HN 500

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

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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)
1:05 p.m.
Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator (comments)