Tunnels, networking, self-hosted LLMs, and AI news

Bonsai 27B compresses a 27B-parameter Qwen3.6 model to 3.9GB using native 1-bit weights and runs on an iPhone at 11 tok/s. Here's what it gives up.

A guide to the best open-weight text-to-speech models you can self-host in 2026, ranked by Artificial Analysis Speech Arena Elo. Compare Step Audio EditX, Fish Audio S2 Pro, Voxtral TTS, Kokoro 82M, Maya1, NVIDIA Magpie, Chatterbox, and Zonos on quality, licensing, hardware, and deployment.

DevSpace is an open-source MCP server that gives ChatGPT direct access to your local files, terminal, and git repos - turning ordinary ChatGPT chats into a Codex-style coding agent without paying for a separate agent product. Full setup guide with Pinggy.

A single-file C engine called Colibrì streams GLM-5.2's 744B mixture-of-experts weights off an NVMe drive to run the full model on 25 GB of RAM at 0.05-2 tokens/second. Here's how it works, what Hacker News made of it, and how to check on a queued run from your phone with Pinggy.

How to get free access to AI model APIs on OpenRouter in 2026 - real rate limits, the current free model catalog (Nemotron 3 Ultra, Owl Alpha, Tencent Hy3), code examples, and how the $10 credit threshold works.

Cloudflare shipped Drop on July 8, 2026: drag a folder into the browser, get a live URL with no account. Here's what it actually does, its file and time limits, and why it can't replace a tunnel for anything with a backend.

A working OTP flow proves your app sends and checks a code. It doesn't prove your signup holds up against bots. Here's how to test auth for fraud resistance locally with a Pinggy tunnel.

Meetily picked up 2,500+ GitHub stars in a day with a self-hosted AI meeting assistant. Here's what it does, how the Rust/Whisper/Ollama stack fits together, and how to share a running instance with Pinggy.

curl is refusing all vulnerability reports for the month of July 2026 after AI-generated 'slop' reports pushed its confirmed-vulnerability rate below 5%. Here's the timeline, the numbers, and why this is bigger than one project.

HackerRank open-sourced its AI hiring agent and the same resume scores differently every run, from 66 to 99. Here's how the pipeline works, why it's non-deterministic, and how hidden PDF text can inflate a score.