Hacker News Daily Top 10 @2025-01-26

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1. DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
   443 points by gradus_ad 6 hours ago | 376 comments

2. Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
   317 points by ssuds 22 hours ago | 279 comments

3. Pixelfed Hit 500K Users
   259 points by doener 11 hours ago | 64 comments

4. OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
   243 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 51 comments

5. File Explorer is merged to Helix editor
   226 points by manusachi 1 day ago | 32 comments

6. CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
   218 points by doctaj 6 hours ago | 231 comments

7. The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App
   192 points by thunderbong 16 hours ago | 53 comments

8. TinyZero
   191 points by fzliu 21 hours ago | 27 comments

9. Hacker infects 18,000 "script kiddies" with fake malware builder
   184 points by emschwartz 11 hours ago | 70 comments

10. First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)
    180 points by evolve2k 17 hours ago | 123 comments

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