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An image post in r/LocalLLaMA titled "It's been too quiet on the other side of the Pacific" pokes at the lull in new open-weight releases from Chinese labs. Replies mention that Qwen 4 is "supposedly coming out by the end of October" and ask about Kimi, while others push back that labs should release when a model is ready, not to bump a version number.

It scored highest of any thread in our sweep relative to its subreddit's size (about 4,200 upvotes in a 329,000-member community).

A user published part two of the documentation for "Origami," a phone-first Home Assistant dashboard built mostly by hand over years from two community cards, Bubble Card and paper-buttons-row, and designed so others in the household can use it. Commenters praised it as a "real" dashboard instead of AI-generated web pages.

A developer shared DigUp, a free Mac app that runs Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 locally through llama.cpp so you can search text, images, audio and video by description, such as "where they talk about sleep" in a podcast, and jump to the moment. The poster says the model download is 865 MB and indexing peaks under 2 GB of memory. The top reply praised it as how self-promotion should be done; others asked for a command-line version.

Two of r/baseball's top posts of the week came minutes apart in Game 3 of the NLCS. One is Jake Bauers' two-run homer on the 11th pitch of his at-bat, which gave Milwaukee the lead for good; replies note how unexpected his October has been for a player one commenter calls "borderline awful" in the previous series. The other shows the Dodger Stadium crowd after Bauers and Garrett Mitchell went back to back, with a top reply complaining that the broadcasts showed no Brewers fans celebrating. About 14,000 and 8,300 upvotes in a 2.8-million-member community.

The post links Variety's report that Nicolas Cage told a New York Comic Con panel he did not sign an AI waiver for Amazon's "Spider-Noir" and is "probably not" working with the studio again: "I am not an AI-friendly actor." Amazon cancelled the series after one season despite 11 Emmy nominations. The top reply, with about 8,900 upvotes, praised Cage for standing up for his craft. About 45,000 upvotes on the post.

A user ran BirdNET-Go, a port of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's bird-call model, as a Home Assistant app on a Raspberry Pi 4, feeding it the audio from existing security cameras' RTSP streams so no audio leaves the house, then displayed each day's birds on e-ink frames styled as specimen sheets. The top reply pointed to an earlier open-source project the poster should credit; others shared their own versions.

The post links Tom's Hardware's report that, after Ukrainian strikes knocked out Yandex data centers in Sasovo and Kaluga, Cloudflare measured bot traffic from Yandex's network falling to 0.4% of its two-week peak, and NetBlocks reported Yandex Cloud traffic at 30% of normal. The report says the strikes respond to Russian attacks on Kyiv data centers. Top replies, with about 17,000 and 14,000 upvotes, celebrated the drop in Russian bot traffic. The post drew about 82,000 upvotes; the same story also ranked in r/cybersecurity.

The post quotes an SFGATE column saying Meta's Muse agent asks for logins, bank details, messages, calendar and contacts, more sensitive access than nearly any other AI app according to ZDNET, and recounts Inc. columnist Jason Aten's report that Muse read his private messages even though he remembers denying it access. Replies range from vows to keep Meta products out of the house to a link to Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard-era messages about users' data. About 2,900 upvotes in a 1.4-million-member community.

A clip of Lions coach Dan Campbell, emotional, announcing that he was giving a game ball to team play-by-play announcer Dan Miller, whose wife died of cancer that week. The top reply, with about 6,600 upvotes, is simply "I love this man"; a truck driver who listens to games on the radio called Miller one of the best announcers out there. About 22,000 upvotes in an 11.9-million-member community.

A clip of Mike Evans turning Stefon Diggs around as if to see who he was, and Diggs giving him a shove after being embarrassed. The top reply, with about 19,000 upvotes, called it "one of the greatest trash talk moves I've seen"; another said it is an old Evans move. About 29,000 upvotes on the post.