HN 500

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

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Sept. 1, 2025

2:27 p.m.

Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me (comments)

Aug. 31, 2025

9:46 p.m.

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own (comments)

7:04 p.m.

Eternal Struggle (comments)

1:49 p.m.

Notes on Managing ADHD (comments)

12:44 p.m.

Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video] (comments)

12:39 p.m.

“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone” (comments)

Aug. 30, 2025

12:58 p.m.

Cognitive Load is what matters (comments)

Aug. 29, 2025

7:05 p.m.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work (comments)

4:45 p.m.

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta (comments)

1:01 p.m.

Grok Code Fast 1 (comments)

12:01 p.m.

Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos (comments)

11:29 a.m.

Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude chats (comments)

11:15 a.m.

Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it (comments)

Aug. 28, 2025

6:12 p.m.

Making Minecraft Spherical (comments)

4:43 p.m.

Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? (comments)

10:15 a.m.

Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference? (comments)

12:22 a.m.

Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music (comments)

Aug. 27, 2025

9:16 p.m.

Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year (comments)

3:48 p.m.

Unexpected productivity boost of Rust (comments)

10:54 a.m.

Monodraw (comments)

6:49 a.m.

Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him (comments)

1:44 a.m.

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end (comments)

Aug. 26, 2025

7:01 p.m.

Claude for Chrome (comments)

5:36 p.m.

Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment (comments)

5:22 p.m.

We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA (comments)

2:01 p.m.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (comments)

10:47 a.m.

US Intel (comments)

Aug. 25, 2025

6:18 p.m.

Google to require developer verification to install and sideload Android apps (comments)

2:17 p.m.

Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS (comments)

6:32 a.m.

What are OKLCH colors? (comments)

4:23 a.m.

Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me (comments)

Aug. 24, 2025

3:14 p.m.

Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account (comments)

10:27 a.m.

A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website (comments)

7:39 a.m.

A visual introduction to big O notation (comments)

Aug. 22, 2025

9:01 p.m.

U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel (comments)

5:02 p.m.

Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City (comments)

3:22 p.m.

FFmpeg 8.0 (comments)

9:25 a.m.

Go is still not good (comments)

Aug. 21, 2025

7:06 p.m.

DeepSeek-v3.1 (comments)

6:49 p.m.

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions (comments)

12:53 p.m.

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (comments)

11:04 a.m.

Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears (comments)

Aug. 20, 2025

6:47 p.m.

Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first (comments)

2:54 p.m.

Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? (comments)

2:02 p.m.

Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization (comments)

6:03 a.m.

Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network? (comments)

12:18 a.m.

Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers (comments)

12:15 a.m.

AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents (comments)

Aug. 19, 2025

10:41 p.m.

How to Draw a Space Invader (comments)

3:55 p.m.

How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos (comments)

12:35 a.m.

OpenMower – An open source lawn mower (comments)

Aug. 18, 2025

9:28 p.m.

Obsidian Bases (comments)

4:52 p.m.

Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust (comments)

4:31 p.m.

Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team (comments)

2:59 p.m.

Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room (comments)

6:38 a.m.

Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file (comments)

Aug. 17, 2025

4:53 p.m.

The Enterprise Experience (comments)

2:29 p.m.

Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" (comments)

Aug. 16, 2025

5:33 p.m.

Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale (comments)

2:01 p.m.

Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels (comments)

7:38 a.m.

Good system design (comments)

3:35 a.m.

PuTTY has a new website (comments)

Aug. 15, 2025

8:07 p.m.

The future of large files in Git is Git (comments)

6:30 p.m.

Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger (comments)

4:03 p.m.

Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library (comments)

12:14 p.m.

Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? (comments)

11:06 a.m.

I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer (comments)

Aug. 14, 2025

6:19 p.m.

Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness (comments)

4:56 p.m.

Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy (comments)

4:08 p.m.

Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI (comments)

1:26 p.m.

Why LLMs can't really build software (comments)

Aug. 13, 2025

6:42 p.m.

PYX: The next step in Python packaging (comments)

3:41 p.m.

Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol (comments)

3:19 p.m.

This website is for humans (comments)

10:19 a.m.

FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support (comments)

6:59 a.m.

Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything (comments)

1:14 a.m.

VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project (comments)

12:17 a.m.

Search all text in New York City (comments)

Aug. 12, 2025

4:02 p.m.

Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings (comments)

4:02 p.m.

Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context (comments)

2:56 p.m.

Why are there so many rationalist cults? (comments)

1:15 p.m.

What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? (comments)

11:56 a.m.

Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack (comments)

Aug. 11, 2025

4:33 p.m.

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act (comments)

3:47 p.m.

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation (comments)

2:22 p.m.

Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta (comments)

2:03 p.m.

Claude Code is all you need (comments)

1:59 p.m.

I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file (comments)

12:38 p.m.

Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations (comments)

5:56 a.m.

The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report (comments)

Aug. 10, 2025

4:50 p.m.

Fight Chat Control (comments)

1:32 p.m.

Try and (comments)

Aug. 9, 2025

10:27 p.m.

How I code with AI on a budget/free (comments)

6:18 p.m.

Debian 13 "Trixie" (comments)

1:31 p.m.

OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second (comments)

1:25 p.m.

Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient (comments)

Aug. 8, 2025

7:27 p.m.

Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? (comments)

7:12 p.m.

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died (comments)

6:19 p.m.

I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace (comments)

11:41 a.m.

Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation (comments)