Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. How Optimized Threaded Pagination Works launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank▲457

   Hey there HN! We’re Antonio, Luca, and Yuhang, and we’re excited to introduce Fast GraphRAG, an open-source RAG approach that leverages knowledge graphs and the 25 years old PageRank for better information retrieval and reasoning. Building a good RAG pipeline these days takes a lot of manual optimizations. Most engineers intuitively start from naive RAG: throw everything in a vector database and hope that semantic search is powerful enough. This can work for use cases where accuracy isn’t too important and hallucinations are tolerable, but it doesn’t work for more difficult queries that…

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   FlowTime▲72

   A Pomodoro-driven timer for Chrome

   2015 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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   Integer Map Data Structure▲91

   This project presents a new data structure for storing ordered integer maps. The proposed data structure is a compressive, cache-friendly, radix tree that has performance comparable to an unordered map (`std::unordered_map`) and is an order of magnitude faster than an ordered map (`std::map`).

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Sieve▲69

   Easy sorting, filtering and pagination for .NET core

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Queuebrick▲101

   The Letterboxd Alternative.

   Sep 2026 · queuebrick.com · its alternatives →

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   Code Podcast 3: Concurrency – Event Loop & Coroutines▲54

   Concurrency in UIKits, browsers and web servers

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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   Heap-Based Quicksort, Visualized▲7

   2014 · quicksort-heap.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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   Sort/filter/paginate framework for ASP.NET Core▲5

   ⚗️ Clean & extensible Sorting, Filtering, and Pagination for ASP.NET Core - Biarity/Sieve

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   LazyGraphRAG: Setting a new standard for quality and cost▲6

   This is a big update from the GraphRAG team! Significantly reduces the cost and speeds up indexing for GraphRAG all without much degradation in performance. Check it out!

   2024 · microsoft.com · its alternatives →

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    33% Memory Reduction by Reordering Struct Fields▲19

    Learn Go (Golang) by writing real code in this interactive course. Practice structs, interfaces, errors, concurrency, and idiomatic backend patterns.

    2020 · qvault.io · its alternatives →

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    Sliderm – A Dependency-Free JavaScript Slider▲7

    ซื้อหวยออนไลน์ แทงเลขไม่อั้น เว็บแทงหวย หวยไทย หวยลาว หวยหุ้น หวยฮานอย รับแทงไม่อั้น LOTTO มีหวยในแทง 24 ชั่วโมง แทงในเว็บ ไม่ผ่านเอเย่นต์

    2022 · sliderm.com · its alternatives →

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    Tiptap Pagination▲5

    Extensions & Guides for Tiptap Developers

    2025 · romikmakavana.me · its alternatives →

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    QueryQL – Filtering, Sorting, and Pagination for Your Node.js REST API▲10

    Easily add filtering, sorting, and pagination to your Node.js REST API through your old friend: the query string! - TRUEPIC/queryql

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A JSON Viewer with indentation based highlighting, and table-view mode▲9

    2018 · json-viewer.sohamkamani.com · its alternatives →

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    Semi-index - Speed up JSON parsing in MapReduce-like tasks▲9

    Implementation of the JSON semi-index described in the paper "Semi-Indexing Semi-Structured Data in Tiny Space" - ot/semi_index

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Plisqin, an SQL generator written in Racket▲7

    2018 · docs.racket-lang.org · its alternatives →

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    Glancy - Article lengths at a glance▲6

    2013 · glancyapp.com · its alternatives →

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    A link aggregator without dark patterns▲6

    2021 · 20-things.com · its alternatives →

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    ASP.NET Core Pagination, Filtering, Sorting, and DataShaping Library▲5

    https://github.com/bbartels/Delve (Accidentally deleted and couldn't resubmit. That's why it's a text post)

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Incremental MapReduce and the Model-View Problem▲10

    2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    JsonTree, a tool for turning JSON data into a collapsible html tree▲9

    A lightweight vanilla Javascript micro-library for making collapsible trees with JSON - MaxLeiter/jsonTree

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    UvCharts - Simple yet powerful charting library for developers▲5

    2015 · imaginea.github.io · its alternatives →

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    High-Performance canvas data grid▲8

    2017 · tonygermaneri.github.io · its alternatives →

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    PageIndex for Reasoning-Based RAG▲6

    In this blog, we introduce a pure JSON index to enable reasoning-based RAG without relying on any Vector DBs. Any feedback is welcome!

    2025 · vectifyai.notion.site · its alternatives →

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