HN 500

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

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Oct. 3, 2025

4:44 p.m.
Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf] (comments)
12:34 a.m.
Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ (comments)

Oct. 2, 2025

6:37 p.m.
OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss (comments)
4:06 p.m.
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets (comments)
1:29 p.m.
Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools (comments)
9:23 a.m.
How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized (comments)
8:51 a.m.
Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did (comments)
6:25 a.m.
Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release (comments)

Oct. 1, 2025

6:10 p.m.
Jane Goodall has died (comments)
5:36 p.m.
Don't avoid workplace politics (comments)
4:25 p.m.
Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP (comments)
2:48 p.m.
Show HN: Autism Simulator (comments)

Sept. 30, 2025

8 p.m.
Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol (comments)
4:55 p.m.
Sora 2 (comments)
3:09 p.m.
Kagi News (comments)
1:01 p.m.
Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine (comments)
10:37 a.m.
Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code (comments)
8:57 a.m.
Open Printer – Inkjet printer with DRM-free ink (comments)
8:36 a.m.
I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse (comments)
5:15 a.m.
Fluid Glass (comments)

Sept. 29, 2025

5:12 p.m.
Claude Code 2.0 (comments)
4:52 p.m.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 (comments)
11:28 a.m.
What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world? (comments)
2:10 a.m.
F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree (comments)

Sept. 28, 2025

9:08 p.m.
Play snake in the URL address bar (comments)
3:43 p.m.
The AI coding trap (comments)
1 p.m.
When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order” (comments)
12:59 p.m.
Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying (comments)

Sept. 27, 2025

3:46 p.m.
Greenland is a beautiful nightmare (comments)
3:17 p.m.
A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet (comments)
2:27 p.m.
SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 (comments)
7:31 a.m.
Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement (comments)

Sept. 26, 2025

4:01 p.m.
Open Social (comments)
2:09 a.m.
Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers (comments)

Sept. 25, 2025

5:20 p.m.
Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite (comments)
4:59 p.m.
ChatGPT Pulse (comments)
4:01 p.m.
ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps (comments)
3:06 p.m.
Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass surveillance of Palestinians (comments)
2:36 p.m.
The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers (comments)
2:33 p.m.
Cloudflare Email Service: private beta (comments)
1:32 p.m.
Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over (comments)
9:20 a.m.
Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant (comments)

Sept. 24, 2025

10:51 p.m.
Helium Browser (comments)
10:11 p.m.
Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image (comments)
4:32 p.m.
Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly (comments)
1:56 p.m.
Just let me select text (comments)
12:30 p.m.
US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees (comments)
11:52 a.m.
EU age verification app not planning desktop support (comments)
11:41 a.m.
Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads (comments)
11:37 a.m.
Huntington's disease treated for first time (comments)
8:24 a.m.
That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus (comments)
12:26 a.m.
Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version (comments)

Sept. 23, 2025

6:06 p.m.
Find SF parking cops (comments)
3:33 p.m.
Always Invite Anna (comments)
3:25 p.m.
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover (comments)
2:27 p.m.
Getting AI to work in complex codebases (comments)
1:56 p.m.
Libghostty is coming (comments)
1:54 p.m.
Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor (comments)
9:26 a.m.
Go has added Valgrind support (comments)
5:30 a.m.
Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; (comments)
3:03 a.m.
Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years (comments)

Sept. 22, 2025

5:50 p.m.
Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video (comments)
1:17 p.m.
Why haven't local-first apps become popular? (comments)
1:05 p.m.
Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers (comments)
1:03 p.m.
Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy (comments)
7:59 a.m.
You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here (comments)
1:27 a.m.
How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me (comments)

Sept. 21, 2025

11:35 a.m.
Quicksort explained IKEA-style (comments)
10:56 a.m.
They Thought They Were Free (1955) (comments)

Sept. 20, 2025

4:12 p.m.
Ultrasonic Chef's Knife (comments)

Sept. 19, 2025

10:02 p.m.
Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks (comments)
7:59 p.m.
Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says (comments)
12:20 p.m.
The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press (comments)
8:09 a.m.
Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf] (comments)
1:40 a.m.
Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle (comments)

Sept. 18, 2025

10:40 p.m.
Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough? (comments)
8:15 p.m.
Apple: SSH and FileVault (comments)
12:17 p.m.
KDE is now my favorite desktop (comments)
11:04 a.m.
Nvidia buys $5B in Intel (comments)
2:18 a.m.
Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it (comments)
1:37 a.m.
Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year (comments)
12:30 a.m.
Meta Ray-Ban Display (comments)

Sept. 17, 2025

11 p.m.
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair (comments)
6:16 p.m.
WASM 3.0 Completed (comments)
11:07 a.m.
Apple Photos App Corrupts Images (comments)
3:54 a.m.
GNU Midnight Commander (comments)

Sept. 16, 2025

6:12 p.m.
Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out (comments)
4:38 p.m.
Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO (comments)
2:47 p.m.
I’m Not a Robot (comments)
2:35 p.m.
Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024) (comments)
12:10 p.m.
FBI couldn't get my husband to decrypt his Tor node so he was jailed for 3 years (comments)
11:22 a.m.
Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised (comments)
8:24 a.m.
Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza (comments)
3:05 a.m.
"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces (comments)
12:33 a.m.
Linux phones are more important now than ever (comments)
12:20 a.m.
I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers (comments)

Sept. 15, 2025

5:53 p.m.
Hosting a website on a disposable vape (comments)
5:46 p.m.
React is winning by default and slowing innovation (comments)
5:16 p.m.
macOS Tahoe (comments)
4:28 p.m.
Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link (comments)