top 50% 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

Why Northern England is poor

https://tomforth.co.uk/whynorthenglandispoor/

2 years ago

You could have invented Fenwick trees

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming/article/you-could-have-invented-fenwick-trees/B4628279D4E54229CED97249E96F721D

2 years ago

Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks

https://www.psypost.org/men-lose-half-their-emotional-support-networks-between-30-and-90-decades-long-study-finds/

2 years ago

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/ai_developer_devin_poor_reviews/

2 years ago

Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting

https://careers.arsenal.com/jobs/5434108-research-engineer

2 years ago

Immutability Changes Everything (2016) [pdf]

https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper16.pdf

2 years ago

Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home's front walkway

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/science/meteorite-strike-doorbell-camera/index.html

2 years ago

DOGE Takeover of USDS Allows Them to Surveil the US Government from the Inside

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk/

2 years ago

Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3B in X loans next week

https://www.reuters.com/technology/wall-street-banks-set-sell-billions-dollars-x-loans-wsj-reports-2025-01-24/

2 years ago

Sony ends production of Blu-ray Disc, recordable MiniDisc, and MiniDV media

https://www.sony.jp/rec-media/info2/20250123.html

2 years ago

Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/texas-enforcing-its-state-data-privacy-law-so-should-other-states

2 years ago

Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact

https://www.seangoedecke.com/party-tricks/

2 years ago

To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world's grids

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/01/23/to-make-electricity-cheaper-and-greener-connect-the-worlds-grids

2 years ago

Using AI to develop a fuller model of the human brain

https://magazine.ucsf.edu/building-a-silicon-brain

2 years ago

Feeling Targeted: Executive Order Ending Wasteful DEIA Efforts

https://hartmans.dreamwidth.org/101412.html

2 years ago

Deadly and Imminent; The Pentagon's Mad Dash for Silicon Valley's AI Weapons

https://www.citizen.org/article/deadly-and-imminent-report/

2 years ago

OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web

https://brids.bearblog.dev/openai-just-put-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-open-world-wide-web/

2 years ago

Dual-Link QR Code Generator

https://dualqrcode.com/

2 years ago