Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 14, 2025.

Googler... ex-Googler
https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658089

Open guide to equity compensation
https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675126

The dark side of the Moomins
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/dark-side-of-the-moomins-tove-jansson
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672593

Why Fennel?
https://fennel-lang.org/rationale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673551

Everything wrong with MCP
https://blog.sshh.io/p/everything-wrong-with-mcp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676771

I bought a Mac
https://loganius.org/2025/04/i-bought-a-mac/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677165

Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports
https://www.signalbloom.ai/news/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675248

Math 13 – An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics [pdf]
https://www.math.uci.edu/~ndonalds/math13/notes.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675310

How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?
https://alexanderell.is/posts/orange/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673761

Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch
https://github.com/policy-gradient/GRPO-Zero
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674825