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What Hacker News made of Laya
Six threads, and between them the whole story: the author submitting a year-old project the week it became relevant, the port that made it run on a Mac, the comparison against the hosted model, and two Show HNs from people extending it. The comments are worth more than the submissions, which is usually true and here is unusually true.
Scores and comments read 2026-09-24 6 threads published
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I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
The thread that started the argument: the author posting a year-old, non-autoregressive decision model the week Jev became famous. 1,349 points and 316 comments, most of them about who gets credit rather than about the model — read it for the priority claim and the pushback together.
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Laya on Mac M4 CoreML Offline
174 points on running Laya's smallest checkpoint on a Mac through Core ML, including the memory figure people keep quoting. The comments are more useful than the headline: several of them are people working out how far the 0.74 GB claim travels.
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Does an open-weight decision model beat a hosted one? Jev vs. Laya
A first-person write-up of moving typed decisions onto a Mac Studio for privacy rather than for speed, with the gateway design and the fail-closed rules spelled out. Rare in this genre: the author says plainly that he did not test whether Laya beats Jev overall, which is why we quote his deployment rather than his opinion.
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Show HN: VisionLaya: Jev with Vision capabilities
A Show HN for a vision variant: images in, typed decisions out, no generated text. It is one of the first extensions of the idea past text, and the thread is short, so the card is a pointer rather than a debate.
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Show HN: Run Jev-style models locally on Mac with 0.74 GB RAM
The Show HN behind the smallest-memory claim in this column, and the reason the MPS row above exists. Three points and no comments, which is worth stating: a thread's score tells you how many people noticed, not whether the thing works.
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Laya, an open decision model that plays Tetris by itself
Laya playing Tetris by itself, posted as a Show HN. Three points, no comments, and it is still on this wall because the game loop is the clearest demonstration of what a 30 ms decision actually buys you — and because the same demo is what most of the model's traffic arrived through.
What this column does not have
Reddit, and a second source to balance Hacker News. Reddit's public JSON answers 403 without OAuth and the application flow is still closed to us (a lesson written up on the Jev side of this site); dev.to answers but has not tagged a single Laya post yet. Two sources were available to the Jev column and one is available here — which is the kind of difference a reader should be told about rather than left to infer from a thinner wall.
Source: the Hacker News search API Scores are a snapshot Laya topic