# Maple-Preview

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Maple-Preview and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a fast, capable small ternary model that runs on an iPhone at about 120 tokens per second. Critics say it hallucinates facts and gives confident wrong answers.

## Why people recommend it

- Trained from scratch in ternary format (1 comments): "really cool to see one trained from scratch in the ternary format" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178081))
- Fast and good for its size (1 comments): "I was pretty impressed with the speed/quality given it's size." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176851))

## What people warn about

- Hallucinates knowledge and gives confident errors (2 comments): "much like the bonsai tenary one it hallucinates knowledge quite aggressively" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176679)) "I wish that "small" LLMs would stop being confidently very incorrect." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176875))
- Self-improvement claims seem doubtful (1 comments): "I'm not sure I buy it will actually be able to self-improve" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180472))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Microsoft BitNet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bitnet.md): 16 recommend
- [Ternary Bonsai](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ternary-bonsai.md): 14 recommend
- [BitNet b1.58 2B4T](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bitnet-b1-58-2b4t.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Maple-Preview", https://hackerapproved.com/p/maple-preview/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).