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Open-source desktop app for local LLMs. Text, vision, tool-calling, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API. 100% private.

131 mentions on Hacker News by 98 people: 7 stories, 124 comments · first 2023-02-26 · latest 2025-10-26

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  1. …from huggingface as gguf files and would like to use those downloads (and running them through https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ). It is possible to run those llms as a local api using something like llama-cpp-python (…
  2. …text gen models locally that people might be interested in: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLlama [0] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui [1] https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B-GGUF
  3. …has a UI, but I haven't used it. I had some SSH tunnels set up to use the server interface with https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui where I hacked an "OpenAI" client to it (that UI doesn't have it natively). The only reason…
    comment by adeon · 2025-01-28 · in Questions censored by DeepSeek
  4. …~~decoder~~ (edit: sampler) level, like for any models? (see DRY ~~decoder~~ sampler for instance: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/pull/5677 )
    comment by littlestymaar · 2025-01-28 · in Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
  5. Still nothing better than oobabooga ( https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ) in terms of maximalism/"Pro"/"Prosumer" LLM UI/UX ALA Blender, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, etc. Embarrassing and any VCs reading this can contact me…
    comment by Der_Einzige · 2024-12-29 · in How I run LLMs locally
  6. …and AUTOMATIC1111 work in the same way. They also have the same issues regarding Windows Defender. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
    comment by vulcanidic · 2024-11-29 · in Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning
  7. …implies local models and that you have a decent cpu + min 64gb of ram to run above 7b-sized model. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-generation&s...
  8. …by the roleplaying/waifu sounding frontend names. They are all fine. This is what I mostly prefer: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  9. …about the closures. Take a look at this issue to see what it takes to keep something open: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/41... (not especially proud of my reactions there, but I hate being abused, even by…
  10. Why do people recommend this instead of the much better oobabooga text-gen-webui? https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui It's like you hate settings, features, and access to many backends!
    comment by Der_Einzige · 2024-07-16 · in Codestral Mamba
  11. I’m using a local frontend: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui With local 8x7b: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1-G... (Q4_K_M) Requires 35gb+ of regular RAM, RTX card is optional but speeds it up a…
  12. …use (fetching URLs and doing things with them) or RAG (searching your documents). I think Oobabooga https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui offers the latter through plugins. Our tool, https://github.com/transformerlab/transforme…
  13. You can use webui https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui Once you get a version up and running I make a copy before I update it as several times updates have broken my working version and caused headaches. a decent explanation…
  14. …ordered by stars: - https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all - https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT - https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui - https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise - https://github.com/lobehub/lobe-chat -…
  15. …only be looking at open source chat UI front ends: https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI And then connecting them to off-line models servers: -…
  16. …you want a truly general purpose front-end for LLMs, the only good solution right now is oobabooga: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui All other alternatives have only small fractions of the features that oobabooga…
  17. …user who knows they have an Nvidia card" level. Assuming they even know how to find it: 1) Go to https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui?tab=readm... 2) See a bunch of instructions opening a terminal window and running random…
  18. The example waifu in text-generation-webui is good enough for me. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main...
  19. …decisions to me. [0] https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instr... [1] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  20. You can download it and run it with [this]( https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ). There's an API mode that you could leverage from your VS Code extension.
    comment by marinhero · 2024-01-29 · in Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B
  21. …issues[1] so I am doing my own in Langroid using HuggingFace tokenizer.apply_chat_template [2] [1] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/53... [2] https://github.com/langroid/langroid/blob/main/langroid/lang... Related…
    comment by d4rkp4ttern · 2024-01-25 · in Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries
  22. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main... Consider a finetune - they're faster and relatively cheap (like, under $30 rented compute time). The link above lists them, but the steps are to gather a dataset, do the…
    comment by washadjeffmad · 2024-01-02 · in Ask HN: Is it feasible to train my own LLM?
  23. …1. Install llama.cpp from https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp . Alternatively, install https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui 2. Go to https://huggingface.co/TheBloke and search for GGUF. Download and put the model file in…
    comment by patrakov · 2023-12-29 · in AirLLM enables 8GB MacBook run 70B LLM
  24. …either yet. EDIT: It's very slow, according to the comments in this thread by people who tried it: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/47...
