skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily a lie on Trump's part. Trump wants to retain independence - he's not going to agree to implement a think tank's program by name. For example, he notably distanced himself from making promises on abortion policy during the 2024 campaign, and indeed so far the only move he's made to benefit pro-lifers is freeing protesters imprisoned under the Biden administration.

Also, much of the energy behind Trump and MAGA is rejecting the dominant conservative think tank culture that's existed since the Reagan administration. This is seen by them as only fighting for the interests of large corporations - notably including completely selling out American workers in favor of immigration and offshoring - while losing every cultural battle in the last few decades from being too conciliatory to the liberal establishment that dominates the cities where these think tanks are based.

Many of these think tanks (including the Heritage Foundation, which is why Project 2025 takes the tone that it does) are in the process of being replaced by younger right-wingers more aligned by MAGA - they often reject the label of "conservative" as denoting a failed movement, preferring "dissident right" or similar terms. They want a counterrevolution - "what is there left to conserve", they say. But until their takeover is complete (which will probably happen in Trump's term, and will definitely be complete if Republicans win in 2028), it's understandable why younger Republicans would reject any explicit association with the old conservative think tanks.
OpenAI should be, but OpenAI died a while ago
>pushing (a single) religion in schools

What’s the source for this? I have never heard anything about this.

The Department of Education has a massive budget that has ballooned to $268B, much of which is wasted on administrative bloat. If education quality is declining and standards are dropping it seems right to reconsider the existence of the department.
But you should also be very wary of these kind of anecdotes, and this thread highlights exactly why. That commenter says in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866350) that the token limitation that he is complaining about has actually nothing to do with DeepSeek's model or their API, but is a consequence of an artificial limit that Kagi imposes. In other words, his conclusion about DeepSeek is completely unwarranted.
Speaking as a Pixel 4a customer with this update:
I received the update, and like everyone else, my phone battery started draining incredibly quickly. However, after getting the free battery replacement, my phone's battery has returned to draining as normal (and on the plus side, has somewhat renewed the life of this phone).
Which is just awesome when your current phone is broken.

I posted about it and they suggested that I keep a backup phone available at all times, thanks folks.
Community of LLM generated webpages on demand
Creation of new laws, and enforcement of existing laws usually trails behind the bleeding edge of tech. It's part of the risk tech companies accept when they're doing something new which might possibly be a bit dodgy.
I have 4 of these sitting at my house. I should either do this sort of project or sell them off.
AstroForge announces asteroid target for upcoming mission – SpaceNews
That is an unsubstantiated (so far) claim by plaintiffs in an active lawsuit. I would not consider it data for any example yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/25/health-insur...
Awesome, if you find smth you can always mail me :0
bitterpanda@proton.me
I think Sateeshm was also applying a generous layer of sarcasm.
> Firstly, "R1 14b quantized"? You mean a quantised DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B? That is Qwen 2.5, it is not DeepSeek v3. Surely they didn't finetune Qwen to add more censorship.

Qwen is a model that is from Alibaba. The whole stack is corporate chinese.
That's just my natural speaking voice. I'm a small person, and everyone sounds different.

I'd be happy to focus on the tool, or the content of the channel, rather than how I sound.
> including a massive fusion reactor up in the sky which will continue operating for the foreseeable future :)

I assume this refers to the sun. Other responses don't seem to have made the same conclusion.
Are Linux distros particularly active on twitter?

I for one would like to go back to the old IRC days.
I had a similar experience with dairy. (Wheat is still out.) It used to give me severe digestive symptoms and inflammation, but after cutting it out for a year or so, I've been able to reintroduce it without any noticeable symptoms. No GI I've seen has really had answers for me, and I'm not really interested in seeing an "alternative medicine" doctor, although I'm sure they would claim to know what's going on. But I'd recommend trying an elimination diet to anyone who has unexplainable symptoms in that vein. The limitations are annoying at first, but you get used to it.
You should not be downvoted. I think people are misunderstanding your comment.

