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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums

Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums 4 by nanocat | 2 comments on Hacker News. Since it seems like 80% of HN nowadays is focussed on the AI industry, I’m on the search for a good tech forum that focuses on the rest. Can you post your favourite non-AI-obsessed forum?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place

Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place 3 by jlmcgraw | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m looking for some good, specific ideas on small ways to have a positive impact on the world on a daily basis. What do you consider to be the highest return-on-efforts ways to make the world a better place for as many people as possible?

New ask Hacker News story: AI Regex Scientist: A self-improving regex solver

AI Regex Scientist: A self-improving regex solver 3 by PranoyP | 1 comments on Hacker News. I built a system where two LLM agents co-evolve: one invents regex problems, the other learns to solve them. The generator analyzes the solver's failures to create challenges at the edge of its abilities. The result: autonomous discovery of a curriculum from simple patterns to complex regex, with a quality-diversity archive ensuring broad exploration. Blog: https://pranoy-panda.github.io/2025/07/30/3rd.html Code: https://ift.tt/NFghjtn

New ask Hacker News story: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?

10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI? 2 by Invictus0 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I understand Llama 4 was a disappointment, but what's happened at Meta since then? Their API is still waitlist-only 10 months on.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?

Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM? 4 by UmYeahNo | 2 comments on Hacker News. Curious to know your experience running local LLM's with a well spec'ed out M3 Ultra or M4 Pro Mac Studio. I don't see a lot of discussion on the Mac Studio for Local LLMs but it seems like you could put big models in memory with the shared VRAM. I assume that the token generation would be slow, but you might get higher quality results because you can put larger models in memory.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Will Crypto Currencies survive past this market downturn?

Ask HN: Will Crypto Currencies survive past this market downturn? 3 by halamadrid | 2 comments on Hacker News.