HN 500

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

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April 1, 2025

12:25 p.m.
Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (comments)
5:47 a.m.
Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button (comments)

March 31, 2025

6:28 p.m.
Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed (comments)
3:11 p.m.
Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers? (comments)
10:39 a.m.
The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden (comments)
1:26 a.m.
How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack (comments)

March 30, 2025

7:50 p.m.
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado (comments)
3:30 p.m.
Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room (comments)
10:20 a.m.
The average college student today (comments)

March 29, 2025

9:26 p.m.
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone (comments)
6 p.m.
Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software (comments)
12:31 a.m.
The Guardian flourishes without a paywall (comments)

March 28, 2025

9:23 p.m.
xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B (comments)
6:12 p.m.
We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) (comments)
12:14 p.m.
I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car (comments)
11:01 a.m.
How to write blog posts that developers read (comments)

March 27, 2025

10:32 p.m.
Apple needs a Snow Sequoia (comments)
9:22 p.m.
I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs (comments)
8:19 p.m.
How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) (comments)
7:49 p.m.
I tried making artificial sunlight at home (comments)
5:05 p.m.
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model (comments)
12:27 a.m.
Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool (comments)

March 26, 2025

6:55 p.m.
OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK (comments)
5:22 p.m.
Debian bookworm live images now reproducible (comments)
5:08 p.m.
A love letter to the CSV format (comments)
5:19 a.m.
Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir (comments)

March 25, 2025

6:06 p.m.
4o Image Generation (comments)
5:16 p.m.
Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood (comments)
5:01 p.m.
Gemini 2.5 (comments)

March 24, 2025

11:29 p.m.
German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph (comments)
6:35 p.m.
Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter (comments)
5:09 p.m.
I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud (comments)
4:23 p.m.
The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans (comments)
2:45 p.m.
Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops (comments)
3:48 a.m.
23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself (comments)

March 23, 2025

1:08 p.m.
The Worst Programmer I Know (2023) (comments)

March 22, 2025

1:56 p.m.
Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers (comments)
12:30 a.m.
Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008) (comments)

March 21, 2025

8:35 p.m.
France rejects backdoor mandate (comments)
3:35 p.m.
IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol (comments)
10:49 a.m.
Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015) (comments)
4:16 a.m.
Boycott IETF 127 (comments)

March 20, 2025

6:24 p.m.
The Burnout Machine (comments)
5:18 p.m.
OpenAI Audio Models (comments)
4:51 p.m.
Claude can now search the web (comments)
12:50 p.m.
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (comments)
12:25 p.m.
The Frontend Treadmill (comments)
3:37 a.m.
The Pain That Is GitHub Actions (comments)

March 19, 2025

4:48 p.m.
AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding (comments)
4:13 p.m.
How fast the days are getting longer (2023) (comments)
11:44 a.m.
fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' (comments)
11:21 a.m.
I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks (comments)
10:09 a.m.
The Lost Art of Research as Leisure (comments)

March 18, 2025

11:55 p.m.
Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them (comments)
8:31 p.m.
Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president (comments)
6:17 p.m.
US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted (comments)
5:07 p.m.
Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date (comments)
4:23 p.m.
Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones (comments)
3:59 p.m.
Two new PebbleOS watches (comments)
12:18 p.m.
Google to buy Wiz for $32B (comments)
8:09 a.m.
Moving away from US cloud services (comments)
7:59 a.m.
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (comments)

March 17, 2025

11:25 p.m.
GIMP 3.0 (comments)
1:03 p.m.
Rippling sues Deel over spying (comments)
4:41 a.m.
The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enabled no longer available (comments)
12:48 a.m.
Sunsetting Whois (comments)

March 16, 2025

8:40 p.m.
Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia (comments)
11:38 a.m.
Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline (comments)

March 14, 2025

4:10 p.m.
Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update (comments)
12:25 p.m.
A look at Firefox forks (comments)
1:51 a.m.
Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file (comments)

March 13, 2025

10:12 p.m.
Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act (comments)
8:35 p.m.
“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams (comments)
7:05 p.m.
The Lost Art of Logarithms (comments)
12:20 p.m.
OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules (comments)
7:59 a.m.
Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it (comments)

March 12, 2025

9:05 p.m.
Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died (comments)
3:09 p.m.
Gemini Robotics (comments)
12:56 p.m.
The DuckDB Local UI (comments)
12:08 p.m.
Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser (comments)

March 11, 2025

10:18 p.m.
The Startup CTO's Handbook (comments)
2:32 p.m.
A 10x Faster TypeScript (comments)
2:14 p.m.
Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator (comments)
12:40 p.m.
RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI (comments)
12:02 p.m.
Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories (comments)
1:05 a.m.
Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening (comments)

March 10, 2025

5:30 p.m.
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store (comments)
1:12 p.m.
Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors (comments)
10:15 a.m.
Go European: Discover European products and services (comments)
6:44 a.m.
Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter (comments)

March 9, 2025

10:53 p.m.
Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023) (comments)
5:40 p.m.
Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index (comments)
1:40 p.m.
It is as if you were on your phone (comments)
11:08 a.m.
US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s (comments)
3:08 a.m.
My 16-month theanine self-experiment (comments)

March 8, 2025

6:11 p.m.
Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think (comments)
12:57 p.m.
The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome (comments)
7:25 a.m.
Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions (comments)

March 7, 2025

10:54 p.m.
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers (comments)
6:34 p.m.
Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance (comments)