top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-01-29

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us

https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

2 years ago

I still like Sublime Text

https://ohdoylerules.com/workflows/why-i-still-like-sublime-text-in-2025/

2 years ago

Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2ntx91cOYEc

2 years ago

OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6

2 years ago

An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1

https://arcprize.org/blog/r1-zero-r1-results-analysis

2 years ago

Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history

https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepseek-database-leak

2 years ago

Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2024%20YR4

2 years ago

Why DeepSeek had to be open source

https://www.getlago.com/blog/deepseek-open-source

2 years ago

Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/bacteria-and-their-metabolites-and-depression

2 years ago

SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch

https://github.com/Om-Alve/smolGPT

2 years ago

I do not want AI to "polish" me

https://thebloggess.com/2025/01/28/no-i-do-not-want-ai-to-polish-me/

2 years ago

Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/german-seagate-customers-say-their-new-hard-drives-were-actually-used-resold-hdds-reportedly-used-for-tens-of-thousands-of-hours

2 years ago

"We're building a new static type checker for Python"

https://twitter.com/charliermarsh/status/1884651482009477368

2 years ago

Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/start-a-blog

2 years ago

Goodbye, Slopify

https://alexeystar.com/blog/slopify/

2 years ago

Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-pixel-4as-old-firmware-is-gone-trapping-users-on-the-buggy-battery-update

2 years ago

Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows

https://geyer.dev/blog/windows-flag-emojis/

2 years ago

From C++ to Clojure: Jank language promises best of both

https://thenewstack.io/from-c-to-clojure-new-language-promises-best-of-both/

2 years ago

Discovery Coding

https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/discovery-coding

2 years ago

Complete hardware and software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally

https://twitter.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

2 years ago

A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/pg_upgrade

2 years ago

Our phones are killing our ability to feel sexy (2024)

https://catherineshannon.substack.com/p/your-phone-is-why-you-dont-feel-sexy

2 years ago

Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-29/apple-and-spacex-link-up-to-support-starlink-satellite-network-on-iphones

2 years ago

Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/how-adding-iodine-to-salt-boosted-americans-iq

2 years ago

Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library

https://lithub.com/its-official-research-has-found-that-libraries-make-everything-better/

2 years ago

Making the video that made Gorillaz

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/making-the-video-that-made-gorillaz

2 years ago

Airflow – Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices

https://airflow.app/

2 years ago

Soviet Shoe Factory Principle

https://wiki.c2.com/?SovietShoeFactoryPrinciple

2 years ago

Jevons paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

2 years ago

Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust

https://www.chriis.dev/opinion/parsing-pdfs-in-elixir-using-rust

2 years ago

We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/WellPreparedPhishSpammer

2 years ago

Cali's AG Tells AI Companies Almost Everything They're Doing Might Be Illegal

https://gizmodo.com/californias-ag-tells-ai-companies-practically-everything-theyre-doing-might-be-illegal-2000555896

2 years ago

Case Study: ByteDance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance

https://ebpf.foundation/case-study-bytedance-uses-ebpf-to-enhance-networking-performance/

2 years ago

Dead Games

https://garry.net/posts/dead-games

2 years ago

No Man's Sky's update introduces billions of new stars, planets, and more

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/01/29/no-mans-skys-latest-update-introduces-billions-of-new-stars-planets-and-more-today/

2 years ago

Intel doesn't know how to be a foundry, Tim Cook reportedly said in 2011

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-founder-says-tim-cook-told-him-intel-did-not-know-how-to-be-a-foundry

2 years ago

On DeepSeek and export controls

https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls

2 years ago

A story about restoring and upgrading a Commodore Amiga 1000

https://celso.io/posts/2025/01/26/the-first-perfect-computer/

2 years ago

LMD: A new, less wasteful metal 3D printing technique

https://www.core77.com/posts/135194/LMD-A-New-Less-Wasteful-Metal-3D-Printing-Technique

2 years ago

An update on Dart macros and data serialization

https://medium.com/dartlang/an-update-on-dart-macros-data-serialization-06d3037d4f12

2 years ago

Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/alphabets-waymo-test-its-autonomous-driving-technology-over-10-new-cities-2025-01-29/

2 years ago

Auto-Differentiating Any LLM Workflow: A Farewell to Manual Prompting

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16673

2 years ago

DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses PTX

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/deepseeks-ai-breakthrough-bypasses-industry-standard-cuda-uses-assembly-like-ptx-programming-instead

2 years ago

Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl

https://fuzzix.org/enhancing-midi-hardware-with-perl

2 years ago

Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-29/microsoft-probing-if-deepseek-linked-group-improperly-obtained-openai-data

2 years ago

Show HN: Distr – open-source distribution platform for on-prem deployments

https://github.com/glasskube/distr

2 years ago

DeepSeek R1 Is Now Available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deepseek-r1-is-now-available-on-azure-ai-foundry-and-github/

2 years ago

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter

https://micronews.debian.org/2025/1738154246.html

2 years ago

DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss

https://www.hirundo.io/blog/deepseek-r1-debiased

2 years ago

Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113910070146861518

2 years ago

AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/astroforge-selects-target-for-high-risk-seat-of-the-pants-asteroid-mission/

2 years ago

Nuclear fusion: it's time for a reality check

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/22/nuclear-fusion-its-time-for-a-reality-check

2 years ago

What have we forgotten?

http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/291

2 years ago

Keymapper: A cross-platform context-aware key remapper

https://github.com/houmain/keymapper

2 years ago

DeepSeek R1 671B running on 2 M2 Ultras faster than reading speed

https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1881412271236346233

2 years ago

Adding concurrent read/write to DuckDB with Arrow Flight

https://www.definite.app/blog/duck-takes-flight

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI Platform, for Local Models

https://github.com/transformerlab/transformerlab-app

2 years ago

I'm semi homeless and Google's forced update on the Pixel 4a ruined it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871613

2 years ago

Society for Technical Communication to permanently close its doors

https://www.stc.org/

2 years ago

How to run DeepSeek R1 locally

https://workos.com/blog/how-to-run-deepseek-r1-locally

2 years ago