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12 stories tagged local-ai, newest first.

Screenshot of github.com: PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP (github.com)

195 points by vardhan1237 11 hours ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository for PaperPilot, a local, zero-cloud pure-Rust PDF engine and AI document copilot with WASM builds and an MCP server.

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Screenshot of betterwispr.com: Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)

183 points by kartik017 15 days ago | 105 comments

Landing page for BetterWispr, a free, open-source macOS dictation app that cleans up speech into text locally, with per-app writing styles.

betterwispr dictation speech-to-text macos

Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS

Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com)

149 points by allenleee 22 days ago | 67 comments

GitHub repository for SCM, an MIT-licensed macOS tool that provides AI-powered search across photos and every frame of videos in any folder.

macos semantic-search photo-search video-search

Screenshot of pandax1.com: Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer

Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer (pandax1.com)

6 points by moezee1 28 days ago | 19 comments

Product landing page for Panda, a personal AI computer for consumers that runs AI locally, with preorders available.

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Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com)

2249 points by arnemunthekaas 1 month ago | 251 comments

GitHub repository for fugleramme, a Raspberry Pi e-ink frame that detects birds by audio with local AI and displays 1800s-style bird illustrations.

raspberry-pi e-ink bird-detection birdnet

Screenshot of ariya.io: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)

493 points by speckx 3 months ago | 92 comments

Blog post by Ariya Hidayat on running Kokoro, a high-quality text-to-speech model, locally on a CPU, with an embedded demo video.

kokoro text-to-speech local-ai privacy

Screenshot of righttointelligence.org: Protect your right to run local AI

Protect your right to run local AI (righttointelligence.org)

463 points by thoughtpeddler 3 months ago | 164 comments

Advocacy site Right to Intelligence urging people to sign a petition and call legislators opposing state laws that could require licenses to run local AI models.

local-ai ai-regulation open-models state-legislation

Screenshot of unix.foo: Local AI needs to be the norm

Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)

1767 points by cylo 5 months ago | 699 comments

Blog post on unix.foo arguing that apps should run AI models locally rather than relying on API calls to OpenAI or Anthropic.

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Screenshot of projectnomad.us: Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline

Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline (projectnomad.us)

563 points by jensgk 7 months ago | 204 comments

Landing page for Project N.O.M.A.D., a free open-source system for running Wikipedia, AI, maps, and education tools offline on your own hardware.

offline-first self-hosting wikipedia local-ai

Screenshot of github.com: Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI (github.com)

807 points by lairv 8 months ago | 211 comments

GitHub Discussions announcement by Georgi Gerganov that ggml.ai, the founding team of llama.cpp, is joining Hugging Face to support local AI.

llama-cpp ggml hugging-face local-ai

Screenshot of github.com: Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices

Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices (github.com)

396 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 137 comments

GitHub repository for exo, an open-source tool for running a distributed AI inference cluster at home across everyday devices like phones and laptops.

exo distributed-inference llm local-ai

Screenshot of future.mozilla.org: MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data

MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data (future.mozilla.org)

423 points by NdMAND 2 years ago | 96 comments

Mozilla Innovation Week blog post introducing MemoryCache, an experimental project that augments a local AI model with data saved from the browser.

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