JSjslakro·Jan 13, 2025Submission
FauxPilot: A locally hosted GitHub Copilot
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fauxpilot
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fauxpilot
FauxPilot - an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot server
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What it is
FauxPilot - an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot server
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Where it is used
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- salesforce/codegen · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
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Observed mentions: 2022-08-03 04:38:11 UTC to 2025-01-13 04:12:53 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 2022 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Sep 2022 | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2022 | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Nov 2022 | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Dec 2022 | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 2023 | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2023 | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Apr 2023 | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| May 2023 | 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Jun 2023 | 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2023 | 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2023 | 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2023 | 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2023 | 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2023 | 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2023 | 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 2024 | 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2024 | 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2024 | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2024 | 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2024 | 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2024 | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2024 | 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2024 | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2024 | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2024 | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2024 | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
22 sourcesA couple of other ones
https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby
https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot
In LSP-AI: open-source language server serving as back end for AI code assistanceThere are some projects that let you run a self-hosted Copilot server, then you set a proxy for the official Copilot extension.
https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot
https://github.com/danielgross/localpilot
In Meta AI releases Code Llama 70BThere is, but there’s not nearly enough of them. Check out Fauxpilot https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot
In OpenCopilot – Open source AI copilot for your own SaaS productI have just installed Fauxpilot <https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot> (nVidia GPU-only) and it works... OK. Still evaluating and I'm basically sceptic on the whole concept, but... let's see.
In CodeCompose: A large-scale industrial deployment of AI-assisted code authoringYes, something like FauxPilot[0] should be able to use it instead of CodeGen
[0] https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot
In Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 weekOf course it's possible, just not officially
See https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot/blob/main/documentati...
In Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 weekThere's https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot but it doesn't use this model
In Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 weekShow HN: TurboPilot: Copilot clone runs code completion LLM on your CPU
Hi HN,
I spent my easter weekend stuck in the house with COVID and I decided to play with llama.cpp [1] and fauxpilot [2] to see if I could get LLM code assist working on pure CPU.
As a proof of concept I'd say I've proven that it's possible. However there's still a lot to do. The auto complete is quite slow at the moment. PRs welcome.
[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
[2] https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot
37 points · Open discussionHow does this compare to fauxpilot - https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot? Fauxpilot also uses Triton with fastertransformers and GPT-J style models (codegen).
In Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub CopilotFauxPilot – An open-source GitHub Copilot server
499 points · Open discussionYou can always use https://github.com/salesforce/CodeGen . But it does require managing the model hosting. You can use fauxpilot to mimic copilot functionality https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot
In GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical previewYou details of what is required can be found per project.
eg. https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot/blob/main/setup.sh#L5...
/shrug
If you don't want to run it locally, don't.
If the hardware you have doesn't support it, don't.
...but to say it's not possible is, again, bluntly, wrong.
In ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language modelShort answer, yes: https://github.com/moyix/fauxpilot
In Ask HN: Open-Source GitHub Copilot?https://github.com/moyix/fauxpilot is working on an open source variant. Based on https://github.com/salesforce/CodeGen
In We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub CopilotShowing the 15 most recent of 22 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.