LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them(gist.github.com)

513 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 323 comments

A GitHub Gist explaining how rebuilding Ubuntu's jq package from the same source with different build options yields about 90% better performance.

Obfuscating Lua (2019)(gist.github.com)

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini(gist.github.com)

295 points by greenstevester 6 months ago | 114 comments

QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support(gist.github.com)

224 points by GalaxySnail 1 year ago | 47 comments

macOS Internals(gist.github.com)

698 points by JoelMcCracken 3 years ago | 112 comments

A GitHub Gist collecting links to John Siracusa's Mac OS X reviews, tracing macOS internals from the prerelease era to Swift.

Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file(github.com)

972 points by tfinch 2 years ago | 253 comments

GitHub repository for Mozilla-Ocho's llamafile, a tool to distribute and run large language models as a single executable file.

Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C(github.com)

659 points by anjneymidha 3 years ago | 158 comments

GitHub repository by Andrej Karpathy for llama2.c, a minimal implementation for running Llama 2 model inference in a single file of pure C.

Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s(github.com)

318 points by marcobambini 2 months ago | 152 comments

GitHub repository for waste, a dependency-free embeddable C inference engine that runs the 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model by streaming weights from NVMe.

Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines(github.com)

411 points by overbytecode 2 years ago | 128 comments

GitHub repository for Quickemu, a tool that quickly creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines using QEMU.

Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy(docs.likejazz.com)

404 points by orixilus 2 years ago | 48 comments

GitHub repository llama3.np, a pure NumPy implementation of the Llama 3 language model for inference.

Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now(github.com)

1182 points by msoad 3 years ago | 356 comments

GitHub pull request #613 in llama.cpp by jart, merged, which uses mmap to make loading model weights 10-100x faster and reduce RAM usage.