Ask HN: What does your local LLM setup looks like?
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3 hours ago
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What models and hardware you are using? For what purpose? What were the challenges? Any tricks that helped you in doing this?

This might help new users like me setup theirs.

abahgat
1 hour ago
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I bought a pretty powerful desktop computer for gaming in late 2025. It came with an RTX 5080, which I started using to run some local LLMs and run some experiments (most recently, I was trying to get agents to get better at playing Zork I).

I've mostly enjoyed having WSL to leverage Linux dev tools, but it seems like it's still adding overhead that prevents me from taking advantage of the GPU in full, so I'll likely get another drive and install Linux.

I tried Qwen, Llama, Mistral and Gemma. Gemma 4 was pretty impressive.

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xiaoyu2006
1 hour ago
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V100 32G SXM2 adapted to PCIE. Running llamacpp with Q4KM Qwen 3.6 27B or Gemma 4 31B. I use them when I feel of privacy is important or I just want to mess around.
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aniokono
2 hours ago
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Claude.MD and other MD context files with guardrails and enforcement?

Are you offering something in this space?

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