Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-09
- From: Steve Jobs. “Great idea, thank you.” blog.hayman.net - 226 comments 849 points
- Void: Open-source Cursor alternative github.com - 276 comments 674 points
- My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth www.gatesnotes.com - 572 comments 569 points
- First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV www.cnn.com - 808 comments 516 points
- Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs - screenshots, apps, sites? news.ycombinator.com - 330 comments 419 points
- High tariffs become ‘real’ with our first $36K bill blog.adafruit.com - 349 comments 404 points
- Reservoir Sampling samwho.dev - 71 comments 361 points
- Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants mycoria.org - 114 comments 320 points
- Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference radioandnukes.substack.com - 67 comments 299 points
- Microservices are a tax your startup probably can’t afford nexo.sh - 235 comments 287 points
- Google to back three new nuclear projects www.esgtoday.com - 303 comments 274 points
- Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy github.com - 72 comments 232 points
- Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV catholicreview.org - 2 comments 215 points
- Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria www.fusionenergybase.com - 88 comments 189 points
- Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code ghiculescu.substack.com - 87 comments 170 points
- Trump’s NIH axed research grants even after a judge blocked the cuts www.propublica.org - 127 comments 139 points
- A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code support.anthropic.com - 111 comments 130 points
- My stackoverflow question was closed so here’s a blog post about CoreWCF richardcocks.github.io - 158 comments 110 points
- How to start a school with your friends prigoose.substack.com - 41 comments 103 points
- Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context github.com - 36 comments 98 points
- More people are getting tattoos removed www.gq.com - 160 comments 96 points
- Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk news.artnet.com - 88 comments 96 points
- Static as a Server overreacted.io - 68 comments 95 points
- Starlink User Terminal Teardown www.darknavy.org - 16 comments 95 points
- Stability by Design potetm.com - 32 comments 93 points
- How the US built 5k ships in WWII www.construction-physics.com - 64 comments 86 points
- A Formal Analysis of Apple’s iMessage PQ3 Protocol - pdf www.usenix.org - 52 comments 84 points
- Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire www.scmp.com - 58 comments 83 points
- Why do LLMs have emergent properties? www.johndcook.com - 94 comments 71 points
- Uber’s Shower Gate Scandal www.teamblind.com - 18 comments 65 points
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