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Physical Gear & Hardware

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Modular laptops, mechanical keyboards, single-board computers, and gear.

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ThinkPad (T & X Series)#1
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
99.3Score

The timeless hacker laptop workhorse with peerless Linux support

2008Website

“A refurbished ThinkPad T480 running Debian or Arch is the best 400 dollars a developer can spend.”

— @klaus_hHN discussion ↗
5,120mentions3,450users
95% positive
Framework Laptop#2
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
96.3Score

Modular, upgradeable, and repairable laptop for hackers

Open SourceYShow HN2021Website

“Consumer electronics is broken. We are building a high-performance laptop you can actually repair and upgrade.”

— @nrpHN discussion ↗
2,240mentions1,480users
95% positive
Wavepot#3
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
94.3Score

Digital audio workstation of the web

YShow HN2014Website

“This isn't really a DAW. For those unfamiliar, a DAW is a fully-featured music creation environment including sound design, composition, recording, arrangement and mixing in one interface. Examples include logic, cubase and ableton. While I suppose this does allow for all of those things, as much as”

— @JonnieCacheHN discussion ↗
1,415mentions408users
92% positive
Gravitational#4
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
92.8Score

Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

YShow HN2017Website
819mentions252users
92% positive
helio-workstation#5
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
92.6Score

An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design

Open SourceYShow HN2017Website
798mentions258users
92% positive
Towardsdatascience#6
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
92.2Score

How to analyse 100 GB of data on your laptop with Python

YShow HN2019Website
532mentions137users
92% positive
Workstation#7
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
91.6Score

Showcase Your Setup

YShow HN2019Website
663mentions242users
92% positive
Tom Nook's Laptop#8
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
91Score

Tom Nook's Laptop

YShow HN2020Website
1,273mentions373users
92% positive
Raspberry Pi Laptop#9
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
90.3Score

Raspberry Pi Laptop

YShow HN2013Website
311mentions97users
91% positive
SetSimilaritySearch#10
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
90.2Score

All-pair similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on laptop

Open SourceYShow HN2018Website
263mentions72users
91% positive
Laptop.css#11
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
89.7Score

Laptop.css

YShow HN2019Website
245mentions80users
92% positive
Byran#12
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
85Score

I made an open-source laptop from scratch

YShow HN2025Website
6,537mentions1,682users
92% positive
RetrOS-32#13
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
80.6Score

My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad

Open SourceYShow HN2025Website
1,290mentions369users
92% positive
Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand#14
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
74Score

2024

YShow HN2026Website
1,943mentions602users
92% positive
Clawk#15
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
70.8Score

Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop

Open SourceYShow HN2026Website
754mentions280users
92% positive
Soup#16
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
69.7Score

Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

Open SourceYShow HN2026Website
312mentions89users
92% positive
Pure Effect#17
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
67.4Score

Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DB

YShow HN2026Website
135mentions40users
92% positive
jit#18
Physical Gear & Hardware/Laptops & Mini PCs
67.4Score

Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext

Open SourceYShow HN2026Website
273mentions117users
92% positive
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