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Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:18AM (#50299818)
despite my dislike of dario and anthropic, claude is still the most knowledgeable model to use out of the box and will give you a lot of actual relevant information while chatgpt always sounds like a blabbering drunkard that has zero clue
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:07PM (#50168475)
> China's motives behind this

how about just "DeepSeek's motives behind this"?

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:00PM (#50168380)
Because we are still at the first stage of enshittification
akomtu commented on 9/18/26

> Scientology is an evil cult, while Falun Gong is more like Buddhism. You can't really compare them.

maybe that's why not

Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @02:43PM (#50133816)
i hate dario's politics, but i still find claude's eco system easier to use. Design/Artifacts is very convenient for people like me who has zero UI/UX expertise, and claude code's remote session works seamlessly on ios with a well-design client interface while you have to deal with ssh and typing in cli with your iphone keyboard if you are using opencode/omp etc
yes. buy a random esim card from trip.com whenever you visit china and problem is solved. it's also super cheap. 10Gb 30days for 5 bucks.
Re:DeepSeek Harness on Friday August 14, 2026 @07:36PM (#49305890)
This might be helpful https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09867
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @11:05PM (#49228053)
$0.14 is CN¥1. that's where the 0.14 comes from
Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:38AM (#49084668)
Then east turkistan separatists also did terrorist attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack

Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:10AM (#49084161)
What people don't know is that China's "war" against Vietnam in 1979 was actually a pledge of allegiance to the United States, a way of demonstrating its stance.

This event was followed by the longest honeymoon period in Sino-US relations, which eventually lead to China's rise.

Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:58PM (#49001699)
i'm also influenced by claude every single day with its constant preaching about certain values.
Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:56PM (#49001682)
> This is absolutely nothing compared to what China did to the Uyghurs

which is absolutely nothing compared to what they did to Gaza.

Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:47PM (#48973535)
Bad chyna
Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:09AM (#48967924)
While willingly handing your data to american labs. Surely sounds so based.
Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:06AM (#48967902)
So either you openweight it, or not. Neither is good for other countries, according to this logic.
Re:Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? on Sunday July 19, 2026 @08:59AM (#48967844)
i remember it's similar to one of the symbols in Vonnegut's books so not entirely original
so it’s a good thing whichever way you look at it
Re:The AirPods Effect on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:19PM (#48613971)
in the netherlands trains are usually too noisy to focus on anything unless it’s a silent car or 7am.
Re:The AirPods Effect on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:17PM (#48613948)
good that every AH has selfscankassa and i don’t need to take out anything
Re:CT scans of BYD car parts on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:07PM (#48388413)
understandable that people might have fears like this since this happens a lot in the west in my own experience, but in china you can always argue with them and the customer service is usually way better, or you can drop the nuke by reporting to the authorities.
Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:48PM (#48202089)
surprised I had to scroll this far to find someone actually pointing this out. This kind of acquisitions are alarming, to say the least.
And the air conditions in Chengdu and Chongqing are getting worse with the recent smog making the headlines, despite also one of the highest EV adoption rates in western China. Being able to mandate factory shutdown surely helps for Beijing, but is unfortunately not the case in other chinese cities
Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:29PM (#46583721)
Going to stay on Sonoma for another year
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:08PM (#46494914)
Funny how no one listens to real Venezuelans speaking. As a chinese I understand you fully. Everyone hates dictators, but sometimes the alternative isn’t just necessarily better as people might hope. Transition is gonna be long and painful.
Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; on Friday September 26, 2025 @10:15PM (#45392787)
I guess that's why Anthropic's CEO is universally hated in some places.
Re:Website Is for Humans on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:03AM (#44899411)
If the researchers have enough time to read every paper in the field, why would there be surveys/reviews at all? Same logic.
Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown on Sunday March 13, 2022 @08:59AM (#30660855)
> It's such an absurd tradeoff for the Omicron variant, which is less deadly than the flu[1]

Apparently the data is only applicable for England, which has already achieved herd immunity