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The Hacker News lane where people post things they built themselves: odd side projects, tiny tools and a frank comment thread under each one.
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Show HN sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. Show HN is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Show HN without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Show HN as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
One button, escalating nonsense, and no way onward except pressing it again. Works on a phone, which is the danger.
One button, one random pointless website, no explanation offered or needed. The site that turned this whole genre into a genre.
A collection of single-purpose online tools for web makers, from favicon makers to CSS generators, sorted by topic and searchable in one box.
A daily five-minute roundup of tech, science and programming news, with every issue also readable on the website.
Doom compiled to WebAssembly and running at full speed in a tab, which is either nostalgia or a small engineering miracle.
Forty logic puzzles on one page, each generated fresh and each solvable by pure reasoning. The interface is ancient and it does not matter.
Enter any two articles and get every shortest path of links between them, drawn as a graph you can drag.
An infinite canvas for rough diagrams and flows. Opens instantly with nothing to configure and no file to save first.
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