HN 500

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

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Oct. 15, 2024

1:05 p.m.
Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator (comments)
9:42 a.m.
Web Browser Engineering (comments)

Oct. 14, 2024

7:06 p.m.
Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power (comments)
3:19 p.m.
Busy Status Bar (comments)

Oct. 13, 2024

3:01 p.m.
The quiet art of attention (comments)
12:23 p.m.
Starship Flight 5 [video] (comments)

Oct. 12, 2024

6:41 p.m.
Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX (comments)
2:47 p.m.
Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail (comments)
1:06 p.m.
How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video] (comments)
11:55 a.m.
Bug, $50k how Zendesk left a backdoor in Fortune 500 companies (comments)
11:46 a.m.
Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison (comments)

Oct. 11, 2024

8:18 p.m.
Working from home is powering productivity (comments)
2:20 p.m.
"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable" (comments)

Oct. 10, 2024

6:37 p.m.
The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications (comments)
5:47 p.m.
Show HN: HTML for People (comments)
4:36 p.m.
DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing (comments)
2:16 p.m.
AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux (comments)
11:21 a.m.
Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom (comments)

Oct. 9, 2024

8:54 p.m.
Internet Archive: Security breach alert (comments)
5:18 p.m.
Dookie Demastered (comments)
9:54 a.m.
Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction (comments)

Oct. 8, 2024

11:54 a.m.
Differential Transformer (comments)
9:52 a.m.
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Machine Learning and Neural Networks (comments)
9:08 a.m.
The Static Site Paradox (comments)

Oct. 7, 2024

7 p.m.
Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge (comments)
2:45 p.m.
What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 (comments)
1:20 p.m.
Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (comments)

Oct. 6, 2024

10:02 p.m.
Sq.io: jq for databases and more (comments)
4:47 p.m.
John Carmack on inlined code (2014) (comments)

Oct. 5, 2024

12:17 p.m.
It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word (comments)

Oct. 4, 2024

3:15 p.m.
Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first (comments)
3:08 p.m.
Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer (comments)
1:03 p.m.
Meta Movie Gen (comments)
6:47 a.m.
Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing (comments)
1:25 a.m.
Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017) (comments)

Oct. 3, 2024

5:31 p.m.
Were RNNs all we needed? (comments)
5:07 p.m.
Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT (comments)
1:05 p.m.
Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public (comments)
12:29 a.m.
Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf] (comments)

Oct. 2, 2024

4:16 p.m.
An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped (comments)
3:31 p.m.
The Fastest Mutexes (comments)
12:16 a.m.
Noise (comments)

Oct. 1, 2024

5:37 p.m.
Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation (comments)
5:25 p.m.
A $1k Wheelchair (comments)
4 p.m.
Is the world really running out of sand? (comments)

Sept. 30, 2024

6:42 p.m.
California bans legacy admissions at private universities (comments)
1:48 p.m.
Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth (comments)
6:09 a.m.
Bop Spotter (comments)
2:58 a.m.
NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective (comments)

Sept. 29, 2024

8:43 p.m.
Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047 (comments)
1:19 a.m.
Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022) (comments)

Sept. 28, 2024

6:51 a.m.
FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot (comments)
5:56 a.m.
Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009) (comments)

Sept. 27, 2024

4:33 p.m.
Fraud, so much fraud (comments)
1:29 p.m.
CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them (comments)
8:20 a.m.
I Am Tired of AI (comments)

Sept. 26, 2024

3:24 p.m.
Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake (comments)
2:22 p.m.
Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate (comments)
1:10 p.m.
PostgreSQL 17 (comments)
8:36 a.m.
WordPress.org bans WP Engine (comments)
8:34 a.m.
OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company (comments)

Sept. 25, 2024

7:35 p.m.
Mira Murati leaves OpenAI (comments)
5:56 p.m.
Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses (comments)
5:29 p.m.
Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models (comments)
12:39 p.m.
Being Raised by the Internet (comments)

Sept. 24, 2024

6:42 p.m.
DOJ accuses Visa of monopoly that affects price of 'nearly everything’ (comments)
5:37 p.m.
Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today (comments)
2:27 p.m.
Winamp Legacy player source code (comments)
11:59 a.m.
Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting (comments)

Sept. 23, 2024

7:08 p.m.
In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules (comments)
6:56 p.m.
Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java (comments)
7:51 a.m.
I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock (comments)

Sept. 22, 2024

9:24 p.m.
Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions (comments)
3:49 a.m.
They stole my voice with AI (comments)

Sept. 21, 2024

7:36 p.m.
Sanding UI (comments)
11:52 a.m.
Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops (comments)
9:08 a.m.
Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022) (comments)

Sept. 20, 2024

4:31 p.m.
Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery (comments)
11:04 a.m.
Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit (comments)

Sept. 19, 2024

11:04 p.m.
Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website (comments)
4:49 p.m.
FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies (comments)
10:44 a.m.
Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host (comments)

Sept. 18, 2024

6:41 p.m.
Is Tor still safe to use? (comments)
11:41 a.m.
Why wordfreq will not be updated (comments)
1:38 a.m.
Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC (comments)

Sept. 17, 2024

9:31 p.m.
Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board (comments)
7:46 p.m.
macOS Sequoia 15 may bypass DNS encryption (comments)
1:49 p.m.
Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured as devices explode (comments)
1:15 p.m.
Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon (comments)
1:11 p.m.
Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc. (comments)
4:06 a.m.
Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra (comments)

Sept. 16, 2024

5:44 p.m.
Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week (comments)

Sept. 15, 2024

8:42 p.m.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (comments)
7:24 p.m.
How to Succeed in Mr Beast Production (Leaked PDF) (comments)

Sept. 14, 2024

4:41 p.m.
Terence Tao on O1 (comments)
2:56 p.m.
Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video] (comments)
11:36 a.m.
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city (comments)

Sept. 13, 2024

8:17 p.m.
CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our process' (comments)
7:43 p.m.
OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought (comments)
4:41 a.m.
Boeing workers vote to strike (comments)