Hacker News recap for week 4/2025

From 20/1/2025 to 26/1/2025

Articles #

• Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon 2209 comments in 1 discussion

• Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers 1537 comments in 1 discussion

• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL 1017 comments in 2 discussions

• CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins 755 comments in 1 discussion

• I Met Paul Graham Once 748 comments in 1 discussion

• It's not a crime if we do it with an app 549 comments in 1 discussion

• No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024) 568 comments in 2 discussions

• Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow 465 comments in 1 discussion

• People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research 455 comments in 1 discussion

• Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion 617 comments in 3 discussions

• 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms 536 comments in 6 discussions

• The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job 670 comments in 3 discussions

• Operator research preview 419 comments in 2 discussions

• The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia 420 comments in 4 discussions

• Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith 400 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? 379 comments

• Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models? 333 comments

• Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software? 156 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: I'm getting spam on an email address only ever used to sign up to HN 36 comments

• Tell HN: AllTech IT Solutions using scammy AI sales bot 0 comments

Releases #

• Bun 1.2 Released with 90% Node.js Compatibility and Built-In S3 Object Support 4 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• DeepSeek-R1 652 comments in 1 discussion

• Wild – A fast linker for Linux 205 comments in 2 discussions

• Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust 148 comments in 1 discussion

• Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation 140 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad 113 comments in 1 discussion

• Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion 102 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker 86 comments in 1 discussion

• Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables 172 comments in 5 discussions

• Edge TTS 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (kind of) for vocabulary building 64 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Elon Gives Nazi Salute During Inauguration Speech 29 comments in 1 discussion

• Ask HN: Is this too political for Hacker News? [video] 66 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: SupGen, an model-free program synthesizer by examples / dependent types 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Using aerospace projects to teach maths [video] 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode – Out Now – Official Release Trailer [video] 4 comments in 1 discussion

• New Model Y – Tesla 3 comments in 1 discussion

• LEP Flashlights are INSANE [video] 3 comments in 1 discussion