The top 10 hacker news posts measured by RiseFinder over the 30d window ending October 2026.
consti.de is the personal blog of Consti, a Germany-born writer based in Bangkok, containing notes, projects, and essays on topics such as classical music, philosophy, art, psychology, and school subjects relearned in German. The site is built as static HTML generated from a SQLite database whenever something changes, and it includes an about page, a guestbook, and a feed.
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Open source ↗mcdview.dev is a web tool that turns database model files into interactive, single-page data model diagrams. Users drop or paste files in formats such as SQL, pgModeler, Prisma, MySQL Workbench, DBML, and Mermaid, and receive a diagram shareable through a link, with ephemeral links deleted after 7 days and stable links regenerated on each build via an API. The site also offers example diagrams and tools for comparing schema versions.
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Open source ↗Pants for Birds is a website that sells open-source ADS-B receiver hardware under the ADSBee product family, including the ADSBee 1090U receiver, PCB antennas, and cables, through an online store built with WooCommerce. The site also publishes a blog with project updates on its hardware products, such as the ADSBee 1090 project and the ADSBee Winglet Kickstarter.
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Open source ↗Corporate Mind Games is a website offering satirical office-themed puzzle games such as Plan The Roadmap, Modernize The Org Chart, Prep Office For RTO, and Finish The Presentation. Each game has one puzzle per day as a free daily challenge, and no account is required to play. Puzzles are drag-and-drop tasks, such as placing tickets into quarterly columns to meet point targets, staffing an org chart with human and AI employees, and timing slide advances during a mock presentation.
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Open source ↗Floe is a free, open-source audio plugin for digital audio workstations, available as a CLAP, VST3, or AU plugin for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It plays back Floe-format sample libraries and lets users transform sounds through sample-based synthesis features such as layering, looping, granular controls, and built-in effects. It includes a unified browser with search and tags, and developers can use its open tools to build sample libraries for the platform.
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Open source ↗SlideOps is a pair of Agent Skills for Claude Code and compatible coding agents that generates slide decks and Markdown documentation from a repository's code. It scans the repo, asks about topic, audience, length and theme, then produces an outline and self-contained HTML decks or GitHub-renderable Markdown files. A freshness-checking script sweeps the generated files and reports which slides cite code that has changed, moved or vanished, so only the drifted sections are rebuilt.
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Open source ↗Hillock is a local, gradient-free memory engine for AI applications that combines Hyperdimensional Computing, Hebbian plasticity, and a SQLite knowledge graph. It ingests documents, extracts facts into graph triples, and mathematically blocks questions it cannot answer before they reach a language model. It can be used through an OpenAI-compatible API server, a terminal console, or as a Python library, and is designed to run on edge hardware in under 1.2 GB of VRAM.
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Open source ↗wilsonharper.net is the personal website of Wilson Harper, an electrical engineering student at Rice University who serves as Mission Control lead for the Rice Eclipse liquid rocket engine program and previously interned at RTX BBN Technologies. The site presents his background along with sections for his resume and projects, which include rocketry telemetry systems, an NFC-powered business card, and a UAV designed for GPS-denied environments.
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Open source ↗SubSmith is a desktop application for immersive language learning that works with local video and audio files. It generates synced transcripts for files such as MKV, MP4, and MP3, lets learners hover over any word for instant definitions, and exports audio clips, screenshots, and definitions to Anki as flashcards. It supports 99+ languages and runs locally, using Whisper-powered speech recognition rather than a browser extension.
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Open source ↗Magic Patterns is an AI design tool for product teams that turns text prompts into user interface prototypes. Users enter a prompt, product requirement, or feature idea and the tool generates high-fidelity UI. It can incorporate a team's existing screenshots, components, styles, and design-system rules so generated designs match established visual language, and it supports editing, sharing, and live collaboration on designs.
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