Hacker News on Monday, 20 January 2025

DeepSeek-R1(github.com)

1582 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 585 comments

GitHub repository for DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek's open reasoning language model, with the paper PDF, figures, README, and MIT license.

I Met Paul Graham Once(okayfail.com)

886 points by DamonHD 1 year ago | 547 comments

Personal essay by Phill Mendonça-Vieira recounting meeting Paul Graham at Y Combinator in 2015 and reflecting on feeling unsupported as a queer person in tech.

Mixxx: GPL DJ Software(mixxx.org)

597 points by brudgers 1 year ago | 124 comments

Homepage of Mixxx, a free and open source DJ software for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect(wiki.rossmanngroup.com)

497 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 314 comments

A Consumer Action Taskforce wiki guide describing how to reverse engineer Bambu Lab's Electron-based Bambu Connect app, part of its authorization control system coverage.

I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts(blog.rongarret.info)

491 points by lisper 1 year ago | 281 comments

Blog post by Ron Garret on Rondam Ramblings reflecting on lessons learned from six and a half failed startup attempts.

Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat(ssno.cc)

484 points by deverton 1 year ago | 191 comments

A blog post detailing reverse engineering research into the user-mode anti-cheat in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'(letsnotdothat.com)

383 points by mikhaill 1 year ago | 126 comments

A humorous single-page generator that serves up diplomatic phrases product managers can use to say no, with buttons to get another option or copy it.

Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car(neilzone.co.uk)

369 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 208 comments

A blog post describing how to use a 9eSIM physical SIM card to provision and switch eSIMs on devices with only a physical SIM slot, using Android and Linux.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

353 points by proberts 1 year ago | 360 comments

Hacker News AMA thread with immigration attorney Peter Roberts on U.S. immigration law for startups, focusing on the new administration's policy impact.

I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again(ninkovic.dev)

282 points by nemwiz 1 year ago | 206 comments

Moving on from React, a year later(kellysutton.com)

267 points by yakshaving_jgt 1 year ago | 169 comments

Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow(cnbc.com)

224 points by marban 1 year ago | 367 comments

Official DeepSeek R1 Now on Ollama(ollama.com)

204 points by excerionsforte 1 year ago | 72 comments

Celestial Navigation for Drones(mdpi.com)

202 points by throw0101b 1 year ago | 117 comments

ROCm Device Support Wishlist(github.com)

198 points by pella 1 year ago | 153 comments

Zork: The Great Inner Workings (2020)(medium.com)

188 points by gus_leonel 1 year ago | 63 comments

Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms(cefboud.github.io)

168 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 34 comments

TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives(2ality.com)

153 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 120 comments

What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?(unix.stackexchange.com)

152 points by josephcsible 1 year ago | 102 comments

Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from?(grossack.site)

149 points by mathgenius 1 year ago | 46 comments

Parinfer: Simpler Lisp Editing(shaunlebron.github.io)

143 points by harperlee 1 year ago | 22 comments

Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (kind of) for vocabulary building(github.com)

142 points by arbayi 1 year ago | 39 comments

Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe(torrentfreak.com)

126 points by miki123211 1 year ago | 136 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?

124 points by 101008 1 year ago | 64 comments

Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends(bbc.com)

114 points by krylon 1 year ago | 60 comments

Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article(danielwirtz.com)

110 points by wirtzdan 1 year ago | 34 comments

Matt Mullenweg, Automattic's CEO, Seems Bound and Determined to Wreck WordPress(digitalcxo.com)

98 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 38 comments

The Selma March (1965)(newyorker.com)

83 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 15 comments

A Proper x86 Assembler in Haskell Using the Escardó-Oliva Functional(blog.vmchale.com)

77 points by Smaug123 1 year ago | 18 comments

Kronotop: Redis-compatible, transactional document store backed by FoundationDB(github.com)

73 points by mastabadtomm 1 year ago | 20 comments

The importance of favicons in website OSINT research(osintme.com)

68 points by osintme 1 year ago | 22 comments

Two Hard Things (2009)(martinfowler.com)

66 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 19 comments

The Making of Community Notes (2024)(asteriskmag.com)

62 points by chambers 1 year ago | 14 comments

YC X25, the spring 2025 batch(ycombinator.com)

61 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 37 comments

Migrating Away from Bcachefs(blog.sesse.net)

58 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 39 comments

Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update(blog.bambulab.com)

54 points by reimertz 1 year ago | 61 comments

The quiet rebellion of a little life(caitlynrichardson.substack.com)

54 points by durmonski 1 year ago | 58 comments

Ask HN: Seeking an IPL-V Interpreter

49 points by abrax3141 1 year ago | 10 comments

The testing pyramid is an outdated economic model(wiremock.io)

47 points by hackeruse 1 year ago | 32 comments

How to solve computational science problems with AI: PINNs(mertkavi.com)

45 points by mertkavi 1 year ago | 17 comments

CFRS[] Community Demos: Patterns drawn with turtle graphics with 6 commands(susam.github.io)

41 points by susam 1 year ago | 0 comments

The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone(theguardian.com)

41 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 3 comments

Frustration Tolerance: An Essential for Surviving Large Orgs(leadingsapiens.com)

38 points by sherilm 1 year ago | 27 comments

Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Scrubbed After Delta Air Flies into Restricted Airspace(paddleyourownkanoo.com)

37 points by fenced_load 1 year ago | 26 comments

The deeper under the Earth's surface, the more species you can find(arstechnica.com)

37 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 14 comments

Unconventional Adventures(quarter--mile.com)

36 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 8 comments

An astronomical view of Ancient Egyptian star clocks (2021)(storymaps.arcgis.com)

34 points by SiempreViernes 1 year ago | 11 comments

The real motivation behind systemd (2018)(unixdigest.com)

33 points by sharpshadow 1 year ago | 11 comments

Google serving sponsored link to Homebrew site clone with malware(twitter.com)

32 points by carlos-menezes 1 year ago | 6 comments

2,100-year-old Alexander the Great mosaic analyzed for restoration(phys.org)

32 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 7 comments

Flag drawing with Turtle(jtanx.github.io)

31 points by grokx 1 year ago | 6 comments

After Authenticity (2018)(subpixel.space)

29 points by antoviaque 1 year ago | 7 comments

Bambu Connect's Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted(hackaday.com)

28 points by nejsjsjsbsb 1 year ago | 10 comments

Viagra-laced 'erectile honey' is flooding into France, officials warn(politico.eu)

27 points by mschuster91 1 year ago | 13 comments

Do any languages specify package requirements in import / include statements?

26 points by foobarbecue 1 year ago | 67 comments

Don't use Session – Round 2(soatok.blog)

26 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 5 comments

I wrote a commercial game in C in 2025(cowleyforniastudios.com)

25 points by steeleduncan 1 year ago | 2 comments

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks(huggingface.co)

24 points by BUFU 1 year ago | 6 comments

Doom ported to Microsoft Word document(github.com)

22 points by kjhughes 1 year ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Race Timing with Integrated Replay(storytiming.racing)

21 points by ephaeton 1 year ago | 2 comments