# Meta Muse Glimmer 30B Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/meta-muse-glimmer/ 52 people recommended Meta Muse Glimmer 30B in Hacker News comments, 14 had mixed feelings and 14 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 12 months, in 33 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. 28 of the 52 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model”. **Verdict:** Praised as a terse, efficient local coding model that runs well on consumer hardware; critics say it trails Qwen 3.6 on benchmarks and distrust Meta. Summary written by Claude from 52 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 51 of those comments still count. ## Why people recommend it - Reaches answers faster than Qwen (7 comments in the sample): "Muse Glimmer is better in practice on low reasoning strength, and while its token generation is slow, it actually gets to answers pretty quickly." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246838)) "Muse Glimmer (dense 30B), in practice, can get to better answers more quickly than Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50216509)) "I was getting some decent results out of Muse Glimmer which was more than twice as fast" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305335)) - Terse, token-efficient reasoning (5 comments in the sample): "I haven't really got that far in, but it writes in a sort of clipped, geeky note form in the reasoning traces" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49248932)) "its thinking traces are really quite terse. It genuinely seems to spend many fewer tokens on reasoning" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49248662)) "I like the style of glimmer more. Much terser language, no adjectives, no fluffy claude-like language." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326249)) - Capable in agentic coding (4 comments in the sample): "It is quite good, far better than the benchmarks let on, especially in heavily agentic cases" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310350)) "I have it running sometimes at least 8 hours straight on a single prompt and no weirdness." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259720)) "They were all able to build a working collaborative whiteboard app, without any guidance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266534)) - Runs well on consumer hardware (3 comments in the sample): "Glad to see the extra engineering effort that went into creating this local model and making it run well on a consumer device." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244812)) "I can run glimmer with a full 128k context window with the draft model at 65-80 tok/s." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304616)) "I'm in the exact same boat with a 7900 XT and a good Glimmer 30B experience" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306222)) ## What people warn about - Trails Qwen 3.6 on benchmarks (3 comments in the sample): "This release is not a meaningful improvement in any metric over 5 months old Qwen 3.6." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244490)) "seems to underperform on Terminal Bench compared with qwen3.6-27b: 51.7 vs 60.7" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244964)) "But then Glimmer already loses to 3.6 27B on it by a large margin." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246814)) - Distrust of Meta (3 comments in the sample): "I agree with their open-source model approach, but actually trusting Meta… to protect my privacy and my data" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249562)) "Given Meta's track record, I would not touch anything from them with a 10 feet pole." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244946)) "I'm glad it's open. It does not make me think any better of Meta." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242821)) - Slow token generation (2 comments in the sample): "It wasn't super fast, but it was manageable and it completed the tasks I gave it well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245657)) "This model I think will be too slow for that on Spark, even at 4 bit quant." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242179)) - Loops and skips asking questions (2 comments in the sample): "wasn't impressed, gave it some defective code, and asked it to fix all errors. It kept looping around and around" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252850)) "Muse Glimmer sometimes decides it has what it needs and has no need to ask" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690593)) ## Other coding models people recommend - [Cursor Composer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/composer-2-5/): 157 recommend, 41 mixed, 68 criticize - [Qwen3-Coder](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen3-coder-next/): 122 recommend, 32 mixed, 44 criticize - [GPT-5.3-Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-3-codex/): 105 recommend, 26 mixed, 70 criticize - [GPT-5.2-Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-2-codex/): 44 recommend, 8 mixed, 32 criticize ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Meta Muse Glimmer 30B", https://hackerapproved.com/p/meta-muse-glimmer/ (52 recommend, 14 mixed, 14 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.