"Be horse."
a diffusion language model on an M2 Air
Details
- External ID
- 47962008
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- "Be horse."
- Website domain
- boesch.dev
- Launched
- April 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5919023136246787
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Be horse.
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice AI agents and infrastructure
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- diffusion language model for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 1546 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #601 of 1547 (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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- KiT · github · 2026-09-28 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- openjev · github · 2026-09-18 · 306 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- The Silent Filter, The Delegation of Synthesis and Linguistic Drift · hn · 2026-02-27 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- djev-spark · github · 2026-09-18 · 172 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- tarski · github · 2026-09-28 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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