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Beat 39% of Show HN launches that day
#89 of 164 on Nov 4
#1 of 3 Hardware & IoT launches on Show HN on Nov 4. 15.0% of Hardware & IoT launches (3 of 20) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Hardware & IoT →
points · traction gained Nov 9, 10:27 UTC → Nov 10, 10:45 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+
Traction frozen — tracking ended at 146h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.
comments
listed Nov 4, 08:50 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 2points
- Comments
- 0
- Rank in HDWR this week
- —not listed in the last 7 days
- Rank overall this week
- —
- Sector hit rate
- 15.0%3/20 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 2Nov 4, 21:23 UTC
- Last reading
- 2Nov 10, 10:45 UTC
- Readings
- 7over 146h
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Top on Nov 4 · 164 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights)286 points
- #2After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander256 points
- #3Vegetable Gardening for Engineers217 points
- #4I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part122 points
- #5Kino AI (YC S23)AI media manager and video editor112 points
More in Hardware & IoT · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos486 points▲ +6
- Overheadthe planes overhead, painted on an e-ink frame13 pointsfrozen
- CerulionROS 2-compatible robotics runtime with multi-process replay11 points▲ +11
- A fan-made GTA 6 radio wheel with 12 playable stations6 points0
- Ru-Jevan open model that scores caller-supplied options on CPU (MIT)5 points0
Grades · each graded against other Hardware & IoT launches from the same source
Momentum
——
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Not re-read in the latest run, so no recent gain
Velocity
C0.04 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 45% · vs 94 Hardware & IoT · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
——
Comments per 10 points
Needs 10+ points; below that the ratio is mostly noise
Staying Power
——
Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Needs 10+ points and readings from two runs
Launch-day race · #89 of 164 Show HN launches on 2026-11-04
- #87Hormuz Signal2 points
- #88Unsquatted2 points
- #89Setforge2 points
- #90HIPAA compliance evidence for Supabase RLS,functions,triggers,auditlogs2 points
- #91Readfirst2 points
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