HN 500

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

All times are in UTC. New posts are checked every 15 minutes. JSON feed.

July 4, 2025

9:58 p.m.
Nvidia is full of shit (comments)
9:11 p.m.
Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (comments)
4:48 a.m.
The Rise of Whatever (comments)
2:04 a.m.
My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (comments)

July 3, 2025

3:03 p.m.
Introducing tmux-rs (comments)

July 2, 2025

9:10 p.m.
Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (comments)
2:06 p.m.
Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) (comments)
1:40 p.m.
Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase (comments)
11:39 a.m.
Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) (comments)

July 1, 2025

7:39 p.m.
Figma files for proposed IPO (comments)
4:22 p.m.
The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million (comments)
10:20 a.m.
Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots (comments)
1:43 a.m.
Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck (comments)

June 30, 2025

8:53 p.m.
The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering (comments)
7:03 p.m.
Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion (comments)
5:58 p.m.
Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers (comments)

June 29, 2025

1:55 p.m.
I made my VM think it has a CPU fan (comments)
7:45 a.m.
More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad (comments)

June 28, 2025

6:52 p.m.
JavaScript Trademark Update (comments)
2:45 p.m.
Engineered Addictions (comments)
2:22 p.m.
MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System (comments)
11:49 a.m.
I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric (comments)
7:36 a.m.
IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites (comments)
5:27 a.m.
I deleted my second brain (comments)
12:08 a.m.
Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared (comments)

June 27, 2025

1:06 p.m.
Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights (comments)

June 26, 2025

2:16 p.m.
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome (comments)

June 25, 2025

11:26 p.m.
Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators (comments)
8:01 p.m.
A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up (comments)
7:53 p.m.
-2000 Lines of code (comments)
1:17 p.m.
OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio (comments)
1:10 p.m.
Gemini CLI (comments)
3:54 a.m.
A new PNG spec (comments)
12:13 a.m.
Thnickels (comments)

June 24, 2025

6:41 p.m.
Fun with uv and PEP 723 (comments)
6:21 p.m.
Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme (comments)
3:09 p.m.
Writing toy software is a joy (comments)
1:01 p.m.
A new PNG spec (comments)

June 23, 2025

4:27 p.m.
uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust (comments)
3:41 p.m.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images (comments)
3:14 p.m.
How I use my terminal (comments)
2:37 p.m.
Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto (comments)

June 22, 2025

9:12 p.m.
I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst (comments)
2:56 p.m.
Mechanical Watch: Exploded View (comments)
9:14 a.m.
Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022) (comments)
midnight
U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites (comments)

June 21, 2025

12:06 p.m.
Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague (comments)
3:06 a.m.
Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA (comments)

June 20, 2025

7:51 p.m.
Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly (comments)
5:01 p.m.
YouTube's new anti-adblock measures (comments)
2:57 p.m.
Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix (comments)

June 19, 2025

2:42 a.m.
The Zed Debugger Is Here (comments)
12:33 a.m.
Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] (comments)

June 18, 2025

11:17 p.m.
Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry (comments)
11:11 p.m.
New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles (comments)
12:33 p.m.
Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform (comments)

June 17, 2025

8:24 p.m.
The Grug Brained Developer (2022) (comments)
5:50 p.m.
Building Effective AI Agents (comments)
5:40 p.m.
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers (comments)
3:02 p.m.
Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket (comments)

June 16, 2025

1:38 p.m.
WhatsApp introduces ads in its app (comments)
12:32 p.m.
Working on databases from prison (comments)
7:38 a.m.
Start your own Internet Resiliency Club (comments)

June 15, 2025

2:10 p.m.
Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) (comments)

June 13, 2025

6:03 p.m.
I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it (comments)
8:40 a.m.
If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) (comments)
1:37 a.m.
Jemalloc Postmortem (comments)

June 12, 2025

7:05 p.m.
Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure (comments)
6:11 p.m.
GCP Outage (comments)
4:12 p.m.
US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists (comments)
2:19 p.m.
Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway (comments)
11:41 a.m.
A receipt printer cured my procrastination (comments)

June 11, 2025

9:37 p.m.
Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub (comments)
8:23 p.m.
Chatterbox TTS (comments)
7:44 p.m.
Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole (comments)

June 10, 2025

7:12 p.m.
Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills (comments)
5:41 p.m.
OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80% (comments)
2:08 p.m.
Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (comments)
11:29 a.m.
"Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B (comments)

June 9, 2025

10:21 p.m.
Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests (comments)
8:53 p.m.
Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS (comments)
5:44 p.m.
Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc (comments)
5:09 p.m.
Apple introduces a universal design across platforms (comments)
4:28 p.m.
Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) (comments)
2:06 p.m.
Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user (comments)
5:30 a.m.
How I Program with Agents (comments)
4:38 a.m.
Kagi Reaches 50k Users (comments)

June 8, 2025

7:38 a.m.
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles (comments)

June 7, 2025

4:19 p.m.
Bill Atkinson has died (comments)

June 6, 2025

3:43 p.m.
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes (comments)
3:33 p.m.
Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed (comments)
4:59 a.m.
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (comments)

June 5, 2025

1:40 p.m.
The impossible predicament of the death newts (comments)

June 4, 2025

11:40 p.m.
Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure (comments)
9:47 p.m.
After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs (comments)
8:39 p.m.
Cursor 1.0 (comments)
6:15 p.m.
A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network (comments)
4:16 p.m.
IRS Direct File on GitHub (comments)
3:58 p.m.
FFmpeg merges WebRTC support (comments)
1:30 p.m.
The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (comments)