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Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?

1•scott01•50m ago

Hi HN,

I’m considering getting an R9700, budget only for one unit currently. Is there anything useful I can do with local LLMs within its 32G VRAM? I’m also thinking to try and learn building a simple inference engine. Any thoughts?

Why most IPOs are not worth the hype

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/04/why-most-ipos-are-not-worth-the-hype

1•andsoitis•3m ago•0 comments

Email Is Easy

https://e-mail.wtf/#repost

1•semiquaver•5m ago•0 comments

Writing with AI Is Stupid

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-08-07-ai-writing-stupid/

2•ashton314•6m ago•0 comments

Europe readies for solar eclipse dip in power generation

https://www.thelocal.com/20260808/europe-readies-for-solar-eclipse-dip-in-power-generation

1•geox•12m ago•0 comments

Steve Yegge's Google Platform rant (2011)

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

2•simonebrunozzi•14m ago•1 comments

A live tracker of Seattle's ~1,400 buses, trains, and ferries

https://charm.ing/michael-magan/seattle-transit-live

1•grouchy•14m ago•0 comments

Why Are Women Leaving Computer Science?

https://cacm.acm.org/news/why-are-women-leaving-computer-science/

2•visha1v•15m ago•2 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition

1•andsoitis•16m ago•0 comments

Feedback required – New Word game on the block Wordfighter

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fintasticapps.wordfighter&hl=en_US

1•AbhinavDAIICT•17m ago•0 comments

Experiments with Isolation on Blue Pill

https://l0puh.github.io/log/2026/08/04/experiments_with_isolation/

1•lopuh•20m ago•0 comments

Woman Pulled from Car at Gunpoint by Police After Mistaken Flock Alert – Twice

https://m.slashdot.org/story/456862

1•MilnerRoute•20m ago•0 comments

A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not This One

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opinion/cambridge-plagiarism-arday-higher-education.html

1•Michelangelo11•28m ago•0 comments

Bastrop's City Council Holds Meetings over 100 Miles Away

https://texasscorecard.com/local/bastrops-city-council-holds-meetings-over-100-miles-away/

1•bob1029•29m ago•0 comments

'AI Escaped Its Sandbox' — What Does That Actually Mean?

https://unpredictabletokens.substack.com/p/ai-escaped-its-sandbox-what-that

1•jac08h•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A probabilistic programming language with exact inference and loops

https://github.com/kccqzy/probabilistic-program-inference/blob/master/README.md

1•kccqzy•29m ago•0 comments

The Cosplay Economy

https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/cosplay/

2•rossdavidh•30m ago•0 comments

Pick

1•ronniojunior•32m ago•1 comments

My MacBook Aged Three Years in Three Months of Vibe Coding

https://generativeai.pub/my-macbook-aged-three-years-in-three-months-of-vibe-coding-64e7ab92123d

1•ako•33m ago•2 comments

Shared Intentionality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_intentionality

1•binyu•34m ago•0 comments

Servitor – Simplest way to run local dev containers

https://servitorapp.live/

1•havu12•36m ago•0 comments

A device finds encrypted DNS by itself

https://blog.dundns.eu/posts/ddr-encrypted-dns-discovery/

1•olexsmir•36m ago•0 comments

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers

3•senko•36m ago•1 comments

AI Leaders Say the Singularity Has Begun

https://ai-updates.net/ai-leaders-say-the-singularity-has-already-begun/

2•ashurandi•37m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Gram, a vector search engine I built in C++

https://github.com/sverp/gram

1•sverp•37m ago•0 comments

My Own GitHub: Git, CRDT, Markdown

https://replicated.live/blog/crdt

1•gritzko•38m ago•0 comments

Glycogen Body

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen_body

1•binyu•38m ago•0 comments

Engineering Metrics for GitHub

https://gitdailies.com/

1•andreigaspar•41m ago•0 comments

Can you hack your gut microbiome?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/07/can-you-hack-your-gut-microbiome

1•andsoitis•42m ago•0 comments

Canon-A controlled English for model prompting and agent-to-agent communication

https://github.com/sanshagn/Canon/tree/main

2•sanshagn•43m ago•0 comments

Sit through 15 hours of opera

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/05/why-you-should-sit-through-15-hours-of-opera

1•andsoitis•44m ago•0 comments