HN 500

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

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June 8, 2023

12:56 a.m.
Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore (comments)

June 7, 2023

6:33 p.m.
Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English (comments)
6:19 p.m.
Reddit's Recently Announced API Changes, and the future of /r/blind (comments)
3:31 p.m.
Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL (comments)
2:43 p.m.
uBlock Origin 1.50.0 (comments)

June 6, 2023

9:55 p.m.
Notes on Vision Pro (comments)
7:55 p.m.
Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion (comments)
6:04 p.m.
US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles (comments)
4:50 p.m.
GGML – AI at the Edge (comments)
1:46 p.m.
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux (comments)
1:10 p.m.
US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance (comments)
10:52 a.m.
Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests (comments)
12:39 a.m.
Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami (comments)

June 5, 2023

7:04 p.m.
Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer (comments)
4:03 p.m.
Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat (comments)
3:13 p.m.
SEC Sues Binance and CEO Zhao for Breaking US Securities Rules (comments)
3:10 p.m.
GPT Best Practices (comments)
1:01 p.m.
Google no longer automatically indexes websites? (comments)
7:27 a.m.
Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics (comments)
7:03 a.m.
The Rust I wanted had no future (comments)
4:34 a.m.
Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest (comments)

June 4, 2023

3:07 p.m.
Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS (comments)
3:06 p.m.
Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (comments)
7:36 a.m.
Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them? (comments)
7:07 a.m.
DreamBerd is a perfect programming language (comments)

June 3, 2023

9:13 a.m.
Fq: Jq for Binary Formats (comments)

June 2, 2023

7:49 p.m.
Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time (comments)
7:27 a.m.
California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working (comments)

June 1, 2023

4:11 p.m.
Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (comments)
8:47 a.m.
Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design (comments)

May 31, 2023

5:30 p.m.
Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing (comments)
3:58 p.m.
The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself (comments)
1:41 p.m.
Slide to Unlock (comments)
10:56 a.m.
Rarbg Is No More (comments)
9:11 a.m.
Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022) (comments)
3:46 a.m.
Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately? (comments)
12:58 a.m.
Nvidia DGX GH200: 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System (comments)

May 30, 2023

8:20 p.m.
Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant (comments)
7:42 p.m.
Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira (comments)
6:30 p.m.
Hacking my “smart” toothbrush (comments)
5:53 p.m.
Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup (comments)
5:33 p.m.
I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog. Their lawyers are trying to ruin me (comments)
5:26 p.m.
JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard (comments)
8:02 a.m.
Rust has been forked to the Crab Language (comments)

May 29, 2023

10:44 p.m.
An open-source alternative to QuickBooks (comments)
10:10 p.m.
HBO Max new Captcha system (comments)
9:44 p.m.
Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics (comments)
1:04 p.m.
India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces (comments)
12:49 p.m.
300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time (comments)
4:03 a.m.
Let us serve you, but don't bring us down (comments)

May 28, 2023

5:46 a.m.
Why I Left Rust (comments)

May 27, 2023

6:36 p.m.
Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations (comments)
5:46 p.m.
Tarkovsky's films online for free (comments)
11:54 a.m.
Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013) (comments)

May 26, 2023

7:53 p.m.
Times New Bastard (comments)
7:42 p.m.
0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years (comments)
5:48 p.m.
Paper Airplane Designs (comments)
1:11 p.m.
Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases (comments)
1:43 a.m.
Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost (comments)

May 25, 2023

8:38 p.m.
Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site (comments)
3:47 p.m.
AI Canon (comments)
12:22 p.m.
Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf] (comments)

May 24, 2023

11:25 p.m.
The tiny corp raised $5.1M (comments)
9:13 p.m.
The brand new Thunderbird logo (comments)
5:41 p.m.
The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives (comments)
5:28 p.m.
PyPI Was Subpoenaed (comments)
3:12 p.m.
Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022) (comments)
11 a.m.
Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally? (comments)

May 23, 2023

5:39 p.m.
Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software (comments)
2:39 p.m.
Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA (comments)
7:26 a.m.
FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year (comments)
1:38 a.m.
Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012) (comments)

May 22, 2023

7:31 p.m.
Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption (comments)
5:27 p.m.
Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages (comments)
11:50 a.m.
Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used (comments)
9:26 a.m.
Memory Allocation (comments)
8:42 a.m.
Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S. (comments)
2:11 a.m.
Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple (comments)

May 21, 2023

11:28 p.m.
Beej's Guide to Network Programming (comments)
8:40 p.m.
PrivateGPT (comments)
6:59 a.m.
Writing Python like it's Rust (comments)

May 20, 2023

2:47 p.m.
Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT (comments)
6:18 a.m.
Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline (comments)

May 19, 2023

8:22 p.m.
Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser (comments)
11:50 a.m.
Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine (comments)
11:30 a.m.
Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd (comments)
10:17 a.m.
Orb Farm (comments)

May 18, 2023

4:58 p.m.
Why is my dryer radioactive? (comments)
4:40 p.m.
ChatGPT app for iOS (comments)
3:29 a.m.
What happened with ASUS routers this morning? (comments)

May 17, 2023

4:43 p.m.
Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper? (comments)
3:13 p.m.
Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers (comments)
4:43 a.m.
Rekt.network (comments)

May 16, 2023

4:14 p.m.
A guidance language for controlling LLMs (comments)
1:27 p.m.
The Sourdough Framework (comments)
12:07 p.m.
Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features (comments)
11:06 a.m.
Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI (comments)
10:52 a.m.
Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease (comments)
10:32 a.m.
JPMorgan Chase & Co tracks employees to dystopian extents (comments)

May 15, 2023

10:25 p.m.
My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated (comments)