# Qwen3-Next

14 Hacker News commenters recommended Qwen3-Next and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Many people run it locally on laptops or GPUs and find it fast and capable, though critics say it falls short for agentic coding.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs locally on laptops and GPUs (6 comments): "the mixture of experts models have been nice when i can run the dense reasoning layers on the gpu" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435266)) "It's quite capable in running or training smart LLMs like Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-NVFP4" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459393)) "thanks to its new architecture, is quite fast even if part of it is streaming from disk" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751713))
- Solid output quality for its size (4 comments): "Qwen3-Next and Nemotron 3 Nano are solid players in their respective local weight classes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596438)) "I have no issues believing it would be fine for more than just pet projects." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323149)) "they have been indiscernible in terms of output" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214901))
- Fast responses, even when streaming (2 comments): "thanks to its new architecture, is quite fast even if part of it is streaming from disk" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751713)) "works decently in my testing, and fast" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46360630))

## What people warn about

- Weak performance against current models (2 comments): "It was nowhere close neither in the output quality nor in performance to any current models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190439)) "Qwen 3.8 Next did work, but the performance was abysmal." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666862))
- Ignores instructions and debugs unprompted (2 comments): "it has a realization that it would be simpler to just do the thing I told it not to do" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254039)) "they both try to debug bugs they encounter unprompted" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322228))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Qwen3-Next", https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen3-next/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).