'Astra can rewrite Qwen weights' hits 2863 points on HN, then a rebuttal calls it misleading
yoshiyama_akira · x · 2026-11-03
A Hacker News screenshot captures the drama: the project "Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen" (rikiyat.github.io) topped HN with 2863 points and 862 comments, only for a rebuttal posted an hour later (honnibal.dev, 287 points) to argue the claim is misleading. The community is split over whether Astra's self-improvement-via-weight-editing claim holds up.
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