top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-01-25

DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948

2 weeks ago

1348 upvotes – 1055 comments

Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port

https://crastinator-pro.github.io/steam-brick/

a week ago

885 upvotes – 262 comments

The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia

https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/05_the_short_case_for_nvda

2 weeks ago

655 upvotes – 479 comments

OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

https://www.openra.net/

2 weeks ago

654 upvotes – 121 comments

CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/us/politics/cia-covid-lab-leak.html

2 weeks ago

632 upvotes – 795 comments

Every HTML Element

https://iamwillwang.com/dollar/every-html-element/

2 weeks ago

500 upvotes – 132 comments

Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected

https://www.caltrain.com/news/caltrains-electric-fleet-more-efficient-expected

2 weeks ago

340 upvotes – 290 comments

Pixelfed Hit 500K Users

https://fedidb.org/software/pixelfed

2 weeks ago

306 upvotes – 83 comments

An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to boot

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/

2 weeks ago

302 upvotes – 69 comments

File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/11285

2 weeks ago

238 upvotes – 34 comments
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