SubTrends

Averages 12 posts/day, top 25% activity. Most active Fridays around 12 PM UTC. Mostly text posts (59%).

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
12 8%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
3 32%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
1 40%
Activity Rank #12,189 by posts/day among 91,563 tracked SFW subreddits as of Jun 2026 (Top 25%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#12,189 520
Top 25%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
33%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
90%

r/machinelearningnews Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes0123401234
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Text
Typical Title Length Medium (89 chars)
Peak Day Tuesday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

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Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 22%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 6
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 39

r/machinelearningnews Most Active Times

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r/machinelearningnews Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

Flair Posts Upvotes
Research161 (44.8%)4
AI Tools61 (17.0%)2
ML/CV/DL News44 (12.3%)2
Startup News29 (8.1%)2
LLMs23 (6.4%)3
Agentic AI16 (4.5%)1
Small Language Models7 (1.9%)1
MLOps5 (1.4%)1
Cool Stuff5 (1.4%)15
AI Event5 (1.4%)3

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

59%text posts

r/machinelearningnews Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
open
58 (16.2%)
62
built
47 (13.1%)
31
agent
35 (9.8%)
20
model
34 (9.5%)
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source
33 (9.2%)
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llm
30 (8.4%)
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local
28 (7.8%)
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first
28 (7.8%)
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models
25 (7.0%)
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own
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r/machinelearningnews Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
github.com107
arxiv.org318
youtube.com31

r/machinelearningnews Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

I built a fully offline, private AI creative studio that runs on a cheap old 6GB GPU — should I open-source it?

39 upvotes 31 comments image Jun 30

A new paper finds the matrix of 84 models × 133 AI benchmarks is basically rank-2 — two numbers predict ~90% of every model's scores

33 upvotes 2 comments link Jun 24

MiniMax Releases MiniMax M3 with MSA Architecture Supporting 1M-Token Context, Native Multimodality, and Agentic Coding

31 upvotes 1 comments text Jun 1

I fine-tuned DeBERTa-v3 into a prompt injection pre-filter — 184M, runs on CPU, catches compound attacks by splitting input into fragments

28 upvotes 2 comments image Jun 1

I built a tool that cuts LLM API costs by ~80% by processing images/text locally first (open source)

27 upvotes 8 comments link Jun 16

Yandex Open-Sources YaFF: A Zero-Copy Wire Format for Protobuf With Near-Struct Read Speed

26 upvotes 1 comments link Jun 20

JetBrains Releases Mellum2: A 12B MoE Model for Fast, Specialized Tasks in Multi-Model AI Pipelines

24 upvotes 2 comments text Jun 2

Databricks Open-Sources Omnigent: A Meta-Harness That Composes, Governs, and Shares AI Agents Across Claude Code, Codex, and Pi

23 upvotes 3 comments image Jun 14

[Release] HyperspaceDB v3.1.0: We built a Rust-native Spatial AI Engine that uses 50x less RAM than Milvus/Chroma via Matryoshka Cascades and Lorentz Geometry.

23 upvotes 4 comments text Jun 23

Meet container: Apple’s Open-Source Swift Tool for Running Linux Containers as Lightweight VMs on Apple Silicon

22 upvotes 1 comments text Jun 26

r/machinelearningnews Audience Overlap

Overlapping audiences

r/machinelearningnews FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/machinelearningnews?

Based on posting volume, r/machinelearningnews is most active on Fridays around 12 PM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/machinelearningnews?

r/machinelearningnews averages 12 posts per day and ranks in the top 25% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/machinelearningnews get?

Posts on r/machinelearningnews average about 3 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/machinelearningnews get most?

On r/machinelearningnews, most posts are text posts (59%)