[huydotnet]

I love that local LLMs are being discussed more often on HN recently. But for the post, I find it strange that the author claimed they were working with local models from day 1, but wrote a post that still links to Qwen2.5 and Qwen3 in mid June 2026.

[zahlman]

Why shouldn't the author mention models that people might not have to buy a new computer to use?

[huydotnet]

One don’t have to buy a new computer to run Qwen3.6 or Qwen3.5 (35B A3B), given that they can already run Qwen3 30B A3B.

In fact with a 64GB mac, you can run pretty much all of the latest Qwen models.

Also, anyone who has been following local LLM are well aware that the quality and performance has become way way better since Qwen3.5