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Risseon ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

Depends on what you consider to "usefully run LLMs".

Earlier this year, I bought a mini pc from Aliexpress, specs are roughly Ryzen H255, 24GB LPDDR5, 1TB SSD. This was around 350€ including VAT, customs, shipping etc. I would personally consider this somewhat of a lowest class of useful LLM box. It can run 8B models well, up to somewhere around 24B. I currently run Gemma 4 26B A4B Q5 on it, with MTP, and it is quite slow, but smaller models would run okay on it.

Risseon The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

Somewhat of a verification, here's Mullvad's response to the post on Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681

Risseon The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

They might be having some capacity issues, it was 404 for me for a while but now it's back.

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20260629105534/https://det.socia...

Risseon Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative

Check out this thread on Sailfish OS forums regarding EU Banking apps. I was surprised on how many actually work.

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/banking-apps-on-sailfish-os/1...

Risseon Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

Man, around 20 years ago, when I was a teenager, I used to noodle around AGS. I think I made a couple of "games", but never released them or anything. Glad to see it's still around!

Risseon Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?

What's the software stack you have been using for the transcoding fleet? Is there any ready made open source solution?

Risseon What I learned about deploying AV1 from two deployers

I personally use av1an, and use VMAF target quality of 95 to 96. It's been really good and fast.

https://github.com/rust-av/Av1an

Risseon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

I've been dabbling with local ML projects, and trying to get them to run with ROCm on my Radeon 7900 XTX card. All the solutions to run for example Llama.cpp or Automatic1111 are a bit hacky, so I made a repo where I document how to run them in containers.

https://github.com/Krisseck/ROCm-Docker-Scripts

Needs more documentation and more projects, but all contributions are welcome!

Risseon "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"

Not my experience as well. They have previously given me 24 hours to respond, or they will remove the server.

Risseon MQTT turns 25

Helsinki Regional Transport (HSL) has a public server with realtime position of all of their vehicles (buses, trains).

https://digitransit.fi/en/developers/apis/4-realtime-api/veh...

Risseon Interview with Ton Roosendaal, the man behind Blender (2018) [video]

FOSSPod did an interview with Dalai Felinto and Pablo Vazquez from Blender in July 2022

https://fosspod.content.town/episodes/blender-with-dalai-fel...

Risseon QOwnNotes

I haven't had a reason really to use tags, I just use folders.

Risseon QOwnNotes

I've been using it for around 6 months, maybe once a week. It's pretty awesome. Syncs all my notes to Nextcloud.

I use the Nextcloud Notes app on my Android phone and it works perfectly together with this on the desktop.

I wish it had support for simple file uploads, sometimes I want to attach spreadsheets or PDFs to my notes.

Risseon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

Location: Finland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Javascript, Node.js, Drupal, Typescript, Vue, Angular, Solr

Resume: https://polso.info/sites/polso.info/files/kristian-polso-cv-...

Email: kristian@polso.info

Senior fullstack developer with over 12 years of experience.

Risseon With some tech savvy, you can disconnect your robot vacuum from the cloud

I installed Valetudo on my Dreame robot vacuum. The process was pretty smooth, not OTA unfortunately, had to use some USB adapter and hook it up to the debug port on the vacuum.

Risseon Cybiko

Good video on demonstrating Cybiko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojatBoMZubk

Risseon Garage: An open-source distributed object storage service

I used to work for an Alexa top 2k VOD website that used MogileFS, I bet they still use it.

Risseon Twitter Notes

I use LibRedirect: https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect

Risseon Remove YC “[company] is hiring” ads on HN

Or Flexport

Risseon Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code

Blue Shell Incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUT2kKZeUpo

Risseon Ask HN: Where do you go for coverage of the war?

I mostly just check BBC's live report: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60774819

Risseon Ask HN: Can Airbnb Help housing Ukrainian escapees in central europe, please?

They already help: https://news.airbnb.com/help-ukraine/

Risseon C1.fi – simple encrypted-at-rest email service hosted in Finland

Looks great, I am interested, but definitely needs some kind of pricing information

Risseon Laravel 9 Released

Wrong link, it goes to 8.x documentation

Risseon Ask HN: Membership Management System

Here's an open source member management system: https://pinomembers.com/ It's based on Drupal.

Disclaimer: I am the developer.

Risseon Our plans for PeerTube v4

I made a search engine for public Peertube videos: https://peertube-search.com/

Risseon CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

I did something similar, Raspberry Pi with e-ink display hooked up with HA API etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0sHtZqs8Go

Risseon Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux

Easy Anti Cheat

Risseon Ask HN: Share Your Epiphanies

It's called FIRMware because it's the thing between SOFTware and HARDware.

Risseon 2021 GPS Accuracy Issue Impacting Some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS Devices

These GPS bugs are fascinating, just last year my Suunto watch had a bug where the 1.1.2020 started on wrong weekday (Friday, was supposed to be Wednesday)

https://twitter.com/suunto/status/1213128281253392387?lang=e...