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Ask HN: What's a mundane task you've deeply optimized for no reason?

2•peterzuck•3h ago
Not the “big wins” like taxes or time tracking — I’m talking about the weird small things. For example, I’ve fully optimized how I clean my desk cables. A friend of mine wrote a bash script just to open his daily playlists.

These things save maybe 30 seconds a day, but we obsess over them anyway.

What’s yours? Bonus if the effort was wildly disproportionate to the time saved.

An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It

https://sustainableviews.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-tribalism-for
1•spyckie2•4m ago•0 comments

AI fallout: businesses erased people from their visuals

https://aiandtractors.com/ai-replaced-people/
1•Icons8•5m ago•0 comments

Why Does Kars4Kids Sends Most of Its Money to One Town in New Jersey? (2023)

https://www.mossplanet.news/p/why-does-kars4kids-sends-most-of
8•myballshurt•19m ago•0 comments

I Tried, and Failed, to Disappear from the Internet

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/how-to-disappear-from-the-internet/
1•mikhael•22m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Turned Against Democrats – and Democracy

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-turned-against-democrats
4•davidw•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Run UX Design Company

1•hasumatijayesh•36m ago•0 comments

Velocity Coding

https://twitter.com/0thernet/status/1938800434711273922
1•benzguo•37m ago•3 comments

Neuralink Update [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASMejN_5gs
2•bakibab•51m ago•0 comments

Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21521
2•nsagent•52m ago•0 comments

Google AI mode isn't necessarily a summary of Google search

https://twitter.com/vignesh_ofc/status/1938636264364003566
1•vettyvignesh•1h ago•0 comments

Cuchu-Prueba1

https://vk2inr-ip-79-116-133-201.tunnelmole.net
1•adirlaso•1h ago•0 comments

Moving IO to the edges of your app: Functional Core, Imperative Shell [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1vES9AgfC4
1•oDot•1h ago•0 comments

A CES-winning plasma-powered deodorant that neutralizes odor without chemicals

https://newatlas.com/medical-devices/pladeo-plasma-deodorant-alternative/
5•DRJC•1h ago•2 comments

LLM-Net Democratizing LLMs-as-a-Service Through Blockchain-Based Expert Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07288
3•handfuloflight•1h ago•0 comments

Compiègne Wagon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compi%C3%A8gne_Wagon
1•handfuloflight•1h ago•0 comments

ICE Uses Breaching Charge

https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1lm7s0v/ice_uses_breaching_charges_against_family_in/
12•soared•1h ago•0 comments

WhatsApp document scanning gets closer to launch as more beta testers get access

https://www.neowin.net/news/whatsapp-document-scanning-gets-closer-to-launch-as-more-beta-testers-get-access/
5•Bluestein•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Chickoban – A Sokoban Clone

https://aabiji.github.io/chickoban/
1•aabiji•1h ago•0 comments

Power-Hungry AI to Energy Saver Snowcap's $23M Move to Revolutionize Computing

https://www.aol.com/power-hungry-ai-energy-saver-030026631.html
4•Bluestein•1h ago•0 comments

The illusion of a zero load time

1•AliceHe2003•1h ago•0 comments

Most Budget-Friendly Big City in America Is an Underrated Midwest Spot

https://www.islands.com/1893594/cleveland-budget-friendly-big-city-us-underrated-ohio-spot-coastal-giant/
4•Bluestein•1h ago•2 comments

Evaluating AI Systems: From Criteria to Pipelines

https://bassi.li/articles/evaluating-ai-models
1•Mikajis•1h ago•0 comments

Why there's no dominant AI app store yet: The hardware platform thesis

1•kevinlikako•1h ago•1 comments

Vision: AI assistant for natural human-instrument interaction

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-2153/add9e4
1•amscotti•1h ago•0 comments

A million+ tenants worth of data accessible via every install of Synology

https://modzero.com/en/blog/when-backups-open-backdoors-synology-active-backup-m365/
2•imperialdrive•1h ago•1 comments

A Vision for an AI Lab Partner

https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=122449
1•amscotti•1h ago•0 comments

Samson Option

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
4•handfuloflight•1h ago•1 comments

SwagChart – The Smarter Way to Swag

https://swag-charts.vercel.app/
1•ronbenton•1h ago•0 comments

Eulogy for the Satellite Phone

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/eulogy-for-the-satellite-phone/
1•lxm•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Self-host your data anonymization pipeline

https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/zink
2•dwa3592•2h ago•1 comments