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Comment by hgoel | Hacker News Reader

Oh yeah, Space Bunny was awful, massive step back from even Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

I know I mention it way too often right now, but I am just so impressed with Qwen Flash Next right now. I have been using it locally and it's just such a great little model to work with. It makes mistakes and has its quirks, but in general, it just gets things done and its default manner is just right. It is not overly proactive or making messes for me, even compared to DeepSeek Flash 4.1. I really like DS Flash too, it can just be /really/ annoying in some roles and to chat with some of the time.

I can run Qwen Flash Next on hopes, dreams, DDR4, and ancient data center GPUs at 200 t/s :)

Yes, I feel Qwen3.8-FN is the first model that seriously can replace some lower tier subscription usage without requiring much more than a high end gaming PC. Qwen3.6-35B was impressive but not quite good enough, and 27B takes a lot more time.

Lately I prefer GLM5.3-Flash since I feel it is noticeably smarter and I have the hardware for it, but FN's performance has me looking forward to Qwen4.

I have 27B at around 160-170 t/s on my hardware but why bother when QFN is faster and generally better :)

Same here. I run Qwen3.8 Flash Next on my local machine and combine it with Opus 5.5 for plan making. The Qwen model feels like it's around Opus 4.x level performance most of the time.

But once in a while it gets into long reasoning loops, which is annoying. It seems less with the Swift model but I haven't benchmarked the difference between that one and the original.

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