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Ask HN: I am 17 years old, which college should I apply if I have some projects?

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 12:44pm

Hello dear reader, this is a long message but I hope that you can bear with me as I must ask for your help as I need it :-D

What are the best international colleges that I should apply to? Does anyone have any suggestions?

A bit about me:-

I am 17 & I am a member of the LiteLLM security working group. (This also means that I am able to work with and learn from the best people including security researchers and even some people from OpenAI and others as such being part of the working group and can contact them and am very lucky to be in this place!)

My github profile: https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister

I have written around 200k+ words (definitely more by now) on hackernews

my blogs: https://smileplease.mataroa.blog/

My academics are mostly within the 90%+ percentile, not too bad but I must admit not too great either, they are just decent

Now I have to admit that right now, I was preparing for JEE and other things so I wish to admit one thing, I am probably using AI as a crutch and I wish to go into college to get 4 years worth of time to actually learn languages in ease and get an even more in-depth

I am from India & I love terminals, devops on servers , containers & sandboxing. I love golang.

Now much of my projects are non-profit, I don't wish to make profit for them as is and are just more so to prove my curiosity and just something that I find interesting.

Hn-words: See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829029 which had reached the front page of hackernews

htmlpipe which archives archive.is pages to archive.org and has some more use cases.

https://Fossbox.cloud: created a cuckoo.org alternative ie. a multi person pomodoro timer.

https://Mirror.forum : created a way for people to upload multiple discord/fluxer communities etc. : [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMog4B-Z9s)

appseed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grsDSiPORgQ

use.expert (this is just a domain but I wish to open a consultancy/vps provider company with this domain and do something nice with this domain :-D)

I have created nanotimestamps which allowed the ability to store data in a chain within transactions themselves without any gas fees because it chains data between the addresses itself by creating vanity addresses.

I am also a bit interested in yzipper, this was shown to me and my response @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032312 but I liked the idea so much that I have bought the domain yzipper.com and its so inspiring seeing what people are making within this space too.

Oh and I actually also host my own mail server at a 7$/yr vps at k4qr.com :-D (just to see how to do it!)

TLDR: with all of this in mind, which colleges should I apply to internationally which can take a look at the portfolio I have and perhaps give interviews/further tests. I just wish to talk about these things and how these work and the architectural decisions and everything!! I can't say I can talk about the code in-depth but I do think that I know just a bit about it :-D

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097377

Points: 2

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Show HN: ESLabs

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 12:40pm

LLMs can "learn", maybe. That doesn't mean we offload learning.

More than a decade ago I had built paw-on-es6 to help folks get hands-on with ES6 (ES2015). It did its job.

I am now introducing ESlabs. It covers every major feature from ES2015 through ES2025.

You write real code in your browser, run exercises, and actually internalize what the features do and why we need them in the first place.

The irony isn't lost on me: building a tool to help humans learn, in an era where the temptation is to just use an agent skill!

Give it a spin. Break things. That's the point

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097326

Points: 1

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New 'Fast & Furious' TV Shows Are Coming to Peacock

CNET Feed - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 12:09pm
Vin Diesel dropped the news on Monday.
Categories: CNET

Cyber flywheel initiative aims to nudge chief information security officers (CISOs) to join ‘design partnerships’ with startups to solve pressing cyber security problems

Computer Weekly Feed - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:57am
Cyber flywheel initiative aims to nudge chief information security officers (CISOs) to join ‘design partnerships’ with startups to solve pressing cyber security problems
Categories: Computer Weekly

Stx: Interactive Vector Graphics Environment

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:53am

Article URL: https://ctx.graphics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096664

Points: 1

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Using Worktrees

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:52am
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LockedCode – Security-hardened OpenCode fork

Hacker News - Mon, 05/11/2026 - 11:51am

Article URL: https://lockedcode.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096652

Points: 1

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