Show HN: Varkos – a local AI pet that can talk, interact, and play small games
Opening his world… Zoom Play animation Varkos in the jar [alpha] A Tamagotchi-like dog with an attitude problem. Varkos lives in a little 3D jar on your desktop. Talk to him, play with him, and watch him live his little life.
- ▪Opening his world… Zoom Play animation Varkos in the jar [alpha] A Tamagotchi-like dog with an attitude problem.
- ▪Varkos lives in a little 3D jar on your desktop.
- ▪Talk to him, play with him, and watch him live his little life.
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| Original publisher | Varkos |
| Canonical URL | https://varkos.party/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:54:16 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-23T19:59:30.808Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-23T19:59:30.808Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | rs97LmutBDA0 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Opening his world… Zoom Play animation Varkos in the jar [alpha] A Tamagotchi-like dog with an attitude problem. Varkos lives in a little 3D jar on your desktop. Talk to him, play with him, and watch him live his little life. Free. Fast. Fully local AI. No server calls. No ads. No analytics. SEE IT IN ACTION Downloads Download for Mac M2 or newer · 16 GB RAM (M4 Pro or better recommended) 9 GB of space required. Download for Windows NVIDIA GPU · 12 GB VRAM recommended (16 GB recommended). 9 GB of space required. Linux and iOS versions coming soon. A fairly powerful computer is required. The models are well optimized, but still very resource-hungry. A weaker model will be used for weaker hardware which impact your experience.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Varkos.
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