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1.
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL (arxiv.org)
1351 points by gradus_ad 12 days ago | 1055 comments
2.
OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era (openra.net)
656 points by tosh 12 days ago | 122 comments
3.
Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port (crastinator-pro.github.io)
885 points by sbarre 11 days ago | 262 comments
4.
Every HTML Element (iamwillwang.com)
501 points by wxw 12 days ago | 132 comments
5.
How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC? (subwaysheds.com)
328 points by jxmorris12 13 days ago | 202 comments
6.
An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to boot (downtowndougbrown.com)
303 points by todsacerdoti 11 days ago | 69 comments
7.
Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama (widloski.com)
318 points by Evidlo 15 days ago | 126 comments
8.
Life lessons from the first half-century of my career (acm.org)
419 points by zdw 15 days ago | 160 comments
9.
Open Heart Protocol (openheart.fyi)
231 points by thunderbong 15 days ago | 100 comments
10.
CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins (nytimes.com)
632 points by doctaj 12 days ago | 798 comments
11.
Searching for DeepSeek's glitch tokens (outsidetext.substack.com)
204 points by arithmoquine 11 days ago | 47 comments
12.
Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns (wikenigma.org.uk)
193 points by jgamman 11 days ago | 43 comments
13.
A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation (github.com/spinalhdl)
121 points by _benj 15 days ago | 54 comments
14.
File Explorer is merged to Helix editor (github.com/helix-editor)
238 points by manusachi 12 days ago | 34 comments
15.
You probably don't need query builders (mattrighetti.com)
151 points by mattrighetti 16 days ago | 152 comments
16.
OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames (suveenellawela.com)
234 points by suveen_ellawela 15 days ago | 129 comments
17.
Show HN: I built a DIY plane spotting system at home (obviy.us)
207 points by obviyus 12 days ago | 83 comments
18.
Using AI to develop a fuller model of the human brain (ucsf.edu)
87 points by geox 11 days ago | 36 comments
19.
Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief (washingtonpost.com)
148 points by pseudolus 15 days ago | 82 comments
20.
Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos
222 points by nomad86 16 days ago | 124 comments
21.
TinyZero: Reproduction of DeepSeek R1 Zero in countdown and multiplication tasks (github.com/jiayi-pan)
226 points by fzliu 12 days ago | 27 comments
22.
Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected (caltrain.com)
340 points by ssuds 12 days ago | 290 comments
23.
The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App (byroot.github.io)
227 points by thunderbong 12 days ago | 70 comments
24.
Immutability Changes Everything (2016) [pdf] (cidrdb.org)
118 points by fire_lake 11 days ago | 42 comments
25.
You could have invented Fenwick trees (cambridge.org)
131 points by matt_d 12 days ago | 28 comments
26.
Pixelfed Hit 500K Users (fedidb.org)
306 points by doener 12 days ago | 83 comments
27.
The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job (kranga.notion.site)
550 points by Andugal 15 days ago | 434 comments
28.
Chatbox: Cross-platform desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs (github.com/bin-huang)
110 points by thunderbong 15 days ago | 23 comments
29.
An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (2016) (ruder.io)
135 points by skidrow 14 days ago | 26 comments
30.
Fault Tolerance in Tandem Computer Systems (1986) [pdf] (jimgray.azurewebsites.net)
61 points by sillywalk 11 days ago | 35 comments

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