skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DeepSeep proposed the multi-head latent attention technique! :)

As far as I know, they are the only ones using it so far
Models in the Policy Process: Public Decision Making in the Computer Era (1976) [pdf]
Hopefully this results in some big improvements with compilation.
Ruby Falcon is 2x faster than asynchronous Python, as fast as Node.js
> Practically speaking, the state is just a random non-guessable string that is saved in the client application session

It doesn't have to be completely random, the spec only makes partial randomness a requirement:

"The binding value used for CSRF protection MUST contain a non-guessable value"

---

The state can be used to transmit useful data as long as the data isn't sensitive:

"The "state" and "scope" parameters SHOULD NOT include sensitive client or resource owner information in plain text, as they can be transmitted over insecure channels or stored insecurely."

This can be used in place of any 'Additional Client Callback URL params'.

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Aside from that, I think this is very well written! I'll share it with others who want to learn more about OAuth 2.0 and its extensions.
It's a bit exhausting that every time anyone says anything about executives in any context, we have to make sure to bring up the cold-blooded murder of one of them and make sure to remind everyone that some people on the internet think that that murder was justified.

It's free internet points, I guess, but it's also not constructive and frankly more than a little bit creepy.
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collecting memory allocation library.

https://www.hboehm.info/gc/
Any idea why there was a "knock it off" call on the 2nd supersonic pass?
They are quislings now
Thank you! This looks awesome!
I watched "Dear Kelly" the other day, and while the movie isn't all that interesting, I couldn't help but feel like it was the absolute essence of a GenZ take on investigative journalism. I think that's what we got now.
Coincidentally, I actually re-read The Burnout Society a few months ago while I was listening to The Dawn of Everything.

I strongly recommend The Burnout Society, though I think it tackles these issues from a different perspective: "how we compromise ourselves in service of the (false) personal and societal narratives we've constructed".

A more direct line to The Dawn of Everything in the sense of "how did we construct these narratives in the first place?" would probably be Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. Coincidentally for this thread, it also includes a chapter on the results of real wolf domestication studies (and how it affects animal behaviour) in past decades.
DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses PTX
Is that kind of financial-decision something the President can reliably promise under current law, as opposed to needing Congressional involvement?

Does it apply to people dismissed because the President doesn't personally like how they voted?
What's wrong with economists? Not a huge Krugman fan, but I feel economists bring important insights from data that tend to escape regular journalists. If Krugman wore his economist hat more and stayed away from general political punditry, I would probably like him more.

The writing of Emily Oster is a great example of what economists can bring to analysis of current events. I wish we could clone her.
This isn’t an issue of education.
The entire foreign aid budget is like 75 bucks an American a year. You probably pay less than that.
This is super helpful! Appreciate you taking the time to reply
Years ago, before I was very computer literate, my friend turned me onto Network Solutions for hosting.

Long story short I got locked out of my account. It truly seemed like the support didn't want to help me get back in. This went for what felt like forever but was probably just a few weeks. I never got a resolution and was never able to log back in to my account.

I eventually did a chargeback because I couldn't use a service that I was paying for. They were all of a sudden proactive about reaching out - with an accusatory email nonetheless. In their view, the chargeback was fraudulent.
OK the mimic mechanic is pretty simple, it just appears as a chest once you reveal it, which is a positive thing, because it gives you a 2nd chance not to fight it if you don't have the health for it. In other words, if you see a 10+ lvl and are afraid of the mimic, you can safely click, and as long as there's no lvl 11, you will get at most lvl 7 (or 8 if you didn't discover pink slimes yet).
Thank you so much, glad you liked it
If Elmo is involved in this, you might want to get those 8 months of pay upfront.
Probably getting close to the boundary of the allowed area
This was so fun to read, and reminded me of Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK), Disney’s other popular mmo at the time which was basically a Disney-fied Habbo Hotel [1].

It ran for about 3 years, but what I found interesting is the chat took the initial approach that the creators here dismissed: a whitelisted vocab list of safe words that you could type, and anything not on it would preclude the message from being sent.

There were definitely ways around it, but I also presume active monitoring of the slang, because eventually words like “dam” or phrases “what the shell” were banned too. Another thing that I recall is that case-sensitive spelling mattered, and there was no word bank, so in a way it enforced better spelling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Magic_Kingdom
Uber and Lyft are largely still unprofitable, but they definitely have changed the landscape, as many would argue, to the better.
Fair point, thanks for clarification, it seems this was first proposed in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04434? I was confused by your title mentioning DeepSeek but then first paragraph revert to "...language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek faster at generating text".
>If training and inference just got 40x more efficient

The jury is still out on how much improvement DeepSeek made in terms of training and inference compute efficiency, but personally I think 10x is probably the actual improvement that's being made

But in business/engineering/manufacturing/etc if you have 10x more efficiency, you're basically going to obliterate the competitions.

