The best of Hacker News - May 9, 2025

1.
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

826 points

2.
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative

657 points

3.
Reservoir Sampling

343 points

4.
Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria

181 points

5.
When Abandoned Mines Collapse

162 points

6.
A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

117 points

7.
Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context

92 points

8.
A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf]

78 points

9.
Starlink User Terminal Teardown

75 points

10.
Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange

59 points

11.
Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

56 points

12.
Finding a Bug in Chromium

32 points

13.
eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6

25 points

14.
Usenix ATC Announcement

22 points

15.
Cogentcore: Open-source framework for building multi-platform apps with Go

20 points

16.
Dead Reckoning

19 points

17.
Show HN: Test your typing speed and accuracy with movie scripts

17 points

18.
Hill or High Water

16 points

19.
Lego built full-size F1 cars for the Miami GP drivers' parade

15 points

20.
For better or for worse, the overload (2024)

6 points

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