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The real difference between Ollama's desktop app and llama.cpp's WebUI won't come through unless I use it for longer, coding-heavy workflows, but even on the surface, llama.cpp's WebUI is clearly faster and looks just as polished. Of course, where it wipes the floor with Ollama is the sheer amount of options, menus, and tweakability that it comes with. llama.cpp's WebUI lets you control sampling parameters and context settings, offloading to the GPU, and a whole host of other inference tweaks. This is a tool that exposes practically everything, so if you're the kind of person who enjoys squeez
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More videosHermes Agent gave my local model the one thing it was missing, and it finally started finishing tasks
…OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=64000 ollama serve You can confirm the active context window with ollama ps. Your model also needs to support tool calling, or it will print tool requests as text…
I ditched Claude, ChatGPT, NotebookLM, and Perplexity for these free open-source tools
…Past that though, I find Ollama the simplest way to run a local LLM. Once you've installed the Ollama app, you simply run a command like ollama run gemma3:4b in…
I made my own Perplexity locally, and the only thing I lost was the monthly bill
…The first step is installing Ollama and downloading the model you want to use. Ollama runs the model locally and exposes it through an API that Vane can access. You can also…
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ollama system ram usage extremnly high
I am having an issue with Ollama, which is connected to an app called Suggestarr (found on GitHub). When the app runs its automated recommendations, Ollama consumes an incredible amount of system RAM. This causes my fygo…
My Ollama box picks the music now: an agentic DJ running on a 9B model
I got tired of my Ollama server sitting idle between chat experiments, so I pointed it at my Navidrome library and made it run a radio station. The DJ is an agent, not a shuffler. Each turn it gets tools (search the libr…
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I have an I5-12600 4x 4GB (16GB) 2144MHz DDR4 RTX 4060 (8GB) 10TB RAIDZ2 480GB for apps I already use the NAS for jellyfin and soon to be password manager, but I want to self host an LLM. Please give me recommendations f…
Anthropic's new MCP spec, Kimi K3 open weights on Ollama, GPT Transcribe, plus
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Show HN: Pair your iPhone to your own Ollama over Tailscale with a QR scan
Show HN: Pair your iPhone to your own Ollama over Tailscale with a QR scan
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I automated my entire read-it-later workflow with a local LLM so every article I save gets summarized overnight
…Ollama Ollama is a framework that allows you to download and run various LLMs on your computer. See at Ollama
Running local AI on the Raspberry Pi 5 taught me why cloud models are still winning
…Installing Ollama was the easy part Ollama was the easiest AI platform to install From my research, Ollama would be the easiest AI platform to install on my Raspberry Pi 5, so…
Google AI Edge Gallery launches to macOS - 9to5Mac
…But in a nutshell, you need to install platforms such as Ollama and LM Studio , and then install a model that can runs smoothly on your Mac’s hardware. Hugging Face hosts…
Local LLMs finally beat cloud AI for coding, automation, and brainstorming — here's which ones I use
…Ollama Ollama is a platform to download and run various open-source large language models (LLM) on your local computer. See at Ollama
I put Google's Gemma 4 on my homelab and Tailscale on my phone — and cancelled Claude Pro
…Ollama Ollama is a platform to download and run various open-source large language models (LLM) on your local computer. See at Ollama
I replaced my ChatGPT subscription with a local AI coding tool and haven't looked back
…Ollama Ollama is a platform to download and run various open-source large language models (LLM) on your local computer. See at Ollama Put your hardware to work If you're still…