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Dmitri Lerko
Personal blog · deploy.live/blogprogrammingsystemsai
Dmitri Lerko writes Deploy Live, a personal blog at deploy.live about programming, systems and ai. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Shipwreck of GKE Cluster Upgrade”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for two real-world experiments running LLMs offline on consumer hardware. One commenter cites them as evidence that local results fall short of cloud-service performance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dmitri Lerko's personal blog covering AI Engineering, Google Cloud, Platform Engineering.
Most-linked posts?
- The Shipwreck of GKE Cluster Upgrade2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-06
- Running Local LLMs Offline on a Ten-Hour Flight2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-27
What Hacker News says?
Vibe coding on consumer hardware is still very limited; this is especially true on GPUs, whose RAM limit is around 16 - maybe 24 - GB for the vast majority (although Macs change the equation). These are two realworld experiments, whose results are disappointing for those expecting levels of performance comparable to cloud services: - https://deploy.live/blog/running-local-llms-offline-on-a-ten... - https://betweenth…
Comment linking /blog/running-local-llms-offline-on-a-ten-hour-flight/
on “ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math”Submitted The Shipwreck of GKE Cluster Upgrade as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Local LLMs Offline on a Ten-Hour Flight as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Long-term log archival for $1.20 TB / year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Shipwreck of GKE Cluster Upgrade as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing CRC16 in Helm as a story · 1 points
HN discussion