Hacker Newsroom for 25 May: DeepSeek Reasonix, Debian Writerdeck, Early DOS Source, Wake Up 16b

Hacker Newsroom for 25 May recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through deepseek reasonix, debian writerdeck, early dos source, wake up 16b. 1. DeepSeek Reasonix The next story is DeepSeek Reasonix, a DeepSeek-native coding agent for the terminal whose pitch is that better prefix stability and caching can make agentic coding much cheaper. The project page is minimal, but the linked documentation and discussion frame it as an opinionated harness that tries to preserve exact request prefixes so DeepSeek cache hits stay high over long sessions. Story link Hacker News discussion 2. Debian Writerdeck The next story is about turning an old laptop into a console-only Debian writerdeck, and the post argues that removing the desktop entirely can make a writing machine calmer, cheaper, and more intentional. The article walks through a text-only setup built around Debian, network-manager, kmscon, tmux, neovim, vimwiki, and syncthing, with the point being that a dedicated device can break normal browser and multitasking habits. Story link Hacker News discussion 3. Early DOS Source The next story is Microsoft open-sourcing what Ars Technica calls the earliest DOS source code discovered to date, and the article says the release predates the MS-DOS name and had to be reconstructed from old paper printouts by preservationists. That makes it less about shipping useful software and more about saving a missing piece of PC history, especially because the team had to OCR, clean up, and transcribe code that had not survived in an easy digital form. Story link Hacker News discussion 4. Wake Up 16b The next story is about HellMood's Wake up! 16b, a 16-byte DOS intro that manages to generate both visuals and sound, and the writeup is basically a guided tour through absurdly dense sizecoding tricks. Story link Hacker News discussion 5. AI Chip Memory The next story is from Epoch AI, which says high-bandwidth memory now makes up about 63 percent of AI chip component costs, up from roughly 52 percent in early 2024, shifting more of the AI hardware bill toward memory rather than logic. The article frames that as a supply-chain and economics story: total AI chip spending is rising fast, but a growing share of that spend is being soaked up by HBM stacks. Story link Hacker News discussion 6. Vivado Linux Drop The next story is a discussion sparked by an AMD support thread suggesting that Vivado 2026. 1 will drop Linux support from the free Basic tier while keeping Windows available, which would hit students, hobbyists, and smaller FPGA users hardest. Story link Hacker News discussion That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.