Bun 1.4 ships a native WebView: page rendering and scraping without dragging Chromium into your container.
Top Signal
Bun 1.4's Bun.WebView turns page scraping into a 40-line JSON API
platform change
Simon Willison
Bun 1.4 landed today with Bun.WebView, a stable API for driving the operating system's native webview from a Bun process. Simon Willison immediately used it to rebuild a shot-scraper-style JSON API: POST a URL, get back rendered HTML, extracted text, or a screenshot — no Playwright, no Puppeteer, no bundled Chromium. For builders this is a dependency-weight change, not a feature bump. Any agent tool that needs to see a page as a browser renders it (link enrichment, OG-tag extraction, PDF/screenshot generation, scraping JS-heavy sites) currently drags a ~400MB browser into the image and pays cold-start cost for it. This replaces that with the system webview. The catch: it renders with WebKit on macOS and WebKitGTK/WebView2 elsewhere, so output differs across platforms and headless server support needs verification before you rely on it. Read Willison's repo, then try it on your worst scraping job.
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Fast Signals
Huzzah rebuilds the editor around agents instead of bolting them on
workflow
HN Front Page
Daniel Vaughn shipped an experimental editor built from the premise that prompting coding agents through a chat pane is exhausting and wrong. Worth an hour if you've felt the same friction — the interaction model, not the model, is the interesting part. Early and opinionated, so treat it as a design study you can steal from rather than a daily driver.
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Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B is slow with MTP — and now we know why
emerging signal
r/LocalLLaMA
A LocalLLaMA teardown traces the disappointing throughput on Ornith 1.5's MoE variant to how its multi-token prediction head interacts with current inference stacks, not to the model itself. If you benchmarked Ornith on day one and wrote it off, rerun with MTP disabled before you decide. Expect runtime patches within days.
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QwenMix-3.7 merges Qwen3.8 and 3.6 because they share a skeleton
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r/LocalLLaMA
Someone noticed the repeated observation that Qwen3.8 and 3.6 have identical architecture, then had Qwen3.8 merge the two into a single set of weights. Model merging remains an underused, zero-training lever when two checkpoints have different strengths on your eval set. Bookmark the recipe for the next time a point release regresses on your workload.
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A mini Kimi-K3 trained from scratch for under $250
research to practice
r/LocalLLaMA
An individual dev reproduced a small Kimi-K3-style model end to end on a $250 compute budget, beating GPT-2 124M. The value is the recipe and cost accounting, not the model — this is the cheapest current path to actually understanding a modern architecture rather than reading about it. Useful reference if you're evaluating whether a domain-specific small model is feasible.
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16x 5060 Ti over PCIe switches runs DeepSeek V4 Flash at 130-150 tk/s
workflow
r/LocalLLaMA
A detailed build post gets DeepSeek V4 Flash-0731 to 130-150 tokens/sec using sixteen 16GB 5060 Tis behind two PLX88096 switches — the author's word for it is "boring," which is the point. The interesting detail is the switch topology solving host PCIe lane starvation, the usual wall on cheap multi-GPU rigs. Relevant if you're pricing self-hosted inference against API spend.
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The take-home coding test is now a working malware delivery channel
workflow
HN Front Page
A writeup walks through how a plausible interview take-home repo compromises the machine of anyone who runs `npm install` and hits play. This is the same attack surface as letting an agent clone and execute an unvetted repo, which most of us do daily. Concrete pairing: run untrusted repos inside the smolvm-style sandbox pattern covered earlier this week rather than on your host.
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Radar
Qwen3.8 27B at 1-bit: finding the brain damage floor
A deliberately absurd 1-bit quant of Qwen3.8 27B, posted mostly to show where coherence collapses. Useful as a calibration datapoint if you're pushing sub-3-bit quants into production and want to know how much headroom you actually have.
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Zoneless: open-source Stripe Connect alternative
Built by a founder who was paying ~$9k/month in Connect fees on his own marketplace, with broader seller-country coverage as the second motivation. Bookmark for whenever you build marketplace payouts — the fee math changes the viability of low-margin marketplaces.
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Convergence Watch
qwen3.8
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2 mentions across r/LocalLLaMA
Seven straight days of coverage, but the character has shifted: today's items are derivative works — a 1-bit quant experiment and a merge with 3.6 — not evaluations. When a community stops arguing about a model and starts building on top of it, it has become infrastructure. Treat Qwen3.8 27B as the current default local baseline.
ornith-1.5
TRENDING
1 mentions across r/LocalLLaMA
Second consecutive day, moving from launch coverage to performance forensics on the MTP path. This is the normal 48-hour arc for open weights: benchmark, disappointment, root cause, runtime patch. Don't finalize your Ornith verdict until the inference stacks catch up.
deepseek v4
TRENDING
1 mentions across r/LocalLLaMA
Third appearance in six days, each time as a hardware-topology post rather than a capability claim — 4x 3060, now 16x 5060 Ti behind PCIe switches. The signal is that V4 Flash has become the model people benchmark their rigs against, which makes those posts a reliable price/performance reference.
STALE: Latent Space newest item is >48h old