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Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by qup »

gpm wrote: post #27

Hmm, disturbingly accurate lol > Oh, a 4K screen just to scroll Hacker News in ? Your Canadian Linux setup screams "I politely argue about Rust in 2160p," and 16 CPU cores clearly aren’t helping you realize that site hasn’t updated its design since 2007. Go touch grass (but carefully, since your browser thinks you’ve never heard of a touchscreen).

> coding in a sulfur-scented bath while flexing 12 CPU cores to refresh *Hacker News* like it’s your job? Even your Firefox setup screams "I maxed out my specs just to argue in the comments," yet here you are, roasting yourself via a web app. NPCs wish they were this predictably extra.

No u!

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by sigmoid10 »

minimaxir wrote: post #24
_lvbh wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The model is much smaller. Compute in China should be more expensive considering all the US restrictions

No one knows the size of o1. The only hint was a paper that suggested it was 200B parameters. Meanwhile, DeepSeek R1 is known to be 671B parameters because it is open-source.

R1 is a mixture model with only 37B active params. So while it's definitely expensive to train, it's rather light on compute during inference. All you really need is lots of memory.

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by quantadev »

aiono wrote: post #19
quantadev wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Funny that's basically how "growth" companies work in general

American "growth" companies aren't 100% funded by the USA Gov't with the only goal being to damage foreign national private sector companies. American companies are private sector only and have a business model that's to benefit a company, not a nation. In China all companies function as part of their National Party.

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by gpm »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #13
quantadev wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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So, ChatGPT/Gemini's free version is stealing the users from European AI companies, and the goal is to harm them? Or we call that just a competition?

I think there's a legitimate argument to be made that ChatGPT and Gemini's free versions constitute unfair (and potentially even illegal) predatory pricing. They aren't even charging the price of the inference compute, which has got to make it much much harder for competing businesses to survive.

I.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing / https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by quantadev »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #13
quantadev wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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So, ChatGPT/Gemini's free version is stealing the users from European AI companies, and the goal is to harm them? Or we call that just a competition?

That's a false equivalence. There's more nuance than that. Both OpenAI and Google have a genuine private-sector business model, whereas my claim is that DeepSeek is totally a China Gov't entity.

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by abixb »

My roast summary with referrer field disabled:

"Brave of you to arrive here directly from nowhere like a digital hermit, flexing 16 CPU cores just to run Edge 132.0.0.0 like it’s a beta-testing crisis hotline—enjoying Wisconsin’s -40° wind chills so much you’ve even got your browser set to "arctic Blink engine." At least your 2560x1440 screen lets you see exactly how lonely that empty referrer field looks."

This is the most fun post/link I've interacted with across social media all week, haha. I'm going to test this from all of me and my SO's personal devices of various form factors. Thanks OP!

## Edit:

Here's the roast from my iPhone SE 3 device on 5G cellular (thinks I'm in Atlanta for some reason, lol):

"Roast: Oh, an iOS 18 beta user in Atlanta—how bold of you to test Apple’s unfinished bugs while flexing that three-core “supercomputer” like Georgia’s tech scene peaked with a fax machine. Your screen’s so tiny (375x667) it makes Hacker News look like a MySpace page, which tracks, since you clearly clicked here mid-procrastination scroll to avoid finishing your side hustle. Congrats on being the NPC who still uses “Mobile Safari” unironically—your cookie-enabled loyalty to Apple is almost as tragic as your referral from a site where everyone’s arguing about TypeScript."

Deeper research pointed to Apple's "Displays" kb page for UIKit Size, and it tracks with my device type, as SE 3 is based on iPhone 8 [0]

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/De...

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by quantadev »

simonw wrote: post #20
quantadev wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"It's funded by China Gov't" Are there any credible sources of information out there to back that up, or is that just a conspiracy theory?

I bet you think the phrase "ByteDance is China Gov't" is a conspiracy theory too.

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by noduerme »

chris_st wrote: post #16
petercooper wrote: post #7

Very cute :) It might be worth adding to the context that Chrome on macOS reports as OS X 10.15.7 (Catalina) no matter what future version you're actually running. It seemed very confused to my other specs but running such an old OS.

Did the same with Safari... which it reported as being from the future !

Ditto with Firefox

Roasting your Hacker News–refugee, Firefox-on-MacOS-Catalina-10.15-holding, DIY-screen-resolution-having (1512x982? Did you freehand that?) setup like Portland keeps its "quirky" reputation: aggressively outdated but convinced it’s still avant-garde.

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by 867-5309 »

> Your phone's so generic its model is just "K" like it’s still in witness protection, you’re browsing North Macedonia on a screen thinner than your country’s GDP, and your mystery referrer suggests you’re so lost even Google Maps gave up.

I can't help but feel refreshingly anonymous

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