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Red Queen's Race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
1•rzk•22s ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•gozzoo•3m ago•0 comments

A Horrible Conclusion

https://addisoncrump.info/research/a-horrible-conclusion/
1•todsacerdoti•3m ago•0 comments

I spent $10k to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex

https://twitter.com/KarelDoostrlnck/status/2019477361557926281
1•tosh•4m ago•0 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Spring Boot Deep Dive

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/
1•jjcob_sikorski•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solving NP-Complete Structures via Information Noise Subtraction (P=NP)

https://zenodo.org/records/18395618
1•alemonti06•9m ago•1 comments

Cook New Emojis

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
1•vasanthv•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

https://mcp-tool-shop-org.github.io/LoKey-Typer/
1•mikeyfrilot•15m ago•0 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
1•asplake•16m ago•0 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/
1•michalpleban•16m ago•0 comments

Browser-use for Node.js v0.2.0: TS AI browser automation parity with PY v0.5.11

https://github.com/webllm/browser-use
1•unadlib•17m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
1•mitchbob•17m ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
1•alainrk•18m ago•0 comments

Storyship: Turn Screen Recordings into Professional Demos

https://storyship.app/
1•JohnsonZou6523•19m ago•0 comments

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
1•edent•22m ago•0 comments

A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

https://bsod-fas.pages.dev/
1•keepamovin•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

https://orcha.nl
1•buildingwdavid•25m ago•0 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
2•tosh•31m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
2•onurkanbkrc•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

https://github.com/Concode0/Versor
1•concode0•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

https://medresearch-ai.org/hypotheses-hub/
1•panossk•35m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/big-tech-vs-openclaw/
1•headalgorithm•38m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
1•marklit•38m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•38m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
1•mnming•38m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rotten-tomatoes-desperately-claims-impossible-rating-for-m...
3•juujian•40m ago•2 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•42m ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•44m ago•0 comments

NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
2•DEntisT_•47m ago•0 comments

Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0
2•tosh•47m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Qwen3 30B-A3B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
87•tosh•6mo ago

Comments

syntaxing•6mo ago
It’s interesting how the Qwen team more or less proved that hybrid reasoning doesn’t work and makes things worse. The fact that this model is almost on par with the bigger model in non thinking mode (old, they released a non hybrid model recently) is crazy.
rdos•6mo ago
Qwen3 32B is a hybrid reasoning model and is very good. You have to generate a lot of think tokens for any agentic activity but you will probably run the model locally and it wont be a problem. If you need something quick and simple, /no_think is good enough in my experience. It might also be because its not a moe architecture
simonw•6mo ago
Qwen3 32B was a hybrid model that came out in April, but these new Qwen July models have all ditched the hybrid mechanism and are either thinking or non-thinking.
littlestymaar•6mo ago
By Qwen3-32B you mean the first released version from late April? I don't think Qwen3-32B-2507 has been released yet.

I agree with GP that since Qwen is now releasing updated Qwen3 version without hybrid reasoning, and experience a significant performance boost in the process, it likely means that the hybrid reasoning experiment was a failure.

varispeed•6mo ago
Isn't that because all "reasoning" approaches are very much fake? The model cannot internalise the concepts it has to reason about. For instance if you ask it why water feels wet, it is unable to grasp the concept of feeling and sensation of wetness, but will for sure "decompress" learned knowledge of people talking how it is to feel the water.
simonw•6mo ago
Everything about LLMs is fake. The "reasoning" trick is still demonstrably useful - the benchmarks consistently show models using that trick performing better at harder code challenges, for example.
ffsm8•6mo ago
I'd argue that what's generally considered "reasoning" isn't actually rooted in understanding either. It's just the process you apply to get to a conclusion

expressed more abstractly: is about drawing logical connections between points and extrapolating from them.

To quote the definition: "the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way."

I believe it's rooted in mathematics, not physics. That's probably why there is such a focus on the process instead of the result

tosh•6mo ago
This is basically a GPT-4 level model that runs (quantized) on a 32gb ram laptop.

Yes it doesn't recall facts from training material as well but with tool use (e.g. wikipedia lookup) that's not a problem and even preferable to a larger model.

anyg•6mo ago
>basically a GPT-4 level model

Can you share more insights on this? Going by @simonw's testing, the quantized model doesn't seem close to GPT-4 level.

simonw•6mo ago
I think calling it "GPT-4 level" is justified if we are talking about original GPT-4 from March 2023.
andygeorge•6mo ago
in my limited testing, qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M is fast but far less accurate/helpful than gemma3:27b-it-q4_K_M
simonw•6mo ago
You can try it here: https://chat.qwen.ai/?model=Qwen3-30B-A3B-2507

I got a cute pelican out of it (with a smile!) https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct...

I ran a version of it on my Mac using https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Inst... - it uses 30GB of RAM so probably needs 48GB for comfort.

juujian•6mo ago
Do we know the knowledge cutoff date for Qwen?
jwr•6mo ago
Can't wait for it to be available in ollama so that I can run my spam filtering benchmarks against it. qwen3:30b-a3b-q4_K_M was very good, and only bested by gemma3:27b-it-qat for spam filtering. But gemma3 is much slower. Looking forward to trying this!
jasonjmcghee•6mo ago
The new models have been available for 18 hours.

https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b

pkroll•6mo ago
As jasonjmcghee says, they're available... but if you go to ollama.com and set models to "newest" you'll see Mistral (specifically mistral-small3.2 at this writing) because they seem to not sort the models based on newest update: only newest "group" or however you'd phrase it. So you need to scroll down to "qwen3" to see it's been updated.

Slightly frustrating. But good to know.

jwr•6mo ago
Yup, that's why I didn't notice! Thanks!
jwr•6mo ago
Followup: disappointing. In fact, it's the worst performing model I've tested.
bertili•6mo ago
This thing fly on Macbook M4 Max 128GB at over 100t/s, for small contexts, over 20t/s for large contexts. MLX 4bit quant.
nico•6mo ago
Is it good at using tools?

It would be nice having a fast local model that is good at using tools

syntaxing•6mo ago
All Qwen models are good at using tools, even the smaller 4B one. The 1.7B one gets confused easily
nico•6mo ago
Thank you

Have you tried using them with something like Claude code or aider?

syntaxing•6mo ago
I’ve used it with Aider (32B and 30B, the previous 30B one, haven’t tried this fully nonthinking one yet) and 4B with home assistant. Both works great in terms of tool calling.
menaerus•6mo ago
Like what type of tasks/tools are we talking about here, asking questions about the content from (PDF) documents or?
revskill•6mo ago
It can solve rubik cube
simonw•6mo ago
... and they just released another model, this time https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 - the reasoning equivalent of Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

My notes (pelican and space invaders included) here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking...

This is the 5th model from Qwen in 9 days!

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 - 21st July

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct - 22nd July

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 - 25th July

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 - 29th July

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 - today

anon373839•6mo ago
This model is truly the best for local document processing. It’s super fast, very smart, has a low hallucination rate, and has great long context performance (up to 256k tokens). The speed makes it a legitimate replacement for those closed, proprietary APIs that hoard your data.