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New comment by baristaGeek in "Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s"

baristaGeek — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:55:19 +0000

For the harness... just the shell. No client library. Does that answer your question?

New comment by baristaGeek in "Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s"

baristaGeek — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:06:50 +0000

Also I don't know if people like this... but could this be wrapped around a nice desktop app?

New comment by baristaGeek in "Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s"

baristaGeek — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:02:37 +0000

I just used it, went through the whole installation (took like 1 hour approx). Long but straightforward. If I put my computer to sleep will it continue?

I started the server (very curiously I was running oLlama in the same prot slotserve uses by default, instead of switching it which I know you can do, I just ditched oLlama, perhaps an insight for you) and built a small html hello world served via Python. The thing pointed me to the localhost link, nice!

As an early user, my advice is to focus on efficiency. The efficiency of the installation but more importantly, the efficiency of running the thing. 8.1GB per slotserve process is a lot! Is that in your control?

Also, I've seen an interest of certain kinds of programmers for open-weight models. "We all know agree that LLMs for coding are very useful but we're giving money to a small set of big, evil corporations. They're Trump donors. I heard it's bad for the environment because it uses water". If it's local and open-weight, this could be marketed this way I think.

Finally, what's the actual, real use case for slotserve?

Colombia Earthquake Recovery Fund

baristaGeek — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:34:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kiva.org/gf/238fe077-033e-4a59-8d11-e571e6e4ed31

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347257

Points: 1

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New comment by baristaGeek in "Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia"

baristaGeek — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:30:49 +0000

Lived it from my 20th floor apartment in Medellin. It was scary af, my wife started crying, but friends and family are OK.

Interesting tech fact: A friend of mine who lives in SF couldn't communicate with his parents who were in the countryside near Pereira (one of the 2 or 3 most devastated cities) because comms were pretty bad, but luckily they had Starlink to be able communicate.

Show HN: Minions Army Harness – Small Version of Claude Tag

baristaGeek — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:57:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/baristaGeek/minions-army-harness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090454

Points: 3

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Trump Ally Wins Colombia Election, Heralding Pro-Market Turn

baristaGeek — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:55:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/trump-ally-wins-colombian-election-heralding-pro-business-swing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625101

Points: 5

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New comment by baristaGeek in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026)"

baristaGeek — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:54:56 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Colombia (US Timezones) | Remote or Hybrid in Colombia (can fly to the US or elsewhere for offsites)

Email: estebanvargas94@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tebanvargas/

Technologies & Skills: Software Engineering, React, Node, TypeScript, AI Engineering, System Design, AWS, Leadership.

I'm looking for a full-stack engineering role. I can be either be a pure IC or a tech lead. The main thing that I'm optimizing for is for solving the problems that I want to solve.

9+ years of experience in the industry, the past 4 in tech lead roles. I have mostly worked for US SaaS companies, and have also been a founder in the past (backed by Techstars).

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d0-tqGvQdwnN0sXtFfUW6qdE3l9...

New comment by baristaGeek in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

baristaGeek — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:21:53 +0000

Ok I actually like the idea of flatter orgs and player-coaches a lot.

However, do we really need them to AI-wash the fact that as a lot of companies, this company over-hired during ZIRP? Do we really need them to AI-wash the fact that the crypto hype is gone, therefore their business is smaller? “Company as intelligence” and “AI productivity” are just buzzwords so their stock price doesn’t suffer.

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:35:26 +0000

Interesting perspective

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:41:12 +0000

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:41:05 +0000

Staying pretty much the same, at least with the current state of technology (just way more bottlenecked by this, but with the same process). What have you seen?

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:40:40 +0000

Agree! I'm not saying that people are ditching all of Agile, just certain parts of Agile. Let's call it Agile 2.0 or something completely different

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:39:55 +0000

Could be the case! Without being to strict on the terminology I just wanted to give a clear message: Our planning processes and time range expectations are changing completely

Agile Is Dying

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:55:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/helloteban/status/2045244584880451748

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810459

Points: 4

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Post-AI Boom Predictions

baristaGeek — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:27:33 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@baristaGeek/post-ai-boom-predictions-e2ef499e12c1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767750

Points: 3

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Show HN: A game to teach teenagers coding in the age of AI

baristaGeek — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:09:10 +0000

I built this mini-game (only 1 level) to teach kids how to code in the age of AI.

It teaches them basic syntax, prompting, system design, and CLI usage. I thought it would be cool to build something that doesn't focus on syntax only given how much this has changed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494446

Points: 2

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Show HN: Weekly Updates – Multiplayer productivity with monthly leaderboards

baristaGeek — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:23:11 +0000

I built this arcade-style productivity mini-game to help me push myself to meet my personal goals by having mutual accountability with other people.

You post your weekly update. Every monday you and other people vote on each other's update, then the leaderboard is recalculated and if you did good progress you climb up the leaderboard.

You can optionally ask for and/or provide advice/feedback when voting other people's updates as well.

Lmk what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425497

Points: 2

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Show HN: Personal Standup

baristaGeek — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:04:36 +0000

Companies do standups. People say what they did last week, and they’ll do the next one. I thought there should be a personal version of this. Keeping you accountable with other people pushes you to progress. Send your weekly update, vote on other people’s update, and climb up on the leaderboard.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289957

Points: 2

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New comment by baristaGeek in "Show HN: I built a live race between LLMs to see which generates tokens fastest"

baristaGeek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:29:18 +0000

I built this because I just thought it would be cool to show which LLMs respond faster (between GTP-4o mini, Claude 3 Haiku, and Gemini 2.5 Flash) and show some metrics (TTFT, avg tok/s, total time, and nTokens)