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44,263 repositories ranked by 385,053 links in HN stories and comments since 2008.

44,263 repos · all time · by HN mentions

  1. 11001
    kaloz/mwlwifi C ★ 401

    mac80211 driver for the Marvell 88W8864 802.11ac chip

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  2. 11002
    WICG/first-party-sets Bikeshed ★ 401 archived
    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  3. 11003
    cldwalker/ripl Ruby ★ 399

    ruby interactive print loop - A light, modular alternative to irb

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  4. 11004
    osteele/gojekyll Go ★ 393

    A fast Go implementation of the Jekyll blogging engine

    8 mentions · 2 stories · 6 comments
  5. 11005
    rzimmerman/kal JavaScript ★ 392

    A powerful, easy-to-use, and easy-to-read programming language for the future.

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  6. 11006
    PaulBernier/castl JavaScript ★ 379

    JavaScript to Lua compiler with runtime library.

    8 mentions · 5 stories · 3 comments
  7. 11007
    samwho/visualisations TypeScript ★ 378

    Code behind my visualisation blog posts

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  8. 11008
    arduano/simdeez Rust ★ 377

    easy simd

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  9. 11009

    Double Ratchet Algorithm

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  10. 11010
    rkk3/ad-accelerator JavaScript ★ 376
    8 mentions · 2 stories · 6 comments
  11. 11011
    tc39/proposal-ecmascript-sharedmem HTML ★ 376 archived

    Shared memory and atomics for ECMAscript

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  12. 11012
    mosuka/phalanx Go ★ 375

    Phalanx is a cloud-native distributed search engine that provides endpoints through gRPC and traditional RESTful API.

    8 mentions · 3 stories · 5 comments
  13. 11013
    mozilla/translations C++ ★ 373

    The code, training pipeline, and models that power Firefox Translations

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  14. 11014
    lovasoa/bad_json_parsers Python ★ 372

    Exposing problems in json parsers of several programming languages.

    8 mentions · 2 stories · 6 comments
  15. 11015

    About the book "Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read," which is all about writing more compelling engineering blog posts. By Piotr Sarna & Cynthia Dunlop.

    8 mentions · 3 stories · 5 comments
  16. 11016
    susam/mathb Common Lisp ★ 370

    Mathematics pastebin software that powered MathB.in from 2012 to 2025

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  17. 11017
    jcoglan/heist Ruby ★ 367

    Scheme in as little Ruby and as much Scheme as possible. Supports macros, continuations, tail recursion and lazy evaluation.

    8 mentions · 2 stories · 6 comments
  18. 11018
    pcarrier/gauth Go ★ 367

    Google Authenticator in your terminal

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  19. 11019
    kg/ilwasm C# ★ 364

    CIL to WebAssembly compiler

    8 mentions · 2 stories · 6 comments
  20. 11020
    samchon/ttsc TypeScript ★ 364

    A typescript-go toolchain, with evidence graph

    8 mentions · 7 stories · 1 comment
  21. 11021
    Agoric/SES ★ 362

    MOVED to @agoric/ses-shim. SES (Secure EcmaScript) is a secure runtime for running third-party code safely

    8 mentions · 2 stories · 6 comments
  22. 11022
    dictation-toolbox/Caster Python ★ 361

    Dragonfly-Based Voice Programming and Accessibility Toolkit

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  23. 11023
    ehn-dcc-development/eu-dcc-hcert-spec Makefile ★ 361 archived

    Electronic Health Certificates Specification

    8 mentions · 2 stories · 6 comments
  24. 11024
    8 mentions · 3 stories · 5 comments
  25. 11025
    Raku/nqp Raku ★ 357

    NQP

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  26. 11026
    beakerbrowser/fritter JavaScript ★ 356 archived

    A peer-to-peer social feed app. (proof of concept)

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  27. 11027
    19-84/redd-archiver Python ★ 351

    A PostgreSQL-backed archive generator that creates browsable HTML archives from link aggregator platforms including Reddit, Voat, and Ruqqus.

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  28. 11028

    Check that expression switches and type switches in Go source code are exhaustive.

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  29. 11029
    unskript/Awesome-CloudOps-Automation Jupyter Notebook ★ 350

    Cloud-ops automation runbooks that are ready to use. Build your own automations using the hundreds of drag and drop actions included in the repository. Built on Jupyter Notebooks, our automation platform jumpstarts your SRE RunBook creation. 😎 published by the unSkript community.

    8 mentions · 3 stories · 5 comments
  30. 11030
    cosmos72/schemesh Scheme ★ 349

    A Unix shell and Lisp REPL, fused together

    8 mentions · 3 stories · 5 comments
  31. 11031
    JuliaGPU/AMDGPU.jl Julia ★ 348

    AMD GPU (ROCm) programming in Julia

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  32. 11032
    cheeaun/node-hnapi JavaScript ★ 347

    Unofficial Hacker News API

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  33. 11033
    pantoniou/libfyaml C ★ 347

    Fully feature complete YAML parser and emitter, supporting the latest YAML spec and passing the full YAML testsuite.

    8 mentions · 4 stories · 4 comments
  34. 11034

    AnderShell 3000 - Retro looking terminal in CSS

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  35. 11035
    jiminoc/goose Scala ★ 341

    Html Content / Article Extractor in Scala - open sourced from Gravity Labs - http://gravity.com

    8 mentions · 4 stories · 4 comments
  36. 11036

    National Novel Generation Month, 2015 edition.

    8 mentions · 5 stories · 3 comments
  37. 11037
    acaloiaro/neoq Go ★ 339

    Queue-agnostic background job library for Go, with a pleasant API and powerful features.

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  38. 11038
    sergev/LiteBSD C ★ 339

    Variant of 4.4BSD Unix for microcontrollers

    8 mentions · 3 stories · 5 comments
  39. 11039
    gcv/appengine-magic Clojure ★ 338

    A library designed to make it easy to use Google App Engine from Clojure

    8 mentions · 2 stories · 6 comments
  40. 11040
    agl/critbit C ★ 336

    Critbit trees in C

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  41. 11041
    axolotl-chat/axolotl Rust ★ 336 archived

    A Signal compatible cross plattform client written in Go, Rust and Vuejs

    8 mentions · 0 stories · 8 comments
  42. 11042
    kataw/kataw TypeScript ★ 336

    An 100% spec compliant ES2022 JavaScript toolchain

    8 mentions · 7 stories · 1 comment
  43. 11043
    WhiteHouse/fortyfour CSS ★ 330 archived

    7.x base theme for White House sites

    8 mentions · 4 stories · 4 comments
  44. 11044
    wolfgangj/bone-lisp C ★ 329 archived

    The Bone Lisp programming language

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  45. 11045
    reMarkable/linux C ★ 324

    Linux kernel for reMarkable 1 & 2. zero-sugar is rM2 and zero-gravitas is rM1.

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  46. 11046
    pirapira/bamboo OCaml ★ 323

    Bamboo see https://github.com/cornellblockchain/bamboo

    8 mentions · 2 stories · 6 comments
  47. 11047

    A digital twin of the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka, implemented in Cities: Skylines, based on real data. Nearly 1:1 in terms of geography and population.

    8 mentions · 1 story · 7 comments
  48. 11048
    WICG/isolated-web-apps Bikeshed ★ 323

    Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal.

    8 mentions · 4 stories · 4 comments
  49. 11049
    racket/zuo C ★ 321

    A tiny Racket for scripting

    8 mentions · 3 stories · 5 comments
  50. 11050

    Strange Loop 2013

    8 mentions · 5 stories · 3 comments