>output quality has ceased to be compute-bound

You raised an interesting conjecture and it seems that it's very likely the case.

I know that it's not even a full two years that ChatGPT-4 has been released but it seems that it take OpenAI a very long time to release ChatGPT-5. Is it because they're taking their own sweet time to release the software not unlike GIMP, or they genuinely cannot justify the improvement to jump from 4 to 5? This stagnation however, has allowed others to catch up. Now based on DeekSeek claims, anyone can has their own ChatGPT-4 under their desk with Nvidia project Digits mini PCs [1]. For running DeepSeek, 4 units mini PCs will be more than enough of 4 PFLOPS and cost only USD12K. Let's say on average one subscriber user pays OpenAI monthly payment of USD$10, for 1000 persons organization it will be USD$10K, and the investment will pays for itself within a month, and no data ever leave the organization since it's a private cloud!

For training similar system to ChatGPT-4 based on DeepSeeks claims, a few millions USD$ is more than enough. Apparently, OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle just announced USD$500 Billions joint ventures to bring the AI forward with the new announced Stargate AI project but that's 10,000x money [2],[3]. But the elephant in the room question is that, can they even get 10x quality improvement of the existing ChatGPT-4? I really seriously doubt it.

[1] NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips:

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-puts-grace-blackwe...

[2] Trump unveils $500bn Stargate AI project between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/trump-ai-joi...

[3] Announcing The Stargate Project:

https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/
It's ridiculous whataboutism to "both sides" here.

The president ran on a platform of brazen corruption and retribution against political foes, and he's following through.

Democrats doing insider trading and other low stakes small ball shit really should not be mentioned in the same conversation.
My pet theory is that these things happened once the feedback loop for what got clicks kicked in (early 2000s perhaps).

a) The clicks were fake but treated as real to prop up the advertising market, and then fed into the editorial decisions.

b) The clicks were real but we discovered, as others did, that more people click on literal 'clickbait' then on harder to consume, but more authentic content. Short attention spans might also factor in here.

I jump to the oft-repeated story about Google A/B testing a shade of blue (IDK if it's true), versus someone just making a goddamn decision and owning it. We should optimise on our best behaviours, not our average ones.

Perhaps said more succintly, we replaced leadership with local-maxima.
But "the piece here" is from the horse's mouth so if he wants to frame it like an ideological issue, maybe it is? He claims to have been pressured to tone down his articles to avoid offending people. Not much of a debate if anything that could possibly offend someone is not allowed to be expressed.
I've read some folks saying this is a long game seize power or establish new norms. I would really like it if there were some logic or rationale behind it. But I don't see any reasoning that's longer than "It's giving money to ______"
This is literally a company designed to separate investors from money so aerospace engineers can have fun, which I guess is better than many startups. At the end of the day though there is no way they are designing, prototyping, getting FAA approval for, and going to manufacturing on a plane and engine by 2030. It's not unlikely, it's just not feasible which literally anyone who bothers to look at the FAA website would be able to tell.

https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/airworthiness_certific...

"By comparison, the certification of a new aircraft type can take between 5 and 9 years."

And that is just for the plane, engine certification is its own process and just as arduous.
Success should be measured against the stated objectives, the promises made to investors, or general positive influence on society. In this case the objective was "supersonic flight in our lifetime. Not just as a private jet, but something most anyone can afford to fly." [0]

> Basically, the critics

You're being uncharitable and hyperbolizing the criticism to more easily dismiss it. Would you hyperbolize any praise as "identifying another way this won't work is also a success in itself"?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11329286
Is that kind of financial-decision something the President can reliably promise under current law, as opposed to needing Congressional involvement?

Does it apply to people dismissed because the President demanded to know how they voted and didn't like the answer?
They have some interest in a "special mission" version, a common aerospace euphemism for militarized.

They also claim to be a potential candidate for a next gen Air Force One.

That's the game with aerospace startups though. The CEO gets everyone wrapped around a "vision" for some gonna-save-humanity green peace machine (insert obligatory disaster response mission) and then once everyone is hooked you look up one day from your cruise missile design and wonder WTF just happened...

Source: have worked for several of these kinds of startups, have seen this happen pretty much everywhere.
Right, that's a good point. I'll adjust the intro a bit.
We wanted to provide a more holistic overview on what MLA is, what came before it, and why it matters :) hope it was useful!
I agree with everything you highlighted!

I'll add that my career isn't programming. However, Svelte let's me come back to my code base and understand everything, even after months. There is minimal framework related syntax to retain in my memory. Just have to know typescript well and that's it. Additionally, I don't need to retain all the rendering gotchas that other frameworks (eg, react) have. This has changed slightly with runes but I find them pretty easy to refresh on if I find im confused.

