# DeepSeek R1 paper

5 Hacker News commenters recommended DeepSeek R1 paper and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a well-written technical report and a good introduction to the topic. One critic says it leaves out some details needed for stable training.

## Why people recommend it

- Well-written technical report (2 comments): "Their R1 paper was really well-done. But I think it leaves out a few details necessary for stable training." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703705)) "Many recent OSS models have great tech reports where you can learn more about these kind of things" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653535))
- Good introduction to the topic (2 comments): "Many recent OSS models have great tech reports where you can learn more about these kind of things" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653535)) "the DeepSeek R1 paper is a good introduction to the topic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689986))
- Important, impressive paper (2 comments): "One important paper post Attention is All You Need is the DeepSeek paper" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49693446)) "This one is impressive too" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900411))

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- [Attention Is All You Need by Vaswani et al.](https://hackerapproved.com/p/attention-is-all-you-need.md): 14 recommend
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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "DeepSeek R1 paper", https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-r1-paper/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).