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Clone-Wars: 100 open-source clones of popular sites

https://github.com/GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars
55•ulrischa•2h ago

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jayd16•1h ago
Possibly unintentional but the pun works even better if you remember WAR files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAR_(file_format)
Aachen•1h ago
WhatsApp clone storing messages plaintext on the server if I'm skimming the repository right?

Or a Spotify clone I clicked at random, idk, the screenshots look nearly 1:1 but then the "features" list doesn't mention that it can play music or, more importantly for Spotify (since playing music, I can do with any old mp3 player) generate useful recommendations if you could somehow feed it listener data

What's the point of these then, are they meant to be superficially functional UI clones (like screenshots except you can click things) or am I missing something?

Edit: Mastodon is also in the list as a Twitter clone. Some of these are not like the others :s

fishpen0•39m ago
Yeah this is mostly the "build twitter in a day" projects that conveniently ignore the reason these companies have 10,000+ developers is the 99.9% of the software that is not the frontend that actually makes the company things happen at the company. The much bigger customers of many of these companies being the advertisers and the artists/creators who have their own interfaces and analytics and billing and payment tooling. The business rules engines and feature flags with tens of thousands of rules that allow any of these companies to operate in subtly different ways for customers in different states, countries, and regions with different laws for accessibility, fair use, and using and storing data. The auth and security layers that often have multiple interfaces for employees, customer classes, partners supporting native-auth, oidc, totp, developer tokens, etc... Apps for a dozen or more different app ecosystems on hundreds of device types from the obvious web and phone-based ios/android to the less obvious carplay, watch, roku, firestick, etc...
TheSkyHasEyes•1h ago
I'm finding many links unavailable or not working. Still, appreciate the list. :)
ChrisArchitect•50m ago
A followup that explains some more of the thinking behind the project:

My simple Github project went Viral (2021)

https://gourav.io/blog/my-simple-github-project-went-viral

Apple M5 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for...
799•mihau•7h ago•869 comments

Claude Haiku 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5
297•adocomplete•4h ago•116 comments

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview
540•DavidDodda•8h ago•281 comments

Pwning the Nix ecosystem

https://ptrpa.ws/nixpkgs-actions-abuse
207•SuperShibe•7h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client

https://github.com/squidowl/halloy
228•culinary-robot•9h ago•67 comments

Monads are too powerful: The expressiveness spectrum

https://chrispenner.ca/posts/expressiveness-spectrum
19•hackandthink•3d ago•6 comments

F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-says-hackers-stole-undisclosed-big-ip-flaws-sou...
97•WalterSobchak•7h ago•40 comments

C++26: range support for std:optional

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/10/08/cpp26-range-support-for-std-optional
59•birdculture•5d ago•40 comments

A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia's GPU Linux drivers

https://blog.quarkslab.com/./nvidia_gpu_kernel_vmalloc_exploit.html
103•mustache_kimono•7h ago•6 comments

Recursive Language Models (RLMs)

https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/
27•talhof8•3h ago•5 comments

Recreating the Canon Cat document interface

https://lab.alexanderobenauer.com/updates/the-jasper-report
68•tonyg•6h ago•3 comments

Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI

https://www.jampa.dev/p/llms-and-the-lessons-we-still-havent
85•jampa•2h ago•28 comments

Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture

https://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exit
238•vednig•9h ago•159 comments

Are hard drives getting better?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve/
27•HieronymusBosch•3h ago•2 comments

Reverse engineering a 27MHz RC toy communication using RTL SDR

https://nitrojacob.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/reverse-engineering-a-27mhz-rc-toy-communication-usin...
61•austinallegro•6h ago•11 comments

Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier

https://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/hughes_tratt__garbage_collection_for_rust_the_finalizer_frontier/
92•ltratt•8h ago•83 comments

M5 MacBook Pro

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
268•tambourine_man•7h ago•340 comments

Americans' love of billiards paved the way for synthetic plastics

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/imitation-ivory-and-power-play
41•geox•6d ago•24 comments

Reverse engineering iWork

https://andrews.substack.com/p/reverse-engineering-iwork
31•andrew_rfc•9h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

https://scriberpro.cc/hn/
112•rezivor•8h ago•101 comments

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research

https://pearlab.icrl.org/
4•walterbell•1w ago•0 comments

Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement

https://joindatacops.com/resources/how-73-of-your-e-commerce-visitors-could-be-fake
316•simul007•9h ago•243 comments

Pixnapping Attack

https://www.pixnapping.com/
271•kevcampb•14h ago•62 comments

Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring

1•hsial•9h ago

Show HN: Specific (YC F25) – Build backends with specifications instead of code

https://specific.dev/
13•fabianlindfors•3h ago•4 comments

The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/brain-navigates-new-spaces-by-flickering-between-reality-a...
101•XzetaU8•1w ago•33 comments

FSF announces Librephone project

https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
1350•g-b-r•21h ago•548 comments

Breaking "provably correct" Leftpad

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/breaking-provably-correct-leftpad/
60•birdculture•1w ago•17 comments

Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering

https://steipete.me/posts/just-talk-to-it
147•freediver•14h ago•89 comments

ChatGPT – Truth over comfort instruction set

https://www.organizingcreativity.com/2025/06/chatgpt-truth-over-comfort-instruction-set/
23•jimmcslim•3d ago•19 comments