Jan 26, 2025 | DeepSeek-R1 enhances LLM reasoning with RL; Steam Brick offers minimalistic design; CIA supports lab leak theory for Covid origins

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 26, 2025.DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RLhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823568Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB porthttps://crastinator-pro.github.io/steam-brick/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825441CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's originshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/us/politics/cia-covid-lab-leak.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823385OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern erahttps://www.openra.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823667Every HTML Elementhttps://iamwillwang.com/dollar/every-html-element/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823722How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?https://subwaysheds.com/#11.27/40.7427/-73.9869https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810293An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to boothttps://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42824562Open Heart Protocolhttps://openheart.fyi/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791378The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)https://www.historynet.com/maj-buang-lys-daring-feat-to-save-his-family/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42826536Show HN: I built a DIY plane spotting system at homehttps://pilane.obviy.us/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42821457