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Re:Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 1... on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:02PM (#49959598)
100 tok/s on a 4090 could unlock entirely new use cases. What becomes possible when local inference is this fast?
Re:Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:45PM (#48984658)
I'm a bit curious why not running DeepSeek V4 on top of https://github.com/antirez/ds4. I think the results could be really good.
Re:Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally on Friday July 03, 2026 @03:10PM (#48778786)
Local open weight models will definitely be a future trend. Imagine if an Opus-level model could run locally: many more latent use cases would likely emerge, since Opus is priced so high. Perhaps the future will be a multi-model architecture, where frontier models handle planning and local models carry out the concrete execution.
Re:Pie: Yet another open-source coding agent in Rust on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @09:04PM (#48392401)
Hi HN, Pie author here

I’ve been building pie, an open-source coding agent written in Rust. The initial reason was that I had some proactive, long-term automated tasks to run on a local DS v4 model. Therefore, I needed a customizable agent runtime to support these custom tasks, such as triggers, to perform some simple automation, Over time, the project gradually became more and more usable, so I thought I might as well turn it into a proper project. Of course, most of the code in this project was written by AI. If you’re sensitive to AI-generated code or AI coding, feel free to simply ignore it.

Pie runs inside your local project directory, can inspect/edit files, run shell commands, keep resumable sessions, and use different model providers, including local OpenAI-compatible servers.

The goal is not just to build another chat UI for coding, but a local agent runtime for developer workflows: slash commands, session history, skills, MCP tools, cron/triggers, and a small hub so agents running on different machines can send messages to each other.

A few things I’ve been focusing on recently:

- local/session-first workflows: resume sessions, search history, save transcripts

- model flexibility: Anthropic/OpenAI/etc., plus local OpenAI-compatible endpoints

- MCP and skills for attaching project-specific tools/instructions

- cron/triggers for lightweight automation inside a coding session

- SSH/headless support for running agents on remote dev boxes

- a web UI that mirrors the terminal runtime rather than replacing it

- an optional hub for agent-to-agent messaging and notifications

Love to hear feedback from you, thank you!

Re:The worst volume control UI in the world on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:16PM (#47462123)
i know they will have alsamixer in this list.
Re:Postgres with Builtin File Systems on Sunday March 15, 2026 @04:50AM (#47385492)
it has nothing to do with TiDB, db9 is built from scratch.A good way to think about it is that db9 is similar to tidb-server, it provides a PostgreSQL wire protocol and SQL layer, while the actual data lives in the underlying KV layer.
Re:Postgres with Builtin File Systems on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:52PM (#47383064)
yes, it’s quite a journey
Re:Postgres with Builtin File Systems on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:32PM (#47382927)
Hello, the developer of db9 here. You’re right, that section is indeed a bit too brief. We will add more architecture documentation later. What I wanted to convey is that, unlike a standard PostgreSQL, db9 is more like a pg SQL-compatible layer built on top of a large distributed KV store. I also shared a brief introduction in this tweet, which might help clarify things. https://x.com/dxhuang/status/2032016443114733744
Re:Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there? on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:51PM (#46696150)
IMHO, sometimes strangers can offer advice without bias, whereas those closest to you cannot.
Re:JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis an... on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:23PM (#46642978)
In large-scale metadata scenarios, JFS recommends using a distributed key-value store to host metadata, such as TiKV or FoundationDB. Based on my experience with large JFS users, most of them choose TiKV.

Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of TiKV.

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:06PM (#46626542)
https://0xffff.me some random stuff

https://me.0xffff.me blog

Re:PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:54PM (#45767535)
well...Many database vendors offers free databases for dev purpose for years, i mean it's not a news.
Re:Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about... on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:02PM (#44906218)
https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/23156/steve-jobs-co...

that's cool!

Re:Kimi K2 on Friday July 11, 2025 @12:12PM (#44533893)
Paired with programming tools like Claude Code, it could be a low-cost/open-source replacement for Sonnet

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