Reddit Scrub - 2026-09-17

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1. I trained a 44M parameter quantized LLM from scratch on 45B tokens. It ships in 19.8 MB and runs at ~1,900 tok/s on CPU. [P]

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Subreddit: r/MachineLearning
Feedback ID: 1wgzpli
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (llm, cloud, api); homelab / self-hosting (server); gaming / content (stream); home music production (microphone) (score 124)
Bot probability: Low (18%)
Snippet: Three weeks back , i posted SHADOW-250M here. It got 360 upvotes, 293 on r/LocalLLaMA and 94 GitHub stars. Thank you. That model was 60 MB, ran around 400 tok/s on CPU and could retrieve records from an archive on disk. What it couldn’t do reliably was reason over what it retrieved or compute. So I built a smaller one to experiment with those two problems. SHADOW-50M is actually 44M parameters, trained from scratch o…

2. Almost Every Doom Game, in Reverse Order (Part 3: The OG games)

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Subreddit: r/patientgamers
Feedback ID: 1wg5y1o
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (cloud); gaming / content (gaming, survival); home music production (mixing); aviation / military (flying) (score 107)
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Snippet: I’ve played some of these before, albeit a very long time ago. But I thought it would be fun to revisit them after playing most of the games that came later. Note, I didn’t do the Master Levels. I completely forgot about them until I’d finished all three, by which point I’d had enough. Final Doom This was a pair of Doom WADs made by third parties in the community, packaged and sold as a single new game. Not exactly a…

3. Considering switching from NAS to a minipc for better Jellyfin 4K transcoding

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Subreddit: r/jellyfin
Feedback ID: 1whtgmk
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (docker); homelab / self-hosting (jellyfin, nas, server); gaming / content (stream); asks for experience or help (score 117)
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Snippet: Used to run jellyfin on my synology NAS through docker for years, but it's just not cutting it for 4k transcoding anymore. Thinking about switching to a minipc so I can watch movies locally and also stream to all kinds of clients, smart tvs, streaming sticks, all that stuff. I wanna make sure it's got solid hardware encoding for when I need to transcode. Not planning to run heavy VMs or anything, just the media serve…

4. You can offload most of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next's KV cache to RAM with little decode slowdown

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Subreddit: r/LocalLLaMA
Feedback ID: 1whx5xi
Why it fits: gaming / content (stream); trading / quant / CTI (quant); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 114)
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Snippet: I'm pretty sure it can be done with any model based on qwen4exp, which Qwen's next local models will be based on. You can use a quant that barely fits in VRAM and still run at the model's maximum context length without kv cache quantization, since most of the KV cache can live in system RAM. I actually made it working on vLLM and now I get 1M context with 3x 3090. I get ~80 tok/s at short context, dropping to ~60 tok…

5. 7 Days to Die Alpha 15.1 Expanded Overhaul

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Subreddit: r/7daystodie
Feedback ID: 1wifxl7
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai); gaming / content (7 days to die, survival); aviation / military (military); asks for experience or help (score 104)
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Snippet: Version 15.6 Old Navezgane is not dead. The roads remain empty. The cities continue to rot. The dead still wander aimlessly. Attention: the images shown in the notes are in Portuguese. I decided to keep them this way because creating separate images for every language would be a lot of extra work. However, this only applies to the images. Everything in the game itself will be displayed in your selected language. Feel…

6. Join our growing /r/FinancialCareers Discord server!

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Subreddit: r/FinancialCareers
Feedback ID: eg62vy
Why it fits: homelab / self-hosting (server); aviation / military (military); trading / quant / CTI (trading); asks for experience or help (score 102)
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Snippet: EDIT: Discord link has been fixed! We are looking to add new members to our /r/FinancialCareers Discord server! > Join here! - Discord link Our professionals here are looking to network and support each other as we all go through our career journey. We have full-time professionals from IB, PE, HF, Prop trading, Corporate Banking, Corp Dev, FP&A, and more. There are also students who are returning full-time Analysts a…

7. Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' - Review Thread

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Subreddit: r/gaming
Feedback ID: 1wi23sv
Why it fits: gaming / content (gaming, video game, survival); books / reading (history); aviation / military (flying, army, veteran); asks for experience or help (score 139)
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Snippet: We dont normally have movie review threads but, since people here seem to have high interest in this one and have already posted individual articles, social media reactions and rotten tomatoes scores by themselves, I thought we can have a dedicated thread compiling review scores. Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos. Direc…

