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GitHub

youngyangyang04/llm-master

大模型（LLM）全栈学习路线与中文教程🔥：覆盖 Prompt Engineering、RAG、AI Agent、MCP、微调、模型部署、Transformer、AI 编程与大厂面试，从入门到生产实践。

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Show HN: I built a router for agent tools

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HF model

Edge0/Edge0-35B-A3B-preview

Trending model on Hugging Face — text-generation, mlx; 3245 likes, 37,131 downloads.

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Show HN: Interakt – open-source self-hosted search and AI chat for your website

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HF model

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

Trending model on Hugging Face — image-text-to-text, transformers; 2925 likes, 390,657 downloads.

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What people actually built

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Show HN: Microsoft Comic Chat (1996) for ChatGPT

I love good old Microsoft Comic Chat (1996-1998). Since the source is now public and archived, I made a fork and added support for ChatGPT, so that you can have a comic chat with GPT itself. The LLM is instructed to emote using the UI convention.

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r/LLMDevs

I built an open-source LLM autotuner: 56–97% more throughput than a fixed tuning heuristic across three GPUs

When I was just in vllm slack I saw alot of questions from people where they were asking the config for best performance and what optimziations they can do so I thought of building this project and when I started working on it then I got to know that Picking an engine is only the

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r/LocalLLaMA

I built a native Vulkan training backend for 143 modern Transformer architectures — no CUDA or PyTorch required

I've been working on something that started as the training backend for my Hierarchos architecture, but it has grown into a much broader project: https://github.com/necat101/Hierarchos-Native Hierarchos Native now includes a native Rust + Vulkan backend for training and inference

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Quick hits

Show HN: Kival – A self-hosted knowledge system for organizations ↗

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Hi HN, I’ve been building Kival, an open-source, self-hosted knowledge system for organizations. The idea is a collaborative knowledge space

Show HN: TurboBench, the Compression Lie Detector, 100 Codecs, Daily Update ↗

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TurboBench: The Ultimate Data Compression Benchmark 100+ Codecs. The Powerhouse in a Single Executable — The Compression Lie Detector Tired

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GitHub

A training-free multi-agent framework for recursive self-improvement in new environments through broad-then-deep autonomous exploration and