Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (January 14, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for January 14, 2024 :</p>
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Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
Summary: John built a local LLM voice assistant to control his smart home, aiming for a sassy, sarcastic, and customizable assistant that runs locally without relying on cloud services. He used a Protectli Vault VP2420, TRENDnet TEG-3102WS managed switch, two RTX 4060Ti's, and a Minisforum UM690 to run HomeAssistant. John chose vLLM for the inference engine and Mistral AI's Mixtral model. He modified the chat template to accept system prompts and used a custom GlaDOS voice model from HuggingFace. After several adjustments, John achieved a functional, albeit slow, voice assistant.
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OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
Summary: A new D language fork called OpenD has been introduced, aiming to address frustrations in contributing to D leadership. The fork was created by several former contributors who found the development process for D to be closed and lacking meaningful community input. OpenD seeks to provide a more open environment for developers to contribute and improve the language.