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5.9.25 | Steve Jobs praises idea, Open-source Cursor alternative, First American pope named Pope Leo XIV
May 09, 2025 · 11 min
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2025.

From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724

Void: Open-source Cursor alternativehttps://github.com/voideditor/voidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927926

First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIVhttps://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/new-pope-conclave-day-two-05-08-25https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927856

Reservoir Samplinghttps://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928315

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Legohttps://avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933891

Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteriahttps://www.fusionenergybase.com/articles/continuing-progress-toward-fusion-energy-breakeven-and-gain-as-measured-against-the-lawson-criteriahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927337

When Abandoned Mines Collapsehttps://practical.engineering/blog/2025/5/6/when-abandoned-mines-collapsehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908261

A flat pricing subscription for Claude Codehttps://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-planhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931409

Starlink User Terminal Teardownhttps://www.darknavy.org/blog/a_first_glimpse_of_the_starlink_user_ternimal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933452

How to start a school with your friendshttps://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-start-a-universityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43930397