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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit

Ask HN: How do I capture the right audience and find the product market fit 7 by akarshhegde18 | 6 comments on Hacker News. I am building a product for improving developer efficiency and I am 2 months into it and have a working prototype, how do I get feedback from the right users who are in need of such a tool? What are your suggestions?

New ask Hacker News story: We need tech news sources which exclude AI

We need tech news sources which exclude AI 37 by botfriendsarent | 8 comments on Hacker News. Its now clear that we need to preserve tech press for non AI related things. Techmeme for example is now completely overrun with AI stories. HN is getting closer to that every day. If AI kickback deals, phony new model ratings, high RAM prices and your surprise at how you think you coded something with AI and it was AMAZING! even though it doesnt work is all there is count me out. We need a filter on existing tech news sites or an alternative press.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company?

Ask HN: What do SRE do at your company? 2 by petemc_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. The SRE role seems to mean wildly different things depending on who you ask.

New ask Hacker News story: I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR

I patched llama.cpp to gain 20% prompt processing TPS. Help me make a PR 4 by i_am_rocoe | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on llama.cpp and noticed that prompt processing throughput gets too low with MTP. I got nerd-sniped. What started as curiosity turned into a two-week rabbit hole of experiments and ended with a PoC that fully recovers the MTP PP overhead on GPU, above any expectation I had. TL;DR: instead of processing the last layer MoE FFN for the entire ubatch tokens (usually 512-2048 tokens), this PoC processes only the output row (usually 1 token during prefill). The result is PP TPS is back to the same as with MTP disabled, keeping most of MTP's benefits to TG TPS, even with a slight drop in draft acceptance rate in one of the benchs. I'm not opening a PR to llama.cpp because this is AI-generated code, which goes against their contribution policy, which I support. If you know C++ and llama.cpp internals, I invite to work tog...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body?

Ask HN: Smallest amount of working ML weights that can be tattooed on a body? 3 by thoughtpeddler | 0 comments on Hacker News. Recently saw this comment on another HN thread about the US government gating access to GPT-5.6 and how it harkens back to the 1990s encryption-as-export-controllable-tech situation and how people tattoo'd the algo to their bodies: > I can't wait for the first person to tattoo model weights on their body! (https://ift.tt/1tmU0Lc) And I can't help but wonder, what would be the smallest functional amount of weights from any sort of ML model you could realistically tattoo onto a human body or body part?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents?

Ask HN: Techniques for learning things quickly using coding agents? 2 by throwaw12 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Lately, I am finding myself using coding agents primarily for investigating and learning new topics, which include: * understanding how specific module works in codebase * overall architecture in the new codebase * onboarding faster in the new codebase * researching a topic * analyzing video content/meeting transcripts to quickly catchup with the topic and so on. My current workflow is just to point out to repository or folder with transcripts and ask agent to extract insights (assuming it will first analyze the content, then suggests ways and whats to extract) and reading bunch of output markdown files. But I feel like this workflow can be improved, but no idea where to start, what are the cognitive methods and strategies. How are you doing it? What strategies, skills do you employ to quickly learn new things * in this context. learning == primari...

New ask Hacker News story: Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster

Roblox parental controls are a dystopian security disaster 6 by notsure357 | 3 comments on Hacker News. My 14 year old daughter got hacked by someone who was able to add themselves as a "linked parent" to her account. I'm not even sure that this person got ahold of her password in the first place. All this happened on Wednesday morning (6/24/26) but on the day it happened I did not recieve a single email about any of this even though the account is tied to my email address (verified). Usually if there is a new log in on an unrecognized device I would have gotten an email about it, but nothing was sent on 6/24 to me. I suspect that even if two factor authentication was already added to her account it would have done nothing, because there was a two factor authentication passkey added to her account which was definitely not set up by her. But by using that newly created authentication passkey the "linked parent" was clearly able to log into her account (which I...