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NVIDIA Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: NVIDIA Vera CPU Delivers the Highest Performance and Energy Efficiency for Data Processing, AI Training and Agentic Inference at Scale News Summary: The NVIDIA Vera CPU delivers results with twice the efficiency and 50% faster than traditional CPUs. Customers collaborating with NVIDIA to deploy Vera CPU include Alibaba, ByteDance, Meta and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, along with CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius and Nscale. Manufacturing partners already adopting the Vera CPU include Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro, along with ASUS, Compal, Foxconn, GIGABYTE, Pegatron, Quanta…

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Investing in Infrastructure: Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and modernize the codebase while continuing to evolve the allocator to adapt to the latest hardware and workloads. We are committed to continuing to develop jemalloc development with the open source community and welcome contributions and collaborations from the community. Building a software system is a lot like building a skyscraper: The product everyone sees is the top, but…

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The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There are currently several initiatives that attempt to reclaim some part of the Internet for non-commercial, personal use; some of these I described in this earlier article. Here I’m using the term “small web” to mean the use of ordinary web browsers and servers, but for private sites, free of advertising and corporate tracking. I’ve also recently adopted the Gemini protocol, which uses completely different protocols and software from the regular web. The Gemini protocol is so limited that it’s almost incapable of commercial exploitation…

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Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hi HN, we’re Yarik and Vlad from VOYGR (https://voygr.tech/), working on better real-world place intelligence for app developers and agents. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIpcWIE0n4.Google Maps can tell you a restaurant is "4.2 stars, open till 10." Their API can't tell you the chef left last month, wait times doubled, and locals moved on. Maps APIs today just give you a fixed snapshot. We're building an infinite, queryable place profile that combines accurate place data with fresh web context like news, articles, and events.Vlad worked on…

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Your MCP Server Is Eating Your Context Window. There’s a Simpler Way

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The problem nobody talks about at demo scale Here's a scenario that'll feel familiar if you've wired up MCP servers for anything beyond a demo. You connect GitHub, Slack, and Sentry. Three services, maybe 40 tools total. Before your agent has read a single user message, 55,000 tokens of tool definitions are sitting in the context window. That's over a quarter of Claude's 200k limit. Gone. It gets worse. Each MCP tool costs 550–1,400 tokens for its name, description, JSON schema, field descriptions, enums,…

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My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant – Voice Assistant

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I have been watching HomeAssistant’s progress with assist for some time. We previously used Google Home via Nest Minis, and have switched to using fully local assist backed by local first + llama.cpp (previously Ollama). In this post I will share the steps I took to get to where I am today, the decisions I made and why they were the best for my use case specifically. Links to Additional Improvements Here are links to additional improvements posted about in this thread. New Features Fixing…

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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: On Tuesday, March 10, a massive explosion shook the city of Beit Shemesh, just outside Jerusalem, in yet another Iranian ballistic missile attack during the ongoing war. Rescue services scrambled to the scene in search of possible casualties, though as it turned out, the projectile had struck a forested area just outside the city, around 500 meters from homes. On The Times of Israel’s liveblog that day, I reported that the missile had hit an open area and no injuries were caused, citing the rescue…

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Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

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✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?73 points by tathagatadg 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 44 commentsHow has the curriculum changed? What are the professors telling their students to explain why the course they enrolled in deserves the rigorous study? Are the students buying it - and is it matching reality at the end of the course? It’s hard to get a feel from the continuous pendulum swing of “it’s dead” to “it’s better…

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Linux 7.1 To Retire UDP-Lite – Allows For Better Performance With Cleansed Code

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle is set to retire UDP-Lite support. The UDP-Lite protocol allowed for partial checksums where potentially damaged/corrupted packets are still delivered to the application. Since the Linux 2.6.20 days there has been UDP-Lite support but the kernel is now set to retire it given breakage that has persisted for years and cleaning up the networking code can yield a performance advantage for non-UDP-Lite users. Kuniyuki Iwashima of Amazon/AWS took to retiring the UDP-Lite code. He explained of the issues that…

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Starlink Mini as a failover

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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I recently picked up a Starlink Mini to use as a backup connection for my home network. With the new £4.50 standby plan, it's a great way to keep things online if my FTTP connection fails. My primary FTTP connection is generally excellent offering 5ms latency at best, having a backup; something that is reliant on a string of satelites 600Km above the earth is just fascinating to me. Enter Starlink Mini# Starlink Mini is SpaceX's compact satellite dish. It's portable and for this use…

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