DevFreeBooks

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DevFreeBooks is a web app that collects free books for developers across topics including startup business, design, programming languages, and software engineering. The resource aggregates materials useful for people learning or working in software development. It launched in November 2016 and organizes its collection by subject matter to help developers find relevant reading material in their areas of interest.

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A collection of free books for devs

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  DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers2016 · devfreebooks.github.io · ▲571

  A collection of free books for devs

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  DevFreeBooks – Free ebooks for developers2015 · devfreebooks.org · ▲24
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  Devbook – Search Engine for Developers2020 · usedevbook.com · ▲168
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  Devbook2021 · ▲286

  Search engine for developers

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  HackerBooks.com2011 · hackerbooks.com · ▲351
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  DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books2021 · thesmartcoder.dev · ▲124

  Find information, resources and relevant links for cakhiatvii.cc. This domain may be for sale.

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  /dev/null▲468

  a social network for devs

  Dev tools · 2d ago · dev-null.sh

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  Whiteboard (YC W26) – an open-source IDE for thoughtful software design▲423

  open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com

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  Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things▲411

  Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 25d ago · github.com

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  OpenBot▲362

  Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer

  Dev tools · 22d ago · openbot.run

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  Talanoa▲340

  Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…

  Dev tools · 20d ago · talanoa.email

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  CoreSpeed▲332

  One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools

  Dev tools · 27d ago · corespeed.io

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  PhotoScan by Google▲1,219

  Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future

  AI · 2016 · blog.google

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  A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties▲1,117

  CSS Reference is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.

  Life & fun · 2016 · cssreference.io

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  Netflix Offline▲1,067

  Watch Netflix anytime without an internet connection

  Life & fun · 2016 · help.netflix.com

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  Spark for Mac▲1,058

  Beautiful and intelligent email app

  Growth · 2016 · sparkmailapp.com

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  Primitive for macOS▲798

  Life & fun · 2016 · primitive.lol

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  A.I. Experiments by Google▲763

  Explore machine learning by playing w/ pics, music, and more

  AI · 2016 · labs.google