top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-28

New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs

https://predictors.fail/

2 years ago

1082 upvotes – 350 comments

Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code

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

2 years ago

979 upvotes – 746 comments

Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit

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

2 years ago

767 upvotes – 332 comments

Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]

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

2 years ago

713 upvotes – 525 comments

Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch

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

2 years ago

594 upvotes – 84 comments

Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)

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

2 years ago

509 upvotes – 36 comments

Using uv as your shebang line

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

2 years 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

2 years ago

421 upvotes – 281 comments

Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

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

2 years ago

394 upvotes – 234 comments

Questions censored by DeepSeek

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

2 years ago

384 upvotes – 227 comments

US pauses all federal aid and grants

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

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 72 comments

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

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

2 years ago

272 upvotes – 45 comments

How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?

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

2 years ago

258 upvotes – 68 comments

Maxima in the browser using Embedded Common Lisp on WASM

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

2 years ago

248 upvotes – 53 comments

Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices

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

2 years 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/

2 years 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

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 135 comments

Deferred resignation email to federal employees

https://www.opm.gov/fork

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 151 comments

Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod

https://xyzlabs.substack.com/p/berkeley-researchers-replicate-deepseek

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 66 comments

Departing the New York Times

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music maniacs

https://github.com/Arthi-chaud/Meelo

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 45 comments

US Civil servants are being asked who they voted for in 2024 election

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-civil-service-loyalty-transition-b2678674.html

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 123 comments

Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-said-startups-with-only-usd10-million-were-totally-hopeless-competing-with-openai-deepseeks-disruption-says-otherwise

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 154 comments

In Zig, what's a writer?

https://www.openmymind.net/In-Zig-Whats-a-Writer/

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 73 comments

Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01/cleveland-police-used-ai-to-justify-a-search-warrant-it-has-derailed-a-murder-case.html

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 155 comments

Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)

https://foundationcapital.com/why-openais-157b-valuation-misreads-ais-future/

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 132 comments

Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/the-welcome-screen-may-be-displayed-for-30-seconds-during-the-logon-process-after-you-set-a-solid-color-as-the-desktop-background-in-windows-7-or-in-windows-server-2008-r2-b4565ced-703a-cc85-bf9c-6b3d586d6421

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 117 comments

A 20-year-old small company

https://hacklook.com/posts/20250128-20years/

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: DeepSeek Your HN Profile

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 82 comments

Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the intelligence of large-scale MoE model

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-max/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

Svelte 5 and the Future of Frameworks: A Chat with Rich Harris

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/01/svelte-5-future-frameworks-chat-rich-harris/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 82 comments

Osaka bans smoking on all of its streets, vaping included

https://soranews24.com/2025/01/28/osaka-bans-smoking-on-all-of-its-streets-violators-will-be-fined-by-patrols-vaping-included/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 78 comments

Job trends of HN Who Is Hiring?

https://hnhiring.com/trends

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 89 comments

Reinforcement Learning – A Reference

https://jakubhalmes.substack.com/p/reinforcement-learning-a-reference

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856752

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 136 comments

Old Games Magazines

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/jan/28/video-game-history-foundation-digitised-archive-games-magazines

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 38 comments

Public Access OpenVMS System

https://decuserve.org/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 53 comments

AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint

https://loopbreaker.substack.com/p/ai-but-at-what-cost-breakdown-of

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 162 comments

HD Hyundai set to debut production 14 ton hydrogen wheeled excavator

https://electrek.co/2025/01/27/hd-hyundai-set-to-debut-production-14-ton-hydrogen-wheeled-excavator/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 112 comments

Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/trump-to-impose-25-percent-100-percent-tariffs-on-taiwan-made-chips-impacting-tsmc

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300k to post

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-paying-creators-exclusive-content-deals-reels-contract-details-2025-1

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 104 comments

Can we get the benefits of transitive dependencies without undermining security?

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2024/can_we_retain_the_benefits_of_transitive_dependencies_without_undermining_security.html

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 87 comments

AI and two hundred dollar tasks

https://blog.ninlabs.com/blog/2025-01-27-two-hundred-dollar-tasks/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 84 comments

Hackers crack Subaru's connected services to access data, door locks and more

https://jalopnik.com/hackers-crack-subarus-connected-services-to-access-loca-1851746393

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: To LinkedIn am I just collateral damage of a barely functioning system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852368

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 78 comments

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 55 comments

FCC chair helps ISPs and landlords make deals that renters can't escape

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/fcc-chair-nixes-plan-to-boost-broadband-competition-in-apartment-buildings/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 4 comments

Boom Supersonic to break sound barrier during historic test flight today

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/tech/boom-supersonic-to-break-sound-barrier-during-historic-test-flight-today-watch-live

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 120 comments

A new ability to pinpoint sources of fast radio bursts

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/01/21/astronomers-thought-they-understood-fast-radio-bursts-a-recent-one-calls-that-into-question/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

CA, NY Attorneys General sue to resume federal funding of Medicaid, FEMA, PEPFAR

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-files-lawsuit-seeks-immediate-court-order-block-sweeping

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 55 comments

POTUS Tracker – Executive Orders, Presidential Schedule, Signed Legislation

https://potustracker.us/

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Real-time, river sections downstream of sewage discharges from storm overflows

https://www.sewagemap.co.uk/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

DeepSeek could represent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's worst nightmare

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/deepseek-could-represent-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huangs-worst-nightmare-573b6d7e

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: Design/build of some parametric speaker cabinets with OpenSCAD

https://calbryant.uk/blog/speakers/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

When Greedy Algorithms Can Be Faster [C++]

https://16bpp.net/blog/post/when-greedy-algorithms-can-be-faster/

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

A Missing Link Between Concussion and Alzheimer's

https://nautil.us/a-missing-link-between-concussion-and-alzheimers-1184691/

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

Trump White House orders freeze on federal grants, loans

https://rollcall.com/2025/01/27/trump-white-house-orders-freeze-on-federal-grants-loans/

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

POTUS Tracker – Executive Orders, Presidential Schedule, Signed Legislation

https://potustracker.us/

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 55 comments
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