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
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Source
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Upvotes ▼
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Launched
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| 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 |
| Submarius |
HN |
14 |
2026-06-20 |
| Doomscrolling Research Papers |
HN |
14 |
2025-12-02 |
| 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 |
| Equirect |
HN |
14 |
2026-04-13 |
| Sprout, a fun-sized, developer-ready humanoid robot |
HN |
13 |
2026-01-27 |
| I simulated 1200 Iranian missiles attacking air defences in a browser |
HN |
13 |
2026-03-02 |
| Tokyo Trains |
HN |
13 |
2026-08-11 |
| A solar system simulation in the browser |
HN |
13 |
2025-12-29 |
| Wirespan, a daily power grid optimization puzzle I made for my son |
HN |
12 |
2026-08-25 |
| Munimet.ro |
HN |
12 |
2026-01-15 |
| Matrirc |
HN |
12 |
2026-04-26 |
| Leet Robotics: Learn robotics and ROS2 with hands-on courses |
HN |
12 |
2026-07-15 |
| systemscheck.dev |
PH |
12 |
2026-09-10 |
| An Interactive Guide for Castlevania II: Simon's Quest |
HN |
11 |
2026-07-14 |
| clearwater-vrc |
GITHUB |
11 |
2026-09-28 |
| farseer.space |
HN |
11 |
2026-09-15 |
| Hedra |
HN |
11 |
2026-03-14 |
| Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit |
HN |
11 |
2026-08-12 |
| Astronex-World |
GITHUB |
11 |
2026-09-16 |
| I built Chronoscope, because Google Maps won't let you visit 3400 BCE |
HN |
11 |
2026-03-12 |
| A web based VistaPro clone |
HN |
11 |
2026-07-15 |
| I built a game on my old phone without knowing what I was building |
HN |
11 |
2026-01-15 |
| Best Old School UFO Website |
HN |
11 |
2026-05-09 |
| SpaceMolt |
HN |
11 |
2026-02-06 |
| Cursor Party |
HN |
10 |
2026-01-02 |
| A spectrogram in the style of Unknown Pleasures album art (Rust+WebGL) |
HN |
10 |
2026-01-05 |
| ssh sshfighter.com |
HN |
10 |
2026-08-21 |
| StarAssistant |
GITHUB |
10 |
2026-09-13 |
| Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range |
HN |
10 |
2026-01-21 |
| Starlane |
PH |
10 |
2026-09-24 |
| Pacific: Mass-producing and deploying micro data centers for Earth and Space |
YC |
10 |
2026-08-12 |
| spymux |
HN |
10 |
2025-11-14 |
| linecast |
HN |
9 |
2026-08-23 |
| Dashi |
HN |
9 |
2026-08-24 |
| Ambient CSS |
HN |
9 |
2026-02-17 |
| Sitmap |
HN |
9 |
2026-08-20 |
| 15 Years of StarCraft II Balance Changes Visualized Interactively |
HN |
9 |
2026-01-10 |
| 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 |