HN 500

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

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Nov. 20, 2024

1:30 p.m.

What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (comments)

Nov. 18, 2024

10:24 p.m.

DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome (comments)

4:49 p.m.

Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS (comments)

2:31 p.m.

Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted (comments)

Nov. 17, 2024

9:50 p.m.

Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot (comments)

4:18 a.m.

CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple` (comments)

Nov. 16, 2024

10:07 p.m.

The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver (comments)

3:52 p.m.

Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties (comments)

Nov. 15, 2024

10:18 p.m.

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update (comments)

Nov. 14, 2024

10:12 p.m.

Thomas E. Kurtz has died (comments)

5:05 p.m.

Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess (comments)

4:52 p.m.

Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time (comments)

2:10 p.m.

The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy (comments)

12:20 p.m.

MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia (comments)

Nov. 13, 2024

6:43 p.m.

The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development (comments)

1:28 p.m.

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI (comments)

1:46 a.m.

No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains (comments)

Nov. 12, 2024

10:08 p.m.

M4 Mac mini's efficiency (comments)

6:50 p.m.

Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages (comments)

5:44 a.m.

Leaving and Waving (comments)

Nov. 11, 2024

10:30 p.m.

How I ship projects at big tech companies (comments)

10:10 p.m.

I Don't Have Spotify (comments)

1:48 p.m.

Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981 (comments)

Nov. 10, 2024

8:45 p.m.

IMG_0416 (comments)

5:23 p.m.

Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough (comments)

Nov. 9, 2024

5:27 p.m.

OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models (comments)

4:36 p.m.

IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine (comments)

2:23 p.m.

Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab (comments)

Nov. 8, 2024

11:46 p.m.

Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output (comments)

5:39 p.m.

Mitochondria Are Alive (comments)

6:10 a.m.

Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities (comments)

4:15 a.m.

Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017) (comments)

Nov. 7, 2024

11:41 p.m.

Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos (comments)

6:35 p.m.

QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image (comments)

Nov. 6, 2024

11:38 p.m.

Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 (comments)

11:04 p.m.

Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada (comments)

9:23 p.m.

Passport Photos (comments)

3:23 p.m.

Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize (comments)

7:43 a.m.

All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs (comments)

6:49 a.m.

Former President Trump has won the presidency (comments)

5:51 a.m.

Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities (comments)

2:48 a.m.

Title drops in movies (comments)

Nov. 5, 2024

3:18 p.m.

Hacking 700M Electronic Arts Accounts (comments)

Nov. 4, 2024

6:46 p.m.

Diagram as Code (comments)

2:41 p.m.

We're Leaving Kubernetes (comments)

12:08 p.m.

New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike (comments)

5:06 a.m.

A change of heart regarding employee metrics (comments)

12:42 a.m.

Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct (comments)

Nov. 3, 2024

2:29 p.m.

Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back (comments)

Nov. 1, 2024

5:47 p.m.

Notepad++ is 21 years old (comments)

3:36 p.m.

Apple acquires Pixelmator (comments)

1:09 p.m.

Make It Yourself (comments)

Oct. 31, 2024

8:36 p.m.

An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers (comments)

7:01 p.m.

Get me out of data hell (comments)

4:41 p.m.

ChatGPT Search (comments)

Oct. 30, 2024

7:39 p.m.

Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (comments)

3 p.m.

M4 MacBook Pro (comments)

1:42 p.m.

Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction (comments)

6:21 a.m.

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone (comments)

2:09 a.m.

Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI (comments)

Oct. 29, 2024

4:27 p.m.

Using an 8K TV as a Monitor (comments)

4:20 p.m.

GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic (comments)

11:17 a.m.

How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends (comments)

Oct. 28, 2024

9:08 p.m.

A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write (comments)

7:24 p.m.

We're forking Flutter (comments)

3:03 p.m.

New iMac with M4 (comments)

Oct. 25, 2024

11:43 p.m.

Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted (comments)

10:17 p.m.

Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court (comments)

8:22 p.m.

Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris (comments)

8:02 p.m.

We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines (comments)

7:20 p.m.

Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020) (comments)

Oct. 24, 2024

10:41 p.m.

Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 (comments)

6:52 p.m.

Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint (comments)

2:43 p.m.

Rider is now free for non-commercial use (comments)

12:15 p.m.

Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate (comments)

3:18 a.m.

AWS data center latencies, visualized (comments)

12:21 a.m.

Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices (comments)

Oct. 23, 2024

8:52 p.m.

Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week (comments)

12:48 a.m.

Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license (comments)

Oct. 22, 2024

6:11 p.m.

The Tragedy of Google Books (2017) (comments)

3:21 p.m.

FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect (comments)

3:02 p.m.

Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku (comments)

Oct. 21, 2024

11:19 p.m.

Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan (comments)

8:15 p.m.

First images from Euclid are in (comments)

12:51 p.m.

Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort (comments)

Oct. 20, 2024

3 p.m.

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens (comments)

7:10 a.m.

Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories (comments)

Oct. 19, 2024

11:39 p.m.

Accountability sinks (comments)

Oct. 18, 2024

4:32 p.m.

The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair (comments)

8:50 a.m.

Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court (comments)

Oct. 17, 2024

4:54 p.m.

Crokinole (comments)

2:31 p.m.

Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen (comments)

12:10 p.m.

Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought (comments)

Oct. 16, 2024

10:46 p.m.

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users (comments)

4:18 p.m.

ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives (comments)

1:52 p.m.

Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more (comments)

1:09 p.m.

FTC Announces "Click-to-Cancel" Rule Making It Easier to Cancel Subscriptions (comments)

Oct. 15, 2024

10:32 p.m.

Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app (comments)

5:45 p.m.

Sqlite3 WebAssembly (comments)

4:06 p.m.

The C23 edition of Modern C (comments)