The best of Hacker News - 2025-04-16

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

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