Software & code

Software projects and source code with unusually long-lived HN attention.

Hall of Fame: 250
Candidates: 442
Median span: 6.0 yrs
First seen: 2007

Subtypes in Software & code

2 subtypes

Software projects 654 links 235 Hall · 419 Candidates Source code 38 links 15 Hall · 23 Candidates

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250 items

ΠFS

github.com 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.3 years

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

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Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++

github.com 15 submissions · 12 people · 9.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-11 Resurfaced 2023-12-20

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V Programming Language

vlang.io 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 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 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 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 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.6 years

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

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Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

github.com 27 submissions · 26 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-02 Resurfaced 2024-07-04

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Tufte CSS

edwardtufte.github.io 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 8 submissions · 7 people · 11.3 years

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

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OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall

github.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2024-08-10

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MicroPython

micropython.org 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 11 submissions · 11 people · 6.5 years

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

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Recently resurfaced in software & code

latest 20+ point return

ΠFS

github.com 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 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 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 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 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.6 years

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

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Candidates

Browse 442 candidates

Jq – A Command-line JSON processor

stedolan.github.io 18 submissions · 16 people · 7.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-04-27