"Be horse."
a diffusion language model on an M2 Air
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Be horse.
HN · launched Apr 30, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: large language models · 191 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Designing and training a diffusion language model from scratch requires deep theoretical machine learning knowledge in discrete diffusion mathematics, masking schedules, and PyTorch training loops.
What it would actually take: The project involves implementing a discrete diffusion/mask-predict architecture (such as MDLM or Bit-Diffusion) in PyTorch, handling custom tokenization, forward noise corruption schedules, cross-entropy diffusion loss, and iterative reverse sampling routines optimized for Apple Silicon MPS. The hard part is the underlying statistical ML mathematics and training stability of non-autoregressive discrete diffusion models. This requires specialized deep learning research and implementation expertise.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Test with BPE (Byte-Pair Encodings) tokenization, Test with word tokens instead of current tokenization
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3633 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1417 of 3634 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 183 days after the earliest competitor.
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