Hacker News: bilalba

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

bilalba — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:42:38 +0000

I'll put this on chonklm.com!

Show HN: ChonkLM – Tiny language models running offline in the browser

bilalba — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:43:06 +0000

I had been looking to try <500M parameter language models but you wouldn't find an API to try them anywhere, so I built this cloudflare hosted static website that hosts weights and built an inference runtime for these models that uses WebGPU and runs inference from your browser.

These are only so useful in a multi-turn conversation but it's still interesting to see what you can pack in a <250mb model.

I tried using ONNX versions earlier, but there were too many quirks of using them with language models and the TPS wasn't too impressive. Inspired by svenflow/webgpu-gemma, I put my codex and claude to the task of writing WGSL to run inference for GGUF versions of these models.

Once you load this website and a model, it should load offline too, until your browser evicts the model from the cache.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077627

Points: 6

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Coding plan pricing comparisons based on actual usage

bilalba — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:57:12 +0000

Article URL: https://sites.diy/blog/2026-05-01-coding-plan-comparisons/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982886

Points: 4

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Show HN: NumaVM – Low Friction VMs

bilalba — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:10:17 +0000

I built and open-sourced a service/dashboard for spawning firecracker VMs, and running agents on it.

Spawn, snapshot, clone, delete. Somewhere in between fly.io and exe.dev.

VM page still needs some TLC but would love to hear feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297460

Points: 2

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Show HN: TextAnimations.online – Generate MP4/GIF animations from a prompt

bilalba — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:26:21 +0000

Recently I had to make an intro animation for a product demo, and the quickest way I could think of doing was to screen record an LLM-generated HTML/JS page with the animation.

I turned that idea into a polished project here. It is super fun to play with. I've been creating all kinds of custom-text GIFs to send to friends.

Under the hood, it is generating HTML and recording the video client-side.

Would love to hear feedback on it!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061254

Points: 2

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New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Walk and drive through OpenStreetMap in 3D"

bilalba — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:33:51 +0000

should be fixed now!

Show HN: Walk and drive through OpenStreetMap in 3D

bilalba — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:25:21 +0000

Standing on the shoulders of OpenStreetMap, three.js, and other open-source projects, I made an open-source, game-like 3D explorer for OSM.

It’s barebones right now (currently loads one scene), renderings need work, and it’s buggy in places. But you can get driving on most roads around the world.

Contributions welcome!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776190

Points: 2

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New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:40:50 +0000

Makes sense! Thank you again for the suggestion, I implemented it.

Tried Auxy, it's a great app!

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:45:30 +0000

I understand what you're saying. Changing the octave/instrument applies changes to the complete grid.

A way to get around this problem is to program octave 4's in one grid, save to the loop, and add another layer of octave 5's.

I could easily program supporting multiple instruments/octaves in a single grid but I'm not sure if that'll be intuitive to use. I'll do some research on this.

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:14:19 +0000

Bug should be fixed now.

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:56:21 +0000

- I added the Save/Load feature that saves your sessions within your browser.

- Added the option to export as .wav

- Added ability to edit loops on the grid, along with some other QOL features!

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:53:59 +0000

I just saw your comment, I couldn't reply to it there, but I just added the edit layer feature, along with other QOL features.

Also, did you try the preview with loop button? It's in the preview drop down. It should let you preview the grid along with what's already in the loop.

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:30:35 +0000

That's a good feature request. Implemented!

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:02:46 +0000

Just implemented it!

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:25:41 +0000

Yup I've noticed that. I'll try to fix it.

I tap the stop button again to make it stop.

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:25:05 +0000

Yup I'm thinking of ways to make it shareable. This is a client-side static website(runs completely on your end) so won't be able to make backend-supported links.

Edit: Implemented!

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:19:55 +0000

You have to add them to the Looper with the "Add to the Looper" button. I need to think of a better UX for that. Let me know if you have ideas!

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:43:30 +0000

Yes I understand what you're saying! I'll fix this.

Edit: Fixed!

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:16:55 +0000

Thank you, I'll work on it!

New comment by bilalba in "Show HN: Make audio loops online"

bilalba — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:16:34 +0000

Love to hear it!