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Jeffrey Ding
Personal blog · chinai.substack.comaipolitics
Jeffrey Ding writes ChinAI Newsletter, a personal blog at chinai.substack.com about ai and politics. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Chinese AI: Year 1 of ChinAI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeffrey Ding's ChinAI newsletter, which covers Chinese AI papers and news. One commenter includes it among trusted sources for AI news, and others point to it as a source on Chinese AI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jeff Ding's weekly translations of writings from Chinese thinkers on China's AI landscape.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-17
- Chinese AI: Year 1 of ChinAI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-12
What Hacker News says?
Here's my secret stash: - https://www.quantamagazine.org - science-y - https://thebrowser.com - sometimes too intellectual or focused on literature - https://waitbutwhy.com - sometimes too simple - https://www.project-syndicate.org - sometimes written by people that are "talkers/politicians" not "doers" - https://www.gwern.net - The monthly newsletter is great - https://chinai.substack.com - Chinese Papers and AI ne…
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on “Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline”Submitted What lengths will Chinese companies go to get an Nvidia A100 chip? as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThe export controls made it difficult for Chinese companies to acquire large numbers of GPUs, which prevented them from expanding business models that rely on buying more GPUs to serve more customers, which means that Chinese companies have much, much lower budgets for GPU procurement than their American counterparts. https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-323-the-ai-deflation-of... So a new homegrown chip would have…
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on “Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20”Submitted Chinese AI: Year 1 of ChinAI as a story · 54 points
HN discussionFor news-like content I follow accounts on X: @kimmonismus @apples_jimmy and the accounts of Antropic, Mistal, Gemini / DeepMind and OpenAI. I think everyone who is really interested in the hot AI developments must also follow what comes from China. I follow https://chinai.substack.com/ but I am open to hear about other Chinese resources.
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on “Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI”Submitted The Sensenet Data Leak – What Happened as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor the same reason that a farmer wants a tractor and a seamstress wants a sewing machine. Controlling the machines that do the work is less exhausting and higher-status than doing the work yourself. Of course not all Chinese think like that, but an optimist view of future technology seems much more prevalent in Chinese-language media than in the English-speaking world. Maybe that's because China is still at a relat…
Comment linking /p/chinai-111-algorithms-and-food-delivery
on “Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him”Submitted China's Overhyped Embodied AI Sector as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm also surprised to see this shared here, but mostly because of the timing. Jeff Ding translated it in June 2020: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-98-techlore-the-histori... Note also that he chose to translate it because it has the entertainment value of a typical Chinese "self-media" article: This week’s feature translation is a joint work with Joy Dantong Ma, who pitched this epic piece. My term for these t…
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on “TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife”Submitted The Misperception Spiral in US-China tech policy competition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubscription link - https://chinai.substack.com/ Archive list - https://chinai.substack.com/archive
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on “Chinese AI: Year 1 of ChinAI”Submitted Huawei's chief scientist on machine translation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMe personally no, but this guy probably does: https://chinai.substack.com/
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on “Ray Dalio's "The Changing World Order" [pdf]”Submitted The Human Cost of 30-Min Food Deliveries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe one I'm following https://chinai.substack.com/ https://www.techinasia.com/ https://pandaily.substack.com/ dealstreetasia.com https://kr-asia.com/ chinamoneynetwork.com
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on “Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?”Submitted Open Source and Entity-Listed Companies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe article points to the tension between rapid US data center growth and limited grid capacity, contrasting it with energy oversupply in the Chinese grid, but doesn't really fill in the fourth quadrant with Chinese data center growth. Which is unsurprising, considering that Chinese tech companies aren't investing in data centers anywhere near the scale of their US counterparts: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-…
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on “AI experts return from China stunned: U.S. grid's so weak that race may be over”Submitted Year of Chinese AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think you're overindexing on government involvement and underindexing on FOMO driving investors to jump on any new trend. When Unitree briefly reached a $69B market cap after IPO earlier this month, that wasn't because of government intervention, but because people were bamboozled by their tech demos. https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-372-chinas-overhyped-em... is an interesting read on the financial exuberance…
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on “China's humanoid robots aren't smart enough to take your job – yet”Submitted Anthropic's Dogma on US-China AI Competition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBecause of the cheap power available in poor western provinces that can be harnessed for the compute needs of wealthier eastern provinces? https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-179-the-east-west-compu...
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on “We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters”Submitted A Three-Way Race for China's AI Super-App as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSome highlights (unvetted) - https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/backchat Backchat is RTHK Radio 3's current affairs programme with expert panels and listener participation. - https://wfmu.org/playlists/TD Techtonic with Mark Hurst. Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society. Tech, community, video games, and whatever else is next. - https://mainichi.…
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on “Ask HN: Where do you get your news, and why?”Submitted The Labor of AI Trainers – A China Perspective as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChinAI #176: AI Frameworks (part 2) as a story · 1 points
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