HN 500

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

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Sept. 14, 2025

7 a.m.
Models of European Metro Stations (comments)

Sept. 13, 2025

11:50 p.m.
Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall (comments)
12:02 p.m.
A store that generates products from anything you type in search (comments)

Sept. 12, 2025

6:30 p.m.
UTF-8 is a brilliant design (comments)
6:18 p.m.
EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy (comments)
4:57 p.m.
QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system (comments)
4:13 p.m.
Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens (comments)
2:44 p.m.
Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems (comments)
12:10 p.m.
The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody (comments)
6:32 a.m.
Qwen3-Next (comments)

Sept. 11, 2025

11:45 p.m.
Why our website looks like an operating system (comments)
8:35 p.m.
Nano Banana image examples (comments)
8:59 a.m.
Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured (comments)
1:27 a.m.
Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal (comments)

Sept. 10, 2025

9:49 p.m.
KDE launches its own distribution (comments)
7:02 p.m.
Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah (comments)
4:20 p.m.
I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens (comments)
4:04 p.m.
ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access (comments)
10:08 a.m.
Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone" (comments)
2:59 a.m.
I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory (comments)

Sept. 9, 2025

6:25 p.m.
Memory Integrity Enforcement (comments)
6:12 p.m.
iPhone Air (comments)
5:57 p.m.
E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens (comments)
4:27 p.m.
ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones (comments)
3:11 p.m.
We all dodged a bullet (comments)
2:45 p.m.
US High school students' scores fall in reading and math (comments)
2:25 p.m.
Claude now has access to a server-side container environment (comments)
2:25 p.m.
New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care (comments)
1:16 p.m.
Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal (comments)
6:10 a.m.
Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML (comments)
1:09 a.m.
No adblocker detected (comments)

Sept. 8, 2025

8:07 p.m.
Chat Control Must Be Stopped (comments)
5:33 p.m.
iPhone dumbphone (comments)
4:43 p.m.
Signal Secure Backups (comments)
3:37 p.m.
NPM debug and chalk packages compromised (comments)
12:59 p.m.
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say (comments)
11:24 a.m.
14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal (comments)
7:58 a.m.
Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management (comments)

Sept. 7, 2025

11:53 p.m.
Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver (comments)
3:20 p.m.
The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge (comments)
11 a.m.
Serverless Horrors (comments)
1:44 a.m.
Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio (comments)

Sept. 6, 2025

1:52 p.m.
AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time (comments)
1:20 p.m.
996 (comments)

Sept. 5, 2025

11:23 p.m.
Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy (comments)
7:52 p.m.
Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors (comments)
2:34 p.m.
Purposeful animations (comments)
12:36 p.m.
I'm absolutely right (comments)
11:56 a.m.
I Ditched Docker for Podman (and You Should Too) (comments)
12:55 a.m.
Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector (comments)

Sept. 4, 2025

6:06 p.m.
LLM Visualization (comments)
4:32 p.m.
Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo (comments)
3:30 p.m.
Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks (comments)
12:29 p.m.
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself (comments)
12:12 p.m.
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company (comments)
5:56 a.m.
30 minutes with a stranger (comments)

Sept. 3, 2025

9:18 p.m.
Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up (comments)
3:07 p.m.
Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed (comments)
12:06 p.m.
MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline (comments)

Sept. 2, 2025

11:10 p.m.
The maths you need to start understanding LLMs (comments)
8:26 p.m.
Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts (comments)
7:34 p.m.
A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code (comments)
5:14 p.m.
We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that (comments)
4:04 p.m.
Anthropic raises $13B Series F (comments)
6:57 a.m.
Next.js Is Infuriating (comments)

Sept. 1, 2025

6:47 p.m.
Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect (comments)
2:27 p.m.
Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me (comments)
1:17 p.m.
Bear is now source-available (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)
9:40 a.m.
An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia (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)