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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
230•theblazehen•2d ago•65 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
694•klaussilveira•15h ago•206 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
962•xnx•20h ago•553 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
5•AlexeyBrin•58m ago•0 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
129•matheusalmeida•2d ago•35 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
66•videotopia•4d ago•6 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
53•jesperordrup•5h ago•24 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
34•kaonwarb•3d ago•27 comments

ga68, the GNU Algol 68 Compiler – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
10•matt_d•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
236•isitcontent•15h ago•26 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
233•dmpetrov•16h ago•124 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
32•speckx•3d ago•21 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
335•vecti•17h ago•147 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
502•todsacerdoti•23h ago•244 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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385•ostacke•21h ago•97 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
300•eljojo•18h ago•186 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•185 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
8•__natty__•3h ago•0 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
422•lstoll•21h ago•282 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
68•kmm•5d ago•10 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
96•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
19•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•5 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
21•bikenaga•3d ago•11 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
264•i5heu•18h ago•215 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
33•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
63•gfortaine•13h ago•28 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1076•cdrnsf•1d ago•460 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
39•gmays•10h ago•13 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
298•surprisetalk•3d ago•44 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
154•vmatsiiako•20h ago•72 comments
Open in hackernews

A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab

https://venturebeat.com/ai/holy-smokes-a-new-200-faster-deepseek-r1-0528-variant-appears-from-german-lab-tng-technology-consulting-gmbh/
77•saubeidl•7mo ago

Comments

UrineSqueegee•7mo ago
they have reduced the token output by 20% and the benchmark scores have decreased by 10% of the original model.
yorwba•7mo ago
The 20% output reduction is relative to R1, the 10% benchmark score reduction is relative to R1-0528.

It produces 60% fewer output tokens than R1-0528 and scores about 10% higher on their benchmark than R1.

So it's a way to turn R1-0528, which is better than R1 but slower, into a model that's worse than R1-0528 but better and faster than R1.

saubeidl•7mo ago
Yup, you can see it well on the graph here: https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gu4d8kzWo...
ipsum2•7mo ago
tl;dr: faster but worse; i.e. on the pareto frontier.
konsalexee•7mo ago
It is always about the trade-off between those two parameters.

Of course an increase in both is the optimal, but a small sacrifice in performance/accuracy for being 200% faster is worth noting. Around 10% drop in accuracy for 200% speed-up, some would take it!

d1sxeyes•7mo ago
Also that “speed up” is actually hiding “less compute used” which is a proxy for cost. Assuming this is 200% faster purely because it needs less compute, that should mean it costs roughly 1/3 as much to run for a 10% decrease in quality of output.
konsalexee•7mo ago
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randomNumber7•7mo ago
From the hugginface model card:

"Due to the strict new guidelines of the EU AI Act that take effect on August 2nd 2025, we recommend that each R1T/R1T2 user in the EU either familiarizes themselves with these requirements and assess their compliance, or ceases using the model in the EU after August 1st, 2025."

Doesn't the deepseek licence completely forbid any use in the EU already? How can a german company legally build this in the first place (which they presumably did)?

qwertox•7mo ago
> Doesn't the deepseek licence completely forbid any use in the EU already?

Care to explain?

https://deepseeklicense.github.io/

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder/blob/main/LICE...

akreal•7mo ago
Probably a mix-up with the recently released Huawei model:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441447

peer2pay•7mo ago
Calling TNG a lab is a bit funny to me. It’s a consulting company that lets people hack on stuff between placements.
the_third_wave•7mo ago
Sounds like a good use of "spare" time to me and not that different from many a lab I've been part of: someone gets a hunch, sets up an experiment to follow it, proves poor disproves whatever they were after, pulls down the experiment, rinse, repeat.
loherj•7mo ago
Yes and no.

Calling us a lab is not quite right, we are a consulting company.

But hacking is not just limited to in between placements, everybody has (at least) 2 days per month to do that, regardless of any work for customers.

Also, since AI is such a strategically important topic, we have a team that just works on AI stuff internally. That’s where R1T and R1T2 come from.

prinzmaus•7mo ago
OT: I love that German has a word for “yes and no”: jein.
saubeidl•7mo ago
Petition to make "nes" a word in english (yo doesn't really work...)
perpetualpatzer•7mo ago
So does English. Well, sorta.
_ache_•7mo ago
Is 200% a way to say *3 quicker ? The little 10% reasoning performance decrease seems worth it.
MangoToupe•7mo ago
> The little 10% reasoning performance decrease seems worth it

We need about three orders of magnitude more tests to make these numbers meaningful.

loherj•7mo ago
Fair point. More benchmarks are definitely good but I’m optimistic that they will show similar results.

Anecdotally, I can say that my personal experience with the model is in line with what the benchmarks claim: It’s a bit smarter than R1, a bit faster than R1, much faster than R1-0528, but not quite as smart. (Faster meaning less output tokens). For me, it’s at a sweet spot and I use it as daily driver.

loherj•7mo ago
Yes. If you look at the diagram that plots the performance vs the amount of output tokens, you can see that R1T2 uses about 1/3 of the output tokens that R1-0528 uses.

Keep in mind, the speed improvement doesn’t come from the model running any faster (it’s the exact same architecture as R1, after all) but from using less output tokens while still achieving very good results.

loherj•7mo ago
If anybody wants to try it out, it’s up on chutes: https://chutes.ai/app/chute/4fa0c7f5-82f7-59d1-8996-661bb778...
xracy•7mo ago
Can I ask why this article is title like Deepseek is a virus? Feels like this could've been "new flu variant".

I don't know if this is intentional or not.

arantius•7mo ago
This is an appropriate usage of the word "variant", and applies to anything that can have several varieties.
xracy•7mo ago
While I agree the word could be appropriate, I'm asking a meta question about how it is typically used, and whether or not we're conveying something unintentional by using it in this context as well. I don't consider "variants" a good thing because I lived through a few years of COVID.