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I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node
A practical deep dive into Tailscale exit nodes: route changes, traceroute evidence, DERP fallback, trust boundaries, and why this model can be free.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
4232
A Broken Heart
Or, getting a 100x speedup with one dumb line of code.
4233
Bad Apple but It's Traceroute
This was unavoidable, given my post from the other day about how to make traceroute display (almost) arbitrary strings.
4234
Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck
In October, my Dad and I got to go behind the scenes at two St. Louis Blues (NHL hockey) games, and observe the massive team effort involved in putting together a modern digital sports broadcast. I wanted to explore the timing and digital side of a modern SMPTE 2110 mobile unit, and my Dad has been involved in studio…
4235
A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
I was intrigued by Jev and the self-hostable projects appearing around it, such as OpenJev and SemIf . Reading about them introduced me ...
4236
Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines
A mildly interesting analysis of what models know and what it tells us about how they were trained.
4237
From 300KB to 69KB per Token: How LLM Architectures Solve the KV Cache Problem
How the KV cache gives every AI conversation a physical weight in silicon, and what happens when the memory runs out.
4238
A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
Recent concerns about a political donation by a Mullvad co-founder have raised questions about the Tor Project's funding relationship with the company. We are not terminating the relationship but are setting clear boundaries on our relationship with Mullvad.
4239
The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
The coming proxy wars will be devastating for civilians and do little to improve governance and human welfare in Ethiopia and the wider Horn
4240
The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
How early-stage clinical trials became unnecessarily expensive and inefficient—and how we can fix them, inspired by a recent story about a dog treated for cancer.
4241
Daily Driving GrapheneOS
I've been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year now and can finally provide some experience on what it's like. Also, the official hardware partnership was announced!
4242
Canada Announces Divorce from America
And rightly so.
4243
How Long Can Life Wait?
Just because you haven’t moved from the sofa doesn’t mean you’re dead.
4244
Markdown in /src
In this essay, Carson Gross argues that Markdown is now an important source artifact for software systems built with LLMs, and that, following the principle of locality, it should live in /src, alongside the code it produces.
4245
Highlights from Git 2.54
The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
4246
I keep bouncing off the Scheme language
I have a huge appreciation for the Scheme programming language. I just seem to be unable to get it to stick in my head. This seems like a huge revelation for someone who named their blog after the Scheme textbook, but there it is. This post is the public admission I need to make, to...
4247
Hetzner is working on LLM Inference
Hetzner has launched an experimental LLM inference API. I tested its Qwen model—and have a few guesses about where the product could go next.
4248
New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview
Notable organizations disclosed ~1,300 high- and critical-severity CVEs in June 2026, roughly 3.5× the pre-Mythos monthly record. Epoch AI's breakdown of vulnerability disclosures following Anthropic's Project Glasswing.
4249
How is Groq raising more money?
Somehow, Palpatine returned.
4250
Training my smartwatch to track intelligence
Training my watch to track intelligence
4251
Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I’m going to expand on …
4252
What Is Date:Italy?
Exploring the Date::ITALY Ruby constant, Julian day numbers, and the history of the Gregorian calendar switchover.
4253
Xanadu was waiting for agents
From the Zed Blog: Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.
4254
The rich aren't your role models
We are told that wealth is a measure of contribution. The richer a person becomes, the more they must have given to society. This is one of the founding myths of capitalism. It is repeated so often…
4255
The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover
Not doing the reading.
4256
Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
Updates to the Gemini API File Search tool makes building efficient, multimodal file retrieval systems easier for developers.
4257
ReactOS 0.4.16
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
4258
OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors
Many people know, or have heard of, the Motorola 68000 architecture. These processors have been used in many machines: in the first generations of Apple Macintosh computers, in the ever-rivals Amiga and Atari ST home computers, in many workstations built by Sun , HP and NeXT (to name only a few), but also in many…
4259
Biohub releases a world model of protein biology
Open AI models used for a wide range of scientific applications, including accelerating the design of therapeutic molecules.
4260
Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
We set out to build the first AI tutor to teach math and reading to kids ages 4-9. For AI to actually teach a five-year-old, pedagogy must be baked into the engineering. A child can't wait for a slow reply, can't read a chat interface, and can't unhear anything a model gets wrong. We wanted to share some of the…