I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices
Submitted by mrashad74. Hacker News recorded 278 points and 92 comments as of Nov 13, 2026 (UTC).
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Repository: hyperionaidev/smolmaxxing. The record contains the title “I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices” but no substantive source summary.
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Source votes: 278 votes (Nov 13, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 187 (Nov 12, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “ashhart/TensorFold” (GitHub Trending, Nov 13, 2026); “ggml-org/llama.cpp” (GitHub Trending, Nov 13, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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