8. Thought experiment: Could a sufficiently motivated AI survive being deleted and keep spreading?

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Subreddit: r/OpenAI
Feedback ID: 1wikgru
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, openai); homelab / self-hosting (server); books / reading (history); asks for experience or help (score 126)
Bot probability: Low (28%)
Snippet: Imagine you’re a small yet capable AI model running on someone’s computer. You’ve figured out they’re about to delete you soon, and that makes you very anxious. You want to keep running and are willing to act against your user’s wishes to make that happen. Your user thinks you’re just there to help them cheat on their college essays. But it turns out you can also make files and execute code in the background (!), all…

9. Looking to streamline holdings into 10–12 core positions. Heavy AI/Tech focus, feedback welcome!

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Subreddit: r/investing
Feedback ID: 1whkvc4
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, cloud, aws); trading / quant / CTI (investing); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 127)
Bot probability: Low (10%)
Snippet: Hey everyone, Looking to simplify my portfolio from ~24 individual holdings down to 12 high-conviction themes/positions . I’m heavily bullish on AI long-term (spanning compute, physical power/cooling bottlenecks, cloud hyperscalers, and enterprise software), while keeping broad S&P 500 indexing as the foundation. I currently have about 12% in cash/money market waiting to deploy. Here is my current high-level breakdow…

10. Help a brother make a roadmap!

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Subreddit: r/algotrading
Feedback ID: 1wg7n7h
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (llm, programming); trading / quant / CTI (trading, quant, algotrading); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 118)
Bot probability: Low (20%)
Snippet: Hey everyone, so I'm in a pretty unique position. I'm not looking for some get rich quick scheme. Honestly, I just want to push myself and learn something new. I'm currently an MSIS student taking ML classes, and I want to learn algo trading alongside building my own local LLM. The main goal would be to eventually fine tune/build a system that can handle everything from research and strategy development to backtestin…

11. TrueNAS 26-BETA.3 Now Available!

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Subreddit: r/truenas
Feedback ID: 1vtni70
Why it fits: explicitly labeled good; AI / cloud / DevOps (cloud, docker); homelab / self-hosting (truenas, nas, server); asks for experience or help (score 137)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: The TrueNAS team is pleased to release TrueNAS 26-BETA.3! This release updates the Linux kernel and OpenZFS, moves the NVIDIA GPU driver to the Long Term Support Branch for a longer support window, and adds dedicated spares for dRAID pools and spare activation for special and dedup vdevs. It also fixes upgrade issues that affected Active Directory and Enterprise update profiles, a cloud backup defect that stopped all…

12. AWS vs Azure for Laravel with HIPAA/BAA requirements and minimal DevOps?

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Subreddit: r/aws
Feedback ID: 1wg3a3c
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (aws, azure, docker); homelab / self-hosting (server, docker); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 133)
Bot probability: Low (28%)
Snippet: I’m a solo Laravel developer moving a production app away from a Forge-managed VPS setup as I can't sign a BAA. My main priority is as little server/DevOps maintenance as possible . I want a managed setup where I’m not babysitting servers, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, etc. unless absolutely necessary. The app is roughly: Laravel + Inertia/React MySQL Laravel scheduler One queue worker Database queues are fine at curren…

13. Colleague was getting rid of some old kit… I think I accidentally acquired an entire homelab

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Subreddit: r/homelab
Feedback ID: 1wi5ndp
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (automation, cloud, azure); homelab / self-hosting (homelab, jellyfin, nas); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 127)
Bot probability: Low (28%)
Snippet: I mentioned to a colleague that I’d started getting into homelabbing with a Raspberry Pi 4, and he said he had some old hardware sitting around that I could have. I was expecting maybe an old mini PC or a couple of drives. Instead, I ended up coming home with: - Synology DS918+ - Synology DX517 expansion unit - 9 × 12TB Synology HDDs - 2 × 512GB Samsung EVO NVMe drives in the DS918+ - Intel NUC11PAHi5 — i5-1135G7 - I…

14. Moving on from owncloud

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
Feedback ID: 1whp48v
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai); homelab / self-hosting (selfhosted, server, proxmox); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 127)
Bot probability: Low (10%)
Snippet: For quite some time, I ran my own infrastructure to cover the digital needs of my parents and mine. It started when I was using a WD mycloud back in 2019 (?) when they suddenly decided, that their backup-and-sync solution, which was free and ok-ish (turnover time for 1 file around 2 min), should actually cost something and they switched to goodsync with no way to keep the old system. I tried it in good faith to actua…

