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The 2026-06-27 Talent Show

1. Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board

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2. Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres

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3. Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

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4. Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram

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5. Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification

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6. Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter

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7. Show HN: Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB

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8. Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

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9. Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice

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10. Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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11. Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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12. Show HN: I Derived a Steak

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13. Show HN: Mantis, A self-hosted LLM gateway

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14. Show HN: Wordit – Change One Letter, Keep the Chain Going

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15. Show HN: Jargo – a Golang port of Pipecat for conversational-AI apps

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16. Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

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17. Show HN: Closing the public-key authenticity gap in our E2EE social network

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18. Show HN: Nimic – Pure Python as a systems language with AOT compilation

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19. Show HN: AgentBrush – Your coding agent's missing tool: image generation

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20. Show HN: I built a hardware quantum RNG and wired it into a Magic 8-Ball

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21. Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser

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22. Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt

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23. Show HN: A map of every UK railway, including stations that no longer exist

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24. Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on

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25. Show HN: TBD, a Mac-native CLI-forward coding agent multiplexer

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26. Show HN: Puzzle with Strangers. A free multiplayer jigsaw

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27. Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

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28. Show HN: `uvx ptn` and expose any system to agents (dangerously)

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29. Show HN: Motif Atlas – recurring patterns behind complex systems

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30. Show HN: ZeroGate – API gateway to scale cloud GPUs to zero when idle

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