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A news entry drawn from real HN practitioner reports on deepseek-v4-pro-0813, mostly the launch thread (900+ pts). Every quote carries a per-comment permalink. Marked as anecdote, and it lines up with the bench page.

Sections:

  • Pro vs Flash — Flash flails and self-corrects at ~5x output; Pro is more direct (pixelesque).
  • Benchmarks vs a real task — on a concrete docker-compose/Caddy deploy, gpt-5.6-terra-high beat 0813; "DS V4 is harness sensitive" (freakynit, scrlk).
  • Economics, if you cache right — with caching, pro undercuts gpt-5.6-luna (taosx); 50% cache-hit = misconfigured harness, never rewrite history (p1necone).
  • vs GLM / Qwen — DS faster+cheaper for the same result vs GLM (spijdar); comparable-but-cheaper vs Qwen (parsimo2010).
  • Trust/quant — wanting proof it's the real FP8 0813 not a quant (Phemist), which ties to the rollback note.

Stacked on #17 (base branch feat/news-no-rollback) so both 08-13 entries and the cross-links coexist. Merge order: #17 first, then rebase this onto main. Draft for your review; not merged. make check green, em-dash-free, verified in-browser (no overflow).

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Real first-day HN accounts on deepseek-v4-pro-0813 (launch thread,
900+ pts), sourced with per-comment links: Pro is more direct than
Flash (which flails at ~5x output); benchmarks vs a real deploy task
diverge and the harness is why; the economics win only with
disciplined caching (never rewrite history); it beats GLM/Qwen on
price; and the quant/provider trust worry that ties to the rollback
note. Anecdote, marked as anecdote, consistent with the bench page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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