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Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code

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200 points simonw | 3 comments | 20 Oct 25 17:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.684s | source
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bahmboo ◴[21 Oct 25 23:04 UTC] No.45662877[source]▶
I see a lot of snark in the comments. Simon is a researcher and I really like seeing his experiments! Sounds like the goal here was to delegate a discrete task to an LLM and have it solve the problem much like one would task a junior dev to do the same.

And like a junior dev it ran into some problems and needed some nudges. Also like a junior dev it consumed energy resources while doing it.

In the end I like that the chunk size of work that we can delegate to LLMs is getting larger.

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1. fumeux_fume ◴[22 Oct 25 06:45 UTC] No.45665643[source]▶
Another top comment that fabricates negativity saying “I see a lot of snark in the comments.” Hardly anything negative, let alone snarky, is being directed to one of HNs most popular voices. It’s a weird dark pattern to get upvotes under the pretext of being supportive and it should be called out more often.
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2. bahmboo ◴[22 Oct 25 06:59 UTC] No.45665720[source]▶
Huh? My post was very positive and hopefully let's not get too meta. I felt the comments did not address the merits or contents of what was being presented. That's all!

edit: did you see my comment when it was first posted? The topic was being dumped on at that time and drowning out the signal. I promise I'm not part of a dark pattern.

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3. CaptainOfCoit ◴[22 Oct 25 08:39 UTC] No.45666345[source]▶
> I felt the comments did not address the merits or contents of what was being presented

That's wildly different from:

> I see a lot of snark in the comments

The first is essentially "People should talk about the actual content more" while the second is "People are mocking the submission". If no other top-level comments actually seem like mocking, it seems fair that someone reacts to the second sentiment

> The topic was being dumped on at that time and drowning out the signal.

There was a whole of 7 comments when you made yours (https://ditzes.com/item/45646559), most of them children comments, none of them mocking the submission nor the author.