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Marco Bambini

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Marco Bambini's personal blog at marcobambini.substack.com covers programming, data and startups. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “A new inference engine to run Kimi K3 2.78T parameter with 29GB of RAM”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.

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28mentions?
5HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 18 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment is a list of links to HN threads about running the Kimi K3 model locally on laptops and other devices. No comment discusses the writing itself.

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.

Founder and CEO at https://sqlite.ai. Gravity lang author. Hacker before it was cool. Tennis player. Trying to renovate a 16th-century church in my spare time. More at https://marcobambini.com. Click to read Marco Bambini, a Substack with hundreds of subscribers.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A new inference engine to run Kimi K3 2.78T parameter with 29GB of RAM
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-30
  2. We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. 28 Jul 2026 21:35:19 UTC Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max https://github.com/gavamedia/deltafin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090233 [ok] 29 Jul 2026 02:01:04 UTC Kimi K3 running on any device locally https://github.com/RightNow-AI/local-kimi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092591 [dead] 29 Jul 2026 13:49:32 UTC Show HN: Waste Run the full 2.78T-parameter Kimi K3 on a laptop https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

    Comment linking /p/the-waste-inference-engine

    on “Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s”
  2. Submitted Why haven't local-first apps become popular? as a story · 505 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite as a story · 173 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted CRDT and SQLite: Local-First Value Synchronization as a story · 78 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Show HN: Liteparser – a complete SQLite parser in C as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted A new inference engine to run Kimi K3 2.78T parameter with 29GB of RAM as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The Cloud vs. Edge Debate Is Over as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Block-Level CRDT: The Missing Piece for Collaborative AI Agent Memory as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted The Edge-First Manifesto as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The Secret Life of a Local-First Value as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Secret Life of a SQLite Local-First Value as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted The Future of Databases Is Local-First as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The State of Vector Search in SQLite as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The Waste Inference Engine as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted I once wrote a programming language by hand and now I feel like a dinosaur as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted SQLite Databases for Humans and Agents as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted The Cloud vs. Edge Debate Is Over as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Block-Level CRDT: The Missing Piece for Collaborative AI Agent Memory as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted A New SQLite Parser as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted That Time Is Gone as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted A self-contained parser for SQLite statements as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted The Secret Life of a Local-First SQLite Value as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted The Future of Databases Is Local-First as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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