<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fzliu</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fzliu</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:20:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fzliu" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[Do Large Language Models (Really) Need Statistical Foundations? [pdf]]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.weijie-su.com/files/LLM_position.pdf">https://www.weijie-su.com/files/LLM_position.pdf</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655260">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655260</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:58:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.weijie-su.com/files/LLM_position.pdf</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why "All we need is 1% of this large market" is a red flag]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.n47.com/insights/why-all-we-need-is-1-percent-of-this-very-large-market-is-a-red-flag">https://www.n47.com/insights/why-all-we-need-is-1-percent-of-this-very-large-market-is-a-red-flag</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163792">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163792</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:20:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.n47.com/insights/why-all-we-need-is-1-percent-of-this-very-large-market-is-a-red-flag</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generalized on-policy distillation with reward extrapolation]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12125">https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12125</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007517">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007517</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:38:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12125</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking with Your Hands: How Hand Gestures Influence Communication]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4962927">https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4962927</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995513">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995513</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:31:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4962927</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's Data Center Boom: A View from Zhangjiakou (2025)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://sinocities.substack.com/p/chinas-data-center-boom-a-view-from">https://sinocities.substack.com/p/chinas-data-center-boom-a-view-from</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965345">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965345</a></p>
<p>Points: 28</p>
<p># Comments: 10</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:19:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://sinocities.substack.com/p/chinas-data-center-boom-a-view-from</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[voyage-multimodal-3.5: a new multimodal retrieval frontier with video support]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/">https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882781">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882781</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:50:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Pre-Trained Convolutions Better Than Pre-Trained Transformers? (2021)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03322">https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03322</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879525">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879525</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:22:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03322</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23265">https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23265</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864938">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864938</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:14:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23265</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NumPy in C (2014)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://jcastellssala.com/2014/02/01/npy-in-c/">https://jcastellssala.com/2014/02/01/npy-in-c/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832416">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832416</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:36:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://jcastellssala.com/2014/02/01/npy-in-c/</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832416</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[voyage-multimodal-3.5: a new multimodal embedding frontier with video support]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/">https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830884">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830884</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:33:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voyage-multimodal-3.5: A new multimodal retrieval frontier with video support]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/">https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739075">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739075</a></p>
<p>Points: 9</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:51:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Legal Embedding Benchmark (MLEB)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19365">https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19365</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697840">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697840</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:14:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19365</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Token-Count-Based Batching: Faster, Cheaper Embedding Inference for Queries]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries">https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662106">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662106</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:06:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[voyage-multimodal-3.5: a new multimodal retrieval frontier with video support]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/">https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660822">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660822</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:56:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-multimodal-3-5/</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Voyage 4 model family: shared embedding space with MoE architecture]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-4/">https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-4/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634779">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634779</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:16:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.voyageai.com/2026/01/15/voyage-4/</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Token-Count-Based Batching: Faster, Cheaper Embedding Inference for Queries]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries">https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582200">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582200</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:36:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Case Against LLMs as Rerankers]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.voyageai.com/2025/10/22/the-case-against-llms-as-rerankers/">https://blog.voyageai.com/2025/10/22/the-case-against-llms-as-rerankers/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379323">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379323</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:17:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.voyageai.com/2025/10/22/the-case-against-llms-as-rerankers/</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultra-Wide Band: A Transformational Technology for the Internet of Things]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.eetimes.com/ultra-wide-band-a-transformational-technology-for-the-internet-of-things/">https://www.eetimes.com/ultra-wide-band-a-transformational-technology-for-the-internet-of-things/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373817">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373817</a></p>
<p>Points: 12</p>
<p># Comments: 12</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:58:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.eetimes.com/ultra-wide-band-a-transformational-technology-for-the-internet-of-things/</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Token-Count-Based Batching: Faster, Cheaper Embedding Inference for Queries]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries">https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370962">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370962</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:02:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedding-inference-for-queries</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mapping China's Surnames]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.andrewstokols.com/blog/460">https://www.andrewstokols.com/blog/460</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330101">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330101</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:51:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.andrewstokols.com/blog/460</link><dc:creator>fzliu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330101</guid></item></channel></rss>