Hacker News: fzliu

RL for LLMs, Part 1: RL Foundations

fzliu — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:38:01 +0000

Article URL: https://vsahil.github.io/blog/rl-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268185

Points: 2

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Effects of the New $100k Fee and Wage-Weighted Lottery on the H-1B Visa

fzliu — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:34:39 +0000

Article URL: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/p/2026-08-03-effects-of-the-new-100000-fee-and-wage-weighted-lottery-on-the-h-1b-visa/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164391

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

LeelaRookOdds's French Defense

fzliu — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:57:40 +0000

Article URL: https://lichess.org/@/codysmile11/blog/leelarookoddss-french-defense/IrHe3XFH

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002392

Points: 2

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Synthetic Customers Earn Their Stripes

fzliu — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:41:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bain.com/insights/synthetic-customers-earn-their-stripes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757894

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Penn Wharton Budget Model

fzliu — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:56:17 +0000

Article URL: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/model/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447860

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

When Does Federal Debt Reach Unsustainable Levels? Spring 2026 – Onward

fzliu — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:30:18 +0000

Article URL: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/p/2026-06-02-when-does-federal-debt-reach-unsustainable-levels/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413886

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Did the Soviets Collude in the 1953 Candidates Tournament?

fzliu — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:14:38 +0000

Article URL: https://lichess.org/@/RuyLopez1000/blog/did-the-soviets-collude-in-the-1953-candidates-tournament/PFaoJIPI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079994

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Do Large Language Models (Really) Need Statistical Foundations? [pdf]

fzliu — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:58:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.weijie-su.com/files/LLM_position.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655260

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why "All we need is 1% of this large market" is a red flag

fzliu — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:20:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.n47.com/insights/why-all-we-need-is-1-percent-of-this-very-large-market-is-a-red-flag

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163792

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Generalized on-policy distillation with reward extrapolation

fzliu — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:38:22 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12125

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007517

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Talking with Your Hands: How Hand Gestures Influence Communication

fzliu — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:31:16 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4962927

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995513

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

China's Data Center Boom: A View from Zhangjiakou (2025)

fzliu — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:19:56 +0000

Article URL: https://sinocities.substack.com/p/chinas-data-center-boom-a-view-from

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965345

Points: 28

# Comments: 10

voyage-multimodal-3.5: a new multimodal retrieval frontier with video support

fzliu — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:50:30 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882781

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Are Pre-Trained Convolutions Better Than Pre-Trained Transformers? (2021)

fzliu — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:22:29 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03322

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879525

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists

fzliu — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:14:41 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23265

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864938

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

NumPy in C (2014)

fzliu — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:36:06 +0000

Article URL: https://jcastellssala.com/2014/02/01/npy-in-c/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832416

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

voyage-multimodal-3.5: a new multimodal embedding frontier with video support

fzliu — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:33:24 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830884

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Voyage-multimodal-3.5: A new multimodal retrieval frontier with video support

fzliu — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:51:25 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739075

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

The Legal Embedding Benchmark (MLEB)

fzliu — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:14:57 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19365

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697840

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Token-Count-Based Batching: Faster, Cheaper Embedding Inference for Queries

fzliu — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:06:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662106

Points: 1

# Comments: 0