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Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html
16•teamchong•3h ago

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COOLmanYT•1h ago
no firefox support?
hhthrowaway1230•1h ago
so multiple of these browser wasm demos make me re-download the models, can someone make a cdn for it or some sort u uberfast downloader? just throw some claude credits against it ty!
Rekindle8090•1h ago
What? downloaded for me at 2gbps
hhthrowaway1230•1h ago
Ah let me clarify, many of the in the browser demos make me download certain models even if I already have them It would be great if there was a way that I don't have to redownload them across demos so that I just have a cache. or an in browser model manager. hope this makes sense.

Or indeed use some sort of huggingface model downloader (if that exist with XET)

hhthrowaway1230•1h ago
also maybe a good usecase to finally have P2P web torrents :)
varun_ch•11m ago
I think this would sit best at the browser level. I’m not sure there’s a nice way for multiple websites to share a cache like that.
hhthrowaway1230•1h ago
Yeah that's great but I'm in a cafe outside burning my phone data. ty!
wereHamster•55m ago
CDN wouldn't help much. These days browsers partition caches by origin, so if two different tools (running on different domains) fetch the same model from the CDN, the browser would download it twice.
embedding-shape•29m ago
Adding a file input where users can upload files to the frontend directly from their file manager would probably work as a stop-gap measure, for the ones who want something quick that let people manage their own "cache" of model files.

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https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
255•DamnInteresting•2d ago•60 comments

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Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html
16•teamchong•3h ago•9 comments

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