<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: mordae</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mordae</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:47:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mordae" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was just using it when it landed. It started reasoning more extensively from nowhere and precision went up a lot. It also changed its prose style for the better. Looking forward to weights.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120623</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To run at decent speed, all models try hard to use only most likely relevant part of the context and most likely relevant weights (MoE) to predict the next token. Doing the math in full is unfeasible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:54:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097579</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would anyone think that models optimized for efficient context management, giving much more weight to a short sliding window, would attend to distant, heavily diluted tokens?<p>Plus the model's capacity to take more context into account and actually integrate it to the output is simply limited by the number of activated parameters. If you give it a playbook, you are forcing to choose it between attending to the playbook and the task at hand.<p>If you want to force it to work step-by-step, you need to present the steps one-by-one. Ideally with rules for the current step at hand and maybe relevant input again, depending on overall task size.<p>Why did you think models love to re-read files before editing them? It increases recall quality and thus edit precision and thus benchmarks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:43:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097436</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "It's getting harder to focus every day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please also note that ADHD-like symptoms can present from sleep Apnea/UARS-induced sleep deprivation and the probability of having Apnea/UARS rises with age. Smoothly for men and a with a sudden jump after menopause for women.<p>So if you feel like you are getting more ADHD-like issues, do consider a sleep study. Early tells are easy: you often feel like shit in the morning.</p>
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<p>Sleep apnea symptoms are initially similar to ADHD. Apparently a ton of kids gets mis-diagnosed with ADHD while they are slowly suffocating because they have UARS. Stimulants mask it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:24:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927205</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chance is you are not breathing in your sleep. You have Apnea or UARS and are slowly suffocating. Easy tells: you look like shit in the morning and it takes hours for you to normalize, you sometimes wake up all sweaty, you tend to open window ASAP in the morning "to get rid of the stuffy air", you are confused and/or have headache in the morning.<p>If you want to make sure, get a sleep study done.<p>Why do you think you are avoiding the bed as if you were afraid of dying in there. Exactly! You literally are.</p>
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<p>> alleged anti-competitive practices<p>I'd say that with court ruling these are no longer alleged. Right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761175</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nope, people seek it out because government tells them to pay taxes _or else_.</p>
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<p>They do not and it sucks for certain tasks.<p>It also means that if they actually trained with vision, they'd be on par with Anthropic models as vision seems to improve model performance across the board even for non-vision tasks.</p>
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<p>DeepSeek V4 Flash on default (high) reasoning had zero formatting failures, just genuine losses. Total score:<p>| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 97/100 | 41/50 | 41/50 | 92W / 102T / 6L |<p>Benchmark costed me just under $1.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:33:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551851</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I think may be the government. The population will have to pay taxes for their maintenance. But it will be vastly less.<p>Governments are no longer allowed to print money. Do you think they will be allowed to build unlimited supply of robots? You are funny.<p>All the robot factories will belong to rich and we will have to _beg_ to have some measly allocation _while_ we feed the police that prevents us from just taking them.<p>And politicians will mostly just say this is _inevitable_ for some reason or other.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:08:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551182</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Money is an example. Really, what is money? A piece of paper? Some metal? Some number on a computer? Could you put your finger on what money really is, especially in the modern world?<p>Debt owed to central bank. Enforced by State via taxation and confiscation of property if you do not pay up. People seek it because they need to pay the said taxes and/or believe other people will seek it to pay theirs, including in a foreign territory. Loses value when central bank/State is unable to impose taxation and/or has not much useful work to extract from its subjects.<p>Recently western States have been captured by socialists, which prompted a reaction of the rich and powerful that eventually made the States unable to issue money and forced them to beg for the very thing they enable on the door fronts of the capitalists, making democracy a second-class economical citizen.</p>
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<p>It drops dependents.</p>
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<p>Most have their pension automatically track index. Nasdaq changes rules so that the pension funds are forced to buy stock while very volatile and likely overpriced.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:56:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395036</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There’s no skill file that contains the tacit knowledge of a person who has reconciled a thousand payrolls.<p>That person has zero skill in actually making tight automation that doesn't just fall over. And I have yet to see an AI agent that tells them "look, your requirements are contradictory, given this and that, these two cannot coexist".<p>Those little sycophants will just go and try to please the domain expert and placate him in all ways possible. Bend backwards rather then forcing them to reassess their assumptions.</p>
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<p>This is a terrible benchmark. It literally tests the models on their ability to track shifting line numbers. If they cannot keep up, no amount of abstract reasoning can redeem them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 23:07:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316790</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "Can we have the day off?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Foraging was so good we only had to work like 2h a day. We had to start farming simply because the population growth from foraging was exponential and we have ran out of easy-to-forage ecosystems.<p>We've also ran out of freedom at that point. We used to simply walk away from bullies, but that was no longer possible, with the farm and all.<p>At some point bullies stopped charging for racket. They stole the land and told us we are now working under them, for them.</p>
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<p>We always hold one at $WORK at the end of the year. I am not a fan of racing nor CS (prefer UT) so I went and made a retrogaming corner last year.<p>The year before that the Among Us was the highlight. I landed on imposter so many times they started ejecting me habitually. :-D<p>I think this year I'll finally play some AoE2 with my wife. We're going to Wololo the shit out of my colleagues. Well, mostly her. I'll just send her some tribute I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 08:02:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291131</link><dc:creator>mordae</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mordae in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not OP, but I routinely load 150k tokens into context. A full sub-package to work on, select other files in the monorepo, e.g. front-end visualization and back-end data loader. Then work some 150k tokens, then start again.<p>At the end, cache hit rate is like 99.5% if Novita is not having issues.<p>For official DeepSeek API, 99.9% or something.<p>Custom harness that never compacts or otherwise doctors the history.</p>
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<p>It's a vasoconstrictor. Gets more blood up to the brain.</p>
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