Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CancerDB: A public domain CSV file to help build a cure
Hi HN! I started working in Cancer Research at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center 4.5 years ago in March 2018. If you thought programming and computers were complex, WAIT until you start trying to wrap your head around cancer. We're talking Orders of Magnitude more complexity. I know it might seem outrageous that a lowly CSV file will help in the quest to build a cure, but I truly believe it might. I think what seems like miracles always comes down to grunt data collection, with a few moments of key insights. Anyway, the site will launch November 1st. Please give it a star and a share…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. CancerDB: A public domain CSV file to help build a cure launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Stop treating the database as dumb storage and use its extended features. There's a lot you can use.
2022 · sqlfordevs.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN,<p>I've posted a couple times here before (mostly within posts pertaining to Amit Gupta's search for a bone marrow donor) and I wanted to share a site I've been working on for the past 5 months or so that recently went live. I'm going on my fifth year of being an Acute Myelogenous Leukemia survivor, and while I didn't need a bone marrow transplant myself at one point it was a very real possibility. At that time I became aware of the lack of minority bone marrow donors and made a promise to myself to try to do something about it if I were to survive. This site is something of a…
2012 · cheekswab.org · its alternatives →
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(educational) build your own disk based KV store. Contribute to avinassh/py-caskdb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OpenSheet▲86Hi folks. I've been doing some experiments on how LLMs could get more handy in the day to day of working with files (CSV, Parquet, etc). Earlier last year, I built https://datakit.page and evolved it over and over into an all in-browser experience with help of duckdb-wasm. Got loads of feedbacks and I think it turned into a good shape with being an adhoc local data studio, but I kept hearing two main things/issues: Why can't the AI also change cells in the file we give to it? Why can't we modify this grid ourselves? So besides the whole READ and text-to-SQL flows, what seemed…
Feb 2026 · opensheet.app · its alternatives →
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theMednet▲89Quora for cancer, an expert-only clinical knowledge base
2017 · themednet.org · its alternatives →
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Input a SMILES string (or pick one molecule from the examples) and it returns up to 100k molecules closest in 3-D shape or electrostatic similarity – from 10+ billion scale databases — typically in under 5-10 s. *Why it might interest HN* * Entire index lives on disk — no GPU at query-time, less than ~10 GB RAM total. * Built from scratch (no FAISS index / Milvus / Pinecone). * Index-build cost: one Nvidia T4 (~ 300USD) for one 5.5B database. * Open to anyone, predict ADMET, export results as CSV/SDF. Full write-up & benchmarks (DUD-E, LIT-PCBA, SVS) in the pre-print:…
2025 · cheese-new.deepmedchem.com · its alternatives →
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I created Curenote, a social way for people to get help with their health problems. Others who may have experienced the same health problem can offer their knowledge and advice on what they did to cure their ailment or illness. People can offer their advice and support on topics such as cancer/diabetes, sexual health, drugs & alcohol, violence, diet & fitness and many more. Please let me know what you think. Your honest feedback is much appreciated. Thanks!
2011 · curenote.com · its alternatives →
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KeptWell▲34My mom was recently diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. That's both an overwhelming diagnosis but also an overwhelming flood of information, documents, appointments, options and questions. I needed a place to keep track of it all and also a place to ask questions, do research and help my parents and family do the same. So, naturally, I built something. Not charging anything for it at the moment (and with as much AI as I've got layered into this, frankly it's gonna cost me a nice chunk of change to run it). Mostly interested in just making this as useful as possible to families going…
May 2026 · keptwell.org · its alternatives →
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Hi there Hacker News, I've started a side project http://datasourcehub.com which aims to be a platform for data scientists. The project is still in the idea phase so the UI/UX and functionality are all subject to change. Feel free to play around, below is a guest login, and make sure files are content type of 'text/csv'. All data is subject to deletion, it's just a sandbox right now! By reaching out to the Hacker News community I hope to reach expert data scientists and get their feedback. Below are some questions I'd like to answer and some proposed directions that this…
2013 · its alternatives →
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2020 · dropbase.castodia.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN community, I built a tool that helps optimize your post for hitting the first page of Show HN. How it works: I used a Hugging Face dataset of all Hacker News posts from the past 3 years and trained a model that predicts how successful your post might be. There's still a lot of randomness on HN, so nothing is guaranteed, but the tool helps optimize your post for higher odds. A couple of interesting findings: - GitHub repo links work x3 better than regular domains - Open-source tools have a steady virality rate (13.9% - one of the highest) - "I built" outperforms "We built" - Using…
May 2026 · wannalaunch.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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All posts since 2006 (+3.3M), without including comments.