For me, this trade-off is well worth the limited availability of third party libraries. I wish someone would create a Laravel-like extension for Sveltekit. If I could just pull in user login flows, hashing, mail, etc all from organized Laravel-like docs, Sveltekit would be perfect for full-stack.
I didn't think of this but I use it:

% ./hworld.tcl
Hello, world.
% cat hworld.tcl
#!/bin/sh
# the next line restarts using tcl \
exec tclsh "$0" "$@"
puts "Hello, world."
%

Turns-out that in TCL you can line continue a comment :)
In his 1958 juvenile novel Have Spacesuit, Will Travel (I read it years later as a tween), Robert A. Heinlein described this as a "skew-flip maneuver" that would get someone from Earth to Pluto in five days at 8G (!). And apparently E.E. "Doc" Smith described it even earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Space_Suit%E2%80%94Will_T...

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/261753/what-was-th...
My comment would've done an astoundingly bad job at introducing you to what mixture of experts is, had that been its goal. It's really about why the MoE-style enhancements don't target how to keep parts on disk when optimizing the model to be most economical to host. There's really not any doubt in that, it's just an observation as to why they optimize the way they do.

If you were put off by defining terms on first use: that's just good form, not something related to you.
For those out-of-the-loop and confused why this is being posted, recently Google has executed a very different policy, changing names in response a Presidential Executive Order. (Which looks like cozying up with the new administration.)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/google-ma...
I admire the investigations "People Make Games" do on their YT channel, their roblox one in particular is worth a look.
Still says Gulf of Mexico for now.

Openstreetmaps doesn't name any ocean bodies on their maps, so they got to sidestep this whole ordeal.
A thoughtful exploration of impact of analytic and simulation models on the formulation of regulation and public policy.

Review at https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6083.html

Related explorations:

David Gelernter's "Mirror Worlds" (1993)
https://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Worlds-Software-Universe-Shoeb...

Guidelines for policy modellers – 30 years on: New tricks or old dogs? (1971)
https://mssanz.org.au/modsim2011/G6/syme.pdf

Group model building: problem structuring, policy simulation and decision support
https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/46184/461...
An Unfinished Revolution? The Biological Computer Laboratory, 1958‐1976
They’ve fixed it since, but it used to differ on whether Israelis and Palestinians deserve justice.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CydbE5sutDQ/
Is it true to say that there are two levels of censorship at play here? First is a "blunt" wrapper that replaces the output with the "I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses" message. Second is a more subtle level built into the training, whereby the output text skirts around certain topics. It is this second level that is being covered by the "1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek" article?
> It's either VDOM or having to depend on a compiler to do everything (how Svelte works).

Assuming you don't mean JSX transform by "compiler", you really don't have to do either one. For my framework [1], state is directly bound to DOM elements. Dependencies are determined at run time. It's not slow.

[1] https://mutraction.dev/
jQuery is literally a requirement for Bootstrap. Most of Google's services use it implicitly.

I agree that it's largely superfluous on webapps, but I would bet a crisp $20 bill that somewhere Airbnb is running a CMS-based site somewhere that loads jQuery.

I will rely on my nailgun v. hammer analogy for this again. I understand that the big scalable web experiences are built using nailguns. But for any sort of small web project that requires just a couple of dozen lines of code, jQuery is still very much implied.
Wait until they pull out their Trump card
I've looked over the code, and some things seem a little odd to me.

The article starts by mentioning how insecure the browser is, apparently even cookies aren't secure. But then the API to talk to the BFF uses.... a server-side session tracked via a client cookie. If the BFF is holding the oauth credentials, then someone could steal the client cookie to make requests to the BFF to do whatever it can do.

It's not impossible to secure the browser from having credentials stolen from inside it, but it can be tricky to ensure that when the browser sends the credential in the request it doesn't leak somehow.

There's some irony as OAuth has DPoP now which can reduce the usefulness of stolen in-flight credentials but that can't be used in this BFF setup because the browser client needs the private key to sign the requests.

Properly securing the browser content on a login page, or the subdomain handling authentication credentials is definitely a challenge, and many don't like having to eliminate/audit any 3rd party JS they include on the page. I can see the appeal of a solution like this, but the trade-off isn't great.
Remarkably consistent downward trend for Android :(
Just refined it a bit; I hope it's clearer now!
Your comment is an insult to people who actually had to live thru fascism.
Does a budget for the payouts exist?

If not, this is a misleading headline.
They're probably scraping Whitehouse.gov and Congress.gov
> We’re only aware of it because people obsess over it.

Maybe true for you, but not for me. My operating assumption is all LLMs are "censored".

> If you didn’t have censorship hawks or anti China people beating the drum about Tiananmen Square, how likely would it be that anyone outside of China actually discovered the model wouldn’t talk about that.

