been on a weird arc the last few months and figured i'd write it down before i forget.
started with hermes-hud. just wanted to see what the agents on my machine were actually doing. terminal only, no server spin up.
then i bought a dgx spark at microcenter and everything got louder.
late nights turned into benchmarks. gemma 4 31b with mtp on gb10. 1.65x to 1.74x tok/s. hermes agent did most of the legwork. i ran the whole thing from telegram like a psycho.
4 weeks in i had one model locally. a month later it was 19 models and 665gb of weights sitting on disk. no cs degree. no bootcamp. just breaking things until the numbers made sense.
shipped spark-doctor because i was tired of guessing how the spark was doing. power caps, unified memory pressure, docker health, vllm/ollama setups. built it for other new spark owners figuring it out the hard way.
this week i stacked a second spark on my desk. qwen on one box. nemotron on the other. hermes in the middle running mixture of agents instead of me praying one model can do everything.
local ai stopped feeling like "run one model" and started feeling like building a little team of brains on your desk.
still breaking things. still learning the machine. that's the whole point.
✅Found a wild token hack that only works properly on Fable 5.
Claude charges image tokens by pixel size, not by how much text is in the image.
So someone built a proxy that renders your context into PNGs before sending it to the API.
Before: 92,000 tokens for a dense tool result
After: 4,761 tokens for the same content as a PNG
End-to-end bill savings: 59-70%.
SWE-bench tasks: same completion rate, half the cost.
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Asimov 1 is an open-source humanoid robot you can build and customize yourself.
Two ways to get one:
1) Source the parts yourself: https://t.co/vtG89UlhiK
2) Get the DIY kit: https://t.co/tzvzNyXiq2
The kit bundles every part as a group buy, cheaper than sourcing one by one, and you build alongside others.
Introducing Voice Agent Builder: a no-code platform to create human-like voice agents with Grok Voice.
Available today at $0.05 / min.
https://t.co/kUkF7zqvfR
so.. for those who didnt know.. if you have an xai grok subscription you can now run cursor's composer 2.5 model inside hermes agent
no separate api key, full 200k context, straight through oauth
your grok plan, hermes's agent loop, composer's coding speed
ALL 3 separate products working together.. what a year to be alive sheeeshhh!
Seems like no one's noticed the 80TB of astrophysics data from 30+ sources that just dropped on @huggingface.
...and you only need ~4GB of RAM to load it.
We're talking over 80TB of galaxy imagery taken across the spectrum, spectra of galaxies and stars, time series of variable stars, and a whole zoo of assorted measurements and physical data.
And all of it can now be wrangled on your laptop, thanks to Multimodal Universe's just released cross-matching. SDSS x Gaia means you can match 800k objects against 122M objects, and it never climbs above ~4GB of RAM.
Huge congrats to @smith42mike for leading this and making the world of astro accessible to probably 10,000x more people. Let's discover some shit
The Trump Accounts app is now available to all eligible American families. You can now activate a Trump Account for a child ahead of the official launch on July 4, 2026.
Trump Accounts help children build long-term financial security from an early age.
Here’s what you need to know:
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Unreal engine mcp is gonna change the world, the future of ai is entertainment film/games
Allowing people to create immersive worlds is the future book this
MASSIVE Hermes Agent update over the last few days
Totally changes the way I use Hermes
Here's 8 new features you need to start using immediately:
1. Native iMessage support: This is by far the easiest way to message Hermes on the go. Totally free to set up. I now use iMessage for quick prompts on the go, Hermes Desktop at home
2. Background agents: Background agents are now on by default. Now you can give Hermes complex prompts and by default Hermes will spin up subagents and put them in the background. Instead of waiting a long time to follow up with your agent while it works, you can immediately message it while background agents work quietly
3. Updated Desktop App: Bunch of new quality of life features in the desktop app including:
• pop out chats in their own window
• model selector now at bottom
• live subagents pane
• built in terminal
4. Profile builder in the browser: profiles in Hermes are basically new Hermes agents that work side by side. You should have at least 2 profiles set up so if one goes down, the other can fix it. Never been easier to set up new profiles, type hermes dashboard in your terminal and go to profiles
5. Skills Hub: There's now a skills hub in Hermes dashboard as well. Makes it really easy to browse and install new and popular skills
6. Smarter memory edits: your agent will now self improve way more and with better improvements too. Your agent will constantly write and update new skills as you work
7. Unreal Engine 5.8 MCP: For the first time you can now use AI to build video games in the most popular and powerful engine on Earth: Unreal Engine. Install the MCP in Hermes and you can have your agent build super complex and in depth 3D games.
8. Better Telegram formatting: Hermes now takes advantage of complex formatting in telegram like tables and charts. I like to use Telegram when I'm doing deep work on the go and iMessage when I have quick prompts on the go
Excellent updates that have significantly improved the experience. Video showing how to use and set this all up shortly.