HN 500

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

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Jan. 21, 2025

2:59 p.m.
0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms (comments)

Jan. 20, 2025

6:40 p.m.
I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts (comments)
3:53 p.m.
Mixxx: GPL DJ Software (comments)
12:37 p.m.
DeepSeek-R1 (comments)
11:20 a.m.
I Met Paul Graham Once (comments)
3:08 a.m.
Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect (comments)

Jan. 19, 2025

11:52 p.m.
UK's hardware talent is being wasted (comments)
11:11 p.m.
It's time to make computing personal again (comments)
5:42 p.m.
TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users (comments)
3:51 a.m.
TikTok goes dark in the US (comments)

Jan. 18, 2025

6:48 p.m.
Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable (comments)
6:17 p.m.
VS Code Pets (comments)
4:22 p.m.
Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units (comments)

Jan. 17, 2025

8:41 p.m.
Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle (comments)
8:41 p.m.
So you want to build your own data center (comments)
3:23 p.m.
Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown (comments)
8:50 a.m.
You can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5 (comments)
12:32 a.m.
Is the world becoming uninsurable? (comments)

Jan. 16, 2025

9:25 p.m.
Starship Flight 7 (comments)
6:20 p.m.
David Lynch has died (comments)
2:17 p.m.
No Calls (comments)
1:57 p.m.
Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers (comments)
1:23 p.m.
Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf] (comments)
1:08 p.m.
Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] (comments)
12:18 p.m.
I ditched the algorithm for RSS (comments)

Jan. 15, 2025

9:23 p.m.
I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research (comments)
3:55 p.m.
Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited? (comments)
12:57 p.m.
TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday (comments)
4:15 a.m.
Nobody cares (comments)

Jan. 14, 2025

4:14 p.m.
Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain (comments)
1:05 p.m.
In the belly of the MrBeast (comments)
11:37 a.m.
I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back (comments)
9:58 a.m.
FFmpeg by Example (comments)

Jan. 13, 2025

10:38 p.m.
Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com (comments)
6:55 p.m.
WordPress Is in Trouble (comments)
12:07 p.m.
Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004) (comments)
11:21 a.m.
The Origins of Wokeness (comments)

Jan. 12, 2025

8:06 p.m.
Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy (comments)
3:13 p.m.
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim (comments)
11:29 a.m.
I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners (comments)
5:17 a.m.
Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets (comments)

Jan. 11, 2025

11:20 p.m.
Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me (comments)

Jan. 10, 2025

5:48 p.m.
Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs (comments)
2:34 p.m.
I've acquired a new superpower (comments)

Jan. 9, 2025

9:15 p.m.
Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (comments)
2:25 p.m.
The Tsunami of Burnout Few See (comments)
1:31 p.m.
Show HN: Tetris in a PDF (comments)
6:02 a.m.
The Erasure of Luigi Mangione (comments)

Jan. 8, 2025

9:27 p.m.
I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled (comments)
6:16 p.m.
NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation (comments)
2:47 p.m.
Show HN: Atlas of Space (comments)
2:30 p.m.
Fidget (comments)
12:32 p.m.
Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud (comments)
7:18 a.m.
Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro (comments)

Jan. 7, 2025

9:06 p.m.
Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option (comments)
8:44 p.m.
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases (comments)
4:22 p.m.
Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines (comments)
12:15 p.m.
Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model (comments)
5:46 a.m.
A minimax chess engine in regular expressions (comments)
4:14 a.m.
Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' (comments)
3:12 a.m.
Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs (comments)
12:07 a.m.
How I program with LLMs (comments)

Jan. 6, 2025

6:05 p.m.
The Future of Htmx (comments)
5:10 p.m.
3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation (comments)
3:48 p.m.
Stimulation Clicker (comments)
4:53 a.m.
Doom, the Gallery Experience (comments)

Jan. 5, 2025

3:20 p.m.
In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work (comments)
9:03 a.m.
I made $100K from a dick joke (comments)
1:54 a.m.
Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you (comments)

Jan. 4, 2025

3:18 p.m.
Combining 15s interval whole-sky-camera photos to form a 4y spanning keogram (comments)
9:14 a.m.
How to draw an outline in a video game (comments)
6:30 a.m.
Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot (comments)

Jan. 3, 2025

12:20 p.m.
Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app (comments)
10:30 a.m.
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? (comments)

Jan. 2, 2025

10:50 p.m.
I am rich and have no idea what to do (comments)
10:08 p.m.
iTerm2 critical security release (comments)
6:19 p.m.
Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience (comments)
5:27 p.m.
UBlockOrigin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension (comments)
8:08 a.m.
MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs (comments)

Jan. 1, 2025

7:12 p.m.
Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today (comments)
2:27 p.m.
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review (comments)
2:12 p.m.
DOOM CAPTCHA (comments)
12:21 p.m.
30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated (comments)
12:08 a.m.
Static search trees: faster than binary search (comments)

Dec. 31, 2024

11:48 p.m.
Happy New Year 2025 (comments)
6:11 p.m.
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 (comments)
5:12 p.m.
Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts (comments)
7:20 a.m.
An Unreasonable Amount of Time (comments)

Dec. 30, 2024

6:11 p.m.
Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died (comments)
2:37 p.m.
AI companies cause most of traffic on forums (comments)
6:25 a.m.
I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps (comments)

Dec. 29, 2024

9:08 p.m.
Jimmy Carter has died (comments)

Dec. 28, 2024

10:07 p.m.
Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (comments)
7:22 p.m.
Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 (comments)
3:26 p.m.
I automated my job application process (comments)
11:43 a.m.
Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h? (comments)

Dec. 27, 2024

8:15 p.m.
Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods (comments)
6:19 p.m.
They have not been trained for this (comments)
5:36 p.m.
Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment' (comments)
4:53 p.m.
Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders (comments)