hyperionaidev/smolmaxxing
- Total stars
- 656
- Today
- +23since 00:03 UTC
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maxxing the ability to run different LLMs on the smallest devices possible
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About the project
A project for running LLMs on low-power devices (TV boxes, old tablets, SBCs) with ARM-specific optimizations: custom kernels, weight streaming, MoE expert paging. The goal is to squeeze maximum tokens per second out of devices with 1-2 GB of RAM.
Useful for
- Run an 8B MoE model on a 2 GB RAM TV box via expert paging from flash
- Speed up 1-bit model inference on an old iPad Air with a NEON lookup-table kernel
- Stream 9B model weights from flash on a device where the model doesn't fit in RAM
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate. Read the original README →
Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 14, 2026, 10:41 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:03–10:32: 633 → 656 stars (+23). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +115 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 10 days old and already has 656 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices” — 475 points, 1 day ago.
- About 11 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 650.
Daily measurements · UTC
- November 7, 2026
- 0
- November 8, 2026
- 0
- November 9, 2026
- 0
- November 10, 2026
- 0
- November 11, 2026
- 1
- November 12, 2026
- 392
- November 13, 2026
- 257
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 392 · November 12, 2026. Days with data: 10.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 14, 2026, 10:41 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 656
- Today
- +23 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:03–10:32 UTC, ≈ 115 by evening
- Forks
- 23
- Issues and pull requests
- 3
- Watchers
- 2
- Language
- C
- License
- MIT
- Created
- November 4, 2026
- Last push
- November 13, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices475 points, November 12, 2026
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- November 14, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- November 13, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- November 12, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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