top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-01-25

DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

https://www.openra.net/

2 years ago

The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

Every HTML Element

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

2 years ago

Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected

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

2 years ago

Pixelfed Hit 500K Users

https://fedidb.org/software/pixelfed

2 years ago

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 years ago

File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

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

2 years ago

The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/01/23/the-mythical-io-bound-rails-app.html

2 years ago

TinyZero: Reproduction of DeepSeek R1 Zero in countdown and multiplication tasks

https://github.com/Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero

2 years ago

Hacker infects 18,000 "script kiddies" with fake malware builder

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-infects-18-000-script-kiddies-with-fake-malware-builder/

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a DIY plane spotting system at home

https://pilane.obviy.us/

2 years ago

Searching for DeepSeek's glitch tokens

https://outsidetext.substack.com/p/anomalous-tokens-in-deepseek-v3-and

2 years ago

Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns

https://wikenigma.org.uk/start

2 years ago

First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)

https://wedistribute.org/2024/11/loops-early-look/

2 years ago

SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

https://sqlook.com

2 years ago

French police free kidnapped Ledger executive

https://moneycheck.com/french-police-free-kidnapped-ledger-executive-after-day-long-ordeal/

2 years ago

Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior (2024)

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

2 years ago