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| Rank | Website | Votes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawlerzoo.comNot in Live
A live zoo of the bots and crawlers visiting one website, with a trap for the ones that ignore robots.txt r/InternetIsBeautiful |
3,858 | r/InternetIsBeautiful |
| 2 | alistair-roberts.co.ukNot in Live
I used Claude to make 106 almost all black OLED wallpapers, plotting the graphics from real scientific data and code. No image generation. Hope you like them! r/ClaudeAI |
2,231 | r/ClaudeAI |
| 3 | floor796.comNot in Live
An endless, zoomable pixel animation of a space station floor that one artist has been expanding every weekend since 2022 r/InternetIsBeautiful |
1,714 | r/InternetIsBeautiful |
| 4 |
hey opus 5.5 can you build me a 24/7 live streaming new network r/ClaudeAI |
1,677 | r/ClaudeAI |
| 5 | rzekulec.plNot in Live
A quiet room at the bottom of the ocean, made to be left open on your second monitor r/InternetIsBeautiful |
888 | r/InternetIsBeautiful |
| 6 |
Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard Hacker News |
862 | Hacker News |
| 7 | expeditione.funNot in Live
I spent 1,000+ hours building an interactive 3D reconstruction of Ancient Egypt for the web. Entire scenes are ~1–2MB, no ads, no logins. r/SideProject |
749 | r/SideProject |
| 8 |
I made a 3D globe where you can drag a slider to drain the oceans or flood the whole planet r/InternetIsBeautiful |
740 | r/InternetIsBeautiful |
| 9 |
What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? Hacker News |
633 | Hacker News |
| 10 |
Opus 5.5 can one-shot a video, so I pushed it a little bit further: a Skill that turns PDF into an animated, interactive web book r/ClaudeAI |
604 | r/ClaudeAI |
| 11 |
I got tired of checking safe area insets in Simulator every time a new iPhone came out, so I built a website r/SideProject |
426 | r/SideProject |
| 12 | space.bl2.netNot in Live
Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites Hacker News |
407 | Hacker News |
| 13 | arnegiacomo.devNot in Live
My bird-related hobby project became the #1 Hacker News post this month, and now I'm being flown to China to showcase it r/SideProject |
401 | r/SideProject |
| 14 |
Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas Hacker News |
387 | Hacker News |
| 15 |
I built a website that doesn't need a server r/SideProject |
355 | r/SideProject |
| 16 | vester.siNot in Live
Bodily Oddities Hacker News |
341 | Hacker News |
| 17 |
Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi Hacker News |
320 | Hacker News |
| 18 |
Every Pho Number r/InternetIsBeautiful |
291 | r/InternetIsBeautiful |
| 19 |
Jev Plays Pokémon Red Hacker News |
282 | Hacker News |
| 20 |
Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash Hacker News |
236 | Hacker News |
| 21 |
Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash Hacker News |
232 | Hacker News |
| 22 | koi.restNot in Live
Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance Hacker News |
228 | Hacker News |
| 23 |
HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts Hacker News |
225 | Hacker News |
| 24 |
Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device Hacker News |
210 | Hacker News |
| 25 |
Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model Hacker News |
186 | Hacker News |
| 26 |
Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme Hacker News |
166 | Hacker News |
| 27 |
I designed an interactive website all about sex (based on peer reviewed research) r/SideProject |
161 | r/SideProject |
| 28 |
JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models Hacker News |
154 | Hacker News |
| 29 | ptree.orgNot in Live
Interactive tree of life explorer r/InternetIsBeautiful |
138 | r/InternetIsBeautiful |
| 30 |
Pelican-bicycle alternatives Hacker News |
133 | Hacker News |
| 31 | projecthub.arduino.ccNot in Live
JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot Hacker News |
133 | Hacker News |
| 32 |
Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy Hacker News |
132 | Hacker News |
| 33 |
Solar system sim, built for physical accuracy. r/InternetIsBeautiful |
117 | r/InternetIsBeautiful |
| 34 |
A working 3D model of an Enigma machine Hacker News |
117 | Hacker News |
| 35 | tinybrains.devNot in Live
A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games Hacker News |
116 | Hacker News |
| 36 |
I spent 5 weeks building my portfolio with lots of hand-drawn illustrations and whimsical interactions r/SideProject |
94 | r/SideProject |
| 37 |
Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about Hacker News |
88 | Hacker News |
| 38 | stale.jock.plNot in Live
How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models Hacker News |
85 | Hacker News |
| 39 |
My 9yo nephew loves learning about ancient history, so I built him an interactive global atlas of 100+ ancient civilizations. His name is Roman, so I call it... RomanCivilizations.com :) r/SideProject |
84 | r/SideProject |
| 40 |
Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? Hacker News |
80 | Hacker News |
| 41 | 3d-retro.comNot in Live
A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page Hacker News |
75 | Hacker News |
| 42 | lastonephoto.comNot in Live
I made a website where the entire world shares one photo. r/SideProject |
62 | r/SideProject |
| 43 |
Nobody asked for this, but this is what a side project looks like in 2026 r/SideProject |
60 | r/SideProject |
| 44 |
DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF Hacker News |
53 | Hacker News |
| 45 |
An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams Hacker News |
51 | Hacker News |
| 46 |
AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas Hacker News |
49 | Hacker News |
| 47 |
Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos Hacker News |
48 | Hacker News |
| 48 |
Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality Hacker News |
47 | Hacker News |
| 49 | liveworld.infoNot in Live
LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe Hacker News |
42 | Hacker News |
| 50 |
1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports Hacker News |
42 | Hacker News |
| 51 |
The bottom 50% of U.S. households are short after essentials (BLS data) Hacker News |
39 | Hacker News |
| 52 | numbermuseum.comNot in Live
Museum of Numbers Hacker News |
32 | Hacker News |
| 53 | kadoa.comNot in Live
A website that tracks US food prices every day Hacker News |
29 | Hacker News |
| 54 | asciicity.liveNot in Live
ASCII CITY LIVE -- watch an ASCII animated cityscape, chat with other visitors, with synthwave soundtrack r/InternetIsBeautiful |
28 | r/InternetIsBeautiful |
| 55 |
Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners Hacker News |
27 | Hacker News |
| 56 |
Stickyarchive - a permanent archive of sticky notes r/IMadeThis |
25 | r/IMadeThis |
| 57 | soundmap.darebuild.comNot in Live
See Sounds on Your Webcam Hacker News |
23 | Hacker News |
| 58 |
The last day of the dinosaurs, as an interactive painting Hacker News |
19 | Hacker News |
| 59 |
Most Penalized HN Stories Hacker News |
19 | Hacker News |
| 60 | sessioncontext.orgNot in Live
Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English Hacker News |
18 | Hacker News |
| 61 | dasp-protocol.github.ioNot in Live
Durable Actor Session Protocol Hacker News |
18 | Hacker News |
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