But I am confused about another part.

Why would you prefer (clearly marked) "refurbished" HDDs for 20% less than new, if you expect them to last 5 years? If a new HDD would last 6+ years, you're better off buying new, right?

I guess I can see electing to buy into the lower part of the bathtub curve, but I have a difficult time trusting that "refurb" doesn't reset your timeline on the curve (e.g. by replacing the PCB outside the platter box).
Oh come'on, her voice is totally fine. She's a really good presenter and produces interesting, fairly advanced content in an accessible, entertaining way. I think criticizing her for something she can't change like this is extremely impolite.
Amazon has usually always been the cheapest option, especially compared to a specialty dealer. Costs add up when you're buying many drives.
The WW2 and SA synthetic fuels were not very green. They were made by processing coal.
> All of this is to say that DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough or something that fundamentally changes the economics of LLM’s; it’s an expected point on an ongoing cost reduction curve. What’s different this time is that the company that was first to demonstrate the expected cost reductions was Chinese.

Says the CEO whose product [1] costs 15-50x times more. (This is not just the DeepSeek's API, but also 3p providers hosting the same model)

> DeepSeek does not "do for $6M5 what cost US AI companies billions". I can only speak for Anthropic, but Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a mid-sized model that cost a few $10M's to train

Ok, that's still at least 3-10x cost reduction (assuming "a few $10M" lowerbound of $20M). And for a model that he later implies is 2x larger than Sonnet. So that's 6-10x efficiency improvement. Nice!

> Since DeepSeek-V3 is worse than those US frontier models — let’s say by ~2x on the scaling curve.

What curve? Does he mean the simplistic performance / model params curve? That does not take into account that DeepSeek v3 is a MoE (can't compare MoE and dense param # in a naive way), nor the other architecture changes (KV compression, etc.).

Also, if Sonnet 3.5 is 2x smaller, then why is inference 15-50x more expensive than DeepSeek v3's? Does Anthropic not have good GPU engineers? Are they just running at insanely high margins? As a consumer I don't care how big your model is behind the scenes. I care about API costs or inference efficiency when hosting the model myself.

[1] Product that is mostly comparable and in some ways quite ahead.
To be fair, their ability to target HN is very good. I'm always impressed with their marketing. They put a good title that resonates with HN while the original title is something else for SEO.
yeah so naive to suggest that the US and EU are allies or that tariffs are bad policy, great contribution to the discussion
The risk of a hidden camera or microphone in an Airbnb/hotel would be reason enough to buy your own place, if you were a public company CEO with this much power.
None of this is responsive to anything I just wrote.
I think it's funny that OpenAI wants us to pay them to use their product to generate content but then sets the terms that they control how we use the content in generates for us. It takes someone like Deepseek to challenge that on our behalf or they will control most of the economy.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/constitutional-ai-harmles...
I wonder why these "forced updates till kaputt" do not fall under (malicious) property damage.
It is not just Google: My Amazon Kindle gets less and less responsive the last years without any noteworthy functional improvements. Same for the Firestick.
Much needed product today - awesome product and thanks for sharing this with us!
I have a feeling that when we figure this out, the forces of acceleration and deceleration will no longer be a problem.
your paying with time and dedication then
Because only one person can be king, but everybody can participate and contribute. Also there's too many things out side of just being "the best" that decide who gets to be king. Often that person is a terrible leader.
Let's also not forget Suchir Balaji, who was mysteriously killed when exposing OpenAI's violation of copyright law.
Where does he imply that it's 2x larger than Sonnet?
Zyxel firewalls borked by buggy update, on-site access required for fix
Just like JD Vance.
GPL defines "source code" as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it", which certainly describes the weights.
This is really the top take in this thread. Why should OpenAI be any different than all the others they they've ripped off.
Weird framing for this story, it's not an ancient find -- it was from the modern era, and not really part of the silk road, which A) probably never really existed in the way people imagine it and B) definitely didn't exist at the time that his great grandfather was trading. The overland route from China to "the west" was mostly a mongol empire phenomenon that ended with the collapse of the Mongol and Byzantine empires and the beginning of the colonial area and the opening of sea routes.

