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Hacker News - Sun, 03/01/2026 - 9:12pm

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Show HN: I Get IT – Why My GitHub Repos, and Websites Get Zero Traction

Hacker News - Sun, 03/01/2026 - 8:36pm

I spent years building projects and posting content online like I was writing clean code for a repo. Every social media post, every website launch, every little tweak felt “perfect,” and yet most of it got zero traction. TikToks, Reels, YouTube Shorts, even side project pages — they would quietly die while random things with less polish blew up.

It finally clicked: it’s not just content or code quality. It’s distribution. Social media algorithms and website traffic work like dependency graphs. If your post or project doesn’t get early engagement, it never surfaces. No traffic, no feedback, no analytics, no way to debug what actually works. You’re left guessing why something fails while others seem to succeed effortlessly.

UseViralize.com is like a growth debugger for creators and devs. It helps you get early momentum, build social proof, and see actionable analytics fast, so your posts, projects, or websites don’t just sit in a dead feed or an empty server. Whether you’re launching a side project, an open-source repo, or building a brand, visibility is the key dependency most people overlook.

There’s a 3-day free trial, and you can cancel anytime. I built this because I was tired of putting work online that no one ever saw. If social media or website growth feels like hitting “merge” on a PR that never gets reviewed, this is meant to help.

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Show HN: I used LLMs to build a compression tool that beats xz on x86_64 ELFs

Hacker News - Sun, 03/01/2026 - 8:27pm

I wanted to see if AI (mostly ChatGPT Pro and Gemini Pro 3.1) could figure out how to compress executable binaries better than existing generic tools without me actually knowing much about compression engineering or ELF internals.

The result is an experiment called fesh. It works strictly as a deterministic pre-processor pipeline wrapping LZMA (xz). The AI kept identifying "structural entropy boundaries" and instructed me to extract near-branches, normalize jump tables, rewrite .eh_frame DWARF pointers to absolute image bases, delta-encode ELF .rela structs with ZigZag mappings, and force column transpositions before compressing them in separated LZMA channels.

Surprisingly, it actually works. The CI strictly verifies that compression is perfectly reversible (bit-for-bit identity match) across 103 Alpine Linux x86_64 packages. According to the benchmarks, it consistently produces smaller payloads than xz -9e --x86 (XZ BCJ), ZSTD, and Brotli across the board—averaging around 6% smaller than maximum XZ BCJ limits.

I honestly have no idea how much of this is genuinely novel versus standard practices in extreme binary packing (like Crinkler/UPX).

Repo: https://github.com/mohsen1/fesh

Does this architecture have any actual merits for standard distribution formats, or is this just overfitting the LZMA dictionary to Alpine's compiler outputs? I'd love to hear from people who actually understand compression math.

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AI Now Has Its Own Cursor

Hacker News - Sun, 03/01/2026 - 8:19pm

Article URL: https://clawdcursor.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212721

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