Jan 29, 2025 | DeepSeek R1 shows promise, new speculative attacks on Apple CPUs, and Boom XB-1 completes first supersonic flight

Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 29, 2025.

Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/llamacpp-pr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852866

New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs
https://predictors.fail/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856023

Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qisIViAHwI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853633

Using uv as your shebang line
https://akrabat.com/using-uv-as-your-shebang-line/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42855258

IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-confirms-existence-super-earth-habitable-zone-sun-star
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853174

DeepSeek's multi-head latent attention and other KV cache tricks
https://www.pyspur.dev/blog/multi-head-latent-attention-kv-cache-paper-list
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42858741

Parkinsons patient "feels cured" with new adaptive deep brain stimulation device
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn49r069wo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857293

Maxima in the browser using Embedded Common Lisp on WASM
https://maxima-on-wasm.pages.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853528

What's OAuth2, anyway?
https://www.romaglushko.com/blog/whats-aouth2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829149

Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library
https://lithub.com/its-official-research-has-found-that-libraries-make-everything-better/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42860240