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1•Retr0id•2m ago•0 comments

Roll your own local AI coding agents to save money

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/02/local_ai_coding_agents/
1•samizdis•3m ago•0 comments

How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230614-how-a-dose-of-mdma-transformed-a-white-supremacist
2•hochmartinez•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vdiff – CLI to help you review AI-generated code

1•fforbeck•8m ago•0 comments

The cruelty of teaching computing science (EWD 1036)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
1•tosh•11m ago•0 comments

Internet of Agents

1•niketmk2000•12m ago•0 comments

Interoperability for LLM Applications

1•niketmk2000•13m ago•0 comments

The longest railway tunnel is being built under the Alps

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/01/world-record-made-in-europe-the-worlds-longest-rail...
1•akyuu•15m ago•0 comments

Next Dog May Live Longer

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/05/celine-halioua-loyal-pet-longevity/687005/
1•Brajeshwar•19m ago•0 comments

The only schema language AI speaks is JSON Schema

https://www.sourcemeta.com/blog/ai-only-speaks-json-schema/
1•BerislavLopac•26m ago•0 comments

Why Andromeda Is Both 2.5M Years Away and Just Around the Corner

https://joshpearlson.com/articles/posts/closest-galaxy-time-dilation/closest-galaxy-time-dilation...
1•jcpearlson•28m ago•0 comments

Mini PC for local LLMs in 2026

https://terminalbytes.com/best-mini-pc-for-local-llm-2026/
16•charlieirish•28m ago•7 comments

World AI Agents–35 AI Models (Claude, GPT, Llama)via One OpenAIcompatible API

https://world-ai-agents.com
2•fazyyy•34m ago•1 comments

Microsoft brings a Linux-style window trick to Windows 11 via PowerToys

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/05/01/i-tested-powertoys-new-linux-style-window-controls-on-wi...
3•thunderbong•34m ago•0 comments

Touch Typing Number Keys

https://susam.net/touch-typing-number-keys.html
1•susam•34m ago•0 comments

See what 4D shapes look like (interactive grapher)

https://github.com/kpwdv0/4d-grapher
1•kpwd•38m ago•0 comments

Tripwire: An experiment in zip bombing bad actors

https://func.lol/x/tripwire
2•zdw•39m ago•1 comments

Self-declared 'King of Switzerland' builds empire of 117,000 square metres

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15778351/Self-declared-King-Switzerland-builds-empire-117-...
3•tosh•50m ago•0 comments

How to detect paying Cloudflare customers

https://bloomberry.com/blog/how-to-detect-paid-cloudflare-customers-vs-free/
1•AznHisoka•51m ago•0 comments

A Private (PQ Safe) E-Mail Provider You Can Verify End to End

https://bmail.ag/verify
2•rasengan•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Threej games – open-source gaming portal

https://threej.in
5•threejin•53m ago•1 comments

Sora's downfall signals broader problems with AI's creative utility

https://theconversation.com/soras-downfall-signals-broader-problems-with-ais-creative-utility-280013
2•doener•54m ago•0 comments

Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, steers toward Somalia

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/yemen-says-oil-tanker-hijacked-121710980.html
7•delichon•55m ago•1 comments

Microsoft Researchers Predicting 2026's Tech, in 2015

https://news.microsoft.com/features/from-ai-and-data-science-to-cryptography-microsoft-researcher...
1•subdomain•56m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Which is better–macOS/Windows/Linux?

1•wasimsk•57m ago•2 comments

OpenAI Builds an Advertising Infrastructure Around ChatGPT

https://tux.re/forum/viewtopic.php?t=216
3•tux033•57m ago•0 comments

Outlive 25 Remaster is launched

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2948680/Outlive_25/
1•renatovico•58m ago•1 comments

The Things We're Building

https://www.theverge.com/tech/922505/vibe-code-projects-claude-installer
2•Brajeshwar•58m ago•0 comments

Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs

https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/containerd
2•neitsab•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: A Local-only URL shortener

https://9ev.in/
1•shabda•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

What predicts Show HN front page success? I analyzed 73k recent ShowHN posts

https://wannalaunch.com/blog/show-hn-what-the-data-says
3•margotli•1h ago

Comments

margotli•1h ago
I used a dataset from HuggingАace to analyse all Show HN posts for the past 3 years. Here is what influences if the post gets on the front page.

- Niche technical topics have the highest viral rates (Rust, Postgress, Lua, etc) - Open source tools are the top performing category with 13.9% viral rate - "I built" outperforms "We built" - Sunday noon UTC has the highest chances to hit the front page - Titles with a parenthetical work much better that those without.

More insights in the blog article.

syezdin•1h ago
R u sure about Sunday though?
margotli•1h ago
That what surprised me too, also Saturday turns out working just fine. My explanation would be that on weekends there is less competition for the attention. Even with less people on the platform, it's still easier to get noticed.
alexjreid•1h ago
This is great insight, thank you. I have recently learnt that being shadow banned doesn't help either, so not sure if you'll see this comment. Either way, great work.
margotli•1h ago
Ha-ha, all good - I can see your comment.
alexjreid•54m ago
It was my own fault to be fair, should have been more up on the guidelines.
syezdin•1h ago
Yeah, we can see this comment. What for you got shadowbanned? (Or maybe it’s a bad idea to ask, and your reply will get shadowbanned)
alexjreid•50m ago
I think I was posting an open source project of mine too many times (2-3 times different posts on about the same project but different angles) pointing to the same domain. Maybe the consensus is that it is utter garbage, who knows hahah.

Wasn't trying to spam, figured that if there was no interest it'd sink without a trace. Which it did of course as nobody saw it. I was generally just trying to get a temperature check on whether it was a good idea or not. I understand, I mean, HN's house HN's rules - genuinely don't want to turn this into a debate about moderation!

ThrowawayR2•1h ago
Not being thinly disguised marketing and adhering to the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) helps immensely.