HN 500

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

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July 17, 2025

5:01 p.m.

ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action (comments)

3 p.m.

Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat (comments)

July 16, 2025

4:48 p.m.

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction (comments)

10:37 a.m.

Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA (comments)

8:18 a.m.

Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer (comments)

3:44 a.m.

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 (comments)

July 15, 2025

4:49 p.m.

Reflections on OpenAI (comments)

3:46 p.m.

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL (comments)

2:51 p.m.

Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?" (comments)

4:35 a.m.

LLM Inevitabilism (comments)

July 14, 2025

9:40 p.m.

Apple's MLX adding CUDA support (comments)

4:02 p.m.

Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE (comments)

4 p.m.

Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds (comments)

2:24 p.m.

Kiro: A new agentic IDE (comments)

7:27 a.m.

Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA (comments)

July 13, 2025

6:44 p.m.

Happy 20th Birthday, Django (comments)

2:09 p.m.

How does a screen work? (comments)

8:38 a.m.

Let me pay for Firefox (comments)

July 12, 2025

7:06 p.m.

Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update (comments)

6:14 p.m.

Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online (comments)

8:45 a.m.

MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today (comments)

July 11, 2025

9:35 p.m.

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google (comments)

6:45 p.m.

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure (comments)

11:56 a.m.

At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says (comments)

12:22 a.m.

Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" (comments)

July 10, 2025

4:29 p.m.

Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity (comments)

4:21 p.m.

Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized (comments)

July 9, 2025

2:52 p.m.

Linda Yaccarino is leaving X (comments)

2:40 p.m.

Tree Borrows (comments)

July 8, 2025

10:42 p.m.

US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (comments)

5:46 p.m.

Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (comments)

8:23 a.m.

SVGs that feel like GIFs (comments)

2:18 a.m.

Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (comments)

July 7, 2025

10:58 p.m.

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (comments)

2:58 p.m.

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (comments)

2:05 p.m.

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (comments)

12:44 p.m.

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (comments)

12:31 p.m.

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (comments)

12:05 a.m.

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (comments)

July 6, 2025

10:16 p.m.

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (comments)

7:50 p.m.

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (comments)

6:32 p.m.

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics (comments)

2:03 p.m.

Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (comments)

5:36 a.m.

Are we the baddies? (comments)

July 5, 2025

11:10 p.m.

Hidden interface controls that affect usability (comments)

2:45 p.m.

Local-first software (2019) (comments)

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)

4:26 p.m.

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral (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)