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2023-12-28 · in AirLLM enables 8GB MacBook run 70B LLM
  25. …much easier to get people to submit issues than to help solve them. [0] eg, windows install script https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main...
  26. All this needless difficulty when you can just do the right thing and use oogabooga. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  27. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2023-12-17 · in Run Mistral 7B on M1 Mac
  28. …url with `OPENAI_API_BASE` and point it to a text-generation-ui OpenAI API[0] compliant model. 0: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/discussio...
  29. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  30. Already works on oobabooga as of a few days ago: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/47... Need a few extra steps: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/pull/4803
    comment by lxe · 2023-12-09 · in QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs
  31. Probably this because it's a simple UI to get you started: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
    comment by politelemon · 2023-11-24 · in Generative AI for Beginners
  32. …only. If you want keyboard shortcuts or a snappy interface, Python+gradio just isn't it. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/41...
  33. Thats why as a business i would rather use a trusted FOSS LLm interface like textgeneration-WEBUI https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  34. …them appropriately for different LLMs. For instance, see TUI and its instruction template presets: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/tree/main...
    comment by brucethemoose2 · 2023-11-01 · in MistralLite by Amazon Web Services
  35. I use https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui separately as I code in VS 2022, VS Code, Intellij Idea and Webstorm
  36. …other runner for the model that supports grammars or the other features you are looking for.) [0] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
    comment by dragonwriter · 2023-10-11 · in Mistral 7B
  37. …do a one-off train for a model, you might be able to get away with doing it in something like this: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui Very easy to use project but it really doesn't allow for the kind of metrics, analysis,…
    comment by TrueDuality · 2023-09-28 · in Mistral 7B
  38. …end users who run these LLMs on their desktops to roleplay. AMD being awful is orthogonal here. [1] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
    comment by redox99 · 2023-09-28 · in Mistral 7B
  39. OobaBooga supports this kind of load-and-go LORA: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
    comment by mikeravkine · 2023-09-04 · in Show HN: finetune LLMs via the Finetuning Hub
  40. I like this one: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui LLM is the swiss army knife for everyone not just developers.
    comment by prakhar897 · 2023-08-29 · in DevToys – A Swiss army knife for developers
  41. You should be able to turn on the API in booba: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui#api
  42. …- I'm a maintainer) - https://github.com/simonw/llm (access LLMs from the cli - cloud and local) - https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui (a web ui w/ different backends) - https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp (fast local LLM…
    comment by jmorgan · 2023-08-28 · in ChatGPT Enterprise
  43. Not hard with text-generation-ui! https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui I personally use llama.cpp as the driver since I run CPU-only but another may be better suited for GPU usage. But then it's as simple as downloading the…
  44. Did you try Oobabooga ( https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ) yet?
  45. …already I'm not sure. For general chat testing/usage this works pretty well with lots of options - https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/
  46. …version. You should be able to fit the original 70B with "load_in_8bit" on one A100 80GB. [1] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui [2] https://www.runpod.io/ [3] https://gpus.llm-utils.org/running-llama-2-on-runpod-with-oo...
    comment by syntaxing · 2023-08-23 · in GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
  47. I've seen this mentioned in some guides I have read (I believe this is the one you are referencing: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ) and will definitely look into it, thanks!
    comment by Ms-J · 2023-08-17 · in Ask HN: Local LLM's
  48. …instructions: https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/OpenOrcaxOpenChat-Preview2-... easiest way would be https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui a little more complex way I do is I have a stack with llama.cpp server, a openai adapter,…
  49. …AI histira was a little more rampant but still. tl;dr my recommendation for your pdf project is run https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui . if your can get a 30 series GPU in your company Then run a 13B 4bit model that can…
    comment by rig666 · 2023-08-16 · in Why host your own LLM?
  50. …little messy and cobbled together I run oobabooga's API on docker with a 13B 4bit quantized model. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui We use GTX 3060s because there the best bang for there buck in terms of VRAM. Our current…
    comment by rig666 · 2023-08-15 · in Why host your own LLM?