Meet the Intel GPU D-Series: Intel’s “Crescent Island” AI Server GPU Unveiled If you’ve been hanging around the self-hosting and homelab communities for any amount of time, you already know that the local AI revolution is in full swing. We are constantly looking for ways to squeeze more tokens per second out of our local Large Language Models (LLMs), run Stable Diffusion without waiting until next Tuesday for an image, and generally break free from the clutches of cloud API providers. ...

Yandex Outage: Data Shows That Instead Of Going Dark, Malicious Bots Went On The Move Hey folks, welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech. If you’ve been running a homelab or self-hosting your applications for any amount of time, you know that the internet is a noisy place. Your logs are constantly filling up with random requests from unknown IP addresses trying to log into your SSH server, hit your admin panels, or exploit vulnerabilities you didn’t even know existed. ...

Linux Foundation Estimates 25% Of New Pull Requests To Be Low-Quality AI Slop Hey folks, welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech. If you’ve been running a homelab for any amount of time, you already know that the intersection of open-source software and local hardware is a beautiful thing. We spin up old mini PCs, provision Raspberry Pi clusters, and rack old enterprise gear to run our own Git servers, CI/CD pipelines, and local AI models. ...

Intel Core Ultra 9 Arrow Lake On Star Labs Starfighter Shows Nice Gains On Ubuntu 26.10 If you’ve been hanging around the Self-Hosted Tech community for a while, you know we love a good underdog story. We love it even more when that underdog story involves bleeding-edge hardware, a Linux-first philosophy, and a future-forward operating system that actually makes use of the silicon underneath the hood. ...

Taint_Forced_Bind Sent In For Linux 7.4 To Deal With Major Fuzzing Attack If you’ve spent any time in the homelab or self-hosting community, you already know that stability is the holy grail of our setups. Whether you’re running a massive Proxmox cluster, a humble Raspberry Pi cluster, or a beefy workstation loaded with local AI models, the last thing you want is a kernel panic taking down your services at 3:00 AM. ...

Ask HN: How to Deal with Shipping AI-Written Code You Don’t Understand (Homelab Edition) If you spend any time browsing tech communities like Hacker News, you’ve probably seen the recurring thread: “Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don’t understand.” It’s a question that strikes fear into the hearts of senior developers, but for those of us in the self-hosting and homelab community, it hits a little differently. ...

OpenBSD 8.0: Bringing Linux 6.18 Graphics Drivers to Your Homelab Hey folks, welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech. If you’ve spent any amount of time in the homelab community, you know that the conversation usually revolves around Proxmox, Ubuntu Server, Debian, or maybe a niche Arch Linux setup. But every once in a while, a curveball gets thrown our way that makes us reconsider our stack. Today is one of those days. ...

Yandex Outage: Data Shows That Instead Of Going Dark, Malicious Bots Moved Welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech. If you’ve been running a homelab or self-hosting your applications for any amount of time, you already know that the internet is a constant, invisible warzone. Every second, automated scripts are scanning IP addresses, probing ports, and trying to brute-force their way into your Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, or Home Assistant instances. ...

Cloudflare And OpenAI: Making AI Discovery Better For Everyone Hey folks, welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech. If you’ve been following the channel or the blog, you know we love cramming oversized GPUs into tiny mini-PCs, stacking 2U servers in our closets, and running our own local AI models. We do this because we love the hardware, but also because we want control over our data and our compute. ...

Show HN: LLMspeed – Feel How Fast a Local LLM Runs Before You Buy the Hardware If you’ve spent any time in the self-hosting and homelab communities lately, you already know that local AI is the hottest topic on the block. We all want to run our own LLMs (Large Language Models) for privacy, for learning, or just for the sheer joy of having a supercomputer humming away in our closet. But there’s a massive roadblock standing in the way of almost everyone: hardware uncertainty. ...