HN 500

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

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Aug. 12, 2025

4:02 p.m.
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context (comments)

Aug. 11, 2025

4:33 p.m.
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act (comments)
3:47 p.m.
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation (comments)
2:03 p.m.
Claude Code is all you need (comments)
1:59 p.m.
I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file (comments)
12:38 p.m.
Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations (comments)
5:56 a.m.
The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report (comments)

Aug. 10, 2025

4:50 p.m.
Fight Chat Control (comments)
1:32 p.m.
Try and (comments)

Aug. 9, 2025

10:27 p.m.
How I code with AI on a budget/free (comments)
6:18 p.m.
Debian 13 "Trixie" (comments)
1:31 p.m.
OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second (comments)
1:25 p.m.
Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient (comments)

Aug. 8, 2025

7:27 p.m.
Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? (comments)
7:12 p.m.
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died (comments)
6:19 p.m.
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace (comments)
11:41 a.m.
Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation (comments)

Aug. 7, 2025

11:34 p.m.
Cursed Knowledge (comments)
9:36 p.m.
Vibechart (comments)
7:24 p.m.
Historical Tech Tree (comments)
5:46 p.m.
GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card (comments)
5 p.m.
GPT-5 (comments)
2:19 a.m.
We replaced passwords with something worse (comments)

Aug. 6, 2025

1:17 p.m.
Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs (comments)
7:25 a.m.
I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me (comments)
5:04 a.m.
Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model (comments)

Aug. 5, 2025

5:02 p.m.
Open models by OpenAI (comments)
4:28 p.m.
Claude Opus 4.1 (comments)
2:10 p.m.
Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome (comments)
2:08 p.m.
Genie 3: A new frontier for world models (comments)
9:01 a.m.
uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari (comments)
5:05 a.m.
Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI (comments)

Aug. 4, 2025

4:16 p.m.
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display (comments)
3:56 p.m.
Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering (comments)
1:39 p.m.
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (comments)
9:27 a.m.
Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (comments)
8:04 a.m.
Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers (comments)

Aug. 3, 2025

8:21 p.m.
Writing a good design document (comments)
7:16 p.m.
Modern Node.js Patterns (comments)
10:32 a.m.
If you're remote, ramble (comments)

Aug. 2, 2025

4:40 p.m.
Telo MT1 (comments)
10:52 a.m.
We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness (comments)

Aug. 1, 2025

4:56 p.m.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations (comments)
12:51 p.m.
Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills (comments)

July 31, 2025

9:28 p.m.
The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong (comments)
7 p.m.
Slow (comments)
3:25 p.m.
6 weeks of Claude Code (comments)
2:16 p.m.
MacBook Pro Insomnia (comments)
11:19 a.m.
How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created? (comments)

July 30, 2025

9:19 p.m.
Ollama's new app (comments)
9:13 p.m.
Vibe code is legacy code (comments)
5:21 p.m.
Fast (comments)
4:08 p.m.
Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year (comments)
1:17 p.m.
Our $100M Series B (comments)
8:34 a.m.
Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria (comments)
8:19 a.m.
‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler (comments)
12:38 a.m.
M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued (comments)

July 29, 2025

5:01 p.m.
Study mode (comments)
1:58 p.m.
iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras (comments)
1:45 p.m.
My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air) (comments)
4:57 a.m.
Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others (comments)

July 28, 2025

9:49 p.m.
Show HN: Use Their ID – Use Your Local UK MP's ID for the Online Safety Act (comments)
8:24 p.m.
Sign in with Google in Chrome (comments)
7:05 p.m.
‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video] (comments)
6:27 p.m.
Claude Code weekly rate limits (comments)
5:53 p.m.
Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship (comments)
2:57 p.m.
Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server (comments)
2:36 p.m.
Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs (comments)
1:23 p.m.
Face it: you're a crazy person (comments)
2:33 a.m.
VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in (comments)

July 27, 2025

10:51 p.m.
Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs (comments)
10:18 p.m.
EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google (comments)
5:57 p.m.
Performance and Telemetry Analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode Fork (comments)
5:13 p.m.
Tom Lehrer has died (comments)
2:25 p.m.
Dumb Pipe (comments)
5:17 a.m.
4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program (comments)

July 26, 2025

10:08 a.m.
Rust running on every GPU (comments)

July 25, 2025

10:07 p.m.
Do not download the app, use the website (comments)
9:08 p.m.
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA (comments)
4:27 p.m.
Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope (comments)
3:36 p.m.
Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan (comments)

July 24, 2025

9:48 p.m.
Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build (comments)
5:15 p.m.
Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth (comments)
2:13 a.m.
Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars (comments)

July 23, 2025

10:53 p.m.
Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right (comments)
7:50 p.m.
AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks (comments)
5:38 p.m.
CARA – High precision robot dog using rope (comments)
3:45 p.m.
You can now disable all AI features in Zed (comments)
1:17 p.m.
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom (comments)

July 22, 2025

9:12 p.m.
Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world (comments)
6:20 p.m.
Ozzy Osbourne has died (comments)
2:09 p.m.
The United States withdraws from UNESCO (comments)
10:51 a.m.
How to Firefox (comments)
5:42 a.m.
Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic (comments)

July 21, 2025

11:26 p.m.
Uv: Running a script with dependencies (comments)
6:22 p.m.
What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks? (comments)
4:48 p.m.
AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks (comments)
4:36 p.m.
Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO (comments)
2:51 p.m.
TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale (comments)
2:46 p.m.
UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US (comments)