Show HN: Hacker News, a little more focused

A Show HN submission titled "Hacker News, a little more focused" presents a filtered, three-page feed of 72 stories drawn from Hacker News, with the first page led by Nvidia's announcement of native GPU programming in Rust via CUDA Rust. The list also surfaces items including "HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?", "Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs", and "Performance Improvements in .NET 11". The project's stated aim is a more focused Hacker News reading experience.

72 stories · page 1 of 3 1. 1. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/ developer.nvidia.com 2. 2. Small programming tricks https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/ will-keleher.com 3. 3. Reversing Factorio's RNG https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/ gegell.github.io 4. 4. Performance Improvements in .NET 11 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/ devblogs.microsoft.com 5. 5. Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/ evanhahn.com 6. 6. HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? https://harnesstax.github.io/ harnesstax.github.io 7. 7. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort 2022 https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%20performance%20portable%20Quicksort.html opensource.googleblog.com 8. 8. 9. 9. 10. 10. Write Linters and Tools Before Code https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/write-linters-and-tools-before-code.html cookie.engineer 11. 11. 12. 12. Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/09/16/on-learning-programming-in-an-age-of-llms/ blog.ploeh.dk 13. 13. This Code Is CRAP 2011 https://testing.googleblog.com/2011/02/this-code-is-crap.html testing.googleblog.com 14. 14. A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-software-thing-i-built-gps-on-a-25mhz-486-sx.1258966/ forum.vcfed.org 15. 15. 16. 16. Let's make quality the norm again https://www.forbrukerradet.no/short-life/ forbrukerradet.no 17. 17. 18. 18. 19. 19. Java 27 https://mail.openjdk.org/archives/list/announce@openjdk.org/thread/ORGGLMN75HFEWP7YL3ZLGHLYHVIBJDYT/ mail.openjdk.org 20. 20. The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped https://josprague.com/blog/the-css-zen-garden-dream-finally-shipped/ josprague.com 21. 21. GitHub is having trouble counting things https://chuckgreenman.com/2026/09/16/counting-at-github chuckgreenman.com 22. 22. 23. 23. 24. 24. Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/09/06/data-races-and-the-limits-of-threadsanitizer-in-c-and-go.html theconsensus.dev 25. 25. 26. 26. 27. 27. Optimizing a Spin-Lock https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/optimizing-a-spin-lock/ david.alvarezrosa.com 28. 28. Distributed Systems Classics 2017 https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/ nvartolomei.com 29. 29. Trying to Make a Loop Auto-Vectorize https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/trying-to-make-a-loop-auto-vectorize/ jsgroth.dev 30. 30.