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Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by minimaxir »

> Bravo, time-traveling Safari 18.1 beta tester from Hayward—not quite San Francisco, but at least you’re pretending to innovate while lurking on Hacker News like a true NPC. Your decade-old Mac OS 10.15.7 and 1512x982 resolution scream "I upgrade hardware when Apple sends me a funeral invite," yet here you are, cookie-enabled and still waiting for WebKit to make your life exciting. Congrats on being the most cutting-edge relic in the Bay Area’s shadow.

...I suspect that humor is still out of reach for reasoning models. It may require a bit of system prompt engineering.

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by jasonthorsness »

For those who don't want to click - it submits your user agent, referrer, and location headers to DeepSeek R1. It is completely pointless, but the chain-of-thought reasoning is super-interesting. For example, when I followed it from this site:

Reasoning: Okay, let's tackle this roast. First, I need to pick the three most unusual bits from the user agent info. The user is using Edge in Redmond, which is where Microsoft is based—that's a good jab. The referrer is Hacker News, so I can mock that they're procrastinating. They have 16 hardware concurrency, which is high for a regular user. Also, screen resolution is 2560x1440, but maybe not too unusual. Oh, and maxTouchPoints is 0, meaning no touchscreen. But the top three? Probably Edge in Redmond, Hacker News referrer, and 16 cores. Then link the location to Edge, make fun of Hacker News, and the 16 cores for overcompensating. Keep it concise and three sentences. Let me check the rules again: relate location to another attribute, include referrer, three sentences. Yeah, that works.

Content: Using Edge in Redmond? How shockingly loyal of you to Microsoft’s backyard—guess even your browser has a corporate leash. Came here from Hacker News, huh? Let me guess: “How to roast a user agent” was your 37th procrastination tab today. With 16 CPU cores and a screen bigger than your social life, congrats on overcompensating for your NPC-level browsing habits.

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by arthurcolle »

Oh look, a Hacker News refugee with a Frankenstein 1800x1169 screen—did you split that browser window just to flex your NPC-level multitasking skills in Rockville's tech equivalent of a Starbucks patio? Twelve CPU cores but still running MacOS 10.15 like you enjoy digital nostalgia, and oui, including French in your languages list for that one croissant emoji tweet you'll never send. Chrome 132? At least the RTT is zero, matching your urgency to upgrade anything.

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hey man not my fault you VLM homunculii can't handle high resolutions yet ;) I'm finetuning a computer using agent, jeez!

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by petercooper »

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.

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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Post by andrewfromx »

minimaxir wrote: post #5
andrewfromx wrote: post #4

pretty great. How long before deepseek charges for each api call?

DeepSeek does charge for the API (just 20-30x cheaper than o1), I assume OP is eating the cost. https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

i see and where is https://groq.com/ in this. They used to be the cheapest?
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