2 August 2026

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Briefing · 2 August 2026

3 entries

01Day 5

drumih/turbo-fieldfare

Repository · seen by GitHub, HackerNews

Runs Google's Gemma 4 26B model on any Apple Silicon Mac in about 2 GB of memory, including the 8 GB machines, instead of loading all 14.3 GB. It keeps the shared core and the cache resident and streams only the experts each token actually needs off the SSD. The runtime, installer, command line tool and Mac app are all written in Swift and Metal, built for this one model rather than wrapping MLX or llama.cpp.

Flagged 31 July 2026 · 2,196 → 6,994 stars · +218.5%

Signal

Stars 3,038 to 3,848, up 26.7%, with forks up 38.8% and open issues up 66.7%. Forks and issues both outpacing stars means people are running the code and hitting real edges. HackerNews has gone quiet at 1.5%.

02Day 2

sqliteai/waste

Repository · seen by GitHub, HackerNews

An inference engine written in C with no runtime dependencies, built to run frontier models that do not fit in memory. It holds the shared trunk of the model in RAM, streams the selected experts straight off NVMe and uses whatever memory is left as a cache. The full 2.78 trillion parameter Kimi K3, not a distilled or pruned version, runs on a 64 GB MacBook Pro at about 0.6 tokens per second.

Flagged 1 August 2026 · 344 → 2,006 stars · +483.1%

Signal

Stars 344 to 745, up 116.6%, forks up 115.2%, and HackerNews comments up 114.7% to 161 against just 9 points. Roughly eighteen comments per point means the discussion is an argument, and two days of doubling says the idea is surviving it.

03New

maurycyz.com

Website · seen by Company rank data, Search volume, HackerNews, Lobsters, OpenPageRank, Pricing page, Tranco

A blog about electronics and software, with occasional chemistry and photography, written by someone who takes apart received wisdom and checks it. A recent piece works through the Phoebus lightbulb cartel story and shows that the usual telling gets the engineering backwards. It also keeps a hand checked list of other blogs verified as not machine generated.

Flagged 2 August 2026 · 4.03 → 3.99 authority · -1%

Signal

HackerNews comments 69 to 180, up 160.9%, on a blog that takes apart received wisdom and checks it. The argument is the whole signal here.

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