A Viral DeepSeek Harness Router Repo Formally Retracted Its Own Theory Paper While Keeping the Reproducible Result
yjh051108/dsh-router-standard (292 stars in three days, with the companion dsh-routing-suite at 3,292) topped its README on 2026-08-15 with a retraction: the author marked the theoretical section of the bundled paper — the A1–A4 dual-attractor hypothesis and the 'god/ghost' and 'self-routing is impossible' attributions — as formally void, while keeping the paper posted and linking a statement and an apology letter. The revised reading is that the observed 'We need / Let me' split is not a deliberate dual-mode design but a fracture between a native deep reasoning path and an under-converged minimal path — a post-training defect the router exploits as a routing layer. The measured capability gain is claimed as reproducible; the explanation for it is withdrawn, which is a rarer and healthier move than the usual viral-repo trajectory.
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