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awesome-AutoHotkey

A curated list of awesome AutoHotkey libraries, library distributions, scripts, tools and resources.

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What it is

A curated list of awesome AutoHotkey libraries, library distributions, scripts, tools and resources.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-03-17 00:42:41 UTC to 2024-12-11 21:41:48 UTC.

012017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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vunderba·Dec 11, 2024
Three pieces of advice: - It looks like you've submitted this 8 times in a matter of a couple weeks - that's bordering on spam level of excessive. I also don't see any comments in your entire history on any other threads in HN except related to your app. There's nothing wrong with self-promotion but please try to also be a contributing member of the HN community. - I'd recommend adding a MP4 at the top of the readme quickly demonstrating the power of the tool end-to-end. - I'd also consider submitting it to the Awesome Autohotkeys List, here: https://github.com/ahkscript/awesome-AutoHotkey?tab=readme-o...
In Show HN: KeyTik: The All-in-One Automation Tool
patrickk·Jun 25, 2018
Autohotkey is capable of doing some remarkable things (windows only sadly). Here's a cool "launcher" project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv2LAqkmd1c&feature=youtu.be https://github.com/plul/Public-AutoHotKey-Scripts With Pulover's Macro creator, you can literally record actions with mouse and keyboard, get the output in AHK script and tidy it up. You can trivially recognise pixels, meaning you can tell your mouse to click x,y coordinates or a certain button (for when there is no API for something, for example) http://www.macrocreator.com/ Some genius made a virtual workspace for windows using AHK: https://github.com/octalmage/mdesktop Some random uses I have for AHK: * trigger today's date in dd.mm.yy (or dd-mm-yy, or any combo you like) with a macro, useful for when you drafting documents and need to quickly insert the date * lookup
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the train schedule from work to home with a keypress * shortcut to German characters on an EN keyboard * paste and translate to/from english with dict.cc and leo.org in separate tabs * "sig" expands to my email signature * shortcuts to colleagues' obscure foreign names, which I always misspell in emails (saves embarrassment!) * macro to run common applications like notepad, chrome, powershell (obvious use case) * macro to open an excel to do list * Quickly switch between headphone types on a work PC (USB headphones and regular headphone jack needed some fiddly settings to be changed to switch between them) (https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/SoundSet.htm) * Tool for popup window, can be used to display almost anything, e.g. your list of shortcuts in case you forget them! - https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=100953#p100953 * Huge list of ideas here: https://github.com/ahkscript/awesome-AutoHotkey AHK has a huge amount of cool projects on the forums, and it runs like lightning since it is very resource light.
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