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Local car dealerships are growing and dying amid the rise of big car retailers

Local car dealerships are growing and dying amid the rise of big car retailers

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Business News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Derek Sylvester with his family, team and mascot Molly, who is featured on the agency's logo.Courtesy Sylvester ChevroletDerek's father Sylvester built the family's original Chevrolet dealership with his bare hands on Main Street in rural Pikeville, Pennsylvania, in 1972.The store and family have been a pillar of the village, just outside Scranton, ever since. That was until late last month, when Sylvester and his family struck a deal to sell Sylvester Chevrolet to a New York-based dealer group."As a family, we decided this might be…
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GitHub – esutcu/planb-lpm ยท GitHub

GitHub – esutcu/planb-lpm ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: IPv6 longest-prefix-match (LPM) using a linearized B+-tree with AVX-512 SIMD and a scalar fallback. Based on the algorithm from: Zhihao Zhang, Lanzheng Liu, Chen Chen, Huiba Li, Jiwu Shu, Windsor Hsu, Yiming Zhang. PlanB: Efficient Software IPv6 Lookup with Linearized B+-Tree. NSDI '26. arXiv:2604.14650. Author's reference code: https://github.com/nicexlab/planb. This repository is an independent, clean-room reimplementation of the algorithm as a portable, MIT-licensed C++17 library with extras that were not part of the reference: Portable header-only core (include/lpm6.hpp) that compiles without AVX-512 and transparently falls…
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Danny Murphy column: Why will Manchester City win the Premier League before Arsenal?

Danny Murphy column: Why will Manchester City win the Premier League before Arsenal?

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Arsenal have lost two league games, so the next time they take to the pitch, at home to Newcastle on Saturday, they will have doubts rather than momentum and confidence.No matter how good their players are and how good their preparation, tactics and everything else are, what they have to deal with now is pressure.Their fans appear at the Emirates Stadium as nervous as kittens, conveying their fears and frustrations to the players.However, City are not under any pressure as they are in a position…
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Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 20th April 2026 - Link Blog Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons. I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tell Claude Opus 4.7 is the first model to change the tokenizer, so it's only worth running comparisons between 4.7 and 4.6. The Claude token counting API accepts any Claude model ID though so I've included options for all four of the notable…
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โ€˜Sheโ€™d been drinking with Julie Walters. I heard a crashโ€™: Victoria Woodโ€™s genius โ€“ by her friends, fans and actors | Comedy

โ€˜Sheโ€™d been drinking with Julie Walters. I heard a crashโ€™: Victoria Woodโ€™s genius โ€“ by her friends, fans and actors | Comedy

โœจ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture,Victoria Wood,Television ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: โ€˜When I drove her in my Saab, she said she loved my soft topโ€™Duncan PrestonI can still remember waiting to be introduced to Victoria at the Granada offices for her TV film, Happy Since I Met You. Sheโ€™d been at lunch with Julie Walters and they hadnโ€™t seen each other for quite some time. They were a little bit refreshed, you know what I mean? I can still hear the crash of a door in a corridor as they arrived, and…
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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop โ€” That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop โ€” That Privacy Guy!

๐Ÿš€ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I was working on a personal project, debugging a Native Messaging helper I had written for it. In the process I needed to check what Brave Browser had registered on my laptop. What I found was a file I had never put there. It was not mine. I had not installed it. I had not authorised it. I had not even been told about it. It was from Anthropic. The file sits at this path on my MacBook: ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts/com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension.json And its contents are this:…
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Pressure is mounting as Starmer rejects calls to resign over Mandelson’s appointment in the Epstein fallout

Pressure is mounting as Starmer rejects calls to resign over Mandelson’s appointment in the Epstein fallout

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: jeffrey epstein,Keir Starmer,peter mandelson,united kingdom โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: LONDON (AP) โ€” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday resisted calls for his resignation after it was revealed that his scandal-tainted ambassador had been appointed to the position of U.K. ambassador to Washington despite failed security checks. Starmer says he has not been informed that the Foreign Office has overturned security officials' recommendation in early 2025 not to give Peter Mandelson the job. Many viewed Mandelson's appointment as risky due to his past friendship with convicted sex…
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The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Recent survey data show a wide gap between public and expert views of AI. In Pew's 2025 survey, 76% of AI experts said AI would benefit them personally, while only 24% of the U.S. public said the same. The public was much more likely to say AI would harm them than benefit them. Negative public sentiment also appears to be growing. In March 2026, Quinnipiac found that 55% of Americans thought AI would do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, up from 44%…
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The Senate extends the controversial surveillance program used by US spy agencies

The Senate extends the controversial surveillance program used by US spy agencies

โœจ Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: CIA,fbi,national security,spying,surveillance ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) โ€” The Senate has approved a short-term renewal through April 30 of a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies, following a chaotic after-midnight scramble in the House of Representatives to prevent the power from expiring. The Senate approved the measure by voice vote, without a formal appeal, as Congress races to meet a Monday deadline. It now heads to President Donald Trump, who pushed for a clean 18-month extension, for his signature. House GOP leaders rushed lawmakers…
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GitHub – shivampkumar/trellis-mac ยท GitHub

GitHub – shivampkumar/trellis-mac ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Run TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D generation natively on Mac. This is a port of Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 โ€” a state-of-the-art image-to-3D model โ€” from CUDA-only to Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. No NVIDIA GPU required. Generates 400K+ vertex meshes from single images in ~3.5 minutes on M4 Pro. Output includes vertex-colored OBJ and GLB files ready for use in 3D applications. macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or later) Python 3.11+ 24GB+ unified memory recommended (the 4B model is large) ~15GB disk space for model weights (downloaded on first…
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