2025 · archive
Launched in August 2025
7,080 products launched in August 2025 (−9% on July), about 228 a day. 9.1% reached 10 votes on launch day and 3.6% reached 50. Of the 5,603 product sites checked since, 87% are still online.
- 7,080
- launches, −9% vs July
- 228
- launches a day
- 9.1%
- reached 10 votes on launch day
- 3.6%
- reached 50 votes
- 87%
- of 5,603 product sites checked are still online
- 19:00 UTC
- best hour to post that month: 14% reached 10 votes
Volume counts every board on record. Vote shares are measured on the board whose record is complete since 2009 (2,518 launches this month).
Top 60 by votes. There were many more.
I built the world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it. It draws a single pixel at a time and takes 30-60 minutes to complete a single image. Anyone can participate in the project by voting for the next image to be drawn, and submitting images. https://kilopx.com/
Work · 2025 · benholmen.com
Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We are excited to launch a preview of our smallest model, which is less than 25 MB. This model has 15M parameters. This release supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. The model is quantized to int8 + fp16, and it uses onnx for runtime. The model is designed to run literally anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required! We're releasing this to give early users a sense of the latency and voices…
AI · 2025 · github.com
I was wondering how I can arrange objects along a spherical helix path, and read some articles on it. I ended up learning about parametric equations again, and make this visualization to document what I learned: https://visualrambling.space/moving-objects-in-3d/ feel free to visit and let me know what you think!
Life & fun · 2025 · visualrambling.space
For HTML Day 2025 [1], I made a web service that displays the current sky at your approximate location as a CSS gradient. Colours are simulated on-demand using atmospheric absorption and scattering coefficients. Updates every minute, without the use of client-side JavaScript. Source code and additional information is available on GitHub: https://github.com/dnlzro/horizon [1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
Dev tools · 2025 · sky.dlazaro.ca
Autumn▲719If you’re on tech twitter you may have noticed an increasing dissent with Stripe and it’s DX. t3.gg (Theo) summarizes it best: “IMO, the biggest issue with Stripe is the "split brain" it inherently introduces to your code base. When a customer checks out, the "state of the purchase" is in Stripe. You're then expected to track the purchase in your own database via webhooks. There are over 258 event types. It's far too easy to have a payment be failed in stripe and "subscribed" in your app.” We've built an OSS abstraction to build any pricing model 1 line of code. The idea is a layer over…
Dev tools · 2025 · useautumn.com
Resolve dev tasks & bugs faster with Webvizio MCP
AI · 2025 · webvizio.com
End-to-end deep dive of the project, spanning a large GPU cluster, distributed RocksDB, and terabytes of sharded HNSW.
AI · 2025 · blog.wilsonl.in
I recently released v3 of Base, my SQLite editor for macOS. The goal of this app is to provide a comfortable native GUI for SQLite, without it turning into a massive IDE-style app. The coolest features are - That it can handle full altering of tables, which is quite finicky to do manually with SQLite. - It has a more detailed display of column constraints than most editors. Each constraint is shown as an icon if active, with full details available on clicking the icon. This update also adds support for attaching databases, which is a bit fiddly with macOS sandboxing. I'd love to hear any…
Dev tools · 2025 · menial.co.uk
I wanted to find a way to use Instagram without ending up scrolling for two hours every time I open the app to see a friend's story. Most screen time apps I found focus on blocking the app itself instead of the addictive feed, so I created this app to allow me to keep using the "healthy" and "social" features and block the infinite scrolling (Reels) After implementing the block on Instagram Reels, I got addicted to YouTube Shorts and Reddit feed. So, I extended the app to cover these as well. To avoid replacing the scrolling for regular feeds, I also added a feature that shows a pop-up when…
Growth · 2025 · scrollguard.app
nFactorial AI▲678Hi Hacker News, I’m Arman. After dozens of experiments in the past 12 months (Top 3 in SWE-Bench Verified being one of them), we finally found an idea we are now pursuing in the high-speed beast mode. Excited to launch nFactorial AI - MasterClass from any legend for any topic aka video calls with the world’s greatest minds as your personal tutors. We set out to build the world’s biggest catalog of 100,000+ world-class masters (from Bruce Lee to Naval Ravikant) from every industry and every geography/language as your personal video-first AI tutors. At the moment, in many fields AI is…
AI · 2025 · nfactorialai.com
Hey HN! Braden here, creator of Whispering, an open-source speech-to-text app. I really like dictation. For years, I relied on transcription tools that were almost good, but they were all closed-source. Even a lot of them that claimed to be “local” or “on-device” were still black boxes that left me wondering where my audio really went. So I built Whispering. It’s open-source, local-first, and most importantly, transparent with your data. Your data is stored locally on your device, and your audio goes directly from your machine to a local provider (Whisper C++, Speaches, etc.) or your chosen…
