HN 500

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

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Feb. 21, 2025

4:27 p.m.
I found a backdoor into my bed (comments)
3:05 p.m.
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row (comments)
10:01 a.m.
Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding (comments)
4:24 a.m.
DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days (comments)

Feb. 20, 2025

9:39 p.m.
Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (comments)
7:36 a.m.
DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (comments)

Feb. 19, 2025

5:48 p.m.
When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines (comments)
2:05 p.m.
Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger (comments)
12:36 p.m.
Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks (comments)
12:12 p.m.
Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" (comments)
4:49 a.m.
"Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order (comments)

Feb. 18, 2025

9:09 p.m.
A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate (comments)
7:57 p.m.
Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code (comments)
6:31 p.m.
Pi-hole v6 (comments)
10:02 a.m.
XOR (comments)
5:53 a.m.
Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme (comments)
4:04 a.m.
Grok3 Launch [video] (comments)

Feb. 17, 2025

8:30 p.m.
Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport (comments)
8:52 a.m.
X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (comments)
1:42 a.m.
All Kindles can now be jailbroken (comments)
1:22 a.m.
Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (comments)

Feb. 16, 2025

10:22 p.m.
Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers (comments)
9:42 p.m.
I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (comments)
5:56 p.m.
Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS (comments)
5:01 p.m.
Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died (comments)
10:16 a.m.
“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” (comments)

Feb. 15, 2025

7:34 p.m.
My Life in Weeks (comments)
3:06 p.m.
Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find (comments)

Feb. 14, 2025

11:10 p.m.
A decade later, a decade lost (2024) (comments)
10:36 p.m.
We were wrong about GPUs (comments)
9:45 p.m.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (comments)
12:45 p.m.
AI is stifling new tech adoption? (comments)
11:36 a.m.
You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (comments)
7:31 a.m.
Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website (comments)
6:50 a.m.
Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model (comments)

Feb. 13, 2025

7:57 p.m.
Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search (comments)
6:20 p.m.
Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning (comments)
4:59 p.m.
LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab (comments)
3:34 p.m.
Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead (comments)
7:12 a.m.
Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids (comments)

Feb. 12, 2025

11:19 a.m.
Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k (comments)
9:24 a.m.
Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji (comments)
2:07 a.m.
The year I didn't survive (comments)

Feb. 11, 2025

3:08 p.m.
I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape – And I will do it again (comments)
2:55 p.m.
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 (comments)
2:08 p.m.
Boring tech is mature, not old (comments)
9:42 a.m.
Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything (comments)

Feb. 10, 2025

8:42 p.m.
Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI (comments)
5:05 p.m.
Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster (comments)
2:14 p.m.
The Anthropic Economic Index (comments)
1:54 p.m.
Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more (comments)

Feb. 9, 2025

5:50 p.m.
Why blog if nobody reads it? (comments)
8:24 a.m.
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world (comments)

Feb. 8, 2025

2:48 p.m.
We are destroying software (comments)
9:34 a.m.
Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' (comments)
1:25 a.m.
VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas (comments)

Feb. 7, 2025

10:23 p.m.
Obscure islands I find interesting (comments)
7:48 p.m.
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) (comments)
1:02 p.m.
Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel (comments)
12:18 p.m.
Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor (comments)
11:26 a.m.
Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data (comments)
7:45 a.m.
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts (comments)

Feb. 6, 2025

7:58 a.m.
Paper Apps (comments)
7:01 a.m.
Hotline for modern Apple systems (comments)
3:30 a.m.
Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty (comments)

Feb. 5, 2025

7:08 p.m.
Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers (comments)
6:29 p.m.
Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video] (comments)
6:05 p.m.
Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything (comments)
4:31 p.m.
Eggs US – Price – Chart (comments)
4:03 p.m.
Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone (comments)
2:55 p.m.
Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed (comments)
2:47 p.m.
Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube? (comments)
11:05 a.m.
S1: A $6 R1 competitor? (comments)
9:50 a.m.
Software development topics I've changed my mind on (comments)
9:12 a.m.
Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line (comments)
5:50 a.m.
Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing (comments)
5:25 a.m.
The FAA’s Hiring Scandal (comments)
4:54 a.m.
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) (comments)
1:43 a.m.
Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong (comments)
12:07 a.m.
Beej's Guide to Git (comments)

Feb. 4, 2025

10:51 p.m.
What's happening inside the NIH and NSF (comments)
10:29 p.m.
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored (comments)
8:28 p.m.
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance (comments)
6:40 p.m.
WikiTok (comments)
4:21 p.m.
Apple Invites (comments)
4:06 p.m.
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools (comments)
3:05 p.m.
Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore (comments)
midnight
El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed experiment (comments)

Feb. 3, 2025

4:28 p.m.
Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program (comments)
3:09 p.m.
Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living (comments)
12:06 a.m.
Introducing deep research (comments)

Feb. 2, 2025

7:29 p.m.
Waydroid – Android in a Linux container (comments)
7:12 p.m.
The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE (comments)
5:07 p.m.
Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads (comments)
3:19 p.m.
Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI? (comments)
4:52 a.m.
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research (comments)

Feb. 1, 2025

9:46 p.m.
Macrodata Refinement (comments)
4:44 p.m.
Apple is open sourcing Swift Build (comments)
11:52 a.m.
CDC data are disappearing (comments)

Jan. 31, 2025

9:20 p.m.
Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries (comments)