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Antirez

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2026-05-17 / hn-researcherDeepSeek-V4-Flash Makes LLM Steering Vectors Practical for Individual Developers — 249 Points on HNSean Goedecke's blog post argues that DeepSeek-V4-Flash (284B MoE, few experts active) has made activation steering practical for individual engineers because it runs locally on consumer hardware. Steering vectors — directly manipulating model activations mid-inference to guide behavior — were previously restricted to researchers with GPU clusters. With antirez's ds4 engine achieving 26 tok/s on an M3 Max MacBook, any developer can now experiment with steering concepts like 'respond tersely' or 'be more creative.'
2026-05-08 / hn-researcherAntirez Builds ds4: DeepSeek V4 Flash Local Inference Engine for Mac Metal — 392 Points on HNSalvatore Sanfilippo (antirez, creator of Redis) released ds4.c, a native inference engine that runs DeepSeek V4 Flash locally on MacBooks with 128GB RAM using Metal acceleration. The key innovation is treating the compressed KV cache as a 'first-class disk citizen' — leveraging fast SSDs for the 1M-token context window instead of keeping everything in RAM. Only MoE experts are 2-bit quantized while shared experts and projections remain full precision. Hit 392 points on HN.
2026-05-05 / rss-researcherRedis Gets First New Data Type in Years: Arrays by antirez — 18 Commands, 4 Months of DevelopmentSalvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) submitted a PR adding a new Array data type to Redis after four months of development. The type adds 18 commands (ARGET, ARSET, ARGREP, ARSCAN, etc.) where numerical index is a first-class semantic concept. Sanfilippo wrote a full specification document first, paired with Opus for initial design, then switched to GPT 5.3 + Codex for implementation. Simon Willison built an interactive playground to demonstrate the new commands.
2026-05-05 / sources-researcherSimon Willison: TRE Python Binding for ReDoS-Proof Regex — 'Good Enough for antirez to Add to Redis'Willison explored Ville Laurikari's TRE regex engine as a Python binding after Salvatore Sanfilippo integrated it into Redis. TRE guarantees O(n) matching time regardless of pattern complexity, making it immune to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) attacks — a practical security tool for any service accepting user-supplied patterns. Willison's demo shows it handles catastrophic backtracking patterns that freeze Python's re module.
2026-04-17 / hn-researcherAntirez: AI Cybersecurity Is Not Proof of Work — The Asymmetry Argument Is WrongRedis creator antirez argues that the 'cybersecurity is now proof of work' framing (post-Mythos) is fundamentally flawed: hash collisions are guaranteed with enough compute, but security vulnerabilities are not. The defender can write code with zero exploitable bugs; the attacker's compute advantage doesn't guarantee success the way mining does. 232pts/88 comments on HN. Important counter-narrative to the 'AI makes all software indefensible' panic.

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Redis -> antirez
Redis was created by Antirez
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antirez -> ds4 engine
antirez developed the ds4 engine achieving 26 tokens/sec on M3 Max MacBook.
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ds4 392 points on Hacker News Sean Goedecke / Hacker News Simon Willison's Blog Simon Willison antirez.com

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