top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-05-02

Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials

https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/

1 year ago

How to live an intellectually rich life

https://utsavmamoria.substack.com/p/how-to-live-an-intellectually-rich

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics

https://anukari.com

1 year ago

Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

1 year ago

Third party cookies must be removed

https://w3ctag.github.io/web-without-3p-cookies/

1 year ago

The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)

https://massivesci.com/articles/programming-math-language-python-women-in-science/

1 year ago

Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry

https://www.leonarddavid.com/old-soviet-venus-descent-craft-nearing-earth-reentry/

1 year ago

“Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/330114530/fewer-users-warning-hurting-specialized-and-new-apps-need-answers?hl=en

1 year ago

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Statement-Regarding-Executive-Order-Public-Media

1 year ago

Suno v4.5

https://suno.com/explore/

1 year ago

Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China

https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ireland-european-union-data-privacy-regulation-d386ec74becc716905d7f686d6a448e2

1 year ago

Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages

https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/

1 year ago

Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits/

1 year ago

Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

https://www.abdisa.me/

1 year ago

Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/

1 year ago

xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/xai-dev-leaks-api-key-for-private-spacex-tesla-llms/

1 year ago

Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart

https://www.space.com/astronomy/solar-system/evidence-of-controversial-planet-9-uncovered-in-sky-surveys-taken-23-years-apart

1 year ago

Bloom Filters

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/bloom-filters/

1 year ago

Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders

https://github.com/nathan-barry/gpt2-webgl

1 year ago

What I've learned from jj

https://zerowidth.com/2025/what-ive-learned-from-jj/

1 year ago