It was just an ordinary stop on an ordinary trading route.
He’s pretty hard-headed, but so are his middle-aged sons. These days we’re all grown-up enough to know when to sort of shake our heads and change the subject. My mom has her own way of setting boundaries which seems to work for her but unless she wants to talk about something specific, it’s normally nothing I need to even think about. She feels comfortable enough confiding in me though. To be clear he’s a 100% stand-up guy, doesn’t have an anger problem, and even though he can be frustrating to deal with sometimes, there is never a question about him doing what’s best for his family, even if that means swallowing something he’s annoyed by if it’s necessary.
Tell that to Sam Altman
DeepSeek Breakthrough or Theft? US Probes 'AI Data Breach'
I just want to ask if when we talk about export controls on AI chips, is this going to create export controls on general consumer goods in the near future.

Given Moore’s law and the efficiency that will clearly come from optimizing chips for AI and competition increasing the amount of VRAM on these devices to run models locally.

Is creating an export regime today going to mean that in 3 or 4 years general smart phones and high end laptops are all going to be subject to export controls?

Keep in mind that at one time computers that consumed entire building are less powerful than my apple watch.
If human beings could be categorized as Happy/Not Happy the world would be a very boring place and life not worth living.
Note: Author is the CEO of Anthropic.
The actual problem is that there are still physical stores and libraries. These should have all gone away decades ago to be replaced with something that you can't instantly find online.

Society is still run buy nostalgic boomers who don't know how to use a computer and this is yet another example of the friction it causes.

Despite the existence of phones, apps and websites this decade is, so far, the best for national park visitation. The same is probably true for local parks, Because as of today home VR isn't at that level. That's despite the lockdown dip.

Nobody wants to go the library to look for a book that probably isn't there only to have a chance encounter with their future wife. It's fantastical thinking and designing a society around that expected user behavior is a gross misallocation of resources at best and dangerous at worst.
I should clarify: the US STEM workforce has historically been very white and very male. That's the body of talent that has been languishing, and the data proves it.
I really wish Java had been like 5 years ahead on its modernizing push. That 10 year gap between 5 and 8 where the language __barely__ changed, while competitor languages were blasting, were just killer. Some might argue the reason the 8+ renaissance has been so successful is because it let other languages beta test, and Java took the winning ideas. Maybe so. But it gave Golang time to get big, which I like a lot less than Java. Especially when people try to use it as anything but a scripting language for grpc and a runtime for protobuf.

But I think with virtual threads, esp when they work with synchronized right, will finally put Java back on top of Go. People complain about Java, but imo Java's problems are mostly accidental and acknowledged, and they do often get improved or fixed. Whereas Go seems to mostly be happy with how it is exactly right now, and are loathe to improve the many pain points. So much gocode is needlessly obtuse, and it's not like the obtuseness actually accomplishes their goal. I've still seen just god-awful Gocode, with layers and layers of interfaces in between you and getting anything done. Very java-esque, despite their OOP resistance being specifically targeting not falling prey to Java's propensity for towering class hierarchies.
Developer Productivity Metrics: Education Necessary
This is the main reason I've ever found myself using it if not vscode or now cursor. If I have some massive file that needs messing with nothing handles it as well as sublime does.
If you like the idea of object as code, another rabbit hole worth looking at is Rhino3D’s Grasshopper

Visual programming language but can also use straight Python

Excellent environment for playing
otherwise it will become to a multipolar world(or 'bipolar', said the article)

that would be horrible, a multipolar world? what a nightmare
Simple Data Isolation in ClickHouse
Why is the author mad? The "polish" button does exactly what you would expect it to do if you understand "polish" as "make polite". If you want to keep your words true and "unpolished", maybe at the risk of sounding rude, then don't use that feature.

