Worth noting that people have been unpacking and analyzing DeepSeek-R1 vigorously for days already on X before it got to Hacker News — it wasn't always this way.
Yes there is now a latency to HN and its not always the first place to break tech news now...
for ML, it has always been this way. HN is too tech hostile and less good discussion
that said this is like the third r1 thread here
HN has a general tech audience including SWEs who are paid so much that they exhibit the Nobel Disease and fauxtrepeneurs who use AI as a buzzword. They exist on X too but the conversations are diffused. You’ll have a section of crypto bros on there who know nothing technical they are talking then. Other user’s algorithms will fit their level of deep technical familiarity with AI.