HN 500

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

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Dec. 20, 2024

6:11 p.m.
OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB (comments)
7:42 a.m.
Tldraw Computer (comments)
4:35 a.m.
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red (comments)
12:29 a.m.
The era of open voice assistants (comments)

Dec. 19, 2024

2:29 p.m.
Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file (comments)
2:12 p.m.
Ghost artists on Spotify (comments)

Dec. 18, 2024

7:57 p.m.
Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices (comments)
6:29 p.m.
GitHub Copilot is now available for free (comments)
6:17 p.m.
A 10-Year Battery for AirTag (comments)

Dec. 17, 2024

8:36 p.m.
FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices (comments)
5:26 p.m.
Moon (comments)
1:53 p.m.
Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video] (comments)
12:38 p.m.
After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code (comments)

Dec. 16, 2024

10:04 p.m.
Always go to the funeral (2005) (comments)
5:18 p.m.
Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced) (comments)
5:04 p.m.
Veo 2: Our video generation model (comments)
3:52 p.m.
Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant (comments)
2:11 p.m.
Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? (comments)
12:38 p.m.
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022) (comments)
3:55 a.m.
OpenERV (comments)

Dec. 15, 2024

10:02 p.m.
Map of GitHub (comments)
2:01 p.m.
A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b) (comments)

Dec. 14, 2024

11:51 p.m.
School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study (comments)
2:30 p.m.
Making a watch from scratch (comments)

Dec. 13, 2024

9:56 p.m.
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment (comments)
7:36 p.m.
Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit (comments)
1:23 p.m.
Test (comments)
1:03 a.m.
Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder (comments)

Dec. 12, 2024

1:29 p.m.
Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history (comments)
9:12 a.m.
Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History (comments)
6:23 a.m.
Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths (comments)

Dec. 11, 2024

6:41 p.m.
2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls (comments)
5:35 p.m.
FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations (comments)
3:33 p.m.
Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era (comments)
4:53 a.m.
Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion (comments)

Dec. 10, 2024

4:41 p.m.
From where I left (comments)
4:34 p.m.
The Google Willow Thing (comments)
3:12 a.m.
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell (comments)

Dec. 9, 2024

10:56 p.m.
"This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom" (comments)
9:17 p.m.
What we know about CEO shooting suspect (comments)
6:02 p.m.
Sora is here (comments)
4:28 p.m.
Willow, Our Quantum Chip (comments)
7:19 a.m.
Itch.io Taken Down by Funko (comments)
4:36 a.m.
Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain (comments)

Dec. 7, 2024

5:11 p.m.
Just: Just a Command Runner (comments)

Dec. 6, 2024

8:26 p.m.
My second year without a job (comments)
6:11 p.m.
Every UUID Dot Com (comments)
5:54 p.m.
Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees (comments)
1:55 p.m.
Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round (comments)
5:11 a.m.
The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding (comments)
12:02 a.m.
The correct amount of ads is zero (comments)

Dec. 5, 2024

6:09 p.m.
ChatGPT Pro (comments)
4:35 a.m.
Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring (comments)

Dec. 4, 2024

2:45 p.m.
Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model (comments)
4:46 a.m.
IMG_0001 (comments)

Dec. 3, 2024

10:28 p.m.
Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here (comments)
10:08 p.m.
My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback (comments)
8:38 p.m.
Egoless Engineering (comments)
1:53 p.m.
South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it (comments)

Dec. 2, 2024

8:07 p.m.
Facebook's Little Red Book (comments)
1:37 p.m.
Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger (comments)

Dec. 1, 2024

6:56 p.m.
Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from? (comments)
5:58 p.m.
Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines (comments)
9:09 a.m.
Advent of Code 2024 (comments)

Nov. 30, 2024

10:13 p.m.
Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) (comments)

Nov. 29, 2024

8:32 p.m.
Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA (comments)
7:59 p.m.
What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch (comments)

Nov. 28, 2024

11:03 p.m.
Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers (comments)
9:16 p.m.
Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter (comments)
7 p.m.
The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020) (comments)

Nov. 27, 2024

8:10 p.m.
Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230 (comments)
8:34 a.m.
Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone (comments)
5:10 a.m.
The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory (comments)

Nov. 25, 2024

10:11 p.m.
Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap) (comments)
4:14 p.m.
Model Context Protocol (comments)
12:43 a.m.
RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023) (comments)
12:36 a.m.
SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases (comments)

Nov. 24, 2024

11:21 p.m.
The two factions of C++ (comments)
8:43 p.m.
This website is hosted on Bluesky (comments)
8:08 p.m.
Starlink Direct to Cell (comments)
5:59 a.m.
Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest (comments)
2:19 a.m.
Frosted Glass from Games to the Web: HTML glass UI inspired by AAA game dev (comments)

Nov. 23, 2024

10:01 a.m.
Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface (comments)

Nov. 22, 2024

5:10 p.m.
Phased Array Microphone (2023) (comments)
4:25 p.m.
Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic (comments)
10:31 a.m.
Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify (comments)

Nov. 21, 2024

8:37 p.m.
Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders (comments)
5:55 p.m.
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now (comments)
5:28 p.m.
Handling cookies is a minefield (comments)
12:13 p.m.
ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials (comments)
1:45 a.m.
Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking (comments)

Nov. 20, 2024

4:59 p.m.
Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (comments)
1:30 p.m.
What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (comments)
8:03 a.m.
AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing (comments)
6:56 a.m.
Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (comments)
6:13 a.m.
Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now (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)