It is actually one of the first things I used LLMs for, and I still am. Latest example, I received an email from an administration asking me to sign some document, but it contained some incorrect information. I used a LLM to write a nice letter telling them to fix it. I could have just replied "it is not A, it is B", but without some formalism, it sounds rude, and I didn't want to sound rude, I also didn't want to make efforts for that formalism. It may be one of the things LLMs do best, they are like supercharged model letters.

Of course I don't do that in informal situations or when I want some emotional connection. By the way, no LLM touched this comment, I don't consider posting on HN a formal situation.

EDIT: typoes, but maybe I should have let them in, to show that it wasn't the work of a LLM ;)
I'd put the success rate for this feature at about 80% for passwords, 30% for address information, and 0% for payment info (maybe intentional?)
Back in 2002, I was on the hunt for a copy of Primal Rock Therapy by Blood Circus. I would hit every used record store, book store, CD exchange, and thrift store trying to find a copy (I still had unreliable dial up at home, so getting it off the internet was a pipe dream). I eventually found it in a used bin at a Half-price Books in Cleveland after 4 years of searching.

It was a middling album by a middling band, but the satisfaction I felt I still remember 23 years later. Same with the 4-6 weeks delivery from catalogs of the 90s. We no longer have the anticipation and the wonder we did in an analog/scarcity world when everything is on demand.

Sometimes the joys of wanting exceeds the having.
There's a nice video about this from Louis Rossmann [1] that talks about this in detail and tries to find some reasons for it, and he seems to suggest that the update was never about improving the battery life as in getting more usage per charge out of the battery, but improving it as in limiting the battery full charge capacity to minimize potential problems with it, because he (and others) assume that they identified bad batches and are trying to fix potential problems with them by limiting it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xboo6sV-cJU
OpenAI already announced they will be copying DeepSeek implementation, and that they will make sure not to share it with anyone else than themselves
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I loved Komodo.
This reminds me of when Google's last update to the 2012 wi-fi Nexus 7 botched its TRIM implementation, which made everyone think its shitty eMMC was to blame. I held onto mine sort of as a joke for more than a decade.

I only just found out a month ago that the Android update caused its performance to tank, then put LineageOS on it, and was shocked to find that 13-year-old tablet was not only still usable but actually kinda good.
because web server, browser and protocol developers, after implementing HTTP Basic Auth punted and said this is gross and hard. They then gave up on the problem.

The problem still existed, and other developers took a stab, but they weren't protocol or cryptography people, so we got a bunch of mostly broken stuff. Some cryptographers came along and pointed out the disasters, and since then it's been slowly getting better, but it's still a giant mess.

Companies have decided, since we have to solve it for us, we can just solve it for you too, and now we have "social logins" where we tell Microsoft, Apple or Google everything we login to. They appreciate the extra information to help themselves, so it's a worthwhile incentive for them.

The web browser developers got a little involved with passkeys, but the UX is still not idiot proof. Better than their last two tries at implementing public key auth though(TLS client certs and DOD auth).
The well-being literature does seem surprisingly fuzzy. I can only speculate what is going on there. A more robust finding seems to be grades:

"The effects of mobile phone use on academic performance: A meta-analysis" [0]

"Results indicate the summary effect of mobile phone use on student outcomes is r = −0.16 with 95% CI of −0.20 to −0.13."

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03601...
And who will pay for all the expensive AI hardware? We're getting into the crazy phase of hundred billion dollar data centers.

Just because R1 was trained cheaply, doesn't mean that this architecture cannot be trained on a very expensive data center to get much better and bigger models.
No. Before Deepseek R1, Nvidia was charging $100 for a $20 shovel in the gold rush. Now, every Fortune 100 can build an O1-level model with currently existing (and soon to be online) infra. Healthy demand for H100 and Blackwell will remain, but paying $100 for a $20 shovel is unlikely.

