HN 500

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

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April 26, 2025

1:04 p.m.
Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining (comments)
8:49 a.m.
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation (comments)
8:39 a.m.
An end to all this prostate trouble? (comments)

April 25, 2025

11:03 p.m.
Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney (comments)
3:25 p.m.
FBI arrests Wisconsin judge on charges of obstructing immigrant arrest (comments)
3:01 p.m.
A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen (comments)
1:48 p.m.
Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor (comments)

April 24, 2025

12:26 p.m.
I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) (comments)
8:19 a.m.
Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over (comments)
8:17 a.m.
Careless People (comments)

April 23, 2025

8:48 p.m.
DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower (comments)
7:42 p.m.
You wouldn't steal a font (comments)
4:19 p.m.
AI Horseless Carriages (comments)
2 p.m.
How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 (comments)

April 22, 2025

8:54 p.m.
Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run (comments)
11:04 a.m.
Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data (comments)

April 21, 2025

10:07 p.m.
Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life (comments)
6:29 p.m.
Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii (comments)
5:07 p.m.
Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue (comments)
11:05 a.m.
Getting Forked by Microsoft (comments)
8 a.m.
Pope Francis has died (comments)
4:31 a.m.
Python's new t-strings (comments)
4:24 a.m.
The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state (comments)

April 20, 2025

12:22 p.m.
Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs (comments)

April 19, 2025

9:04 p.m.
Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials (comments)
6:53 p.m.
Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner (comments)
2:49 p.m.
Librarians are dangerous (comments)
10:48 a.m.
Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding (comments)
6:48 a.m.
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move (comments)
12:21 a.m.
Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety (comments)

April 18, 2025

4:40 p.m.
Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code (comments)

April 17, 2025

9:35 p.m.
Potatoes in the Mail (comments)
7:03 p.m.
Gemini 2.5 Flash (comments)
2:47 p.m.
Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules (comments)
1:39 p.m.
TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale (comments)
12:50 p.m.
An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system (comments)
10:42 a.m.
Which year: guess which year each photo was taken (comments)
12:55 a.m.
Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain (comments)

April 16, 2025

8:06 p.m.
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022) (comments)
5:24 p.m.
OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal (comments)
5:01 p.m.
OpenAI o3 and o4-mini (comments)
2:28 p.m.
Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014) (comments)
1:57 a.m.
CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract (comments)

April 15, 2025

3:09 p.m.
TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days (comments)
2:38 p.m.
How to win an argument with a toddler (comments)
1:50 p.m.
America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back (comments)
11:30 a.m.
4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak (comments)
10:55 a.m.
Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data (comments)
8:22 a.m.
Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator (comments)

April 14, 2025

6:28 p.m.
Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes (comments)
5:01 p.m.
GPT-4.1 in the API (comments)
4:24 p.m.
Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations (comments)
3:03 p.m.
The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine (comments)
1:52 p.m.
A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs (comments)
4:48 a.m.
Making Software (comments)

April 13, 2025

11:53 p.m.
Everything wrong with MCP (comments)
7:13 p.m.
Open guide to equity compensation (comments)
12:03 p.m.
A Reddit bot drove me insane (comments)

April 12, 2025

5:40 p.m.
Nice things with SVG (comments)
4:26 p.m.
Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic (comments)
12:40 p.m.
Open source and self hostable/private file converter (comments)
5:47 a.m.
$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money (comments)
3:58 a.m.
Google Is Winning on Every AI Front (comments)

April 11, 2025

8:19 p.m.
Googler... ex-Googler (comments)
4:24 p.m.
Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts (comments)
2:01 p.m.
Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash (comments)
12:23 p.m.
Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte (comments)
11:39 a.m.
But what if I want a faster horse? (comments)
7:41 a.m.
Live Map of the London Underground (comments)

April 10, 2025

5:21 p.m.
Garfield Minus Garfield (comments)

April 9, 2025

5:28 p.m.
Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries (comments)
1:47 p.m.
Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers (comments)
12:58 p.m.
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? (comments)
6:02 a.m.
The best programmers I know (comments)

April 8, 2025

5:23 p.m.
Apache ECharts (comments)
3:11 p.m.
Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic (comments)
10:59 a.m.
Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant (comments)
10:36 a.m.
Tailscale has raised $160M (comments)

April 7, 2025

9:03 p.m.
Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town (comments)
4:25 p.m.
Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code (comments)
8:42 a.m.
A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn (comments)

April 6, 2025

9:14 p.m.
Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia (comments)
6:01 p.m.
Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit (comments)
9:42 a.m.
The “S” in MCP Stands for Security (comments)
7:36 a.m.
Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover (comments)

April 5, 2025

6:33 p.m.
The Llama 4 herd (comments)
5:57 p.m.
What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (comments)
2:26 p.m.
Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think? (comments)

April 4, 2025

8:37 p.m.
The blissful Zen of a good side project (comments)
10:54 a.m.
Bored of It (comments)

April 3, 2025

9:49 p.m.
Microsoft’s original source code (comments)
5:55 p.m.
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (comments)
4:13 p.m.
AI 2027 (comments)
3:24 p.m.
Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers (comments)
2:47 p.m.
AnimeJs v4 Is Here (comments)
2:40 a.m.
I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad (comments)

April 2, 2025

8:39 p.m.
US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU (comments)
8:02 p.m.
Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers (comments)
6:14 p.m.
Why I don't discuss politics with friends (comments)
4:49 p.m.
Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator (comments)