Samosa Chat
Shares rank 23 of 27 local LLM runners by recommenders
People recommend Samosa Chat for running local models such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a Mac at a usable speed without overheating it.
People recommend Samosa Chat for running local models such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a Mac at a usable speed without overheating it.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Keeps Mac temperature low
“Samosa was optimized for keeping mac's temp in check.”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Samosa Chat: Run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Locally on a 16 GB Mac” “Actually quite cool. My mac is not getting heated.”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Samosa Chat: Run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Locally on a 16 GB Mac”
Other local LLM runners people recommend
The four most recommended other local LLM runners, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| llama.cpp | 471 | 109 | 81% | 13 | 1 yr4 owners | Approved |
| Ollama | 350 | 247 | 59% | 12 | 1.5 yrs8 owners | — |
| LM Studio | 217 | 74 | 75% | 12 | 3 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| DS4 by antirez | 109 | 20 | 84% | 7 | 1 mo3 owners | Approved |
| Samosa ChatThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Seems I can experiment with samosa inference engine.”
“It's quite telling you didn't use Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally to build that”
“Actually quite cool. My mac is not getting heated.”
“Samosa was optimized for keeping mac's temp in check.”
“+1 for pairing Samosa with Chāt”
“This is pretty sick. 7tokens/second is not fast but still seems useful.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.