HN 500

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

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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)
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)
10:36 a.m.
Why I wrote the BEAM book (comments)
2:58 a.m.
Merlin Bird ID (comments)

June 3, 2025

9:31 p.m.
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored (comments)
12:12 p.m.
Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android (comments)
8:06 a.m.
Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system (comments)

June 2, 2025

9:09 p.m.
My AI skeptic friends are all nuts (comments)
2:24 p.m.
Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts (comments)
9:47 a.m.
Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello (comments)
8:59 a.m.
If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued (comments)
4:01 a.m.
How to post when no one is reading (comments)

June 1, 2025

9:57 p.m.
The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack' (comments)
1:42 p.m.
Root shell on a credit card terminal (comments)
12:58 a.m.
Progressive JSON (comments)

May 31, 2025

3:06 p.m.
Precision Clock Mk IV (comments)

May 30, 2025

8:32 p.m.
Photos taken inside musical instruments (comments)
1:38 p.m.
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine (comments)

May 29, 2025

5:40 p.m.
FLUX.1 Kontext (comments)
4:41 p.m.
Human coders are still better than LLMs (comments)
3:38 p.m.
WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator (comments)
12:06 a.m.
US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal (comments)

May 28, 2025

4:53 p.m.
Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust (comments)
1:07 p.m.
The Who Cares Era (comments)
11:53 a.m.
My website is ugly because I made it (comments)

May 27, 2025

8:53 p.m.
Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins (comments)
3:33 p.m.
Square Theory (comments)

May 26, 2025

8:27 p.m.
Owls in Towels (comments)
6:28 p.m.
CSS Minecraft (comments)
4:37 p.m.
Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp (comments)
2:59 p.m.
German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal (comments)
1:46 p.m.
GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (comments)

May 25, 2025

5:06 p.m.
Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS (comments)
11:48 a.m.
At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work (comments)
6:06 a.m.
Claude 4 System Card (comments)

May 24, 2025

8:05 p.m.
Reinvent the Wheel (comments)
2:25 p.m.
I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation (comments)

May 23, 2025

4:40 p.m.
How to live on $432 a month in America (comments)
4:02 p.m.
Find Your People (comments)
3:12 p.m.
Postgres IDE in VS Code (comments)
5:14 a.m.
John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 (comments)

May 22, 2025

5:48 p.m.
Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students (comments)
4:34 p.m.
Claude 4 (comments)
4:30 p.m.
Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 (comments)
3:50 p.m.
That fractal that's been up on my wall for years (comments)
4:24 a.m.
The scientific “unit” we call the decibel (comments)
1:13 a.m.
Gemini Diffusion (comments)

May 21, 2025

5:01 p.m.
OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive (comments)
4:46 p.m.
By default, Signal doesn't recall (comments)
2:21 p.m.
Devstral (comments)
10:57 a.m.
My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane (comments)

May 20, 2025

5:46 p.m.
Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow (comments)
1:54 p.m.
Deep Learning Is Applied Topology (comments)
5:54 a.m.
Making video games (without an engine) in 2025 (comments)
12:52 a.m.
DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage (comments)

May 19, 2025

9:37 p.m.
Have I Been Pwned 2.0 (comments)
9:12 p.m.
Jules: An asynchronous coding agent (comments)
4:17 p.m.
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent (comments)
4:14 p.m.
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source (comments)
3:24 p.m.
Zod 4 (comments)
10:12 a.m.
Don't guess my language (comments)

May 18, 2025

10:27 p.m.
France Endorses UN Open Source Principles (comments)
11:42 a.m.
Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better (comments)

May 17, 2025

9:31 a.m.
Push Ifs Up and Fors Down (comments)

May 16, 2025

9:10 p.m.
Getting AI to write good SQL (comments)
7:09 p.m.
Thoughts on thinking (comments)
3:02 p.m.
A Research Preview of Codex (comments)