Category: Opensource (FOSS)
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AnythingLLM 1.19 Ships Its Own Local Model, and the Separate Inference Server Goes Away
AnythingLLM used to want a second program. You ran the app in a container, you ran Ollama beside it, and then you pointed one at the other. Version 1.19.0, published on 26 October 2026, puts a model engine inside the container and makes that second program optional. Start with the caveat, because it decides what…
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HyCanvas Stops Renting You Your Own Files: What Changes When the Canvas Lives on Your Box
Open a design tool and press export. That is where you find out who owns what you just made. Usually the answer is a watermark, a font that quietly reverts, or a box offering the full-size file for 12 dollars a month. The toll booth was never the editor. The editor is the demo, and…
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Strafe Wants to Be the Third Federated Chat That Sticks. Read Its Licence First.
The licence file Strafe did not have on Tuesday appeared on Thursday. It is not the licence its maintainer promised. The code is better than the launch page deserves: a Discord clone with E2EE and a peering layer, so separate servers can talk. It reached Hacker News on 14 October. Nothing here ran in my…
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Gigabyte Revived a 2018 Chipset to Sell You 2014 RAM
The most interesting PC hardware of 2026 is a motherboard built for memory that came out in 2014. In August, Gigabyte launched 2 of them. The B450M D3HP and the D3HP WIFI6E sit on the B450 chipset, which shipped in 2018, with 4 DDR4 slots and room for 128 GB. AMD marked 10 years of…
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Cheap Chinese Models and the Trillion-Dollar Reset: Follow the Money, Not the Benchmark
The interesting question about cheap Chinese models is not whether they are good. It is who pays for the data centres built to beat them. This site has been round this subject twice in five weeks, both times from the other side. First the DeepSeek moment a year on. Then a 7-month gap, measured from…
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Seven Months Behind: What a Source-Linked Leaderboard Can and Cannot Tell You
The claim is that open-weight models trail the best closed ones by 7 months. The interesting part is how anyone measures that, and what the number leaves out.
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One Year After DeepSeek: What a Year of Chinese Open Weights Changed for the Rest of Us
A year of Chinese open weights, read through Hugging Face’s three-part audit: what the licences did, what the file sizes did, and what it means for a machine at home.
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The Agent Gets a Desk Job: Whose Desk Is It Sitting On?
Whose desk does the AI agent sit on, now that it edits your documents?
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BentoPDF: 42 PDF Tools That Never Leave Your Browser
Picture a signed contract, a bank statement, a scan of your passport, and a website offering PDF services to merge them for free. No account, no upload limit, no fuss. You drag the file in, it does the work, you download the result, and you close the tab. The file did not go anywhere. Except…
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35 Feeds, 92 Megabytes of RAM, and Nobody’s Algorithm
My reading list used to be somebody else’s product. Every article arrived pre-scored, ordered by an inference engine I never agreed to and could not inspect, with one control: the scroll. That is a strange thing to hand over. What you read shapes what you think, and I had outsourced the selection to a system…