Apr 16, 2025 | Cursor IDE's lockout policy issues, DHS's CVE program contract not renewed, DOGE's potential NLRB data breach

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 16, 2025.Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellationshttps://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contracthttps://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43700607Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB datahttps://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-securityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691142Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculatorhttps://filiph.github.io/unsure/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436902894chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leakhttps://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/april-2025-4chan-sharty-hack-and-janitor-email-leakhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691334How the U.S. became a science superpowerhttps://steveblank.com/2025/04/15/how-the-u-s-became-a-science-superpower/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692360Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2https://blog.google/products/gemini/video-generation/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695592Clologhttps://github.com/bobschrag/clologhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695620Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in cryptohttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-math-prodigy-cryptocurrency-enforcement-united-states/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681658Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindnesshttps://github.com/ubisoft/Chromahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692089