u/jumploops

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Watching Belgium vs. Senegal with a simple $20 antenna. Note: audio is Spanish

I'm building DStudio a private, local-first AI workspace on top of DeepSeek V4. Chat, a coding agent, and a real design studio, all on your own hardware. Nothing leaves the device: no cloud, no telemetry, no subscription. It's a UI on top of antirez's ds4, the local DeepSeek V4 inference engine.

The bet: a frontier-class model that's entirely yours deserves more than a chat box. DStudio turns it into a place to think, code, and design and you can reach it from any device in your home.

What works today:

Use it from your phone (or any device on your Wi-Fi). Localhost-only by default; flip one switch and the same chats open on your phone, tablet, another laptop — while the model stays on your desktop. The engine never leaves 127.0.0.1 (same-origin /v1 reverse proxy), so there's nothing to configure on the client. Chats sync across devices.

A design studio on a local model (ds4-design). Not a chat that spits out HTML — a designer's pipeline: structured brief -> several distinct directions -> every screen on an infinite canvas -> refine by describing the next change -> export as a zip.

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A coding agent that reads/edits files and runs commands, with clean structured output via a reversible build-time patch (the upstream engine source stays pristine).

Plus: 100% local & private (strict CSP), one self-contained binary (the whole UI is a single vanilla HTML file in a small C launcher), macOS-first with Linux builds too.

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Where it's going:

• Design studio — pushing fidelity and faster refine loops (in progress).
• Cowork — collaborative sessions: share a workspace and build alongside the model, together.
• MCP integration — so the agent can plug into your own tools and data sources.

Requires a local build of antirez's ds4 + DeepSeek V4 GGUF weights. Heads up — it's heavy: in 2-bit the "Flash" weights need ~96–128 GB RAM. The README has screenshots of every mode (chat, agent, the design pipeline, LAN) if you can't run it locally.

Repo (BSD-3): https://github.com/sk8erboi17/DStudio

Building in the open and early — would love feedback on the direction, especially the LAN/multi-device flow, the design pipeline, and what you'd want from Cowork / MCP. AMA.

From the author:

>pinback gives ds4-agent a remote-accessible workspace ui for multiple projects. you can run the agent in one project, keep the transcript and workspace state, switch to another project, then come back and resume without treating every project like a separate app.

its built around a single c server that embeds the web ui, supervises the ds4-agent process, streams events, stores per-project logs, and records turn diffs. the native shells are thin webviews for macos, windows, linux, ios, and android. desktop shells can self-host the server; mobile shells connect to a remote pinback url ove lanr, tailscale, caddy, wireguard, etc.

Howdy folks!

Welcome to r/ds4, a subreddit focused on antirez's DwarfStar inference engine.

I created this subreddit after seeing a bunch of slightly off-topic posts in the Issues section of the ds4 repo. Hopefully we can redirect Q/A, project demos, etc. to here.

What to Post
Build something cool with ds4? Have questions for running it on your hardware? Curious about system requirements and recommended settings? Ask away

Community Vibe
We value human input, not AI slop. Please share what you're working on/struggling with, but please keep the AI-written text to a minimum. Vibecoded projects are expected, but please avoid posting anything low effort.

How to Get Started

1. Introduce yourself and the system you use (i.e. MPB M4 Max 128GB)
2. Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.
3. If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join.
4. Interested in helping out? I'm not intent on being a forever moderator, really just wanted a place to redirect ds4 usecase discussions from the main repo. If you want to help moderate, please reach out!

Thanks for being an early user of ds4! Together, let's keep the repo clean and make r/ds4 amazing!