Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs

kept by eddie mar 11

Duplicating a block of ~7 middle transformer layers in Qwen2-72B, without weight changes, boosted benchmark scores to #1 on two RTX 4090s, suggesting pretraining carves discrete functional circuits.

LLMs as Judges: Measuring Bias, Hinting Effects, and Tier Preferences
LLMs used as judges to evaluate other LLMs exhibit measurable self-preference bias, with GPT showing the strongest self-bias and Claude the weakest, while revealing model identities through hinting changes judge behavior unevenly across vendors and domains.
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Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops
Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B outperforms OpenAI's 120B-parameter gpt-oss on benchmarks while being 13 times smaller and capable of running on standard laptops.
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