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Nov 8, 2026 · What developers are building

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InvestorTube

InvestorTube is a Chinese-language index of investor interviews and talks on YouTube and Bilibili, filterable by investment style, person, platform, and length. Free, no signup; independently curated, not investment advice.

DTResearch & learningDTWeb appDTWeb
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KeenPage

Browse AI prompt cards by profession across 2,054 roles; pick a job and a few options to assemble a ready-to-send prompt for any AI, with sample outputs. Free, no signup, bilingual.

DTContent creationDTWeb appDTWeb
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Hongguo Short Drama Batch Downloader

Paste a Hongguo short-drama share link to parse the full series in the cloud and batch-download episodes to a computer. Get direct episode links or a series ZIP; 1,000 episodes in ~85s, billed per downloaded episode, no client install.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appDTWeb
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Athena Reader

Athena Reader is a free EPUB/PDF reader for your own books, offering text-to-speech, notes, citation-backed AI Q&A, cross-device sync and offline reading.

DTResearch & learning
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Neat MD

Neat MD is a free, open-source VS Code Markdown editor with live and side-by-side preview, table editing, Mermaid diagrams, and KaTeX math.

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTContent creationOriginalkatex
0

Azeroth Survivors Build Calculator

Unofficial build planner for Azeroth Survivors players: combine talents, skills and gear, then share editable links or export PNGs. Core planning is free, no sign-up needed.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appOriginal游戏版
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AdsCrawl: Cloud Fingerprint Browser for AI Agents

AdsCrawl hosts AdsPower fingerprint browsers in the cloud for AI agents, with isolated environments. Developers connect via Playwright, Puppeteer, CDP, or API to operate pages and extract data without deploying browsers; site rules apply.

DTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionDTWeb
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imgcap: Compress Images to a Target File Size

imgcap compresses images to a target size (e.g. 10MB→500KB) instead of only dimensions or quality. An npm package for pure frontend auto-compression in upload components, cutting server load and manual retries, with WebP conversion.

DTContent creationDTSoftware developmentDTLibrary / SDK
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BrewPage: Free HTML/Markdown Hosting for AI Agents

BrewPage is free HTML/Markdown hosting for AI agents: one HTTP or MCP call returns an HTTPS link with no signup/API key. Supports HTML, Markdown, static sites (200 files/20 MB), files, JSON/KV, ownerToken updates/deletes, 15–30-day expiry.

LanguageTypeScriptDTContent creationDTAgent extensionOriginalai-agent
5

Setem: Native Swift macOS Menu Bar Voice Input

Setem is a Swift macOS menu-bar dictation app with low memory use. Hold or tap a shortcut to dictate, preview text in a floating window, then insert it at the cursor. Supports Doubao, WeChat, Qwen and offline models; free, MIT, macOS 15+.

LanguageSwiftDTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
10

From microGPT to Tang Poetry GPT: A Chinese Hands-On Course

Chinese hands-on course from microGPT to Tang Poetry GPT: PyTorch trains on Tang Poems JSON, compares a frequency baseline, generates five-/seven-character drafts, and tests Li Bai style. Free/unofficial; lessons, code, data, weights, logs.

LanguagePythonDTResearch & learningDTContent / resourceDTBrowser
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VideoSeek: Offline Desktop Search for Local Video Footage

Offline desktop tool for searching local video footage by description, tags, screenshot, or line, returning second-accurate clip locations. Indexing and search run on-device, with edit-draft export and newly added local image search.

LanguagePythonDTContent creationDTDesktop appOriginalai-video
112

anthropics / claude-quickstarts

A collection of projects designed to help developers quickly get started with building deployable applications using the Claude API

LanguagePythonDTSoftware developmentDTContent / resource
19.3K

auto-novel / auto-novel

auto-novel is a light novel machine-translation website that translates web novels, bunko novels, and local novels for reading.

LanguageTypeScriptDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appOriginalchatgpt
1.3K

nilaoda / N_m3u8DL-RE

N_m3u8DL-RE is a cross-platform stream downloader for MPD, M3U8, and ISM manifests, with English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese support.

LanguageC#DTContent creationDTCLIOriginaldash
9K

d2l-ai / d2l-zh

Dive into Deep Learning is a runnable, discussable deep learning textbook for Chinese readers; its Chinese and English editions are used for teaching at over 500 universities in more than 70 countries.

LanguagePythonDTResearch & learningDTContent / resourceOriginalbook
82.4K

zhayujie / CowAgent

Open-source personal AI assistant & Agent Harness. Plans tasks, runs tools and skills, self-evolves with memory and knowledge. Multi-agent, multi-model, multi-channel. Lightweight, extensible, one-line install.

LanguagePythonDTSoftware developmentDTAgent runtimeOriginalai
47.8K

ScottSloan / Bili23-Downloader

An open-source, free, cross-platform Bilibili video downloader with multi-threaded acceleration, separate audio/video streams, danmaku and metadata retrieval, plus custom naming and categorization.

LanguagePythonDTLifestyle & entertainmentOriginalbili23Originalbilibili
8.9K

RayWangQvQ / BiliBiliToolPro

A Bilibili automation tool for scheduled tasks, supporting Docker, Qinglong, and Kubernetes deployments, with AI features.

LanguageC#DTLifestyle & entertainmentOriginalbilibiliOriginalblazor
9.2K

NotchIsland

NotchIsland turns the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island: a true-black surface that grows out of the notch when something is live (Now Playing, timers, AirPods battery, downloads, notifications) and disappears when nothing is.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
84

Agent Clan

Agent Clan puts your Claude Code and Codex agents on your screen as a 3D team you run with your hands. Make a fist and they appear. Pinch and pull toward one to pick it, then just say what you need.

