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oxen.ai is the company blog at oxen.ai, writing about ai, data and programming. Since 2023, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “No Hype DeepSeek-R1 Reading List”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Oxen.ai posts on ML data versioning, comparing data version control tools, fine-tuning and inference costs, and a reading list of AI papers leading up to Sora and DeepSeek-R1.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- No Hype DeepSeek-R1 Reading List3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-30
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-28
- Oxen's Friday Paper Club: I-JEPA and a 3 Minute Challenge2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-06
What Hacker News says?
Someone should try this on that model: https://www.oxen.ai/blog/training-a-rust-1-5b-coder-lm-with-...
Comment linking /blog/training-a-rust-1-5b-coder-lm-with-reinforcement-learning-grpo
on “Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI”Submitted "Road to Sora" Paper Reading List as a story · 32 points
HN discussionMaintainer of Oxen here, we initially built Oxen because DVC was pretty painfully slow to work with, and had a lot of extra bells and whistles that we didn’t need. Under the hood we optimized the merkle tree structure, hashing algorithms, network protocols, etc to make it speedy when it came to large datasets. We have a pretty nice front end at https://oxen.ai for viewing and querying the data as well. Happy to answ…
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on “Data Version Control”Submitted Show HN: Beta Model Eval Tool – Run SOTA Models on Your CSV as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHey all, Have been diving into the Sora technical report for our paper club on Friday, and decided it would be nice to have a reading list of the background papers need to fully grok everything that is going on in that technical report - each with a little description of the part of the pipeline it would be used for (or a previous state of the art technique that was referenced in the review). We are going to pick a…
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on “"Road to Sora" Paper Reading List”Submitted Live Dive into How to Finetune DeepSeek R1 on Synthetic Data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe have been working on an open source tool called "Oxen" that aims to tackle this problem! Would love for you to kick the tires and see if it works for your use case. We have a free version of the CLI, python library, and server on github, and a free hosted version you can kick around at Oxen.ai. Website: https://oxen.ai Dev Docs: https://docs.oxen.ai GitHub: https://github.com/Oxen-AI/oxen-release Feel free to rea…
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on “Ask HN: How do your ML teams version datasets and models?”Submitted Using Llama3.1 405B to generate political synthetic data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe thought it'd be interesting to see what political biases Llama 3.1 405B has by generating a bunch of "spam" or "ham" messages with it. We started with 5 hand crafted messages and let the LLM take it from there ending up with over 1k. Full process was documented here: https://www.oxen.ai/blog/create-your-own-synthetic-data-with... Next up we are going to train a classifier on the outputs, as well as do some classi…
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on “Using Llama3.1 405B to generate political synthetic data”Submitted Oxen's Friday Paper Club: I-JEPA and a 3 Minute Challenge as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHey, engineer at Oxen.ai here. Glad the fine-tuning worked well for this project! If anyone has questions on that part of it we would be happy to answer. We have a blog post on a similar workflow here: https://www.oxen.ai/blog/how-we-cut-inference-costs-from-46k... On the inference cost and speed: we're actively working on that and have a pretty massive upgrade there coming soon.
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on “Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC”Submitted Model Report, May 2026 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHey all, We were messing around with PixArt as a way to fine tune DiT's for image generation. I was pretty impressed with the results and thought I'd share. https://www.oxen.ai/ox/PixArtTutorial In this example I downloaded a video from YouTube (the trailer of Wes Anderson's Asteroid City) chopped up the frames, captioned them with LLaVA, and then trained the model to generate in the style of the video. It's only ab…
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on “Fine Tuning a Diffusion Transformer (DiT) from a Single YouTube Video”Submitted No Hype DeepSeek-R1 Reading List as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is work done for our arxiv dive paper club where we dive into research papers and implement code to see how the models work in practice. We have some internal use cases for BitNets so thought we'd share the work as we go along. Enjoy! Feel free to join us as we build: https://oxen.ai/community
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on “Instruct-Tuning BitNet 1.58”Submitted Fine Tuning a Diffusion Transformer (DiT) from a Single YouTube Video as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI just released (1 minute ago) a blog going into the most popular data version control options and comparing them. Hopefully this clarify which is the best solution for you. Heres the blog - https://www.oxen.ai/blog/the-best-ai-data-version-control-to...
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on “Ask HN: How do you version your data?”Submitted Why GRPO Is Important and How It Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe're working on Oxen.ai which is an Open Source CLI and Server with Python bindings as well. Optimized for ML/AI workloads but works with any type of data and we see usage from game companies, bio, aerospace etc. Feel free to check it out here: https://github.com/Oxen-AI/oxen-release Or a hub you can host data on (we have public and private repos, or private VPC deployments): https://oxen.ai The CLI mirrors git so…
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on “Ask HN: How do you version your data?”Submitted Paper Club: How Flux.1 models work under the hood as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCan't wait to hear the CEO of Oxen.AI decipher what's driving Sora. He knows his sh*t. He's great at plain speak. He's enabled me to spot patterns between ML models. Just for this Sora call, he has created a killer pre-call briefing page and Sora reference. https://www.oxen.ai/blog/road-to-sora-reading-list Signup here. Approval required. https://www.oxen.ai/community?utm_source=paper_club_flyer That little bit of e…
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on “How Sora does its magic. Friday, 10am Pacific. Oxen.ai zoom Paper Club”Submitted How Sora does its magic. Friday, 10am Pacific. Oxen.ai zoom Paper Club as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions also just link to https://www.oxen.ai/repositories
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on “Oxen.ai: Very Fast Unstructured Data Version Control”Submitted When to Finetune an Image Model as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWeb hub (similar to GitHub): https://www.oxen.ai/
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on “Oxen.ai: Very Fast Unstructured Data Version Control”We've been working for a few years on a VCS that is starting to get adopted by creative studios - called "Oxen" It's open source: https://github.com/oxen-AI/oxen Most users are building their own interface on top, but we also have a nice experience in our web ui: https://oxen.ai Would love people to try it out and give us feedback!
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on “Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated”Hey all, I thought the paper “Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the ratios of the Data Distribution” was a pretty cool idea, so decided to dive deep into the code, strip it down so I could understand it, then train some models from scratch. My findings are linked here: https://www.oxen.ai/blog/how-to-train-diffusion-for-text-fro... I find the diffusion papers a bit difficult to read and looking at the inputs…
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on “How to train diffusion for text from scratch”We have been working on a data version control tool called Oxen that is tackling many of your needs. Feel free to check it out here: https://github.com/Oxen-AI/oxen-release#-oxen Going down your list of requirements, Oxen has: * Data versioning, similar paradigm to git, but built from the ground up for large ML datasets * Inexpensive storage, comparable pricing to s3 * Branching/Merging for maintaining production tr…
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on “Ask HN: Data Management for AI Training”Over the past ~1.5 years I've been running a research paper club where we dive into interesting/foundational papers in AI/ML. So we naturally have come across a lot of the papers that lead up to DeepSeek-R1. While diving into the DeepSeek papers this week, I decided to compile a list of papers that we've already gone over or I think would be good background reading to get a bigger picture of what's going on under th…
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on a deleted threadOver the past ~1.5 years I've been running a research paper club where we dive into interesting/foundational papers in AI/ML. So we naturally have come across a lot of the papers that lead up to DeepSeek-R1. While diving into the DeepSeek papers this week, I decided to compile a list of papers that we've already gone over or I think would be good background reading to get a bigger picture of what's going on under th…
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