Show HN Daily Selection (2025-10-26)
- Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
- Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes
- Random Makers – Show HN and Product Hunt, but Faster and Not Corporate
- Status of my favorite bike share stations
- LeafTok – Applied TikTok's Swipe UX to ePub/PDF Reading
- Circalify – 10KB circular timeline library for annual planning
- I created a small 2D game about an ant
- Centia.io – Open PostgreSQL/PostGIS back end for developers
- I made an anagram word game for mobile in C++ and Go
- Chonky – a neural text semantic chunking goes multilingual
Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations [Design]
88 points, 19 comments
A diagram-as-code tool combining declarative generation with draggable customizations for architecture diagrams.
- Integrates declarative diagram generation (like Mermaid.js) with interactive editing (like Lucidchart)
- Supports AI-generated first drafts using Mermaid syntax
- Enables user customization for presentations and deliverables
- Early-stage project seeking feedback and feature requests
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Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes [Design]
61 points, 19 comments
A web app for creating and sharing themes for shadcn/ui with live preview and export options.
- Built with Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS 4, Drizzle ORM, and Supabase
- Visually design shadcn color themes with live previews
- Export themes as CSS or via shadcn CLI registry command
- Open-source with GitHub repository available
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Random Makers – Show HN and Product Hunt, but Faster and Not Corporate [Inspiration]
10 points, 1 comments
Random Makers is a faster, less corporate alternative to Show HN and Product Hunt.
- Focuses on showcasing indie projects
- Designed for speed and simplicity
- Avoids corporate-style content
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Status of my favorite bike share stations [Life Assistant]
10 points, 4 comments
One-sentence summary: A tool to check the status of favorite bike share stations.
- Monitors bike availability at preferred stations
- Provides real-time updates on bike share status
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LeafTok – Applied TikTok's Swipe UX to ePub/PDF Reading [Productivity]
3 points, 1 comments
Applied TikTok's swipe UX to ePub/PDF reading.
- Swipe-based navigation for ePub/PDF files
- Mimics TikTok's intuitive swipe interface
- Enhances reading experience with familiar gestures
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Circalify – 10KB circular timeline library for annual planning [Developer Tools]
3 points, 0 comments
Circalify is a lightweight circular timeline library for visualizing cyclical data like annual plans and seasonal patterns.
- Pure vanilla JS with zero dependencies
- Only 10KB gzipped
- Handles multi-scale time (quarters/months/weeks/days) in concentric rings
- Proper year-boundary handling
- MIT licensed core library
- Premium templates planned for sustainability
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I created a small 2D game about an ant [Entertainment]
3 points, 2 comments
A short 2D game where you play as an ant collecting apples in a randomly generated landscape.
- Features random landscape generation with clouds and trees
- Trees are constrained in vertical growth
- Simple, fun gameplay focused on feeding the ant apples
- Developed in just a few days as a personal project
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Centia.io – Open PostgreSQL/PostGIS back end for developers [Developer Tools]
3 points, 0 comments
Open-source PostgreSQL/PostGIS backend service with instant APIs and real-time updates.
- Developer-friendly BaaS (Backend as a Service)
- Built on PostgreSQL and PostGIS
- Provides instant APIs
- Supports real-time updates
- Self-hostable via Docker image
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I made an anagram word game for mobile in C++ and Go [Entertainment]
3 points, 1 comments
A mobile anagram word game built with C++ (client) and Go (server), featuring multiplayer functionality and Firebase Auth.
- Client built in C++ using Axmol engine
- Server built in Go with HTTP/WebSocket communication
- Hosted on AWS EC2 with nginx, PostgreSQL, and Laravel admin
- Uses Firebase Auth for authentication
- CI/CD via GitHub Actions for automated builds and deployments
- Multi-container Docker setup on a single instance
- Personal passion project with a $30/month cloud cost
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Chonky – a neural text semantic chunking goes multilingual [Text]
9 points, 0 comments
Chonky introduces a multilingual neural text semantic chunking model based on mmBERT, expanding its capabilities beyond English.
- Multilingual support, fine-tuned on datasets including Project Gutenberg for widespread languages
- Robust training with punctuation removal for real-world data adaptation
- Evaluation on diverse datasets like bookcorpus, Paul Graham essays, and newsgroups
- Available as a Hugging Face model and open-source wrapper library