The best of Hacker News - 2025-04-14

1.
Open guide to equity compensation

395 points

2.
Googler... ex-Googler

382 points

3.
Everything wrong with MCP

160 points

4.
Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

130 points

5.
Math 13 – An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics [pdf]

128 points

6.
Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch

106 points

7.
Writing Cursor rules with a Cursor rule

84 points

8.
Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

80 points

9.
NoProp: Training neural networks without back-propagation or forward-propagation

79 points

10.
PHP Core Security Audit Results

76 points

11.
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex

58 points

12.
Transformer Lab

57 points

13.
Show HN: Resurrecting Infocom's Unix Z-Machine with Cosmopolitan

54 points

14.
New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents

47 points

15.
Calypso: LLMs as Dungeon Masters' Assistants [pdf]

43 points

16.
Mario Vargas Llosa has died

31 points

17.
Wiz's $32B GTM Playbook

31 points

18.
Neutrinos' maximum possible mass shrinks further

28 points

19.
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less

23 points

20.
Organised gangs behind rise in QR 'quishing' scams

6 points

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