DTSoftware developmentDTAgent orchestrationDTAgent observability
85

Zigzag Browser

A native Mac browser for people leaving Arc, with the sidebar and spaces you're used to. Built on WebKit, not Chromium, and that's the point: the whole app is 18 MB (Arc is 871). Switching takes a minute.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
91

NoMac

Give Claude Code, Codex or Cursor its own Mac in the cloud: Xcode on Apple silicon, ready in about 30 seconds. Your agent builds your iOS app, runs it on an iPhone Simulator you can watch live, and ships it to TestFlight and the App Store.

DTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionDTAgent runtime
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Deduplication

Bug used to mean an insect. Mouse, an animal. Token, a coin. Tech keeps borrowing words, and deduplication.tech measures which meaning is winning. 719 duplicated terms across 14 fields (AI, crypto, gaming, cloud and more).

DTResearch & learningDTWeb appDTContent / resource
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AXL

Capture leads, close sales & onboard customers in one system: pages, quizzes, webinars, courses, video hosting & streaming, email, chat, CRM, telephony & AI calls. No integrations to build & maintain.

DTBusiness & growthDTAgent extensionDTWeb app
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Sage2 by Levanto Labs

Sage2 gives developers APIs to extract structured data from natural language and make streaming decisions as conversations evolve.

DTSoftware developmentDTLibrary / SDK
159

Memorias

Memorias turns spoken life stories into a finished memoir book. You just talk: an AI biographer asks warm follow-up questions, session by session.

DTContent creationDTVertical agentDTWeb app
75

NotchX

NotchX turns your MacBook's camera notch into a live hub: what's playing, messages from Slack, Teams and Messages, calls you can answer or decline, your next meeting and the weather. Everything stays on your Mac. 14-day free trial, then $9.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
74

Textly

Stop retyping text and rebuilding tables. Textly lets you instantly capture text from anywhere on your Mac — even when you can't select or copy it.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
81

Archie

Archie — a small Mac app that keeps in your notch, ready to edit and drag wherever you need them.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
104

Frameboy by World Labs

Frameboy is a real-time browser of World Labs' Atlas world model. Move the camera through curated scenes as new views are generated on cloud GPUs and streamed to your browser at up to 15 fps.

DTContent creationDTWeb appDTWeb
78

outages.live

Check whether a provider is down before debugging your code. outages.live brings official status pages for cloud, AI, payments, and developer tools into one feed, refreshed every few minutes.

DTData & operationsDTAgent extensionDTWeb app
95

Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller

I built Coldframe, a honeypot that pretends to be a supermarket refrigeration controller. Inspired by the events on industrial fridge installations in the past weeks, I wanted to see what people would try against a convincing fake.

LanguagePythonDTSecurity & testingDTLinuxOriginalhoneypot
56

Where Were We

A little web game I made as an anniversary present for my wife. Upload vacation photos and make them into a game. WWW uses EXIF to determine where and when the photo was taken. This is then turned into a game you can send to anyone.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appDTWeb
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LLM weight editing tool made by a 15-year-old

Laplace's Scissors: protected readout rotations for open LLMs. Diagnose weak output directions, repair answers, preserve successful generations, and analyze scaling deviations with Rust and Triton on CUDA/HIP.

LanguageRustDTResearch & learningDTLibrary / SDKOriginalcuda
25

We made a new theme to increase engagement on our website

Backstory: We run an old-internet-style website called ZenMemes. Recently, end-user testing has shown that many users find this site disorienting, because there is no cookie banner, and at no point are you told the experience is better in…

DTBusiness & growthDTContent / resourceDTWeb
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I'm 15 and my personal website looks like iMessage

Hi HN! I'm Adi, I'm 15, and I live in Arizona. I made this website: https://apanda.dev/ . I'm looking for feedback on how to make it better. Harsh feedback welcome :)

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appDTWeb
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No more code reviews. Fuzz instead

Hi HN, I'm Stephan. I'm an ex-CTO and many companies I look in today, want to get AI coded apps into production, but engineering code reviews are the new bottleneck - and engineers don't even love to do them.

DTSecurity & testingDTSoftware development
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Live songbook for guitarists

Heey everyone, It's probably not the best place to show a tool for offline parties with a guitar, but I still wanna try :D My brain and fingers produced something great in the last few months and it's called Kantamigo.

DTLifestyle & entertainment
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Jacq, a DSL that compiles model and kernel descriptions to CUDA

I was working (with agents) on testing out various attention algorithm ideas I had, and I found that the existing infrastructure/libraries made it more difficult than it should be. So I created Jacq, a DSL and compiler.

LanguageCudaDTSoftware developmentDTCLIDTLibrary / SDK
5

Kindle Clippings & Notes Manager

A browser-only Kindle clippings manager that stores data locally, lets users edit or delete titles and highlights, export notes as Markdown, back up/restore JSON, preserve prior edits on re-upload, and pin books or star highlights.

DTResearch & learningDTWeb appDTWeb
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Interactive Timeline of 32 Chinese Cities' History

A draggable historical timeline for 32 Chinese cities: scrub or play from ancient times to today, with a national territory map shifting by dynasty, a city map whose boundaries and old waterways change by year, and events for each period.

DTResearch & learningDTWeb appDTWeb
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