On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 02:44:16PM +0000, nusenu wrote:

This looks interesting, 8 new relays joined together:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.onion-routing.ornetradar/1373

These are PlanetLab nodes, as their PTR record shows. Still, there's probably a research group behind this as PlanetLab access is limited to those who contribute nodes, which are mostly companies and universities.

"hsde" => hidden service discovery?

Yes, a reasonable guess given that they all signed up for the HSDir flag. Let's keep an eye on them.