interactive simulations and creative experiments
Recent window: last 5.2 months
(2026-04-24 → 2026-09-28), compared with the prior
5.2 months.
education · 250 members ·
Data as of 2026-09-30
These products are playful simulations, physics visualizations, and unconventional games built as creative technical experiments. They are primarily explored by developers, students, science enthusiasts, and curious digital hobbyists. Unlike commercial productivity software or developer utilities, this cluster consists of passion-driven projects focused on scientific curiosity, retro computing, and interactive art.
Metrics
- Stage
- crowded
- Recent count
- 144
- Prior count
- 95
- Total count
- 250
- Momentum
- 51.58
- Attention
- 0.62
- Crowding
- 0.76
- Concentration
- 0.81
- Opportunity
- 0.36
Opportunity components
- Attention
- 0.62
- Low crowding
- 0.24
- Momentum (normalized)
- 0.38
- Low concentration
- 0.19
Source split
- github
- 12 (0.08)
- hn
- 87 (0.60)
- ph
- 42 (0.29)
- yc
- 3 (0.02)
Dominant source: hn · Divergence: 0.58
Members
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Name
|
Source
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Upvotes ▲
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Launched
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| SkiFlee (an HTML5 game) |
HN |
8 |
2026-04-02 |
| Planes.fyi |
HN |
8 |
2025-12-17 |
| MicroState |
HN |
8 |
2026-01-21 |
| Aurora-OS.js |
HN |
8 |
2026-01-02 |
| The Universe in One Chart |
HN |
8 |
2026-04-10 |
| Vibe-coded Steam, but in the browser |
HN |
8 |
2026-05-23 |
| Physics-accurate 3D assets for robotics simulations from any input |
HN |
8 |
2026-04-22 |
| We're building an open-source battery [video] |
HN |
8 |
2026-05-22 |
| Dashi |
HN |
9 |
2026-08-24 |
| Ambient CSS |
HN |
9 |
2026-02-17 |
| 15 Years of StarCraft II Balance Changes Visualized Interactively |
HN |
9 |
2026-01-10 |
| linecast |
HN |
9 |
2026-08-23 |
| Sitmap |
HN |
9 |
2026-08-20 |
| A spectrogram in the style of Unknown Pleasures album art (Rust+WebGL) |
HN |
10 |
2026-01-05 |
| Starlane |
PH |
10 |
2026-09-24 |
| Cursor Party |
HN |
10 |
2026-01-02 |
| spymux |
HN |
10 |
2025-11-14 |
| ssh sshfighter.com |
HN |
10 |
2026-08-21 |
| Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range |
HN |
10 |
2026-01-21 |
| StarAssistant |
GITHUB |
10 |
2026-09-13 |
| Pacific: Mass-producing and deploying micro data centers for Earth and Space |
YC |
10 |
2026-08-12 |
| I built Chronoscope, because Google Maps won't let you visit 3400 BCE |
HN |
11 |
2026-03-12 |
| Hedra |
HN |
11 |
2026-03-14 |
| Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit |
HN |
11 |
2026-08-12 |
| clearwater-vrc |
GITHUB |
11 |
2026-09-28 |
| Best Old School UFO Website |
HN |
11 |
2026-05-09 |
| A web based VistaPro clone |
HN |
11 |
2026-07-15 |
| An Interactive Guide for Castlevania II: Simon's Quest |
HN |
11 |
2026-07-14 |
| Astronex-World |
GITHUB |
11 |
2026-09-16 |
| SpaceMolt |
HN |
11 |
2026-02-06 |
| I built a game on my old phone without knowing what I was building |
HN |
11 |
2026-01-15 |
| farseer.space |
HN |
11 |
2026-09-15 |
| systemscheck.dev |
PH |
12 |
2026-09-10 |
| Leet Robotics: Learn robotics and ROS2 with hands-on courses |
HN |
12 |
2026-07-15 |
| Matrirc |
HN |
12 |
2026-04-26 |
| Wirespan, a daily power grid optimization puzzle I made for my son |
HN |
12 |
2026-08-25 |
| Munimet.ro |
HN |
12 |
2026-01-15 |
| A solar system simulation in the browser |
HN |
13 |
2025-12-29 |
| I simulated 1200 Iranian missiles attacking air defences in a browser |
HN |
13 |
2026-03-02 |
| Sprout, a fun-sized, developer-ready humanoid robot |
HN |
13 |
2026-01-27 |
| Tokyo Trains |
HN |
13 |
2026-08-11 |
| Doomscrolling Research Papers |
HN |
14 |
2025-12-02 |
| Submarius |
HN |
14 |
2026-06-20 |
| Equirect |
HN |
14 |
2026-04-13 |
| I'm Serving Esp32s31.fun |
HN |
14 |
2026-09-14 |
| A searchable archive of declassified UAP/UFO files, news, and analysis |
HN |
14 |
2026-06-02 |
| Clawntown |
HN |
15 |
2026-02-15 |
| Open-source version of Anthropic's internal analytics engine |
HN |
15 |
2026-06-09 |
| doom_epub |
GITHUB |
15 |
2026-09-12 |
| Curvytron 2, I rewrote my browser party game, 10 years later |
HN |
15 |
2026-06-30 |