Dev tools · 2025 · github.com
mcp-use▲581Hi HN, Luigi here. We maintain mcp-use an open-source TypeScript framework for building MCP servers and MCP Apps: https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use MCP is now (finally) stateless so we rewrote mcp-use v2 from scratch for the 2026-07-28 MCP spec revision: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28/ Thanks to the rebuild: - Throughput: +27% → from 8,615 to 10,982 median ops/sec - Cold launch: 2.2x faster → from 151.6 ms to 68.1 ms - Clean install: 82% smaller → from 404.6 MiB to 74.4 MiB Benchmark with methodology here:…
AI · 2025 · manufact.com
A01▲545Hey everyone, I feel like a lot of us have gotten used to social media as our main way to stay informed. It’s where we get our news, trends, opinions, and everything. But honestly, my attention has been wrecked by it. TikTok, X, Instagram... I go in to check one thing and suddenly I’ve lost 90 minutes. So I started wondering what if we could actually control what we see? Like, fully. What if we could own our feed instead of letting the algorithm choose what we scroll through? To play with that idea, I built a small demo app. You just type in what you want to follow, like “recent crypto big…
AI · 2025 · a01ai.com
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We just shipped a new feature in NextDNS: Bypass Age Verification. More and more sites (especially adult ones) are now forcing users to upload IDs or selfies to continue. We think that’s a terrible idea: handing over government documents to random sites is a huge privacy risk. This new setting workarounds those verification flows via DNS tricks. It’s available today to all users, including free accounts. We’re curious how the HN community feels about this. Is it the right way to protect privacy online, or will it just provoke regulators to push harder? https://nextdns.io
Life & fun · 2025
Patio▲528Hey HN! I built Patio to make DIY more accessible and sustainable. It’s a community-powered platform where you can: Rent tools from people nearby Learn DIY through curated tutorials and guides Find or list surplus materials to save money and reduce waste Browse home improvement news in one place It’s early, but live — would love your feedback on the experience, especially around search, learning, and marketplace usability. Thanks! — Julien
Life & fun · 2025 · patio.so
SciSpace Agent ▲521Only AI agent automating research with 150+ academic tools
AI · 2025 · scispace.com
SEO Speed Test▲513Google & ChatGPT ignore slow pages, check if yours is fast!
Growth · 2025 · seospeedtest.com
I made a free link-in-bio tool that monetizes your audience. So it's like a Linktree, just on steroids. - Cooperatively solve and help to solve problems - Hop on 1:1 calls with your audience - Show all your links - Enjoy our pricing algorithm - Profit actively and passively. Yes, even passively. Lifetime.
AI · 2025 · crosspaths.me
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b open-weight language models
AI · 2025 · openai.com
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Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page. Markdown in a plain was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can't. I went down the ContentEditable rabbit hole for a few years, but always came to realize others had solved it…
Life & fun · 2025
I built a search engine for engineering blogs because I was tired of manually checking individual company blogs to find real-world production examples. The problem: When learning a new technology, the best insights often come from how companies like Google, Meta, or Stripe actually implement it in production. But these gems are scattered across dozens of separate engineering blogs with no way to search across them. What I built: Engineering.fyi indexes engineering blogs from ~15 companies (Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Uber, etc.) and makes them searchable in one place. You can…
Life & fun · 2025 · engineering.fyi
Motion Software▲447Beautiful screen recordings for Windows, made simple.
Work · 2025 · motion.software
Embeddable▲446Hi HN, I’m a co‑founder of Embeddable AI. After struggling to add interactive AI experiences to Wix, Shopify, Webflow, WordPress sites, I built this tool to let marketers build chatbots, quizzes or assistants and embed them anywhere with a snippet. Built in React/TypeScript front end and Node.js logic engine. It loads fast and works across CMS platforms. I’d love feedback from builders and marketers on use cases, missing features, or integration ideas.
AI · 2025 · embeddable.co
Hi HN, I’ve been working with Kubernetes for over a decade, since the alpha days, and was involved in kube-aws project before AWS launched EKS. For the past four years, I’ve been helping friends and small businesses cut costs by running Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud, which I’ve found to be rock solid and by far the best priced provider. Provisioning a cluster on Hetzner is now straightforward, thanks to tools like k3s and hetzner-k3s, but configuring it for your specific needs still takes time and expertise. I built Edka to make that part easy: spin up a production ready cluster in ~2 minutes,…
Dev tools · 2025 · edka.io
ReadyBase▲434Launching ReadyBase today. If you like trying new AI tools, you'll love trying ReadyBase. We engineered a way for LLM's to output PDF/PNG without the use of templates. Every generation is 100% unique. Link: https://readybase.ai/ Launch: https://www.producthunt.com/products/readybase
AI · 2025 · readybase.ai