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The top 10 hacker news posts measured by RiseFinder over the 7d window ending Week 38 · 16 September 2026.

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Weekly
Window
7d
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10
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Week 38 · 16 September 2026
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10 entries
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scaleninja/drivesync

A command line client for synchronising Google Drive files and folders at high speed. It is designed for people who need repeatable scripted transfers and directory synchronisation without using the graphical Drive desktop application.

Hacker News posts

Open source ↗
+41.2%
17 → 24 points
02

copperhead.sh

An open source engineering agent that turns a natural language hardware request into a printed circuit board design. It is built to produce the design, documentation and validation together, bringing an agent style workflow to practical electronics work.

Hacker News posts

Open source ↗
+13.6%
220 → 250 points
03

logimaxx/wg-admin

A web based management interface for a WireGuard VPN server that is already running, letting an administrator view and manage peers, generate client configs and QR codes, rotate keys, and watch live connection status through a password protected browser UI, without replacing or altering the underlying WireGuard configuration itself.

Hacker News posts

Open source ↗
+9.4%
32 → 35 points
04

myhomecat.com

An app called HomeCat for planning home renovation projects, letting users save and browse concepts shared by other people planning similar projects, aimed at the early, idea gathering stage of a renovation rather than execution.

Hacker News posts

Open source ↗
+7.7%
39 → 42 points
05

jigsawhaiku.com

Jigsaw Haiku is a daily browser puzzle from The Daily Baffle. Players drag and arrange fragments to form a haiku, then reveal a related watercolor illustration before a new puzzle replaces it the following day.

Hacker News posts

Open source ↗
+7.3%
110 → 118 points
06

Sadpainy/Stuxnet

A reproduction of the Stuxnet malware, published by its author strictly for research and educational purposes and stated to only run on Windows XP and Windows 7, both long out of support.

Hacker News posts · 2 sources · also in GitHub

Open source ↗
+6.6%
167 → 178 points
07

ptree.org

A comparative tool for exploring the tree of life across eleven separate scientific classifications at once, letting a visitor compare ancestry, physical traits, fossils, habitats and the sources behind each claim side by side.

Hacker News posts

Open source ↗
+6.5%
107 → 114 points
08

timgordontg/engrim

A local first, project scoped SQLite memory engine intended as a universal, cross model standard for episodic memory, built to work across Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and Codex without locking a project's memory into any one vendor's cloud.

Hacker News posts

Open source ↗
+2.2%
90 → 92 points
09

gioblu/NPC-Forge

A framework for conversational game characters that run on a CPU without a machine learning model behind them.

Hacker News posts

Open source ↗
+1.8%
221 → 225 points
This dated edition is generated from the reviewed RiseFinder export. Movement figures retain their original source, period and direction.
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