Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to HighLoad.Fun: AuthServer competition
A platform for developers interested in code optimizations
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HighLoad.Fun: AuthServer competition launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Articles in this series Part I. Iterative ServersPart II. Forking ServersPart III. Pre-forking ServersPart IV. Threaded ServersPart V. Pre-threaded ServersPart VI: poll-based serverPart VII: epoll-…
2019 · unixism.net · its alternatives →
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Happy Holidays! Today I am delighted to announce the first release of H2O, version 0.9.0; this is a christmas gift from me. github.com/h...
2014 · blog.kazuhooku.com · its alternatives →
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I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hyperterse▲86Hi HN, I’m Samrith, creator of Hyperterse. Today I’m launching Hyperterse 2.0, a schema-first framework for building MCP servers directly on top of your existing production databases. If you're building AI agents in production, you’ve probably run into agents needing access to structured, reliable data but wiring your business logic to MCP tools is tedious. Most teams end up writing fragile glue code. Or worse, giving agents unsafe, overbroad access. There isn’t a clean, principled way to expose just the right data surface to agents. Hyperterse lets you define a schema over your data and…
Feb 2026 · hyperterse.com · its alternatives →
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Fun free no-download game you
2021 · vnav.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · docs.hyper.sh · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…
2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · blog.hyper.sh · its alternatives →
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Mar 2026 · hyper.dev · its alternatives →
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Hacker Feud▲32:boom: A single page web game made with Svelte. Contribute to lettier/hacker-feud development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An SSH jump server using ssh2, socket.io and express. - distrentic/high-jump
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Excited to share our MCP Server at Hyperbrowser - something we’ve been working on for a few days. We think it’s a pretty neat way to connect LLMs and IDEs like Cursor / Windsurf to the internet. Our MCP server exposes seven tools for data collection and browsing: 1. `scrape_webpage` - Extract formatted (markdown, screenshot etc) content from any webpage 2. `crawl_webpages` - Navigate through multiple linked pages and extract LLM-friendly formatted content 3. `extract_structured_data` - Convert messy HTML into structured JSON 4. `search_with_bing` - Query the web and get results…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is based on an approach I made for a very high performance message and video multiplexing server. The project died, but I'm glad I get to share the a basic version with some http test code now. I admit this is the second time I've tried to show this off here today; I posted earlier but it got lost when no-one was watching :(
2011 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, over the past few months I've been working on this project: Numax is a small Rust runtime that does three things: it runs WebAssembly modules in a sandbox, has a built-in local key-value store, and syncs everything across nodes with CRDTs and gossip. Basically, you write a wasm module, run it on two machines, and they converge (I hope !). It's a decentralized system... I hope someone finds it interesting! There's a whitepaper I've put a lot into, and I think the code isn't bad either! I believe there's still room in this world for software that's fun and well made, and while building…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN :) For the last seven months, I've been working on building a highly performant Minecraft event server to break the PvP world record set by EVE Online (8825 players). We will have a proof-of-concept event in December and likely break the world record in January. Many of the largest streamers & YouTubers are interested, so we do not believe getting players will be challenging. I would love to talk if you think you could help us with the goal of getting this record :)
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lightweight Peer-to-Peer networking engine for real time applications - inetic/libclub
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! One of the problems I ran into is that a large part of the VM-provider ecosystem is currently paid closed-source SAAS products with varying degrees of reliability. I wanted an OSS distributed microVM orchestrator and I couldn't find one. Hyper is a distributed FirecrackerVM orchestrator written in Elixir (BEAM), with gRPC support for non-BEAM clients. Hyper is: - Distributed -- it's designed to run across a cluster of bare metal machines, and will automatically connect to other Hyper nodes. - Fast -- it builds COW layers to enable fast, localized COW forking. Cold boots happen…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Starting: 2$ per. 2CPU Server. Premium servers, affordable.
2024 · its alternatives →
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Brimble▲8We’ve been building Brimble — a modern hosting platform for developers to ship fullstack apps easily. It’s just two of us. No funding. No marketing team. We’ve shared Brimble a bit on X(twitter), but never really launched it properly. Brimble lets you: - Deploy fullstack apps (Next.js, Laravel, Node, etc.) - Access multiple AI models via a single API - Host static sites and Docker apps - Deploy MCP servers - Provision databases in one click - Manage custom domains directly It actually works. People are using it. But we’re now ready to really put it out there and see what the dev world…
2023 · brimble.io · its alternatives →
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wsgrok▲7I built it for myself because ngrok didn't let me add one more domain unless I paid $12 more. I probably should've looked for alternatives before building my own, but my grudge got in the way . Once I started, I wanted to make it better than the other options. Silly, I know. No one probably cares. I plan to open source it sometime next year because I’ve got other projects to finish first. It's free until I deplete my cloud credits, then it will switch to a tier-based model with a free option.
Jan 2026 · wsgrok.com · its alternatives →
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