Ask HN: What are examples of awesome open source project websites?

4 RossBencina 0 9/19/2025, 12:49:46 AM

Often when an open source project is discussed here on HN there is a conversation around the project's website. Criticisms and suggestions for improvement get raised. In that spirit, could you name examples of awesome open source project websites? -- websites that hit all the key requirements for new and returning visitors. For extra points, please explain why the website is awesome.

Gemini in Chrome (gemini.google)

David Lynch LA House (wallpaper.com)

Apple: SSH and FileVault (keith.github.io)

Nvidia buys $5B in Intel (tomshardware.com)

The Sagrada Família Takes Its Final Shape (newyorker.com)

Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough? (phishyurl.com)

Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI (research.google)

Llama-Factory: Unified, Efficient Fine-Tuning for 100 Open LLMs (github.com)

AI tools are making the world look weird (strat7.com)

This map is not upside down (maps.com)

U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis (minesnewsroom.com)

Tracking Trust with Rust in the Kernel (lwn.net)

Rupert's snub cube and other Math Holes (tom7.org)

Show HN: I created a small 2D game about an ant (aanthonymax.github.io)

Show HN: Asxiv.org – Ask ArXiv papers questions through chat (asxiv.org)

Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps (reddit.com)

Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now (cari.institute)

Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year (skyfall.dev)

Launch HN: Cactus (YC S25) – AI inference on smartphones (github.com)

Tldraw SDK 4.0 (tldraw.dev)

KDE is now my favorite desktop (kokada.dev)

Flipper Zero Geiger Counter (kasiin.top)

The Rise and Fall of the British Detective Novel (historytoday.com)

TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem (xtxmarkets.com)

Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua (luau.org)

OpenTelemetry Collector: What It Is, When You Need It, and When You Don't (oneuptime.com)

Classic recessive-or-dominant gene dynamics may not be so simple (news.stanford.edu)

The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management (blog.nilenso.com)

The Math of Catastrophe (quantamagazine.org)

When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail" (eff.org)

TIC-80 – Tiny Computer (tic80.com)

Show HN: Nallely – A Python signals/MIDI processing system inspired by Smalltalk (dr-schlange.github.io)

They Know More Than I Do (cybadger.com)

Configuration files are user interfaces (ochagavia.nl)

PostgreSQL Maintenance Without Superuser (boringsql.com)

Aaron Levie: Startups win in the AI era [video] (youtube.com)

Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats (casualarchivist.substack.com)

CircuitHub (YC W12) Is Hiring Operations Research Engineers (UK/Remote) (ycombinator.com)

Nvmath-Python: Nvidia Math Libraries for the Python Ecosystem (github.com)

American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana (earthhope.substack.com)

Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks (pnpm.io)

OneDev – Self-hosted Git server with CI/CD, Kanban, and packages (onedev.io)

This website has no class (aaadaaam.com)

ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech (techcrunch.com)

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us (bessstillman.substack.com)

I Built an Event-Sourcing Database Engine: Meet Genesis DB (genesisdb.io)

Dark patterns killed my wife's Windows 11 installation (osnews.com)

Automatic differentiation can be incorrect (stochasticlifestyle.com)

After 60 Years, Diabetes Drug Found to Unexpectedly Impact the Brain (sciencealert.com)

The Fake Social Binary (brennenputh.me)

Ask HN: What are examples of awesome open source project websites?

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