Frontier Daily (Nov 9): 4 items from Hacker News, GitHub (DeepSeek), Simon Willison

Every day Laojin pulls the official channels and compiles the past 48 hours of AI news into a short brief: curation only, no commentary, with the original link and publish time attached to every item.

1. OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation

OpenAI raised $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, below the $1.4 trillion it initially sought.

Source: Hacker News · 2026-11-08 · Original

2. deepseek-ai/3FS: A high-performance distributed file system designed to address the challenges of AI training and inference workloads.

DeepSeek open-sourced 3FS, a high-performance distributed file system in C++ designed for AI training and inference workloads, with 10,433 GitHub stars.

Source: GitHub (DeepSeek) · 2026-11-08 · Original

3. Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU

The llama-modchip project runs a 284B DeepSeek model on 64GB of RAM without a GPU, drawing 157 upvotes and 50 comments on Hacker News.

Source: Hacker News · 2026-11-08 · Original

4. datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages

Simon Willison filed datasette #3046 to stop serving link rel="next" HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages, after noticing the header triggered unnecessary prefetching of the next page of rows.

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-11-07 · Original

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_Sources: official blogs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Qwen; official RSS of Simon Willison, Latent Space, Import AI and One Useful Thing; Anthropic site monitoring, top AI discussions on Hacker News and open-source updates from key AI orgs on GitHub. Mistral / Meta AI have no stable public feed; X sources are curated by hand. This is a source digest — no commentary from Laojin._