Nvidia will definitely stay profitable for now though, as long as Deepseek’s breakthroughs are not further improved upon. But if others find additional compression gains, Nvidia won’t recapture its old premium. Its stock hinged on 80% margins and 75% annual growth, Deepseek broke that premise.
> much of which is wasted on administrative bloat

What’s the source for this?
Yeah, you posted it a few hours before I did (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839928), and neither got voted up (and, mysteriously, mine was not detected as a dupe inside a very short time window, as it seems like it should happen).

I'm going to blame the first part on us being in Europe and most of the HN crowd living in US timezones :)
That is a very good point. Admittedly, my comment was a little knee-jerk. I just wish the world could vilify car exhaust with the same gusto that cigarette smoke gets. But it is instead very normalized
Your whole comment:

> Only US-born people are literate in English? Wow, I hope you'll rethink that because on a case-by-case basis, immigrants may certainly have higher English literacy than US-born.

You made a vague claim with two weasel words that alluded to immigrants having higher English literacy than US-born. They claim you were replying to was referring to overall rates, not case-by-case rates (obviously you compare one person to another person you can get any kind of result, but we are comparing groups instead).
The small biz scene in unfree communist China is ironically, astronomically better than here in US, where decades of regulatory capture and misleadership have made it difficult and extremely expensive to get off the ground while being protected by the law.
This is an argument, but isn't this where your scenario diverges completely? OpenAI's "means to an end" is further than you state; not initial advancement but the control and profit from AI.
Investment Banking in the Age of A.I
Zero-day brokers pay in tranches for completed reliable exploits; bug bounties pay in lump sums for (generally) POCs. It's not an apples-apples comparison.
I don't want to get into politics but I'll gladly admit human beings are biased.

"We Don't See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are"

— Samuel b. Nahmani
But clippy didn't write the letter for me = if I can be lazy and AI formats what I'm communicating in a way that is accessible to other people, then why should I care.
Great rebuttal. You're so convincing.
You know this. I know this. But the President of the United States does not know this.
Don’t make the mistake of confusing colloquial language with legal text. They do need a law degree, or at least knowledge of the precedent that precisely defined the term. Precisely defining them is half the battle.

“Adverse or disproportionate impact” is a well litigated phrase. It has a specific meaning in law, which is not immediately obvious from a layman’s definition.
Linux won in the long run, I don't see why robust LLM models won't do the same.

In the end it'll be the scale of the infrastructure itself that will make the difference.
Is it really a grift if the person is upfront about asking for money to pay their medical bills and there's no expectation of a product that isn't being delivered? GoFundMe isn't pretending that there's a laptop or shoes or something expensive and then not delivering aka a scam, it's straightforwardsly asking for money to pay for medical bills.
There is a large spectrum of options between the extremes of "destroy all returns" and "resell returns as new without any checks".

For example: only sell returns as "open box". For some items, I'd be happy to chance an open box, for other items, not so much.
I've read a lot about Aaron's time at Reddit / Not A Bug. I somewhat think his fame exceeds his actual accomplishments at times. He was perceived to be very hostile to his peers and subordinates.

Kind of a cliche, but aspire to be the best version yourself every day. Learn from the successes and failures of others, but don't aspire to be anyone else because eventually you'll be very disappointed.
Persistence inside the WMI database is fun. There was a good talk about this at DerbyCon[0] years ago. I think it has gotten more press since several APT groups were using it but it still isn't a well-known persistence mechanism.

[0] https://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon5/break-m...
That people want to pack in populated, dense urban counties in tiny apartments doesn't mean anything.
Parasite 'matchmakers' can genetically alter plant cells to attract insects
Helion are saying they may have commercial energy shortly although no one really believes them.