Software projects

Software projects that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 235
Candidates: 419
Topics: 16
Median span: 5.9 yrs

Topics in Software projects

16 topics

Software engineering 410 links 151 Hall · 259 Candidates Web & internet 77 links 24 Hall · 53 Candidates Security & privacy 45 links 17 Hall · 28 Candidates Computer science 28 links 12 Hall · 16 Candidates Hardware & electronics 20 links 6 Hall · 14 Candidates Design & creativity 18 links 7 Hall · 11 Candidates Computer games 16 links 6 Hall · 10 Candidates AI & data 15 links 4 Hall · 11 Candidates Work & careers 7 links 3 Hall · 4 Candidates Mathematics & science 5 links 2 Hall · 3 Candidates Culture & media 3 links 1 Hall · 2 Candidates Education & learning 3 links 0 Hall · 3 Candidates Space & transportation 3 links 2 Hall · 1 Candidates Society & policy 2 links 0 Hall · 2 Candidates Economics & business 1 link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates Medicine & health 1 link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates

Strongest Hall records

235 items

ΠFS

github.com Software & code 25 submissions · 25 people · 12.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2026-06-10

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Pass: The standard Unix password manager

www.passwordstore.org Software & code 22 submissions · 21 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2025-09-13

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FFmpeg 4.0 released

ffmpeg.org Software & code 11 submissions · 8 people · 15.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2026-03-17

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Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound theory of patches

pijul.org Software & code 16 submissions · 15 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2026-04-07

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Open-Source Home Automation

www.home-assistant.io Software & code 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2021-09-15

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Crystal Programming Language

crystal-lang.org Software & code 23 submissions · 22 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2022-09-01

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Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

www.qubes-os.org Software & code 15 submissions · 15 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2025-01-12

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Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2026-02-21

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Cool Retro Terminal

github.com Software & code 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2025-11-24

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Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 10 people · 12.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2024-01-03

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Nginx 1.0.0 is out

nginx.org Software & code 13 submissions · 11 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-04 Resurfaced 2018-04-25

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Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers

cockpit-project.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2023-10-16

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GoboLinux

www.gobolinux.org Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 15.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2024-02-28

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Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

pi-hole.net Software & code 17 submissions · 17 people · 7.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-05 Resurfaced 2023-01-13

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Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS

caddyserver.com Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-11 Resurfaced 2025-02-16

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Imba – A new programming language for the web

imba.io Software & code 16 submissions · 15 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2023-09-23

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Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc

fishshell.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 12.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-10 Resurfaced 2026-01-18

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Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

syncthing.net Software & code 14 submissions · 13 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-10 Resurfaced 2024-08-18

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Log File Viewer for the Terminal

lnav.org Software & code 20 submissions · 16 people · 12.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-03 Resurfaced 2026-03-24

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New Racket Language Website

racket-lang.org Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2024-04-21

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Quine Relay

github.com Software & code 25 submissions · 25 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-11 Resurfaced 2022-05-28

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Shoelace: A library of web components

shoelace.style Software & code 12 submissions · 10 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2024-01-10

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Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

tiddlywiki.com Software & code 20 submissions · 17 people · 19.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-12 Resurfaced 2026-04-28

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NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution

nixos.org Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2024-01-14

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Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux

www.darlinghq.org Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2023-11-26

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Haiku Project

www.haiku-os.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 17.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-09 Resurfaced 2026-05-13

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Cello: Higher level programming in C

libcello.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-04 Resurfaced 2024-09-26

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Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers

sandstorm.io Software & code 11 submissions · 10 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-06 Resurfaced 2023-06-05

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The Fuck – Correct your previous console command

github.com Software & code 15 submissions · 14 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-10 Resurfaced 2022-03-18

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Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code

github.com Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2025-01-03

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What rr does

rr-project.org Software & code 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2024-07-21

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V Programming Language

vlang.io Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2025-08-30

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MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua

moonscript.org Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 14.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2022-05-29

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AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to

adnauseam.io Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2025-04-05

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Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp

github.com Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2025-07-30

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Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp

janet-lang.org Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2025-07-27

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Tufte CSS

edwardtufte.github.io Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-07 Resurfaced 2025-09-03

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micro – A Modern Alternative to nano

micro-editor.github.io Software & code 14 submissions · 11 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2023-08-18

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Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2024-04-09

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It's like JSON. but fast and small.

msgpack.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 14.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-03 Resurfaced 2025-01-11

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Vim clutch

github.com Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2022-06-21

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Gitless a simple VCS built on top of Git

gitless.com Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2023-06-17

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Make a Lisp

github.com Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-09 Resurfaced 2021-04-24

