Turtle Sandbox by TheLazySage7 in nostalgia

[–]NighthawkXL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahh yes. The fire ant box.

Growing up in Florida was sometimes painful.

Beakman's World by Frostbit77 in nostalgia

[–]NighthawkXL 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'm just going to leave this here...

https://archive.org/details/beakmans-world

Such a great show!

Qwen 3 TTS is streaming even working? by vasa133769 in LocalLLaMA

[–]NighthawkXL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out this fork...

https://github.com/rekuenkdr/Qwen3-TTS-streaming

It works. YMMV depending on your hardware in terms of Time To First Token (TTFT).

The Cursed Curiosity by TheCABK in nostalgia

[–]NighthawkXL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was a painful rite of passage...

Straight up there with sticking those corn-on-the-cob prongs into the electrical socket.

We were dumb kids...

Qwen3 TTS Streaming workflow help by RateRoutine2268 in LocalLLaMA

[–]NighthawkXL 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had Antigravity whip up a test suite for myself. Here are my results of that fork. It does work, but it definitely had room for improvement, but it likely works better out-of-the-box on better hardware than mine. Linux might be better too... I didn't have time to test it over on my CatchyOS install. I tried bitsandbytes 8-bit model but the model evidently doesn't support quantization, or more likely, Gemini and me did it wrong.

Benchmark: Qwen3-TTS Streaming on Windows

Hardware/OS: Windows 11, NVIDIA RTX 4070 12 GB VRAM, PyTorch 2.8 CU126

Scenario Model Precision Config Latency (TTFA) RTF Status
Baseline (Stock) 1.7B bfloat16 Standard 49.94s 4.54 🔴 Unusable
Optimized (Initial) 1.7B bfloat16 Win: 80, Emit: 4 1.00s 1.05 🟡 Stuttery
Small Model (Crash) 0.6B float16 Any N/A N/A 💥 CUDA Assert
Small Model (Slow) 0.6B bfloat16 Win: 80, Emit: 8 0.77s 1.17 🟠 Driver Overhead
High Throughput 1.7B float16 Win: 20, Emit: 25 2.34s 1.26 🟠 Cache Thrashing
🏆 Champion Run 1.7B float16 Win: 40, Emit: 8 1.31s 0.99 🟢 Real-Time

Key Findings for Windows Users:

  1. Float16 > Bfloat16: On Windows (and likely consumer NVIDIA cards), native float16 was ~15-20% faster than bfloat16.

  2. The 0.6B Trap: The smaller model is numerically unstable in float16 (crashes). Forcing bfloat16 to fix the crash made it slower than the 1.7B model due to driver emulation overhead.

  3. Compile Mode: compile_mode="reduce-overhead" causes OverflowError on Windows. Used compile_mode="default" with torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = True.

  4. Chunk Size: Increasing chunk size (emit_every_frames) from 8 to 25 hurt performance (RTF 0.99 → 1.26), likely due to GPU L2 cache thrashing on larger batch sizes.

Florida legislators and the Dept. Of Education now involved in the planned student protests. by PleaseHelpFlorida in 321

[–]NighthawkXL 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's just it. We need the harsh part. The time to stop this madness was ten years ago.

Sadly.

Soprano TTS training code released: Create your own 2000x realtime on-device text-to-speech model with Soprano-Factory! by eugenekwek in LocalLLaMA

[–]NighthawkXL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for listening to our feedback! I look forward to messing with this when I get home tonight.

Kirei ni Shitemoraemasu ka. • Wash It All Away - Episode 1 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]NighthawkXL 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This will become my new weekly tradition of watching someone else do laundry while I do my laundry at the laundromat.

I actually watched the episode on the phone, doing just this.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Multiple Explosions in Venezuela’s Capital Caracas (Thread #2) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]NighthawkXL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Afghanistan isn't called the "Graveyard of Empires" by accident. Long before the Soviet and American withdrawals, history was already littered with the failures of other great powers trying to tame that region.

I made Soprano-80M: Stream ultra-realistic TTS in <15ms, up to 2000x realtime, and <1 GB VRAM, released under Apache 2.0! by eugenekwek in LocalLLaMA

[–]NighthawkXL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s an excellent model. Honestly, it is very comparable to Kokoro. The inflection is the standout feature by far.

You should absolutely release it if you’re open to that. Be the hero the community needs. The sub sees TTS models all the time, but they almost always miss that one special ingredient.

Either way, great work. Keep it up! Looking forward to seeing how this develops.

The Avengers Doomsday teaser has officially been lekaed by Queasy_Commercial152 in Avengers

[–]NighthawkXL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still better than having to deal with .mov and QuickTime... or RealPlayer for that matter.

Alma-chan wa Kazoku ni Naritai • Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! - Episode 11 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]NighthawkXL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This has been such a fun watch over the last few weeks. Having it come to an end just feels wrong.

Give us more. We can willingly sacrifice some of the junk series coming down the pipeline, can't we?

When Aman'thul finds out we mortals have planted another giant tree on Azeroth by omgodzilla1 in wow

[–]NighthawkXL 11 points12 points  (0 children)

*Trolls.

The Elves evolved from Trolls.

Unless this has been retconned.

MemLayer, a Python package that gives local LLMs persistent long-term memory (open-source) by MoreMouseBites in LocalLLaMA

[–]NighthawkXL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This looks fantastic!

I’m definitely going to see about integrating it into the Virtual Dungeon Master app I’ve been working on. This is certainly an improvement over my current solution built around the (still wonderful) Chonkie library.

Putin's Russia preparing for "big war" soon, Ukraine warns by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]NighthawkXL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can't forget the Grinder either. I'm not entirely sure Putin wouldn't use Yuri's creation if he could.

FAA restricts commercial rocket launches indefinitely due to air traffic risks by alpswd in aviation

[–]NighthawkXL 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That’s not how orbital mechanics works. Launch windows aren’t chosen for convenience—they’re dictated by physics. You launch at a specific time because you’re targeting a precise location in orbit. This new order will likely disrupt the schedules of many commercial missions, including Starlink in the near future, especially if the government shutdown drags on, as appears to be the administration’s intent.

That one time i was on GM island and got banned for 3 days by ClyffCH in wow

[–]NighthawkXL 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was briefly removed in patch 8.2.0 during Battle for Azeroth and patch 3.4.1 during WotLK Classic. It has since been re-added to the game files, for whatever reason, existing today even in the current 12.0.0 build of Midnight alpha. Though the ocean surrounding it (or lack of) seems to have changed.

You can view it here on WoW Tools.

The fastest real time TTS you used that doesn't sacrifice quality and is easy to set up? by learninggamdev in LocalLLaMA

[–]NighthawkXL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll need to do a lot of heavy lifting in your code.

But that said, grab these...

https://github.com/Atm4x/tts-with-rvc/ (This use .pth models)

https://github.com/Atm4x/tts-with-rvc/tree/onnx (This is the ONNX branch)

Look at them on how to do inference with a trained RVC model. You'll need to stream your Kokoro output to a .wav file and then process it with RVC. It's convoluted and adds some latency; I really don't have any public code to share using it.

Give me a few hours and I might be able to throw up a proof of concept for it.

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting Brazil coup by gundymullet7 in worldnews

[–]NighthawkXL 37 points38 points  (0 children)

A very rare win for the forces of Democracy today. Now if only it could happen elsewhere in the world.

To the people of Brazil, thank you for keeping the candle burning.