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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual

Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual 5 by cat-turner | 8 comments on Hacker News. - gas smells less like gas - not getting as much mileage as usual I filled up my car and I have a habit of resetting my mileage tracker (next to odometer) to see how many miles I get out of a full tank. I've noticed that I get much less gas than usual for the same number of bars. What can I do to make this more concrete? Has anyone else noticed this?

New ask Hacker News story: Are you team MCP or team CLI?

Are you team MCP or team CLI? 2 by sharath39 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Bonus point is you say why.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)

Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026) 5 by Kathan2651 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Looking for contributors to your project? Feel free to post any project that may interest HN readers, with a strong preference towards open source. Please follow this general format: Project name Project description What do you hope to build this month? What kind of skills do you need? Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Release Path for 'Transformers Alternatives'?

Ask HN: Release Path for 'Transformers Alternatives'? 2 by adinhitlore | 0 comments on Hacker News. So, a side project I've spent/wasted ~1000 hours on, with 2 goals set in mind: 1. faster than transformers on CPU; 2. smarter than transformers. couple of screenshots below (the black/red part are censored on purpose...for now): https://ift.tt/XCRrD2q https://ift.tt/m4M6xHC https://ift.tt/ku2pTXF Summary: what the hell is this? Two architectures - 1. Linear RNN which solves the long memory problem in current front-runner RNN transformer alternatives (RWKV, Mamba), in addition to being cpu friendly and entirely in C from scratch, but not too big: ~4000 lines. 2. 2 SNN experimental programs (in C originally but also ported to C# and F#) that turned out to be better than expected but unfortunately for the time being: dumber than the linear RNN one (i need more tests). The question is: what to do with them? google gemini pro 3.1/sonnet 4.6 told me to patent, IP, estimating val...

New ask Hacker News story: Uni feels so usless, I cant focus anymore

Uni feels so usless, I cant focus anymore 2 by EteenSMASH | 0 comments on Hacker News. Im a 18 y/o first year student, and I honestly have always liked school, been super passionate about CS forever, loved school sports and all that jazz. Dont get me wrong I love my uni, its a great school, very good global recognition and stuff, and lots of cool opportunities and stuff going on. I'm a really passionate guy and I love building, and so I literally on the first day just walked into the CS professors office hours, and was showing him stuff I built. I got offered a research position, joined in on the research meetings for a bit, and then got told that they dont pay right now, so I stopped. I want to make capital, and I dont want to build for someone else to own it just so that I can put it on my resume. It makes me feel like a cuck, and then the prof claims the work. I literally asked him, if students come to you with these ideas why dont they just build it themselves, and struggle ...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?

Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local? 4 by tpurves | 1 comments on Hacker News. To anyone upgrading their daily driver Mac this year, are you considering going to a Max + high memory config? eg. with the hope (now or in near future) of being able to do usefully run agents/LLMs locally on your main machine? Or is the few extra thousand dollars difference between a base and max-spec MBP still just better spent on literally any other practical option (like different harware, remote hardware, cloud AI subscriptions or credits). Or wait to see if there will be an M5 Studio or what inferencing performance next year's M6 may bring? I am tempted, but even with some new models getting skinnier and more efficient, I am not sure moore's law and the M5 generation is quite there yet to be worth the trouble? What call's are ya'll making and why?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?

Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier? 2 by whatarethembits | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm considering $20/month variants only. I've had a Claude subscription for the past year, although I only really started properly using LLMs in the past couple of months. With Opus, I get about 5 messages every 5 hours (fairly small codebase); more with Sonnet. I then cancelled that, since its practically unusable and got ChatGPT sub about a week ago. Currently using it with 5.4 High and I haven't had to worry about limits. But the code it produces is definitely "different" and I need to plan more in advance. Its plan mode is also not as precise as with Claude (it doesn't lay out method stubs it plans to implement etc) so I suppose I may need to change how I work with it? Lastly, for normal chats it produces significantly more verbose output (with personality set to Efficient) and fast (with Thinking) but often it feels as thoug...