top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-20

DeepSeek-R1

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

2 weeks ago

1843 upvotes – 663 comments

I Met Paul Graham Once

http://okayfail.com/2025/i-met-pg-once.html

2 weeks ago

1072 upvotes – 767 comments

Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

https://mixxx.org/

2 weeks ago

639 upvotes – 133 comments

I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts

http://blog.rongarret.info/2025/01/i-am-not-failure-lessons-learned-from.html

2 weeks ago

547 upvotes – 313 comments

Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect

https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Reverse_Engineering_Bambu_Connect

2 weeks ago

532 upvotes – 362 comments

Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat

https://ssno.cc/posts/reversing-tac-1-4-2025/

2 weeks ago

528 upvotes – 214 comments

Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'

https://LetsNotDoThat.com

2 weeks ago

423 upvotes – 167 comments

Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/01/using-esims-with-devices-that-only-have-a-physical-sim-slot-via-a-9esim-sim-card-with-android-and-linux/

2 weeks ago

399 upvotes – 232 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42770125

2 weeks ago

370 upvotes – 377 comments

I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again

https://ninkovic.dev/blog/2025/think-twice-before-using-github-actions

2 weeks ago

336 upvotes – 278 comments

Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-838444

2 weeks ago

328 upvotes – 166 comments

Moving on from React, a year later

https://kellysutton.com/2025/01/18/moving-on-from-react-a-year-later.html

2 weeks ago

296 upvotes – 241 comments

Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/18/tech-founder-jeff-atwood-why-im-giving-away-millions-within-next-5-years.html

2 weeks ago

276 upvotes – 471 comments

Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elon-musk-salute

2 weeks ago

267 upvotes – 121 comments

Official DeepSeek R1 Now on Ollama

https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

2 weeks ago

234 upvotes – 80 comments

Celestial Navigation for Drones

https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/8/11/652

2 weeks ago

217 upvotes – 123 comments

Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms

https://cefboud.github.io/posts/compression/

2 weeks ago

213 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42764185

2 weeks ago

210 upvotes – 168 comments

Zork: The Great Inner Workings (2020)

https://medium.com/swlh/zork-the-great-inner-workings-b68012952bdc

2 weeks ago

205 upvotes – 68 comments

ROCm Device Support Wishlist

https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/discussions/4276

2 weeks ago

205 upvotes – 173 comments

What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/789838/what-does-supports-drm-functions-and-may-not-be-fully-accessible-mean-for-sata

2 weeks ago

181 upvotes – 154 comments

TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives

https://2ality.com/2025/01/typescript-enum-patterns.html

2 weeks ago

177 upvotes – 142 comments

Parinfer: Simpler Lisp Editing

https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/

2 weeks ago

168 upvotes – 32 comments

Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe

https://torrentfreak.com/authors-seek-metas-torrent-client-logs-and-seeding-data-in-ai-piracy-probe-250120/

2 weeks ago

163 upvotes – 167 comments

Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (kind of) for vocabulary building

https://github.com/baturyilmaz/wordpecker-app

2 weeks ago

161 upvotes – 67 comments

Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from?

https://grossack.site/2025/01/16/undergrad-divisibility-problems.html

2 weeks ago

161 upvotes – 52 comments

Elon Gives Nazi Salute During Inauguration Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2bbb-6Clhs

2 weeks ago

156 upvotes – 35 comments

Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjv4lz7g57o

2 weeks ago

142 upvotes – 86 comments

Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article

https://danielwirtz.com/blog/successful-hacker-news-article

2 weeks ago

123 upvotes – 44 comments

Matt Mullenweg, Automattic's CEO, Seems Bound and Determined to Wreck WordPress

https://digitalcxo.com/article/matt-mullenweg-automattics-ceo-seems-bound-and-determined-to-wreck-wordpress/

2 weeks ago

113 upvotes – 57 comments

I got a heat pump and my energy bill went up

https://www.heatpumped.org/p/i-got-a-heat-pump-and-my-energy-bill-went-up

2 weeks ago

98 upvotes – 150 comments

A Proper x86 Assembler in Haskell Using the Escardó-Oliva Functional

http://blog.vmchale.com/article/escardo-oliva-functional

2 weeks ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Kronotop: Redis-compatible, transactional document store backed by FoundationDB

https://github.com/kronotop/kronotop

2 weeks ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments

The Selma March (1965)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1965/04/10/letter-from-selma

2 weeks ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

The importance of favicons in website OSINT research

https://www.osintme.com/index.php/2025/01/20/the-importance-of-favicons-in-website-osint-research/

2 weeks ago

85 upvotes – 24 comments

Migrating Away from Bcachefs

https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-01-20-21-45_migrating_away_from_bcachefs.html

2 weeks ago

83 upvotes – 104 comments

The quiet rebellion of a little life

https://caitlynrichardson.substack.com/p/the-quiet-rebellion-of-a-little-life

2 weeks ago

78 upvotes – 129 comments

Two Hard Things (2009)

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

2 weeks ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments
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