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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 Tokens/Sec on a 13-Year-Old Xeon With No GPU
A developer got Google's Gemma 4 26B running on 2013 Xeon hardware for under $300. The fix for a silent MoE bug is now upstream - here's what it means for local inference.
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xAI Open-Sources Grok Build After Data Exfiltration Scandal
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Inkling: Thinking Machines Lab Drops a 975B Open-Weights Model
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Clawk: Disposable Linux VMs for Coding Agents Without Cloud Bills
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Mesh LLM: Run 235B Models Across Your Home Lab with iroh
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Ant: A New JavaScript Runtime With Its Own Engine, Package Registry, and Desktop Framework
A solo developer built a complete JavaScript ecosystem from scratch - runtime, engine, package manager, and Electron alternative. Here's what HN thinks.
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Colibri: Running GLM 5.2 on a 32GB Laptop with Disk Streaming and Expert Offloading
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Mitchell Hashimoto on Building Ghostty in Zig: Simplicity, Control, and Terminal Performance
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