HN 500

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

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Feb. 4, 2023

6:32 p.m.

Scalability is overrated (comments)

2:56 p.m.

Open Assistant – project meant to give everyone access to a great chat based LLM (comments)

Feb. 3, 2023

12:45 p.m.

Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now (comments)

9:47 a.m.

Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer (comments)

12:20 a.m.

Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes (comments)

Feb. 2, 2023

9:53 p.m.

I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer (comments)

6:14 p.m.

Math breakdown: Anime homing missiles (comments)

4 p.m.

Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser (comments)

1:46 p.m.

Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU (comments)

12:59 p.m.

Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dunkin' Donuts (comments)

11:08 a.m.

The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation (comments)

10:34 a.m.

Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress (comments)

6:12 a.m.

Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API (comments)

4:31 a.m.

AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch (comments)

Feb. 1, 2023

7:48 p.m.

Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight (comments)

6:08 p.m.

ChatGPT Plus (comments)

2:15 p.m.

Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative (comments)

Jan. 31, 2023

9:19 p.m.

Ask HN: How do you test SQL? (comments)

7:56 p.m.

Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose access to the original (comments)

7:06 p.m.

Hermes: An open-source document management system (comments)

4:46 p.m.

California cities to lose all zoning powers in 2 days (comments)

4:36 p.m.

“In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be wiped” (comments)

4:49 a.m.

Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen? (comments)

Jan. 30, 2023

9:10 p.m.

Automerge 2.0 (comments)

1:16 p.m.

Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong? (comments)

Jan. 29, 2023

8:18 p.m.

The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed (comments)

7:42 p.m.

AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements (comments)

5:02 p.m.

FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls (comments)

2:52 p.m.

The window trick of Las Vegas hotels (comments)

Jan. 28, 2023

6:05 p.m.

Chronophoto (comments)

Jan. 27, 2023

11:24 p.m.

Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders (comments)

3:42 p.m.

Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell (comments)

3:42 p.m.

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (comments)

11:56 a.m.

Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (comments)

Jan. 26, 2023

6:32 p.m.

Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate (comments)

5:06 p.m.

Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety (comments)

10:32 a.m.

Realistic computer-generated handwriting (comments)

Jan. 25, 2023

11:55 p.m.

Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked (comments)

6:36 p.m.

OpenJourney: Midjourney, but Open Source (comments)

5:20 p.m.

Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts (comments)

9:39 a.m.

Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel (comments)

9:27 a.m.

LastPass breach gets worse (comments)

7 a.m.

Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You (comments)

2:54 a.m.

Evidence that Adani Group has engaged in stock manipulation and accounting fraud (comments)

Jan. 24, 2023

6:21 p.m.

Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure (comments)

4:39 p.m.

Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021) (comments)

3:57 p.m.

Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, ad-free and text only (comments)

Jan. 23, 2023

11:10 p.m.

Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes (comments)

Jan. 22, 2023

6:44 p.m.

WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans (comments)

4:25 a.m.

New AI edits images based on text instructions (comments)

Jan. 21, 2023

6:14 p.m.

Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth (comments)

Jan. 20, 2023

11:41 p.m.

Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment (comments)

6:40 p.m.

NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design (comments)

6:39 p.m.

Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 (comments)

4:54 p.m.

Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave (comments)

10:21 a.m.

Google to reduce workforce by 12k (comments)

5:35 a.m.

I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year (comments)

Jan. 19, 2023

10:39 p.m.

How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way (comments)

4:55 p.m.

A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016) (comments)

3:58 p.m.

Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes (comments)

1:01 p.m.

Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math? (comments)

12:17 p.m.

Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater (comments)

8:45 a.m.

Pandoc 3.0 (comments)

8:18 a.m.

What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) (comments)

12:52 a.m.

Amazon Closing AmazonSmile (comments)

Jan. 18, 2023

11:27 p.m.

Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engineer (2021) (comments)

10:27 p.m.

HC-tree is an experimental high-concurrency database back end for SQLite (comments)

9:07 p.m.

Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records (comments)

1:35 p.m.

OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic (comments)

Jan. 17, 2023

7:50 p.m.

Microsoft to lay off 11k employees (comments)

4:40 p.m.

Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video] (comments)

2:18 p.m.

Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max (comments)

1:38 a.m.

The Pretty Good House (comments)

Jan. 16, 2023

12:32 p.m.

Wobbly clock (comments)

10:32 a.m.

Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition (comments)

8:44 a.m.

The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget (comments)

Jan. 15, 2023

9:14 p.m.

The Shit Show (comments)

6:21 p.m.

For your next side project, make a browser extension (comments)

12:20 p.m.

Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised? (comments)

1:13 a.m.

Four thousand weeks (comments)

Jan. 14, 2023

8:35 a.m.

YouTube Addiction (comments)

Jan. 13, 2023

4:55 p.m.

Analog Chess (comments)

11:57 a.m.

Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming? (comments)

7:09 a.m.

A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal (comments)

Jan. 12, 2023

8:45 p.m.

The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies (comments)

2:47 p.m.

Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022) (comments)

11:30 a.m.

Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden (comments)

10:15 a.m.

The Yaml document from hell (comments)

7:51 a.m.

Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart? (comments)

Jan. 11, 2023

7 p.m.

NYC Slice (comments)

8:34 a.m.

NanoGPT (comments)

Jan. 10, 2023

7:15 p.m.

Pirate Weather: A free, open, and documented forecast API (comments)

5:13 p.m.

Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies (comments)

2:52 p.m.

Taking over a Dead IoT Company (comments)

1:32 p.m.

Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder. (comments)

8:32 a.m.

Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT (comments)

Jan. 9, 2023

8:46 p.m.

Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine (comments)

4:57 p.m.

How to store your app's entire state in the url (comments)

2:28 p.m.

Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror (comments)

11:48 a.m.

VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model (comments)