Show HN: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a 16 GB M1 Pro with SSD-streamed MoE

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This looks useful for somebody with a 16-32GB Mac Mini interested in running larger MoE models.

I've been working on a mesh environment that relies on an explicit prefix hash in the request and enables constructing a new session with a cached pre-filled system prompt specific KV-cache beyond what OpenAI-compatible APIs offer. Can you see a feature like that being supported?

I went ahead and forked this and added a new remote INFER protocol. You can see it at https://github.com/tmzt/ds4 if interested.

does it need M1 Pro specifically, or any M1 could work?

It should work, just a bit slower. If you get a chance to test it, it’d be super helpful.

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