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Fig. 1
Llama's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
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Llama%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names Llama. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 1
  2. 17 Aug 0
  3. 24 Aug 0
  4. 31 Aug 0
  5. 7 Sept 0
  6. 14 Sept 0
  7. 21 Sept 0
  8. 28 Sept 0
  9. 5 Oct 0
  10. 12 Oct 0
  11. 19 Oct 0
  12. 26 Oct 0

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console371 pts · 85 comments · 16 Oct
  2. llama.cpp361 pts · 168 comments · 12 Aug
  3. Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp304 pts · 43 comments · 11 Aug
  4. Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp85 pts · 12 comments · 26 Sept
  5. Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace76 pts · 27 comments · 4 Sept
  6. Llama.cpp v0.1.042 pts · 8 comments · 17 Aug
  7. Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp20 pts · 20 comments · 5 Aug
  8. DLLM: Minimal, clean coding agent built directly on llama.cpp without overhead9 pts · 3 comments · 12 Aug

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