Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-01-29

  1. Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code simonwillison.net - 589 comments 806 points
  2. New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs predictors.fail - 263 comments 762 points
  3. Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit unsloth.ai - 311 comments 711 points
  4. Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight - video www.youtube.com - 385 comments 519 points
  5. Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 huggingface.co - 225 comments 382 points
  6. Questions censored by DeepSeek www.promptfoo.dev - 195 comments 319 points
  7. Using uv as your shebang line akrabat.com - 104 comments 315 points
  8. IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star www.iac.es - 206 comments 310 points
  9. Goodbye, Slopify alexeystar.com - 233 comments 298 points
  10. FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security www.ftc.gov - 141 comments 274 points
  11. US pauses all federal aid and grants www.bbc.com - 348 comments 247 points
  12. DeepSeek’s multi-head latent attention and other KV cache tricks www.pyspur.dev - 38 comments 225 points
  13. How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture? epoch.ai - 59 comments 224 points
  14. Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices bitwarden.com - 241 comments 217 points
  15. Parkinsons patient “feels cured” with new adaptive deep brain stimulation device www.bbc.com - 23 comments 205 points
  16. Janus Pro 1B running 100% locally in-browser on WebGPU old.reddit.com - 20 comments 204 points
  17. Maxima in the browser using Embedded Common Lisp on WASM maxima-on-wasm.pages.dev - 43 comments 195 points
  18. Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library lithub.com - 79 comments 174 points
  19. Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1’s Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod xyzlabs.substack.com - 66 comments 159 points
  20. Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN www.abc.net.au - 132 comments 154 points
  21. Departing the New York Times contrarian.substack.com - 40 comments 146 points
  22. US Civil servants are being asked who they voted for in 2024 election www.independent.co.uk - 119 comments 141 points
  23. Sam Altman said startups with $10M were ‘hopeless’ competing with OpenAI www.tomshardware.com - 157 comments 138 points
  24. Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case www.cleveland.com - 146 comments 135 points
  25. Deferred resignation email to federal employees www.opm.gov - 80 comments 118 points
  26. Discovery Coding jimmyhmiller.github.io - 34 comments 111 points
  27. Osaka bans smoking on all of its streets, vaping included soranews24.com - 75 comments 109 points
  28. Reinforcement Learning – A Reference jakubhalmes.substack.com - 3 comments 106 points
  29. Show HN: DeepSeek Your HN Profile hn-wrapped.kadoa.com - 76 comments 104 points
  30. Ask HN: Are YC startups actually hiring? news.ycombinator.com - 119 comments 103 points