Show HN: Newt – A Swift Package for Jev-Style Decisions on Apple Core AI
Newt Newt is a Swift package that answers multiple-choice, graded, and yes/no questions about a piece of text with an on-device language model, and returns a probability for each option. Newt is named after Isaac Newton, similar to how TypeSafe named its model Jev after William Stanley Jevons. Status Newt picks the right answer on clear-cut inputs.
- ▪Newt Newt is a Swift package that answers multiple-choice, graded, and yes/no questions about a piece of text with an on-device language model, and returns a probability for each option.
- ▪Newt is named after Isaac Newton, similar to how TypeSafe named its model Jev after William Stanley Jevons.
- ▪Status Newt picks the right answer on clear-cut inputs.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/willswire/swift-newt |
| Publication time | Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:46:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-26T22:55:40.262Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-26T22:55:40.262Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 9jYByxIhNYRx · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Newt Newt is a Swift package that answers multiple-choice, graded, and yes/no questions about a piece of text with an on-device language model, and returns a probability for each option. Newt is named after Isaac Newton, similar to how TypeSafe named its model Jev after William Stanley Jevons. Status Newt picks the right answer on clear-cut inputs. On ambiguous ones it is still near-certain, and wording can flip the result. Example: for "Is there any way to speak to someone about my invoice?", asked whether the customer wants a human agent, Newt gave 0.9996 with its first prompt and 0.0000004 with the current one. TypeSafe gives 0.84. Treat Newt's numbers as a ranking, not as probabilities to threshold. The full results compare Newt with TypeSafe on every published example.
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