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241. Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG
An open-source, eBPF-accelerated BNG that runs directly on OLT hardware - eliminating expensive centralised appliances
242. FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations
The FAA has created nationwide moving drone no-fly zones around ICE vehicles and convoys, with criminal penalties for violating the restricted airspace.
243. Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
244. Radicle: The Sovereign Forge
The Radicle forge is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git.
245. Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
246. Maia 200: The AI accelerator built for inference
247. JPEG XL Demo Page
Test page that includes a JPEG XL image
248. 'Active' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies
Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent.
249. Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying 5-10x
We benchmarked 100+ models on our actual task and found a much cheaper alternative that works just as well.
250. The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing
251. Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit
252. Nested Code Fences in Markdown
253. China hacked Downing Street phones for years
254. Clawdbot Bought Me a Car
Outsourcing the painful aspects of a car purchase to AI was refreshingly nice, and sold me on the vision of Clawdbot
255. Why talking to LLMs has improved my thinking
I’ve been surprised by - and enjoy - one aspect of using large language models more than any other. They often put into words things I have long understood, but could not write down clearly. When that happens, it feels less like learning something new and more like recognition. A kind of “ok, yeah" moment.…
256. From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown
Iran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be in store next for Iran.
257. Ending tax refunds by check risks sidelining people who don't have bank accounts
For Americans in so-called ‘banking deserts,’ ending paper tax refund checks could be a costly move.
258. EU and India sign landmark trade agreement
Wide-ranging deal will cut tariffs to zero over seven years as Modi hails ‘largest free trade agreement’ in India’s history
259. JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator
Play VIC 20 games directly in your browser, with JVic the web-based VIC 20 emulator built with libGDX.
260. Mozilla Pioneers
261. JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool
Let users generate dashboards, widgets, apps, and data visualizations from prompts — safely constrained to components you define.
262. The Kept and the Killed (2022)
Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center.
263. The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users
264. The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
265. A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
266. Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.
267. Y Combinator is no longer investing in Canadian startups
Silicon Valley’s most famous accelerator now requires Canadian firms to incorporate in the U.S., Cayman Islands or Singapore in order for it to invest
268. The Temporal Consistency Challenge in Video Restoration
269. 30 Years of ReactOS
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
270. The Concatative Language XY