Needle
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I'm a big fan of Cactus's work on the needle family of Simple Attention Network”
“Cactus have come up with Needle [0][1], which is their tool-calling focused 14 MB model”
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“Needle and similar models solve this problem nicely”
“I used Needle as a router in https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/memento/”
“Think of Cactus Compute's Needle”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“We tried to be open about what we do here”
“a file picker that renders in your current window (like oil) and uses more intelligent signals for ranking”
“needle (finder with UI and sorting functions that suit me better)”
“Built a browser version of this runs entirely client-side”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots 2 mentions
- Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model 2 mentions
- Needle: The benchmark your search engine can't memorize 1 mention
- Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) 1 mention
- I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch 1 mention
- Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose 1 mention
Also written as needle. Data: needle.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“I know https://cactuscompute.com/needle is designed only to enable tool calling on tiny devices.”
“I'm a big fan of Cactus's work on the needle family of Simple Attention Network”
“Cactus have come up with Needle [0][1], which is their tool-calling focused 14 MB model”
“Needle and similar models solve this problem nicely”
“I used Needle as a router in https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/memento/”
“Think of Cactus Compute's Needle”
“Deployed it to a huggingface space”