The more relevant question is "If an average user didn't know that Chinese LLMs don't talk about it, how detrimental is that?"

And my response is "Probably not more than the existing LLMs in use." Easy to bet money that 99.99% of all DeepSeek usage is not impacted by that censorship.

I'm not saying one shouldn't highlight it at all. It doesn't merit being mentioned in every DeepSeek thread I see on the Internet. Just as we don't talk about AI Safety in threads related to using GPT4 for solving math problems.

Put another way, if my company is using Chinese factories, does it make sense for me to highlight "Yes, but can those Chinese factory workers discuss Tiananmen Square?" in every manufacturing related meeting?
There's always an uptick at the beginning of the year.
AI Code Review Agents: My Vision for the Future of Merge Requests
One could claim that this is the current state of the American aristocracy. For all of the wealth inequality, I see very few instances of "Zuckerberg Theater", "Gates Hospital", or even a "Brin college".
The silliest detail to me (and one of my major gripes about many new sources) is that the Times seemed to resist use of charts in his articles? I've read so many articles on the housing crisis, inflation, immigrations, etc. that would be 10x better with a FRED chart.
> Democrats doing insider trading and other low stakes small ball shit

Er, plus supporting genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and repression of peaceful protest of the same with our tax dollars. Not what I would call "low stakes small ball shit", and not something I will ever overlook or forget.

Democrats had four years to find a strong candidate to beat Trump, or to find a way to hold him accountable. It didn't seem to me like they even tried very hard to do that.

Even after all their 'mistakes', if that's what they were, they could still have handily won the election simply by promising to enforce an arms embargo. They had lots of polling showing this fact very clearly. Over 30% of 2020 Biden voters in battleground states said the lack of an arms embargo would probably affect their vote!

You - and every 2024 Dem voter - might ask yourselves why Democrats would rather hand the Presidency to Trump than stop supplying the bombs killing Palestinians.
Harder to find though.
Popular vote disagrees with the temperature at which water boils.
> But as the former might well be impossible (at least without ruining performance or requiring a hardware swap), and the latter might take a while,

According to the site they informed Apple in May 2024. Should that not have been enough time?
Other than Typescript, they're all on a downward trend if you omit the COVID bump.
The Pebble got pushed pretty hard, the demoscene even got ahold of it.

https://youtu.be/j_GJfSTz6Dg

https://youtu.be/UC-ru1P3GVo
Backend seems to be unresponsive currently.
To be fair, this is (relatively, compared to the age of the web) new behavior though.

Even Chrome, which pioneered the "tab per process" model, didn't isolate same browsing group context sites for a long time, and still shares processes on Android as a resource optimization: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/p...

Firefox only released their "Project Fission" in 2021, i.e. three years after Spectre.
@arti_chaud, out of curiosity, did you explicitly choose not to support what seems like a de facto standard for music servers? Or did you have to create the server to support the player?
Using it as a developer or as a user?
All my Macs running Mac OS X, iPhones and iPad have the same background color since Rhapsody DR2.
You and the New York Times Company don't agree on what the point of newspapers are. These are always sorta BS but you can just Google their mission statement if you want to know what they think their purpose is.

https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/
Show HN: Google Docs and API to generate custom PDF
Hey all,

same idea 10 years later :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892813

Life got in the way and I abandoned the project.

Then I needed it for my own use, so now back, with a slightly different approach:

Normal google docs as templates. API even simpler. Output: PDF

Zapier integration comming soon.

Hope to get some feedback and perhaps even some people to test it.

As always, thanks for your time :)

Sven
>President can reliably promise under current law, as opposed to needing Congressional involvement?

I don't think so and your question was not addressed in the article.

Seems like very biased and irresponsible reporting.

>Does it apply to people dismissed because the President demanded to know how they voted and didn't like the answer?

Good point - I would expect they get nothing.
I think that depends on what you say to the investors!
They do not show a realistic photo face transfer. They blur out the faces even.

It would be a huge invention, but they did not achieve that.
The cost of putting a single car and driver-for-hire on the streets is a handful of dollars, so it's easy to do many of them at a loss. The cost of putting a single instance of a new airplane design of this scale into the air with even a single paying passenger is in the range of billions if not tens-of-billions of dollars.

This is not even remotely comparable.

But just for comparison, Aérospatiale and BAC actually built a real supersonic plane (Concorde) and managed to fly and operate that plane for decades. It's hard to find much measurable impact on the world at all. What do you propose would be different here, given that the discussion is already presuming a world in which they haven't succeeded economically?
I also made a simpler version [1] that stores ebooks locally in the browser, handy when you just want to quickly check out a book.

An account is needed for Readers so you can sync your books across devices, join or create groups and save your reading history.

[1] https://www.minimalreader.xyz/