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permanent··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Looks interesting and would love to try it out! but your repo is missing a Open Source license (https://github.com/rasulkireev/marketing-agents)
permanent··on MacBook Air M4
This is amazing, yet silly to state "Up to 23x faster performance [4]"

[4] against, 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based MacBook Air

permanent··on GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
There is not evidence to suggest general impulse control. That's extrapolation (beyond food items) and likely untrue IMHO.
permanent··on Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code
Engagement-optimized writing style (whether intentionally or subconsciously learnt to do so)
permanent··on Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe
> China, all you need is some money and smart people

No way

permanent··on Complete hardware and software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally
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Complete hardware + software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally. The actual model, no distillations, and Q8 quantization for full quality. Total cost, $6,000. All download and part links below:

Motherboard: Gigabyte MZ73-LM0 or MZ73-LM1. We want 2 EPYC sockets to get a massive 24 channels of DDR5 RAM to max out that memory size and bandwidth. https://t.co/GCYsoYaKvZ

CPU: 2x any AMD EPYC 9004 or 9005 CPU. LLM generation is bottlenecked by memory bandwidth, so you don't need a top-end one. Get the 9115 or even the 9015 if you really want to cut costs https://t.co/TkbfSFBioq

RAM: This is the big one. We are going to need 768GB (to fit the model) across 24 RAM channels (to get the bandwidth to run it fast enough). That means 24 x 32GB DDR5-RDIMM modules. Example kits: https://t.co/pJDnjxnfjg https://t.co/ULXQen6TEc

Case: You can fit this in a standard tower case, but make sure it has screw mounts for a full server motherboard, which most consumer cases won't. The Enthoo Pro 2 Server will take this motherboard: https://t.co/m1KoTor49h

PSU: The power use of this system is surprisingly low! (<400W) However, you will need lots of CPU power cables for 2 EPYC CPUs. The Corsair HX1000i has enough, but you might be able to find a cheaper option: https://t.co/y6ug3LKd2k

Heatsink: This is a tricky bit. AMD EPYC is socket SP5, and most heatsinks for SP5 assume you have a 2U/4U server blade, which we don't for this build. You probably have to go to Ebay/Aliexpress for this. I can vouch for this one: https://t.co/51cUykOuWG

And if you find the fans that come with that heatsink noisy, replacing with 1 or 2 of these per heatsink instead will be efficient and whisper-quiet: https://t.co/CaEwtoxRZj

And finally, the SSD: Any 1TB or larger SSD that can fit R1 is fine. I recommend NVMe, just because you'll have to copy 700GB into RAM when you start the model, lol. No link here, if you got this far I assume you can find one yourself!

And that's your system! Put it all together and throw Linux on it. Also, an important tip: Go into the BIOS and set the number of NUMA groups to 0. This will ensure that every layer of the model is interleaved across all RAM chips, doubling our throughput. Don't forget!

Now, software. Follow the instructions here to install llama.cpp https://t.co/jIkQksXZzu

Next, the model. Time to download 700 gigabytes of weights from @huggingface! Grab every file in the Q8_0 folder here: https://t.co/9ni1Miw73O

Believe it or not, you're almost done. There are more elegant ways to set it up, but for a quick demo, just do this. llama-cli -m ./DeepSeek-R1.Q8_0-00001-of-00015.gguf --temp 0.6 -no-cnv -c 16384 -p "<|User|>How many Rs are there in strawberry?<|Assistant|>"

If all goes well, you should witness a short load period followed by the stream of consciousness as a state-of-the-art local LLM begins to ponder your question:

And once it passes that test, just use llama-server to host the model and pass requests in from your other software. You now have frontier-level intelligence hosted entirely on your local machine, all open-source and free to use!

And if you got this far: Yes, there's no GPU in this build! If you want to host on GPU for faster generation speed, you can! You'll just lose a lot of quality from quantization, or if you want Q8 you'll need >700GB of GPU memory, which will probably cost $100k+

permanent··on Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative
Added an icon, and still it says:

> Product icon is required

permanent··on Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
in short, money and ethics
permanent··on Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for your web browser
Please do spare a couple of days on it. I think noone would really believe it until seeing it :)
permanent··on Yaak is now open source
Yaak is open source
permanent··on A small studio made a game based on a Stanislaw Lem's novel
This seems quite reasonable imo
permanent··on I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app
just so u know, kakaotalk does exist in multiple languages. feels like this whole thread is based on a false assumption

>Kakaotalk is in English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kakaotalk/id362057947)

permanent··on I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app
Kakaotalk is in English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kakaotalk/id362057947)
permanent··on Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem
Perhaps because EU just passed a law for third party app stores?
permanent··on I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
EU is very large. If I were to believe your posts, Germany has achieved good protection of employees from their employers. Simply not true in ... many non-Germany EU countries.
permanent··on I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
1) That may be allowed in Germany. Definitely not in Poland and many other countries.

2) In my experience, not true. Most often an employee needs to get a pre-approval that often take too long. As a full time developer, there's difference between playing soccer and developing software.

permanent··on What Happened to GE? (2021)
While GE price has gone up in the last 2 years, your statement doesn't take account for a reverse split—a 1-for-8 stock split in 2021.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/ge-stock-split/#:~:....

permanent··on AI’s big rift is like a religious schism
It is very bad. There's more money and fame to be made by taking these two extreme stances. The media and the general public is eating up this discourse, that are polarizing the society, instead of educating.

> What things?

There are helpful developments and applications that go unnoticed and unfunded. And there are actual dangerous AI practices right now. Instead we talk about hypotheticals.

permanent··on Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths
We should also name the artist, DAKD JUNG. He also sells audio visualizers based on this concept
permanent··on Consensus: Use AI to find insights in research papers
Because providing always accurate LLM-based paraphrasing would be much more difficult.
permanent··on Google Med-Palm M: Towards Generalist Biomedical AI
I work in this field - IMO, your assessment is correct insofar as the absolute need for commercialization of research done. However, we haven't gotten to the super-human performance for medical images yet. We don't even have the ImageNet-equivalent, nor do we have any open source (or just source & weight available) models that Google and other big corp claim to be so wonderful. Most of people in the field, rightly so, then dismiss anything like Med-Palm M and other PR-like papers from these groups. Why base your career (both academically and product-wise) on this?
permanent··on Google Med-Palm M: Towards Generalist Biomedical AI
I won't take any of this seriously until they make their model and weights available.

This type of PR research is what is really holding back AI for medical images.

permanent··on Tech companies keep falling for the forever fallacy
Agreed. Truly despise when otherwise smart tech bloggers use jargons (incorrectly) to appear authoritative
permanent··on Ask HN: In-depth sites for various industries' news?
Financial reports and news of companies and stocks (mostly US, I think), focusing on values and fundamentals. I found other similar sites to be too much about short term trends and technical analysis.

https://marketinference.com

permanent··on Twitter is shutting down Revue
Any recommendation for substitutes?
permanent··on No, Google did not hike the price of a .dev domain from $12 to $850
https://porkbun.com/
permanent··on Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface
I'd love to know this as well.
permanent··on Ask HN: Who runs a small/medium website supported by ads?
The internet says one can make $5-20 / 1000 views from adsense.

I'd like to hear specific cases if anyone wants to share

permanent··on Ask HN: Who runs a small/medium website supported by ads?
I'm curious about exact numbers, if you don't mind sharing!

Just because the cost neutral could mean a few dollars (static) to a few hundreds.

permanent··on Show HN: AI magics meet Infinite draw board
Yes please open source the webui codes!

> *: The WebUI codes are not open sourced yet, but we are happy to open source them if it is truely helpful .

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