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Hey everyone, A little while ago, I wrote about keeping my Pascal-era NVIDIA card alive on newer Linux kernels by patching the NVIDIA 580 DKMS driver. That p

Hey everyone, In my last update, I broke down the Knobs A, B, and C changes and teased what was coming next. The latest piece of that puzzle, Knobs D, is now built, tested on live mainnet traffic, and submitted as [PR #141]([link]

When evaluating crypto risks, most people focus on crude code traps: a honeypot smart contract that lets you buy but blocks the transfer function when you try to sell, or a developer minting trillions of fresh tokens out of thin air to dump

Hey everyone, If you run a Hive-Engine node (or manage a self-hosted MongoDB instance on Linux), you might run into a nasty surprise after bumping your apt repositories for MongoDB 9.0. You configure the official repository, run `sudo apt

Hey everyone, Over the past few weeks, I’ve been chipping away at a s

Hey everyone, I have been working through the next small performance bundle for the Hive-Engine node, and this one is about the part of the node that fetches Hive blocks. The short version is: I added opt-in adaptive fetch concurrency an

Hey everyone, If you are running a Linux workstation or server with a Pascal-generation GPU (like a GTX 1060, 1070, 1080, or 1080 Ti) alongside bleeding-edge kernels, you might have hit a brick wall recently. A few days ago, XanMod pushed

I have been continuing the small, careful performance work on the Hive-Engine node. This time the change is less about adding a new operator setting and more about removing two bits of avoidable waiting from the normal path. The short ver

If your Pathfinder 1e druid wants to summon a Black Bear, or your ranger wants one as an animal companion, your first instinct is to pull open the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary and flip to the "B" section. Go ahead and try. You won't find it.

Hey everyone, I have been spending some time in the Hive-Engine node codebase, looking at a larger list of possible performance and lite-node improvements. I decided not to start with the flashy stuff. The first pass is a small feature