I benchmarked Gemma 4 E2B
the 2B model beat the 12B on multi-turn
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HN · launched Apr 13, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 52%) · 0 views
Niche: llm benchmarking tools · 84 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a benchmarking study and blog post running open-source Hugging Face models across 10 evaluation test suites locally on Apple Silicon. The evaluation harness and scripts are straightforward to build with AI assistance.
Discussion
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Concerns raised: Lack of transparency on test cases used, Unclear definition of multi-turn evaluation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 100 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Google Gemma 4 12B · ph · 2026-06-04 · 309 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- RFP_Tuning · github · 2026-10-19 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Running Gemma-4 26B at 124 tokens/SEC on a CPU, no GPU · hn · 2026-06-30 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- I made a Gemma 4 Mac app that names screenshots with local AI · hn · 2026-05-31 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU · hn · 2026-08-04 · 139 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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