{"slug": "dwarf-star-support-for-deepseek-4-1-flash-on-mbpro-128gb", "title": "Dwarf Star Support for DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on MBPro 128GB", "summary": "Salvatore Sanfilippo, known as Antirez, committed support for a heavily quantized variant of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to the GitHub repository for DwarfStar, according to a Hacker News post by user fghorow. The post states the model runs with SSD streaming on a MacBook Pro M5-Max with 128 GB of memory, and notes the code was checked in hours before the post, so results may vary.", "body_md": "| [Guidelines](newsguidelines.html) \\|[FAQ](newsfaq.html) \\|[Lists](lists) \\|[API](https://github.com/HackerNews/API) \\|[Security](security.html) \\|[Legal](https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/) \\|[Apply to YC](https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/) \\|[Contact](mailto:hn@ycombinator.com) | \n\n|  | **[Hacker News](news)**[new](newest) \\|[past](front) \\|[comments](newcomments) \\|[ask](ask) \\|[show](show) \\|[jobs](jobs) \\|[submit](submit) | [login](login?goto=item%3Fid%3D49672171) | \n\n|  |  | [Dwarf Star Support for DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on MBPro 128GB](item?id=49672171) | \n|  |  | 1 point by [fghorow](user?id=fghorow)[5 minutes ago](item?id=49672171) \\|[hide](hide?id=49672171&goto=item%3Fid%3D49672171) \\|[past](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Dwarf%20Star%20Support%20for%20DeepSeek%204.1%20Flash%20on%20MBPro%20128GB&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0) \\|[favorite](fave?id=49672171&auth=9e9728b056884da28a9acd13dced7fd088d853fa) \\|[discuss](item?id=49672171) | \n|  |  | Antirez just landed a commit[1] to the github repo for DwarfStar that adds support for his heavily quantized variant of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. He claims it runs with SSD streaming on a macbook pro M5-Max 128 GB laptop. The code was just checked in literally hours ago, so take YMMV quite literally. [1] https://github.com/antirez/ds4/commit/bd66c402070042bf0a79ad6ece8242de4c93680c |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dwarf-star-support-for-deepseek-4-1-flash-on-mbpro-128gb", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672171", "published_at": "2026-09-12 13:33:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 13:41:18.403418+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Antirez", "DwarfStar", "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash", "GitHub", "MacBook Pro M5-Max", "fghorow", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dwarf-star-support-for-deepseek-4-1-flash-on-mbpro-128gb", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dwarf-star-support-for-deepseek-4-1-flash-on-mbpro-128gb.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dwarf-star-support-for-deepseek-4-1-flash-on-mbpro-128gb.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dwarf-star-support-for-deepseek-4-1-flash-on-mbpro-128gb.jsonld"}}