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The 2026-01-27 Talent Show

1. Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus

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2. Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone

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3. Show HN: Burn Text – Add animated captions to videos, runs locally in browser

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4. Show HN: A Local OS for LLMs. MIT License. Zero Hallucinations. (Not Crank)

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5. Show HN: SF Microclimates

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6. Show HN: Ourguide – OS wide task guidance system that shows you where to click

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7. Show HN: I made AI earphones remember everything (auto-sync to Obsidian)

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8. Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids

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9. Show HN: Managed Postgres with native ClickHouse integration

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10. Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications

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11. Show HN: Netfence – Like Envoy for eBPF Filters

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12. Show HN: A small programming language where everything is pass-by-value

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13. Show HN: Fence – Sandbox CLI commands with network/filesystem restrictions

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14. Show HN: XDA Forum discussion on sideloading (2009)

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15. Show HN: Hybrid Markdown Editing

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16. Show HN: Mirascope – The LLM Anti-Framework

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17. Show HN: LocalPass offline password manager. Zero cloud. Zero telemetry

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18. Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps

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19. Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue

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20. Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

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21. Show HN: C From Scratch – Learn safety-critical C with prove-first methodology

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22. Show HN: NukeCast – If it happened today, where would the fallout go

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23. Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators

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24. Show HN: LLMNet – The Offline Internet, Search the web without the web

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25. Show HN: WhyThere – Compare cities side-by-side to decide where to move

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26. Show HN: Sightline – Shodan-style search for real-world infra using OSM Data

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27. Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code

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28. Show HN: FaceTime-style calls with an AI Companion (Live2D and long-term memory)

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29. Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params)

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30. Show HN: CertRadar – Find every certificate ever issued for your domain

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