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Mosh: SSH for 2012

mosh.mit.edu Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 4.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-09 Resurfaced 2016-04-26

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Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool

sonic-pi.net Software & code 8 submissions · 7 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-05 Resurfaced 2022-11-08

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MicroPython

micropython.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2022-06-06

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Pure Bash Bible

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 7.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2023-08-09

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Keep Your Stuff, for Life

perkeep.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 7.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2025-11-12

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Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities

getaether.net Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 11.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2018-11-03

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Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos

github.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2025-08-23

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Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM

gleam.run Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-11 Resurfaced 2026-01-14

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fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

github.com Software & code 9 submissions · 7 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-05 Resurfaced 2025-03-19

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The Lobster Programming Language

strlen.com Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 13.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-04 Resurfaced 2026-03-03

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Coconut: Pythonic functional programming

coconut-lang.org Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2021-11-04

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Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)

dmitry.gr Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-04 Resurfaced 2023-10-14

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Project Naptha: Make Text in Browser Images Selectable

projectnaptha.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2022-07-11

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Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS. No jailbreak required

altstore.io Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-04 Resurfaced 2024-04-20

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Autopilot: an open source driving agent

github.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2024-09-20

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What's new in Xcode 7

developer.apple.com Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2021-06-07

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Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2026-04-30

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Recently resurfaced in software projects

latest 20+ point return

ΠFS

github.com Software & code 25 submissions · 25 people · 12.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2026-06-10

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ReactOS

reactos.org Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 13.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2026-05-13

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Haiku Project

www.haiku-os.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 17.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-09 Resurfaced 2026-05-13

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PysimpleGUI

github.com Software & code 6 submissions · 5 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-05-05

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Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2026-04-30

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Candidates

Browse 419 candidates

Jq – A Command-line JSON processor

stedolan.github.io Software & code 18 submissions · 16 people · 7.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-04-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git

radicle.xyz Software & code 26 submissions · 24 people · 7.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-01-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Kivy: Develop multi-touch enabled Python apps

kivy.org Software & code 16 submissions · 15 people · 11.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-12-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

starship.rs Software & code 14 submissions · 13 people · 5.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-06-24

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code

vscodium.com Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 6.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-01-05

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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AnimeJs v4 Is Here

animejs.com Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-04-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust

www.redox-os.org Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 8.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

obsidian.md Software & code 11 submissions · 10 people · 6.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Halide, a language for image processing and computational photography

halide-lang.org Software & code 15 submissions · 15 people · 12.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-12-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor

github.com Software & code 10 submissions · 9 people · 10.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-11-16

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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X86 mov is turing complete: mov-only compiler

github.com Software & code 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-08-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Factor – A practical stack language

factorcode.org Software & code 13 submissions · 13 people · 17.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-24

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer

goaccess.io Software & code 14 submissions · 13 people · 10.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-07-30

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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PICO-8 – Fantasy Console

www.lexaloffle.com Software & code 17 submissions · 17 people · 10.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-02

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Lisp Flavoured Erlang

lfe.io Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-09-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge

github.com Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 5.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-06-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

haxe.org Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-03-02

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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f.lux

justgetflux.com Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 10.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Zotero: Personal Research Assistant

www.zotero.org Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 10.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-03-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Red Programming Language

www.red-lang.org Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 13.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-05-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Servo v0.0.1

github.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Taskwarrior

taskwarrior.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 13.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-08-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language

cooklang.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 4.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Internet in a Box

internet-in-a-box.org Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-04-27

Needs:5 submissions

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Unison Programming Language

www.unisonweb.org Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 5.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-06-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

github.com Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 12.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-02-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Collapse OS

collapseos.org Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-03-26

Needs:5 submissions

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Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful

github.com Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-08-01

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing

firecracker-microvm.github.io Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Firebug

getfirebug.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 12.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-09

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications

nodered.org Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Chicken Scheme

call-cc.org Software & code 10 submissions · 9 people · 15.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-09-15

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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YunoHost: Aiming to make hosting accessible

yunohost.org Software & code 13 submissions · 12 people · 9.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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macOS in QEMU in Docker

github.com Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-31

Needs:5 submissions

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Snowflake

snowflake.torproject.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-07-30

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary structures

kaitai.io Software & code 13 submissions · 12 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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A command-line installer for Windows

scoop.sh Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-01-22

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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YaCy, a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network

yacy.net Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 14.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-03-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Locust – Open-source Load Testing Tool

locust.io Software & code 12 submissions · 11 people · 9.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-01-05

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Wt – C++ Web Toolkit

www.webtoolkit.eu Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 15.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-02-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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