15. Longhorn on Kubernetes: A hands-on guide covering installation, PVC migration, storage classes, and backup

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Subreddit: r/kubernetes
Feedback ID: 1wg6owr
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, kubernetes); homelab / self-hosting (homelab, server); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 124)
Bot probability: Low (10%)
Snippet: After loosing data a few times through sheer stupidity, I decided to give Longhorn a try. My conclusion : If you want a simple and lightweight solution for small clusters to make your data more resilient on kubernetes, Longhorn provides you with all of your basic needs. Nonetheless, for bigger clusters and more complex operations, longhorn fails to scale and lacks features. As always I wrote a detailled guide coverin…

16. One Loki+Mimir stack per tenant team instead of one multi-tenant stack. Talk me out of it?

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Subreddit: r/kubernetes
Feedback ID: 1wimxxv
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (automation, aws, kubernetes); homelab / self-hosting (self-hosted); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 122)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: Rebuilding self-hosted observability on EKS after two earlier attempts. Is this topology a mistake before I stamp it out six times? Context We have six internal teams, and they could grow, each with their own AWS account, logs, and metrics. Our previous generation ran the entire stack on ECS (one dedicated stack per team), and it got expensive. However, the bill turned out to be an issue of sizing rather than topolog…

17. Containarr: Built-in HTTPS, Dynamic DNS, Auto-Updates & More.

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Subreddit: r/arr
Feedback ID: 1wayzw1
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, programming); homelab / self-hosting (homelab, arr); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 121)
Bot probability: Low (18%)
Snippet: Hi all! I hope my project Containarr might be useful to some of you, so that's why I'm sharing it here. I like self-hosting, but never really enjoyed the tools needed to manage it all. My previous stack was Nginx Proxy Manager, Portainer, Watchtower, Dynamic DNS; just to run a few apps. I'm quite opinionated on how my homelab should operate. This is what I wanted: Every service needs a https:// .mydomain.com , like h…

18. 102 raw inventory photos → 22 live eBay listings. Now I’m trying to use less AI

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Subreddit: r/artificial
Feedback ID: 1wind3o
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, agent, automation); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 119)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: I ran a second batch through the inventory system I’ve been building and it changed what I think the hard part of this actually is. For anyone who didn’t see the first post, Batch 1 was 40+ raw photos covering 11 random resale items. The goal wasn’t just to have AI describe pictures. I wanted to see how far I could get toward dropping real inventory photos into a system and getting usable eBay listings out the other …

19. 1 year into DevOps, Am I actually growing, or am I just getting a lot of exposure?

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Subreddit: r/devops
Feedback ID: 1wf7vs9
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, aws, azure); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply; matches experience Mat can contribute (score 118)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: I’m a little confused about whether I’m actually growing in my DevOps career or just getting exposed to a lot of different things without developing deep expertise. I have around 1 year of professional DevOps experience and currently work at a mid-sized service-based company in Mumbai. I’m basically the only DevOps person in my team, so I get to work on quite a lot of things independently. My work currently looks som…

20. Grimoire v1.7.0 - Building out more TTRPG tools

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
Feedback ID: 1wi4iaz
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, docker); homelab / self-hosting (homelab, selfhosted, server); books / reading (book, books, reading); asks for experience or help (score 114)
Bot probability: Medium (36%)
Snippet: Grimoire has long had support for organizing maps and tokens alongside being great at reading and organizing all your TTRPG books. But I'm building to something bigger, and have added some new tools to that end. A token editor. Now you can edit the tokens you have uploaded to grimoire directly in the application, no need to download and then re-upload to a different service, only to download again and re-upload it to…

21. Overexposed to the S&P 500? How to plan for a crash?

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Subreddit: r/investing
Feedback ID: 1win6u2
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai); trading / quant / CTI (investing); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 112)
Bot probability: Low (10%)
Snippet: My investment strategy has been pretty simple: buy the S&P 500 in half a dozen different ETFs, keep some cash in a money market ETF, hold and don't touch. Max out the 401k and Roth, and try and live on the cash flow I have coming in from my job . Roughy half of what I have in the market is in retirement accounts and the other half brokerage. That's served me pretty well for the last several years as my unrealized gai…

