Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 16, 2025.

Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
https://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43700607

Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691142

Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
https://filiph.github.io/unsure/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690289

4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/april-2025-4chan-sharty-hack-and-janitor-email-leak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691334

How the U.S. became a science superpower
https://steveblank.com/2025/04/15/how-the-u-s-became-a-science-superpower/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692360

Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
https://blog.google/products/gemini/video-generation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695592

Clolog
https://github.com/bobschrag/clolog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695620

Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-math-prodigy-cryptocurrency-enforcement-united-states/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681658

Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness
https://github.com/ubisoft/Chroma
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692089

What is Hacker News Highlights?

Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.