top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-01-28

New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs

https://predictors.fail/

3 months ago

1082 upvotes – 350 comments

Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/llamacpp-pr/

3 months ago

979 upvotes – 746 comments

Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit

https://unsloth.ai/blog/deepseekr1-dynamic

3 months ago

767 upvotes – 332 comments

Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qisIViAHwI

3 months ago

713 upvotes – 526 comments

Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch

https://andrewchilds.com/posts/building-a-t1d-smartwatch-from-scratch

3 months ago

594 upvotes – 84 comments

Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)

https://mlip-cmu.github.io/s2025/

3 months ago

509 upvotes – 36 comments

Using uv as your shebang line

https://akrabat.com/using-uv-as-your-shebang-line/

3 months ago

479 upvotes – 139 comments

IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star

https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-confirms-existence-super-earth-habitable-zone-sun-star

3 months ago

421 upvotes – 281 comments

Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

3 months ago

394 upvotes – 234 comments

Questions censored by DeepSeek

https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/deepseek-censorship/

3 months ago

384 upvotes – 227 comments

US pauses all federal aid and grants

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77rdy6gzy5o

3 months ago

319 upvotes – 485 comments

FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-takes-action-against-godaddy-alleged-lax-data-security-its-website-hosting-services

3 months ago

315 upvotes – 167 comments

DeepSeek's multi-head latent attention and other KV cache tricks

https://www.pyspur.dev/blog/multi-head-latent-attention-kv-cache-paper-list

3 months ago

292 upvotes – 72 comments

Parkinsons patient "feels cured" with new adaptive deep brain stimulation device

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn49r069wo

3 months ago

272 upvotes – 45 comments

How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-has-deepseek-improved-the-transformer-architecture

3 months ago

258 upvotes – 68 comments

Maxima in the browser using Embedded Common Lisp on WASM

https://maxima-on-wasm.pages.dev/

3 months ago

248 upvotes – 53 comments

Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices

https://bitwarden.com/help/new-device-verification/

3 months ago

225 upvotes – 254 comments

Janus Pro 1B running 100% locally in-browser on WebGPU

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ibnso0/janus_pro_1b_running_100_locally_inbrowser_on/

3 months ago

214 upvotes – 22 comments

Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-28/almost-one-in-ten-people-use-the-same-four-digit-pin/103946842

3 months ago

168 upvotes – 135 comments

Deferred resignation email to federal employees

https://www.opm.gov/fork

3 months ago

164 upvotes – 151 comments
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