HN 500

Stories from Hacker News that reach 500 points. Tracking all stories posted after 2017-01-01.

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Sept. 18, 2025

12:17 p.m.
KDE is now my favorite desktop (comments)
11:04 a.m.
Nvidia buys $5B in Intel (comments)
2:18 a.m.
Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it (comments)
1:37 a.m.
Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year (comments)
12:30 a.m.
Meta Ray-Ban Display (comments)

Sept. 17, 2025

11 p.m.
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair (comments)
6:16 p.m.
WASM 3.0 Completed (comments)
11:07 a.m.
Apple Photos App Corrupts Images (comments)
3:54 a.m.
GNU Midnight Commander (comments)

Sept. 16, 2025

6:12 p.m.
Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out (comments)
4:38 p.m.
Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO (comments)
2:35 p.m.
Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024) (comments)
12:10 p.m.
FBI couldn't get my husband to decrypt his Tor node so he was jailed for 3 years (comments)
11:22 a.m.
Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised (comments)
8:24 a.m.
Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza (comments)
3:05 a.m.
"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces (comments)
12:33 a.m.
Linux phones are more important now than ever (comments)
12:20 a.m.
I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers (comments)

Sept. 15, 2025

5:53 p.m.
Hosting a website on a disposable vape (comments)
5:46 p.m.
React is winning by default and slowing innovation (comments)
5:16 p.m.
macOS Tahoe (comments)
4:28 p.m.
Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link (comments)
1:13 p.m.
Hosting a website on a disposable vape (comments)

Sept. 14, 2025

9:54 p.m.
Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes (comments)
7:15 p.m.
ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway (comments)
11:37 a.m.
Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults (comments)
7 a.m.
Models of European Metro Stations (comments)

Sept. 13, 2025

11:50 p.m.
Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall (comments)
12:02 p.m.
A store that generates products from anything you type in search (comments)

Sept. 12, 2025

6:30 p.m.
UTF-8 is a brilliant design (comments)
6:18 p.m.
EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy (comments)
4:57 p.m.
QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system (comments)
4:13 p.m.
Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens (comments)
2:44 p.m.
Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems (comments)
12:10 p.m.
The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody (comments)
6:32 a.m.
Qwen3-Next (comments)

Sept. 11, 2025

11:45 p.m.
Why our website looks like an operating system (comments)
8:35 p.m.
Nano Banana image examples (comments)
8:59 a.m.
Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured (comments)
1:27 a.m.
Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal (comments)

Sept. 10, 2025

10:01 p.m.
You’re a slow thinker. Now what? (comments)
9:49 p.m.
KDE launches its own distribution (comments)
7:02 p.m.
Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah (comments)
4:20 p.m.
I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens (comments)
4:04 p.m.
ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access (comments)
10:08 a.m.
Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone" (comments)
2:59 a.m.
I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory (comments)

Sept. 9, 2025

6:25 p.m.
Memory Integrity Enforcement (comments)
6:12 p.m.
iPhone Air (comments)
5:57 p.m.
E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens (comments)
4:27 p.m.
ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones (comments)
3:11 p.m.
We all dodged a bullet (comments)
2:45 p.m.
US High school students' scores fall in reading and math (comments)
2:25 p.m.
Claude now has access to a server-side container environment (comments)
2:25 p.m.
New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care (comments)
1:16 p.m.
Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal (comments)
6:10 a.m.
Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML (comments)
1:09 a.m.
No adblocker detected (comments)

Sept. 8, 2025

8:07 p.m.
Chat Control Must Be Stopped (comments)
5:33 p.m.
iPhone dumbphone (comments)
4:43 p.m.
Signal Secure Backups (comments)
3:37 p.m.
NPM debug and chalk packages compromised (comments)
12:59 p.m.
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say (comments)
11:24 a.m.
14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal (comments)
7:58 a.m.
Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management (comments)

Sept. 7, 2025

11:53 p.m.
Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver (comments)
3:20 p.m.
The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge (comments)
11 a.m.
Serverless Horrors (comments)
1:44 a.m.
Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio (comments)

Sept. 6, 2025

1:52 p.m.
AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time (comments)
1:20 p.m.
996 (comments)

Sept. 5, 2025

11:23 p.m.
Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy (comments)
7:52 p.m.
Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors (comments)
2:34 p.m.
Purposeful animations (comments)
12:36 p.m.
I'm absolutely right (comments)
11:56 a.m.
I Ditched Docker for Podman (and You Should Too) (comments)
12:55 a.m.
Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector (comments)

Sept. 4, 2025

6:06 p.m.
LLM Visualization (comments)
4:32 p.m.
Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo (comments)
3:30 p.m.
Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks (comments)
12:29 p.m.
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself (comments)
12:12 p.m.
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company (comments)
5:56 a.m.
30 minutes with a stranger (comments)

Sept. 3, 2025

9:18 p.m.
Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up (comments)
3:07 p.m.
Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed (comments)
12:06 p.m.
MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline (comments)

Sept. 2, 2025

11:10 p.m.
The maths you need to start understanding LLMs (comments)
8:26 p.m.
Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts (comments)
7:34 p.m.
A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code (comments)
5:14 p.m.
We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that (comments)
4:04 p.m.
Anthropic raises $13B Series F (comments)
6:57 a.m.
Next.js Is Infuriating (comments)

Sept. 1, 2025

6:47 p.m.
Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect (comments)
2:27 p.m.
Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me (comments)
1:17 p.m.
Bear is now source-available (comments)

Aug. 31, 2025

9:46 p.m.
We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own (comments)
7:04 p.m.
Eternal Struggle (comments)
1:49 p.m.
Notes on Managing ADHD (comments)
12:44 p.m.
Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video] (comments)
12:39 p.m.
“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone” (comments)