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I fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 (0.8B–4B) on a Mac for text-to-SQL

2B beats 12B

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HN · launched Mar 5, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 59%) · 1 view

Niche: large language models · 191 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Model & infra
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes Fine-tuning open-source models on Apple Silicon using tools like MLX-LM or Unsloth with existing Text-to-SQL datasets is well-documented and easily scripted with an AI assistant.

Discussion

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Competitors mentioned: Mistral-Nemo 12B, Qwen 3.5 Small models

Concerns raised: Larger models hallucinate answers instead of following structured output format, Larger models compute mentally and output plain numbers instead of SQL

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 698 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #416 of 699 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 125 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Stratum · hn · 2026-03-12 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • qwen3_5-assembly · github · 2026-11-08 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • qwenFS · github · 2026-11-02 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • QwenJev · github · 2026-09-21 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • qwen36-q4-mtp-cline · github · 2026-09-22 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • qwentpu · github · 2026-11-02 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • qwen3.6-35b-a3b-144T-S · github · 2026-09-20 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Samosa Chat · hn · 2026-07-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50

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