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voorloopnul.com
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voorloopnul.com is a personal blog at voorloopnul.com about programming and career. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “A Python Proxy in Less than 100 Lines of Code”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for how-to posts on running Llama 3 locally with llama.cpp (quantizing and running the original model) and for a tutorial on writing a simple Python proxy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Python Proxy in Less than 100 Lines of Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-30
What Hacker News says?
I really want to use llama3 8B Q4_0 llama.cpp for some fun automation tasks so I tried following this guide: https://voorloopnul.com/blog/quantize-and-run-the-original-l... but all I get out of it is rambling nonsense. Glad ollama exists I guess, running that works fine for me.
Comment linking /blog/quantize-and-run-the-original-llama3-8b-with-llama-cpp/
on “I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers”Submitted Django tips for real life applications as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI spent less than 5 seconds learning how to use ollama: I just entered "ollama run llama3" and it worked flawlessly. I spent HOURS setting up llama.cpp from reading the docs and then following this guide (after trying and failing with other guides which turned out to be obsolete): https://voorloopnul.com/blog/quantize-and-run-the-original-l... Using llama.cpp, I asked the resulting model "what is 1+1", and got a nev…
Comment linking /blog/quantize-and-run-the-original-llama3-8b-with-llama-cpp/
on “Ollama v0.1.45”Submitted Abstracting a HTTP endpoint into a continuous data stream as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou could always write a simple proxy in python and simply route all of your traffic through that. See: http://voorloopnul.com/blog/a-python-proxy-in-less-than-100-...
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