# General-Instinct/InstinctFlash

> A high-performance serving runtime for robotics models (VLA, WAM, policies) with FP8 acceleration and optimized kernels on Jetson Thor and RTX 4090/5090.

- Magnitude: 2.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 26 total · +13 stars today, ≈ 15 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C++ · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-05-28 · Last push: 2026-09-18
- GitHub: https://github.com/General-Instinct/InstinctFlash · Homepage: https://general-instinct.com/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/General-Instinct/InstinctFlash

## Useful for

- Serve a fine-tuned robotics checkpoint for inference via `instinctflash serve`
- Expose robot action predictions over the openpi WebSocket protocol to existing clients
- Speed up pi0.5 or LingBot-VA inference with FP8 on Jetson Thor

## Why it’s here

- 13 stars so far today, about 15 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 15× as much.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: InstinctFlash – Run 5B world-action models in real time on Jetson Thor” — 16 points, 4 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5
- Issues and pull requests: 11
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 2 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4
- Latest release: thor-2026-09-15 (2026-09-15)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-24 … 2026-09-22: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 13

## Hacker News

- Show HN: InstinctFlash – Run 5B world-action models in real time on Jetson Thor — 16 points, 1 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802789

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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