The best of Hacker News - April 16, 2025

1.
Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations

1006 points

2.
CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract

727 points

3.
Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator

525 points

4.
4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

513 points

5.
How the U.S. became a science superpower

318 points

6.
Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2

279 points

7.
Clolog

216 points

8.
Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto

206 points

9.
Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review

187 points

10.
OpenAI is building a social network?

176 points

11.
Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language

158 points

12.
JSX over the Wire

156 points

13.
A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed

122 points

14.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All the Bullshit (2015)

79 points

15.
A protein folding mystery solved: Study explains core packing fractions

34 points

16.
Archeology of React (2016)

25 points

17.
100th Anniversary of the Great Gatsby: The Chicago Connection

12 points

18.
Significant performance improvements with Edge 134

10 points

19.
Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author

5 points

20.
Flexport (YC W14) is hiring software engineers

1 points

Previous
Next