Top Tools from Jun 16–22, 2026

  1. MIT Rust version control system from Epic Games — centralized, content-addressed, and built for repositories that combine source code with large binary assets. Repository state modeled as Merkle trees plus an immutable revision chain, with on-demand hydration, sparse workspaces and chunked dedup for big files. 5.5k stars in its first month on GitHub
    Hacker News discussion Developer Tool 1268 pts
  2. Hosted Hacker News-style aggregator for independent personal blogs — currently surfacing posts from over 5,000 small-web sites across Tech, Life, Gaming, Culture and Writing. Human curation plus voting, RSS feed and Fediverse output, daily and weekly briefings, no algorithmic ranking
    Hacker News discussion Aggregator 628 pts
  3. GPL-2 browser port of Quake (1996) by LayoutitStudio, rendered with their PolyCSS 3D engine instead of WebGL. Single-player and multiplayer modes, level selection, configurable controls and audio, runs in any modern browser
    Hacker News discussion Game 536 pts
  4. MIT iOS app from Mysk that surfaces what native iPhone apps can actually see about you — installed apps, device fingerprinting signals, contact and clipboard access. Written in Swift, App Store release plus self-build, 1.1k stars in two weeks
    Hacker News discussion Privacy 524 pts
  5. Free hosted vocabulary game by HN user abnry — walks you through about 170,000 English words ranked by frequency, asking which ones you recognise. Cloud Run-deployed, no signup, returns an estimated vocabulary size at the end
    Hacker News discussion Education 494 pts
  6. Hosted novelty site that queries many frontier and small LLMs in parallel for your name, clusters the responses and reports how strongly each model recognises you. Built in a few weeks by turtlesoup and a design partner as an "off-web traffic" probe
    Show HN discussion AI 463 pts
  7. Strivemath is now hosting the just-open-sourced trinket.io (CC0, repo `trinketapp/trinket-oss`) for free at trinket.strivemath.org after the original service shut down. In-browser Python, HTML/CSS/JS and block-based code editor used widely in classrooms
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Education 284 pts
  8. Apache-2.0 Go self-hosted file sharing on top of any S3-compatible backend, positioned against WeTransfer, Dropbox and Palmr. v0.6.0 adds in-UI preview for images / video / text, bulk download, and LDAP as an auth provider. 625 stars
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Self-Hosted 278 pts
  9. AGPL-3 open-source Discord-style chat platform — TypeScript / Erlang / Rust polyglot codebase with VoIP, screen sharing, and a Flutter mobile client. This week ships full self-hosting support (pre-built Docker images, operator docs) and brings all internal development back to public repos. 9.3k stars
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Communication 217 pts
  10. AGPL-3 Go tool by overflowy that takes a clean PDF and renders it to look scanned — adds rotation jitter, JPEG artefacts, paper texture and shadows. Ships as a CLI plus a fully client-side browser version compiled to WebAssembly. 279 stars
    Show HN discussion Utility 147 pts
  11. Closed-source YC-backed team email app that "splits" your inbox into Primary / VIP / Needs Reply, drafts replies in your voice and schedules follow-ups. Free tier with 5 seats and 3 follow-ups per week, Pro at $20/seat/month and Max at $60/seat/month (both billed yearly). Took the top spot on Product Hunt's weekly leaderboard
    Product Hunt discussion Productivity 821 pts
  12. Closed-source Mac and Windows desktop app from Goldfish AI Inc. — press the Option key anywhere you're typing and it drafts a reply using a tone profile of your past writing. Free during alpha. Took second place on Product Hunt's weekly leaderboard
    Product Hunt discussion Productivity 812 pts