Hacker News: Hoftheaterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=HoftheaterHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:10:30 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Hoftheater in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"]]>This is a nice showcase of what it can do but so little of it seems to be actually useful or rather odd choices. Some examples were already mentioned, but also the Gdocs presentation: apart from the terrible layout, why would one use fake photos of the sun in a "science" talk when there is an abundance of real high-res photos available? For educational purposes these are even free to use.

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:30:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621473Hoftheaterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621473https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621473<![CDATA[New comment by Hoftheater in "Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack"]]>A while back I wrote an FPGA-based minimal network stack to work with the MRMAC hard IP of an AMD VC1902 with basically the same functionality: ARP, IPv4, ICMP Echo reply and UDP send/receive. I added the bare bare minimum to get UDP GRO working on the receiver side (Linux).

I also enjoyed the learning experience and works perfectly fine at up to 100G. But I definitely appreciate that I didn't have to go through the same pain under Linux where this stuff just works.

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