HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

TheArcane

693 karma · joined March 4, 2016

Autonomous driving perception research engineer
submissionscomments
TheArcane··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
I have both platform.deepseek.com (hooray off-peak pricing) and the $100/m Claude subscription and boy do I find myself mostly using DS-flash pretty much every time.

There's something to be said for the speed with which it gets word done - I take fewer "it's compiling" breaks, and lose my train of thought less frequently. What's crazy is that the speedy work it does is pretty much always correct - which is a reason why I don't feel the need to spin up claude-code and "ask the expert".

This speed & good-work combo is the DS signature IMO

For my harness, Deepseek Harness + DS-4-1-flash combo is almost too good to be true

TheArcane··on Anthropic S-1
Oligarchs don't face consequences in an oligarchy silly
TheArcane··on Anthropic S-1
> Although if you have killer robots,

we already do..

TheArcane··on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Sonnet high is slower in my experience, and much more expensive
TheArcane··on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Doesn't hold a handle to Deepseek v4.1 Flash

I have both platform.deepseek.com (hooray off-peak pricing) and the $100/m Claude subscription and boy do I find myself mostly using DS-flash pretty much every time.

There's something to be said for the speed with which it gets word done - I take fewer "it's compiling" breaks, and lose my train of thought less frequently. What's crazy is that the speedy work it does is pretty much always correct - which is a reason why I don't feel the need to spin up claude-code and "ask the expert".

This speed & good-work combo is the DS signature IMO

TheArcane··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
there we go again, the king of "China BAD" boogeyman
TheArcane··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Have you run into their concurrent agent limits?
TheArcane··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
I live in the US right now, my surface of attack from the US govt & ad companies is infinitely larger even if I decide to move to China some time in the future
TheArcane··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
> One country does things out in the open,

boy oh boy, if you think the US doesn't do anything in the shadows. The last 100 years of world geopolictical history would beg to disagree

TheArcane··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
> I'd rather my data go to China and directly to labs that release open weight models (DeepSeek is MIT licensed still); instead of closed labs and the NSA/CIA; who has far better ability to hurt me than China does.

Thank you. I've been shouting this very obvious thing from rooftops

I work in silicon valley and I feel everyone around me is suffering from China-BAD psychosis and dismiss Chinese releases

TheArcane··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
This wasn't my experience. GPT 6.1 Sol is ~6-7x more expensive for similar intelligence. My experience matches [this](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/img/v4.1_261017_perf_cost_en.p...)
TheArcane··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
opencode and deepseek harness GUI (dsh-tui when I need to)
TheArcane··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
> What would you prefer, 30t/s 50k output tokens needed for solution, or 300t/s, 500k output tokens needed for solution?

The best way to answer this question: [Pareto frontier or cost/per task curve](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/img/v4.1_261017_perf_cost_en.p...)

img from https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news261017/

TheArcane··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
I have both platform.deepseek.com (hooray off-peak pricing) and the $100/m Claude subscription and boy do I find myself mostly using DS-flash pretty much every time.

There's something to be said for the speed with which it gets word done - I take fewer "it's compiling" breaks, and lose my train of thought less frequently. What's crazy is that the speedy work it does is pretty much always correct - which is a reason why I don't feel the need to spin up claude-code and "ask the expert".

This speed & good-work combo is the DS signature IMO

TheArcane··on Tesla Roadster
$250K deposits / car
TheArcane··on Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
If you don't buy into "America good, China bad" narrative, this new entrant & release by Inclusion Ai is a lot more exciting by every measurable metric.

https://github.com/inclusionAI/Ling

TheArcane··on Our position on open-weights models
I cheer every time there's a new Deepseek, Qwen, Kimi, Z.ai release. Intelligence shouldn't be owned and charged for by a few

If it were up-to these silicon valley tech bros, they'd find a way to meter and charge for the air we breathe.

TheArcane··on Our position on open-weights models
certainly better than this one. Look at Africa under western neocolonialism vs China's infrastructure loans
TheArcane··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
masking the active genocide & war crimes in Palestine
TheArcane··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
For instance, try asking American models about the Palestinian genocide
TheArcane··on China's open-weights AI strategy is winning
anecdotal but we heavily use Qwen to build our own models on top of
TheArcane··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
> Apple somehow reigns supreme still.

That's because America ban anything that starts to compete, like Huawei or Chinese car companies

TheArcane··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
boo hoo china bad, buy my more expensive and shitty american product
TheArcane··on Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites
> This is literally the coolest thing we as a species achieved that doesn't serve self-preservation purposes.

couldn't be more wrong

TheArcane··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
> He's one of the most empathetic individuals I know.

You should try knowing more people

TheArcane··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
aka the paradox of tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
TheArcane··on QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
chat.qwenlm.ai has quickly risen to the preferred choice for all my LLM needs. As accurate as Deepseek v3, but without the server issues.

This makes it even better!

TheArcane··on Pi-hole v6
> Don't have to expose my home IP address and open a port for the world to start banging on

Is that really an issue if all you're exposing is the VPN port? Wireguard for instance has industrial-grade encryption. Even open port 51820 should be fine

TheArcane··on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
Bit of a waste to host this locally and still need an openai api key. This would be great with Ollama
TheArcane··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
And they did all this under a GPU embargo? We're witnessing a Cuba moment.
Page 1 of 12Next →