https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=monirmamounHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:24:27 +0000download LM Studio to play with, and it will let you search for models... try Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 4,5 or 6 bits (6 bit XL is near perfect) and use pi coder or another harness to access it... you can also try Unsloth studio and try same model to start. LM Studio slighter easier to use, Unsloth probably better quality. Neither one is super great quality by the way (meaning: they crash or act weirdly too often to be full production solutions, but can work for local coding). ONCE YOU DOWNLOAD EITHER APP... it will let you search huggingface for the models. Just type qwen to start looking and ... start messing around. And you connect the pi coder harness using the http interface that LM Studio and Unsloth offer to the engine API, so make sure you figure out that url and turn it on... something like 127.0.0.1:1234/api would be a typical IP (localhost) and port (1234 is used by LM Studio)

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:25:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546573monirmamounhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546573https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546573this is really cool! i am going to try this in some of my own research. another cool thing is trying units different than 1 like adding imaginaries or other funky things, or different bases entirely. you can combine that concept with this for a lot of powerful math techniques.

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:56:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823364monirmamounhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823364