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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Aug 16, 2026 | Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things by bilsbie | 802 | 385 |
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Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026.
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- simonw · Oct 23, 2026
- jszymborski · Sep 24, 2026
- simonw · Aug 26, 2026
- phsource · Aug 17, 2026
