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Ch.at – a lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

https://ch.at/
37•ownlife•3h ago

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WhatsName•2h ago
I find the fact that in this day people can own two letter domains absolutely staggering, based on rarity, those should be worth millions I guess?
nadermx•22m ago
I mean, ch.at is a incredible domain hack. But not sure it's worth millions. If it was ch.com could get mid six figures and up. But either way absolutely amazing domain.
nunobrito•18m ago
There was a time that I owned a one letter domain with a two letter country code.

The cost was about 600 USD and was fun, but problematic as it failed to be accepted as valid email address on many websites.

sgjohnson•18m ago
unless they are .com, nobody cares.
FraserGreenlee•2h ago
I see this is using GPT4o, any plans for something more sustainable? Would be interesting to see an https://openfreemap.org for LLMs.

Perhaps via an RNN like in https://huggingface.co/spaces/BlinkDL/RWKV-Gradio-2

Or even just leverage huggingface gradio spaces? (most are Gradio apps that expose APIs https://www.gradio.app/guides/view-api-page)

ivape•33m ago
I wonder if a 1B model could be close to free to host. That's an eventuality, but I wonder how long it'll take for that to be real.
giantrobot•28m ago
A 1B model at 2-bit quantization is about the size of the average web page anymore. With some WebGPU support you could run such a model in a browser.

I'm half joking. Web pages are ludicrously fat these days.

zaik•13m ago
It seems like the only internet protocols they didn't implement were the ones designed for chat. How could they forget about IRC, XMPP and SIP?

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477•dlazaro•9h ago•99 comments

A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

https://www.righto.com/2025/08/intel-386-package-ct-scan.html
131•robin_reala•5h ago•23 comments

The Lethal Trifecta

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai/
212•vismit2000•7h ago•72 comments

Debian 13 "Trixie"

https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809
402•ducktective•4h ago•157 comments

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https://blog.hyperknot.com/p/openfreemap-survived-100000-requests
317•hyperknot•9h ago•69 comments

R0ML's Ratio

https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/r0mls-ratio.html
10•zdw•10h ago•0 comments

Ch.at – a lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

https://ch.at/
37•ownlife•3h ago•8 comments

People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62wx23y2v1o
9•bookofjoe•2d ago•2 comments

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https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2021/unlimited-register-machine-game-of-life.html
16•jxmorris12•3d ago•2 comments

Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop

https://quickshell.org/
221•abhinavk•4d ago•30 comments

Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/long-term-exposure-to-outdoor-air-pollution-linked-to-increased-risk-of-dementia
218•hhs•9h ago•73 comments

An AI-first program synthesis framework built around a new programming language

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3746223
46•tosh•6h ago•1 comments

ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol

https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bus-Pirate
87•geo-tp•7h ago•16 comments

Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/08/08/stanford-to-continue-legacy-admissions-and-withdraw-from-cal-grants/
143•hhs•9h ago•251 comments

GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/08/07/blueberry-hill/
124•minimaxir•1d ago•60 comments

The current state of LLM-driven development

http://blog.tolki.dev/posts/2025/08-07-llms/
76•Signez•6h ago•38 comments

How I use Tailscale

https://chameth.com/how-i-use-tailscale/
136•aquariusDue•3d ago•15 comments

Testing Bitchat at the music festival

https://primal.net/saunter/testing-bitchat-at-the-music-festival
57•alexcos•3d ago•32 comments

MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems

https://julsimon.medium.com/why-mcps-disregard-for-40-years-of-rpc-best-practices-will-burn-enterprises-8ef85ce5bc9b
208•yodon•7h ago•124 comments

Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/who-got-arrested-in-the-raid-on-the-xss-crime-forum/
12•todsacerdoti•3d ago•0 comments

An engineer's perspective on hiring

https://jyn.dev/an-engineers-perspective-on-hiring
35•pabs3•12h ago•69 comments

Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34033
47•lxm•12h ago•111 comments

"The Hollow Men" at 100

https://prufrock.substack.com/p/the-the-hollow-men-at-100
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Cordoomceps – Replacing an Amiga’s brain with DOOM

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33•naves•4d ago•8 comments

Which colors are primary?

https://jamesgurney.substack.com/p/which-colors-are-primary
24•Michelangelo11•3d ago•22 comments

Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets

https://ratfactor.com/cards/fitted-sheets
112•zdw•10h ago•17 comments

Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/07/09/secretary-rollins-takes-decisive-action-and-shuts-down-us-southern-border-ports-livestock-trade-due
237•burnt-resistor•8h ago•181 comments

Isle FPGA Computer: creating a simple, open, modern computer

https://projectf.io/isle/fpga-computer.html
28•pabs3•3d ago•3 comments

Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment

https://probablydance.com/2025/08/04/installing-a-mini-split-ac-in-a-brooklyn-apartment/
39•ibobev•3d ago•67 comments

The era of boundary-breaking advancements is over? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkAH7-u7t5k
49•randomgermanguy•9h ago•69 comments