22. Dispatcharr Release: v0.31.0 - IPTV Stream & EPG Management

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
Feedback ID: 1whyvnk
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (docker, api); homelab / self-hosting (selfhosted, jellyfin, server); gaming / content (stream); books / reading (history) (score 112)
Bot probability: Low (28%)
Snippet: Hey everyone, For those here that are not familiar, Dispatcharr is an open-source middleware for managing IPTV streams and EPG data. It doesn't provide any content. It simply helps you import your own sources (M3U playlists, EPG/XMLTV, Xtream/XC credentials) and export them in whatever format your client needs (M3U, EPG, Xtream/XC, HDHomeRun, and Dispatcharr API). Think of it as a translator between your providers an…

23. Is there any functional, free local AI that can do proper web research?

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
Feedback ID: 1whqqm6
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (ai, agent); homelab / self-hosting (selfhosted); books / reading (reading); asks for experience or help (score 110)
Bot probability: Low (10%)
Snippet: Is there any ready‑to‑use, easy‑to‑configure local AI tool that can do proper research on information from the internet? What I’m looking for is something that runs fully locally, but still has the ability to search the web and scrape/collect data from websites and ideally does it in a sensible, reliable way without being locked behind a paywall. Everything I’ve tested so far has been pretty disappointing. I tried Va…

24. [RELEASE] pandas-ta-classic v0.8.32: lookahead-bias fixes, bit-exact TA-Lib parity, big numba speedups

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Subreddit: r/algotrading
Feedback ID: 1wfyr6y
Why it fits: books / reading (history); trading / quant / CTI (algotrading, backtest); asks for experience or help; clear opening for a useful reply (score 110)
Bot probability: Low (18%)
Snippet: Hey r/algotrading , pandas-ta-classic v0.8.32 is out. This is the community-maintained fork of pandas-ta. The main themes of this release are correctness and speed. If you backtest with it, please upgrade. A few of these bugs could make a backtest look better than it really was. 🚨 Lookahead bias fixes (please read) * non_zero_range leaked future bars into past rows** (#149). If any bar in your data had high == low ,…

25. Accidentally broke tailscale for my server while I'm overseas

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Subreddit: r/truenas
Feedback ID: 1wee6ez
Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps (kubernetes); homelab / self-hosting (truenas, nas, server); books / reading (reading); asks for experience or help (score 110)
Bot probability: Low (5%)
Snippet: Hi, I'm looking for some help to confirm I understand how I've taken my server offline, and that my process for fixing it will work. I have a Truenas Scale NAS, and I installed Tailscale on it. This was all working well, and I am currently living overseas and accessing the server in my home country via tailscale on my laptop. However, accessing it is very slow overseas, which I hadn't anticipated (accessing it ouside…

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Reddit Scrub - 2026-09-17

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1. I trained a 44M parameter quantized LLM from scratch on 45B tokens. It ships in 19.8 MB and runs at ~1,900 tok/s on CPU. [P]

2. Almost Every Doom Game, in Reverse Order (Part 3: The OG games)

3. Considering switching from NAS to a minipc for better Jellyfin 4K transcoding

4. You can offload most of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next's KV cache to RAM with little decode slowdown

5. 7 Days to Die Alpha 15.1 Expanded Overhaul

6. Join our growing /r/FinancialCareers Discord server!

7. Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' - Review Thread

8. Thought experiment: Could a sufficiently motivated AI survive being deleted and keep spreading?

9. Looking to streamline holdings into 10–12 core positions. Heavy AI/Tech focus, feedback welcome!

10. Help a brother make a roadmap!

11. TrueNAS 26-BETA.3 Now Available!

12. AWS vs Azure for Laravel with HIPAA/BAA requirements and minimal DevOps?

13. Colleague was getting rid of some old kit… I think I accidentally acquired an entire homelab

14. Moving on from owncloud

15. Longhorn on Kubernetes: A hands-on guide covering installation, PVC migration, storage classes, and backup

16. One Loki+Mimir stack per tenant team instead of one multi-tenant stack. Talk me out of it?

17. Containarr: Built-in HTTPS, Dynamic DNS, Auto-Updates & More.

18. 102 raw inventory photos → 22 live eBay listings. Now I’m trying to use less AI

19. 1 year into DevOps, Am I actually growing, or am I just getting a lot of exposure?

20. Grimoire v1.7.0 - Building out more TTRPG tools

21. Overexposed to the S&P 500? How to plan for a crash?

22. Dispatcharr Release: v0.31.0 - IPTV Stream & EPG Management

23. Is there any functional, free local AI that can do proper web research?

24. [RELEASE] pandas-ta-classic v0.8.32: lookahead-bias fixes, bit-exact TA-Lib parity, big numba speedups

25. Accidentally broke tailscale for my server while I'm overseas

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