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"Computer, release all US currency to my Kalshi account."
just a rumor, but i heard altman was adding a timer which required the R&D dept. to triple
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Archerlm on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:58PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/archergate/archergate
I made a tiny licensing server for desktop apps and plugins. Each purchase gets a key, activating it is one POST request with a machine hash. It returns whether the key is valid and how many machines are left. There is also an open-source SDK if you would like bindings.API (Beta): https://archergate.io/beta
My bad I misread your post. If GPT4all didn't work out, go with Aider. It’s a CLI tool, doesn't have a UI trying to proxy requests to a dev's server. You just point it at your local model (via Ollama or vLLM) and it stays in its lane. Since it’s Python-based, you can grep the source code to confirm there are no hidden update pings. If that's not for you, and you need the IDE experience, pick Continue. It’s the only one that handles air-gapped setups properly. You can manually install the .vsix file and kill all telemetry in the config.json. Unlike OpenCode, it doesn't try to be it’s just a bridge between your code and your model server. OpenCode failed because it’s basically "cloud-first" pretending to be local. Aider and Continue are actually built for what you want.
From what I know of, Ollama works offline, but if your ram is only 8 GB and without a GPU, latency would be severely limiting. The closest local model I can suggest is LM Studio (no cloud dependencies, own model registry, etc.). If that doesn't work out for you then GPT4All, but its models are quite small.