Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Codemaxxed – 350M+ LOC and a GitHub cease and desist
Built this code art project as a commentary on the recent wave of using LOC as a primary measure of engineering productivity It's now up to 350M lines of useless (but hopefully funny) code, constantly growing using GitHub actions and https://github.com/jshchnz/codemaxxing Unfortunately, GitHub has now sent me a notice to remove the repo within the next 14 days, so enjoy it while you can
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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lolcommits▲86git + webcam = lulz. A selfie every time you commit code.
2015 · lolcommits.com · its alternatives →
- 2WS
I’ve been in the MLOps space for ~10 years, and data is still the hardest unsolved open problem. Code is versioned using Git, data is stored somewhere else, and context often lives in a 3rd location like Slack or GDocs. This is why we built XetHub, a platform that enables teams to treat data like code, using Git. Unlike Git LFS, we don’t just store the files. We use content-defined chunking and Merkle Trees to dedupe against everything in history. This allows small changes in large files to be stored compactly. Read more here:…
2022 · xethub.com · its alternatives →
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I hit my Claude Code usage limit yesterday in the middle of regular work. Not doing anything unusual - just a couple of coding sessions. It felt like it came out of nowhere. Then today Anthropic announced they're tightening 5-hour limits during peak hours. It feels like a rug pull is coming and we're all just supposed to accept "you've used too much" with no explanation of what "too much" means. Usage limits have always been opaque. A vague percentage bar. No dollar figure. No formula. No way to plan your work around it. So I built a proxy that captures the rate-limit headers Anthropic sends…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 5IB
Here is the proof, a 5-hour uncut live session, no edits, no cuts: https://youtu.be/VPrU8WZJOVs Full article: https://medium.com/@bonjourjoel/i-built-a-500-000-line-produ... I believe I am the first human to have done this in a documented, verifiable way: maintaining a stable production-grade 500,000-line TypeScript codebase as a solo developer, using an AI coding assistant I built myself. If you know someone who has done the same, one person, 500k lines, documented proof, please write their name in the comments.
May 2026 · its alternatives →
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and the open source Codes of Conduct
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
- 7GC
Hi HN, As many of you already know, Google has discontinued their coding competitions and is shutting down the competitions website. Before it's gone forever, I've scraped everything I could from their website and set up my own archive. (Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Google besides participating in these contests years ago) While the initial version was ready back in March, today I'm rolling out big and hopefully the final update, so this might be a good time to share it with the HN community. Everything is static HTML and SQLite archives (with a very minimal backend to serve files…
2023 · zibada.guru · its alternatives →
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HyperDev, the fastest way to bang out code and run it online
2016 · stackoverflow.blog · its alternatives →
- 10GC
Hey HN, I posted GitClassic here 2 months ago- since then I've rebuilt most of it based on what people asked for. https://gitclassic.com What's new: Issues, PRs w/ full diffs, repo intelligence (health scores, dependency graphs), trending/explore, bookmarks, comparison tool, and advanced search. Every page is server-rendered HTML- No React, no SPA, no client bundle, pages under 14KB(gzipped). Try loading facebook/react and compare it to GitHub load times. Public repos work without an account, Pro adds private repo access via GitHub OAuth. Stack: Hono on Lambda,…
Mar 2026 · gitclassic.com · its alternatives →
- 11MP
My weekly(ish) video logs tracking my progress of building a completely sound statically typed language and structural editor. The motivation is to make lots of invalid programs unrepresentable.
2022 · petersaxton.uk · its alternatives →
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After 6 years of coding almost every day, I'm finally ready to show HN. There's a lot going on here, looking forward to your guy's feedback.
Jul 2026 · jaclang.org · its alternatives →
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I’ve spent the last 2.5 months building a product that runs LLM-powered code reviews on my pull requests — and I just launched it. The tool is built specifically for solo developers. You install it on your repo, trigger a scan by creating a pull request, and it leaves structured review comments using OpenAI under the hood. Funnily enough, I used the dev version of this app to review its own pull requests while building it. It helped me spot bugs, simplify structure, and keep quality high — all with minimal need for another human in the loop. Things I want to try out in the next months : -…
2025 · codii.dev · its alternatives →
- 144B
2015 · derecho.elijah.cs.cmu.edu · its alternatives →
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I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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hey all! Vaibhav and Ethan here. We asked a silly question, "what if you attempted to look into every commit of every repo?" and over the holidays ended up building something kind of fun. Here's some interesting stats: Charlie Marsh has put a crazy amount of work in on UV... so far #1 with over 149k minutes of work this year. (103 days of non-stop coding ).. #2 is me with 85k (just over 59 days...) on BAML #3 - Jérémy M. with 82k (57 days) working on Twenty #4 - Alexander Belanger with 79k (54 days) working on Hatchet Some fun repos:…
2024 · wrapped.dev · its alternatives →
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Rude, straight to the point advice for coders. Add your own!
2015 · its alternatives →
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Claude Code Companion. Done, Blocked, Broken - you'll know
May 2026 · thecodebreak.com · its alternatives →
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heylo! open sourcing a plugin that I've been daily driving for a month. And I promise, I can't go back to vanilla Claude Code. I'm a heavy Claude Code user, and a couple of things kept bugging me. Claude really likes to jump into code. And its responses are too long. I'd skim past walls of text just to find the recommendation. Plan mode helps, but it didn't go deep enough. The questions it asked were still implementation questions, when what I actually needed was alignment on the problem. So I made it stop. Relay is a different output style and two Python hooks. When you describe what you…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a CLI tool to generate as much slop as possible
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, While building RAG agents, I noticed a lot of token budget was wasted on formatting overhead (HTML tags, JSON structure, whitespace). Existing solutions felt too heavy (often requiring torch/transformers), so I wrote this lightweight, zero-dependency library to solve it. It includes strategies for context packing, PII redaction, and tool output compression. Benchmarks show it can save ~15% of tokens with negligible latency overhead (<0.5ms). Happy to answer any questions!
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I made a completely open sourced alternative to Weights and Biases with (insert cringe) blazingly fast performance (yes we use rust and clickhouse) Weights and Biases is super unperformant, their logger blocks user code... logging should not be blocking, yet they got away with it. We do the right thing by being non blocking. Would love any thoughts / feedbacks / roasts etc
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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