2019 · kaggle.com · its alternatives →
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Hi there! I've been working with data in one form or another, professionally, for about 5 years. I've been thinking about my own personal data and how it's used for at least twice that long. I've been sort of building something in my head for a while that solves my own problem and, in the beginning of this year, I found the opportunity to spend some time building it out. I'll leave the detailed explanation to the blog post but, in short, I built what amounts to an API crawler combined with a data processor to help you download your personal data from 3rd party services and work with it using…
2024 · joshcanhelp.com · its alternatives →
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I spent 9 months in abdominal pains. 7 endoscopies. Turned out the problem wasn’t even in my gut. That mess is why I built Healz.ai - AI + real doctors-investigator who build complete picture and look for root causes. I’m not here to pitch. I just want to know if it’s real or crap and are there people like me sometime ago. Please burn me as much as possible. Just want to make no bullshit service. No marketing. No “AI doctor”, NO "text-to-porn generator" hype. Just trying to make something that could save people the months I lost.
Oct 2025 · app.healz.ai · its alternatives →
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hey there hn! thought you would appreciate my brand new file format - i've spent over 40 minutes creating this standard. it's really hard trying to get your ideas shown to standards boards etc but i think with the great community here we can help get bioif support into all major browsers :) the spec is available over at the website, as is a reference implementation. it already has higher usage than jpeg-xl. - best
2025 · image.bsb.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I like RethinkDB a lot. One year ago, I started to document it because I want to learn more about it. At first, I blog, at one point I started to writing it in markdown, using pandoc to convert it into PDF then I switched to Leanpub. At some point, I almost abandon it. But finally I make effort to go back and almost finish it. Here is the result of one year: http://leanpub.com/simplyrethinkdb I also open source it on here(But it helps if you make an purchase on leanpub anyway :D): http://github.com/kureikain/simplyrethink The book is still WIP…
2015 · its alternatives →
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We often find ourselves waiting for Excel just to do simple tasks like merging two CSVs, checking for duplicates, or converting a PDF table to CSV. Thus, I built ilovecsv.net. It's a suite of 30+ free tools that run in your browser.
Dec 2025 · ilovecsv.net · its alternatives →
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FixYou▲3The USPSTF and ACS publish thorough cancer screening guidelines, but they're dense and scattered across dozens of pages. What you actually need depends on your age, sex, family history, smoking status, and other factors. Most people, including me until recently, simply don't know what they should be getting checked for. I built FixYou after losing my grandfather to colon cancer that was caught too late. After his diagnosis, my parents went for colonoscopies and found polyps, early and treatable. We didn't lack access to healthcare. We lacked clarity. FixYou is a free tool that: 1. Walks you…
May 2026 · fixyou.app · its alternatives →
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Hi, this has been a labor of love over the last few days =) Can't wait to hear you feedback and of course AMA!
2023 · blog.airsequel.com · its alternatives →
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SmoothCSV▲11Hi HN, I'm kohii, a software engineer from Japan. I've been building CSV editors for 15 years. This is my third rewrite from scratch, built with Tauri, Rust, and web technologies. *Why I built this:* Modern dev tools, that I use daily, are incredibly polished. CSV editors, not so much. I wanted a tool that handles CSVs as they are (messy column counts, various encodings, any delimiter or quoting style), preserves the original format, and gives you a polished spreadsheet UI with thoughtful UX. *What SmoothCSV does:* - *Fast*: Opens 100MB files in 1.6 seconds. (12x faster than Excel) -…
2025 · smoothcsv.com · its alternatives →
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Hey any astrophysicist reading hn there? Was sick in august (yeah isn't that nice) and made a small python fits table viewer for the terminal with textual. It would be great to have people try it so if you find any issue I can improve it. If you have no FITS file but would like to try regardless there are some test file in `/test`. Ciao!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built a small utility to clean up messy CSV exports without opening Excel or writing pandas scripts. Upload a CSV → preview → choose columns to dedupe → normalize/trim → download the cleaned file. Free tier, no signup required for basic use. Stack: -Lovable for the app -Supabase (auth, Postgres, storage, edge functions) -Stripe for subscriptions/day passes Processing runs server-side; I kept the architecture intentionally simple and low-ops. Would love feedback on UX, edge cases, or features you’d want. Website: https://csv-cleaner.com/
Feb 2026 · csv-cleaner.com · its alternatives →
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