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Shadowfax bets ₹120 Cr on SaaS pivot to cut last-mile costs 15%

Logistics player shifts from asset-heavy delivery to tech platform, targets ₹500 Cr revenue from SaaS by FY27.

HTML has 5 list types—most devs use only 2, says blog

Frank M Taylor’s post breaks down ordered, unordered, description, menu, and control lists, urging semantic precision over default `<ul>` habits.

Julia Evans drops Tailwind CSS after 8 years—vanilla CSS wins for maintainability

The 'Wizard Zines' creator migrates personal sites to semantic HTML and structured CSS, ditching Tailwind’s utility-first approach for better control.

FPGA-based scientific calculator runs on custom 4-bit CPU, open-sourced on GitHub

A developer’s GitHub project builds a scientific calculator from Verilog gates, offering a web emulator and microcode debugger for hardware education.

GitHub’s 181-star whichllm tool ranks local LLMs by real benchmarks, not parameters

A single-command Python tool helps users pick the best-performing local LLM for their hardware, using recency-aware benchmarks instead of parameter count.

RISC-V router crowdfunding hits ₹20.6 L in first 30-day cycle

Start9-hosted campaign for open-source networking hardware crosses 10% of ₹2.06 Cr softcap with 90 backers.

Amazonbot to enforce robots.txt from June 15—sites get direct control

Amazon’s crawler will stop manual overrides, default to robots.txt rules; publishers gain granular access control without Amazon support tickets.

Kronos AI model hits 24.8k GitHub stars in days—open-source finance LLM

GitHub’s fastest-growing finance AI model offers live demo, fine-tuning tools, and Hugging Face integration—all open-source.

Roboflow’s open-source vision library hits 38.9K GitHub stars; Indian devs among top contributors

Python-based supervision toolkit simplifies AI workflows, with 4.8K+ commits and growing adoption by Indian startups and enterprises.

Bun merges Rust rewrite: 20-30% less memory, 15-25% faster startup

Bun’s open-source JavaScript runtime switches from Zig to Rust, cutting memory use by 20-30% and improving startup times by 15-25% while keeping full Node.js compatibility.

Toyota RAV4 owner removes ₹0 DCM & GPS to block telemetry leaks

Security researcher physically disables Data Communication Module and GPS in 2024 RAV4 Hybrid to prevent data brokers and insurers from accessing driving telemetry—India’s connected car market faces similar risks.

X launches History tab to unify bookmarks, likes, videos—1.5B MAU play

New feature consolidates user activity into one tab, aiming to boost engagement amid advertiser exodus.

Microsoft’s ₹0-cost driver rollback lands in Windows Update

Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery auto-reverts buggy drivers, cutting manual fixes for 400M+ Windows users globally—including India’s PC-heavy IT sector.

Scorched Earth 2000: 1990s cult game revived in HTML5, no download needed

KAOS Software Team ports the classic artillery game to browsers with multiplayer, AI opponents, and custom tanks—led by developer Hei C. Ng.

AiToEarn hits 12.8k GitHub stars, 2.2k forks—open-source AI monetisation stack

12.8k stars, 2.2k forks, 2.6k commits: open-source AiToEarn repo builds AI-driven monetisation for one-person companies.