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Swiftlet
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Swiftlet

Swiftlet is a Swift and Metal runtime that runs large Qwen Mixture-of-Experts models locally on Apple devices by streaming expert weights from storage, enabling 35B and 80B models to run with low RAM, including on iPhone.

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What it is

Swiftlet is a Swift and Metal runtime that runs large Qwen Mixture-of-Experts models locally on Apple devices by streaming expert weights from storage, enabling 35B and 80B models to run with low RAM, including on iPhone.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-08-03 16:54:15 UTC to 2026-08-14 17:33:59 UTC.

012026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 32026-08-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-08-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 82026-08-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 14

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 32026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-04 00:00:00 UTC110
Aug 42026-08-04 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-05 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 52026-08-05 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 62026-08-06 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 72026-08-07 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 82026-08-08 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 92026-08-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 102026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 112026-08-11 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 122026-08-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 132026-08-13 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 142026-08-14 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-15 00:00:00 UTC101

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