# ONNX

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/onnx/

5 people recommended ONNX in Hacker News comments, 4 had mixed feelings and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 12 months, in 5 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** More people criticize it than recommend it. Free, open model format and runtime for running trained models across CPUs, GPUs and browsers, with many models available. Common caveats: tooling is raw, iOS use is hard, and exports can differ from originals.

Summary written by Claude from the comments below.

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- [vLLM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vllm/): 69 recommend, 35 mixed, 47 criticize
- [DwarfStar 4](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dwarfstar/): 21 recommend, 5 mixed, 2 criticize
- [Strata](https://hackerapproved.com/p/strata/): 19 recommend, 5 mixed, 15 criticize
- [ninfer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ninfer/): 16 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ONNX", https://hackerapproved.com/p/onnx/ (5 recommend, 4 mixed, 6 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.