browsers

A Firefox-based browser with sidebar tabs, spaces and split view.

Zephyr RTOS Operating systems

An open-source real-time operating system for embedded devices.

ZeroFS Infrastructure & cloud

A filesystem that is backed by object storage.

Zine ↗Dev tools

A Hugo-inspired static site generator written in Zig.

Zinwa Q25 ↗Hardware

A revived BlackBerry-style phone with a physical keyboard and an updated motherboard.

Zodiac Other

A 1988 eco-thriller novel by Neal Stephenson about toxic waste dumping and cover-ups.

Zola Dev tools

A single-binary static site generator written in Rust.

arXiv Learning & books

An open-access preprint server for scientific papers.

archive.today Hosting & SaaS

A web page archiving service that stores snapshots of pages.

awesome-sustainability-jobs ↗Other

A curated GitHub list of companies offering sustainability-related tech jobs.

brotli (Rust crate) Frameworks & libraries

A pure-Rust port of the Brotli compression format.

cargo-hakari Dev tools

A Cargo tool that manages a workspace-hack crate to unify dependency features across a workspace.

chatjimmy ↗AI & ML

A chatbot service known for extremely fast text generation.

clojure-mcp AI & ML

MCP tooling that lets LLM agents edit Clojure code and interact with a REPL.

ctlogs.dev ↗Security & privacy

A search service for certificates recorded in Certificate Transparency logs.

cwm Operating systems

A minimal floating window manager included in OpenBSD's base system.

darktable Design & media

An open-source raw photo processing and workflow application.

deja-vu Dev tools

A tool for searching conversation history across multiple AI coding harnesses.

dig Networking

A command-line tool for querying DNS servers.

dqlite Databases

Canonical's embeddable, Raft-replicated SQLite library.

duckdb-harbor ↗Databases

Project for running DuckDB as a transactional main database.

duckdb-wasm Databases

DuckDB compiled to WebAssembly for in-browser querying.

duckflight-extension ↗Databases

DuckDB extension exposing a database over Postgres wire protocol or Arrow Flight.

dwm Operating systems

A minimal dynamic tiling window manager for X from suckless.

earcut.hpp ↗Frameworks & libraries

The C++ port of Mapbox's earcut polygon triangulation library.

exitmap Security & privacy

A scanner for checking the behavior of Tor exit relays.

fthr ↗Editors & IDEs

A text editor built to support AI-assisted fiction writing.

gLabels ↗Productivity

Open source program for designing and printing labels and business cards.

geomys ↗Browsers

A Gopher browser for Classic Macintosh systems.

go-gopher ↗Frameworks & libraries

A Go library for Gopher clients and servers.

golazy Frameworks & libraries

A web framework project for Go.

gpu-unlock-ada ↗Hardware

A fork of gpu-unlock that applies the instruction-rate unlock to Ada-generation cards such as the RTX 4090 and 4070 Ti Super.

hayahora.futbol ↗Networking

A site tracking whether Spanish ISPs are currently blocking IPs during football matches.

hckrnews ↗Productivity

An alternative Hacker News front-page reader showing top stories by day.