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Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks! I've got a lot of different feedback from different people. My boss said they'd find it useful when they're offline camping haha. Another one of my friends thought it'd be a cool "incognito" chat interface.

Personally, I see it as an educational tool for ML systems, I'd love for people to try and build features that get it closer in parity to Big AI applications.

Comment · 3 months ago
Super cool design, I went through the first "chapter" and thought it was great
Comment · 3 months ago
Super cool, as an EV owner, I hate how fragmented the charging interfaces are haha
Comment · 3 months ago
Hey, does this make it safe for agent sessions to access secrets when they're working?
Comment · 3 months ago
This looks really cool! I'm still early career, so I don't have much technical feedback to give, but starred and excited to learn how it works
Comment · 3 months ago
Hey! Really cool design, what frontend libraries did you use? I'm a pretty big fan of Vercel's stuff like Next JS and ShadCN, but curious if there's anything else you'd recommend?
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks man, took a couple iterations haha. It used to be called Sophon, there might still be some remanent css names in the source code LOL
Comment · 3 months ago
Hey HN! I'm Gaurav, an AI Engineer from Toronto. I graduated from UofT (Comp Eng) 3 years ago and have been a long time Hacker News lurker. This is my first post :)

Here's a quick demo of Glaux on YT: https://youtu.be/Uf8GytVp5sw?si=yebS0mmSUjt0EuO7

My project is called "Glaux" (after the owl of Minerva). It's a Next JS application that (tries it's best) to download, validate, and inference HuggingFace ONNX Community models utilizing Browser Storage/WebGPU via ONNX web runtime and Transformers.js

The project started when me and my friends wanted to build our own AI workstation to experiment in the field of ML systems engineering. Unfortunately, we didn't realize how expensive and complicated it is to set that kind of rig up for a frontier OSS model. However, that made me wonder what I could run on my personal laptop, which led me to discover a whole plethora of browser ML system libraries/technology such as ONNX, Transformers.js, WebGPU, etc.

Since then, I've spent about a month hacking (prompting) away at Glaux and I'm pretty proud of the build so far. The design philosophy is relatively simple: No accounts, analytics, external inference servers, and best effort transparency. But the implementation was a lot tricker than I thought.

You can check out the GitHub here: https://github.com/rangan39/glaux

The GitHub contains more context on the technical specs, including architecture diagrams, technical limitations, and a more in depth explanation of some of the implementation details. I'd really appreciate and am very open to hearing your thoughts and technical feedback!

- GR

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