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Published by Hacker News · Show HN (50+ points) (T2 source). The original is at https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/hob.

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Hob is an MIT-licensed cross-platform desktop app that runs open-weight models locally and provides file access, image analysis, sandboxed Python, web search, MCP connectors, and filesystem operations without sending chats or files to a hosted service.

The creator documents hardware detection, GPU compatibility issues, and Electron integration with llama.cpp, providing useful implementation details for reproducing a local setup.

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