Show HN: Needle Distills Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

Cactus open-sourced Needle, a 26M-parameter tool-calling model that reaches 6,000 tok/s prefill and 1,200 tok/s decode on consumer devices, with MIT-licensed weights released on Hugging Face.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the tiny Gemini-style tool-calling angle is clickable, with concrete speed and license claims. Source is still Show HN/GitHub self-reporting, not an independent benchmark or major lab release, so it stays below the 78–84 band.