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131 titles from 116 authors in the last 30 days, with 122 distinct links and 12 Show HN.

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• Show HN: Mooring – a better screen sharing experience for Macs · score 7.0

  Mooring is a native Mac-to-Mac remote control app built with a Rust core and SwiftUI interface, offering an experimental direct screen-sharing session alongside integration with Apple's Screen Sharing. It features encrypted pairing, adaptive quality, clipboard sharing, and advanced input forwarding, aiming to provide a seamless and responsive remote desktop experience.

• Show HN: RL agent trained only in synthetic markets got better on real 2020crash · score 6.5

  This project demonstrates that a reinforcement learning agent trained exclusively on synthetic market data can transfer to real historical market crashes (2020 and 2022), improving hedging performance. The work is pre-registered, fully reproducible, and includes a robustness check with five seeds and a larger model, making it a valuable case study for synthetic-to-real transfer in RL environments.

• Show HN: ChillSweep – A better cleaner app for PC and Mac · score 6.5

  ChillSweep is a cross-platform desktop cleanup tool that detects leftover files from uninstalled apps, caches, dev projects, and games by cross-referencing installed programs with user folders. It uses a rule-based system with tiers and explanations, emphasizing safety and user confirmation before removal.

• Show HN: Jab - Better tab navigation with a 10 KB LightGBM model · score 6.3

  Jab is a Chrome extension that uses a compact 18KB LightGBM model to predict which interactive element a user likely wants on a page, activated via Ctrl+. and Enter. It enables fast keyboard navigation without network requests, fully client-side, which is interesting for accessibility and power-user workflows.

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1. Better Block Placemaking
   2026-11-01 · betterblock.org · HN discussion
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   2026-11-01 · shittyscreenshare.com · HN discussion
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   2026-11-01 · fossil-scm.org · HN discussion
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   2026-10-31 · newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · HN discussion
6. More thinking isn't (always) better
   2026-10-30 · ariwilson.com · HN discussion
7. OpenRouter rebuilt provider routing for better, faster inference
   2026-10-30 · openrouter.ai · HN discussion
8. Post-training 4B model with RL to fly Tesla Roadster 21% better than GPT-6 Astra
   2026-10-30 · skypilot.ai · HN discussion
9. AI often makes writing worse. (Even if it makes it better)
   2026-10-29 · economist.com · HN discussion
10. TikTok Is Changing Politics (Perhaps for the Better)
    2026-10-29 · nytimes.com · HN discussion
11. Posit Assistant makes better use of your token budget than leading coding agents
    2026-10-29 · opensource.posit.co · HN discussion
12. Ask HN: Is cloudfare workers better than Vercel? (free tier)
    2026-10-29 · HN discussion
13. Build a better AI product with explicit classification
    2026-10-29 · steadily.ca · HN discussion
14. Can AI forecast elections better than experts?
    2026-10-28 · ballotbench.com · HN discussion
15. AI agent skills for better second-hand decisions
    2026-10-28 · github.com · HN discussion
16. Social Media When Elections Are Close: Doing the Impossible Better
    2026-10-28 · eff.org · HN discussion
17. Do Guardrails Make AI Coding Agents Better? What 270 Runs Showed
    2026-10-28 · secondtimeisabug.com · HN discussion
18. Show HN: Better Backlog: Filter GitHub issues with decision models
    2026-10-28 · github.com · HN discussion
19. Do Stronger Type Systems Make Coding Agents Better?
    2026-10-27 · fedur.co · HN discussion
20. Show HN: Better Design – alternative to Claude Design, for any coding agents
    2026-10-27 · better-design.com · HN discussion
21. Omarchy 4.0.5 Released with Better Nvidia Laptop Support
    2026-10-24 · linuxjournal.com · HN discussion
22. Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, no privacy, and life's never been better (2016)
    2026-10-24 · medium.com · HN discussion
23. We deserve a better agent-human interaction
    2026-10-23 · pinrail.dev · HN discussion
24. The Search for Better Learning Algorithms – Yaroslav Bulatov [video]
    2026-10-23 · youtube.com · HN discussion
25. People are vibe coding their way to better TVs
    2026-10-23 · theverge.com · HN discussion
26. Do pricier robot vacuums get better reviews? 737 reviews
    2026-10-23 · bettascore.ai · HN discussion
27. Better Way to Learn?
    2026-10-23 · twitter.com · HN discussion
28. Strategies for Better Claude Cache Usage
    2026-10-23 · dgrcode.com · HN discussion
29. Can AI predict cancer survival better than a doctor? I have my doubts
    2026-10-23 · theguardian.com · HN discussion
30. Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions
    2026-10-23 · zordt.com · HN discussion

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