HN 500

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

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March 14, 2025

4:10 p.m.
Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update (comments)
12:25 p.m.
A look at Firefox forks (comments)

March 13, 2025

8:35 p.m.
“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams (comments)
7:05 p.m.
The Lost Art of Logarithms (comments)
12:20 p.m.
OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules (comments)
7:59 a.m.
Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it (comments)

March 12, 2025

9:05 p.m.
Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died (comments)
3:09 p.m.
Gemini Robotics (comments)
12:56 p.m.
The DuckDB Local UI (comments)
12:08 p.m.
Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser (comments)

March 11, 2025

10:18 p.m.
The Startup CTO's Handbook (comments)
2:32 p.m.
A 10x Faster TypeScript (comments)
2:14 p.m.
Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator (comments)
12:40 p.m.
RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI (comments)
12:02 p.m.
Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories (comments)
1:05 a.m.
Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening (comments)

March 10, 2025

5:30 p.m.
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store (comments)
1:12 p.m.
Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors (comments)
10:15 a.m.
Go European: Discover European products and services (comments)
6:44 a.m.
Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter (comments)

March 9, 2025

10:53 p.m.
Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023) (comments)
5:40 p.m.
Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index (comments)
1:40 p.m.
It is as if you were on your phone (comments)
11:08 a.m.
US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s (comments)
3:08 a.m.
My 16-month theanine self-experiment (comments)

March 8, 2025

6:11 p.m.
Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think (comments)
7:25 a.m.
Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions (comments)

March 7, 2025

10:54 p.m.
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers (comments)
6:34 p.m.
Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance (comments)

March 6, 2025

5:48 p.m.
Succinct data structures (comments)
5:39 p.m.
Mistral OCR (comments)
4:37 p.m.
Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof (comments)
12:33 p.m.
Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it (comments)
8:47 a.m.
Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord (comments)
12:53 a.m.
The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide (comments)

March 5, 2025

7:09 p.m.
Tailscale is pretty useful (comments)
6:07 p.m.
Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order (comments)
2:06 p.m.
MacBook Air M4 (comments)
1:59 p.m.
Apple M3 Ultra (comments)
10:03 a.m.
Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award (comments)
2:34 a.m.
Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges (comments)
1:58 a.m.
Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server (comments)

March 4, 2025

7:05 p.m.
Why fastDOOM is fast (comments)
3 p.m.
Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard (comments)

March 3, 2025

9:19 p.m.
Repairable Flatpack Toaster (comments)
4:04 p.m.
Apple's Software Quality Crisis (comments)
2:13 a.m.
Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll (comments)
1:17 a.m.
Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar (comments)

March 2, 2025

4:47 p.m.
Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office (comments)
9:31 a.m.
Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon (comments)

March 1, 2025

10:22 p.m.
A Letter to the American People (comments)
5:54 p.m.
The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks (comments)
5:38 p.m.
GSA Eliminates 18F (comments)

Feb. 28, 2025

11:59 p.m.
An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox (comments)
11:20 p.m.
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working (comments)
9:05 p.m.
How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps (comments)
8:51 p.m.
400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure (comments)
6:49 p.m.
Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting (comments)
8:17 a.m.
Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data (comments)
5:31 a.m.
Microsoft is killing Skype (comments)
5:20 a.m.
Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge (comments)
3:34 a.m.
macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) (comments)
1:29 a.m.
Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser (comments)
12:05 a.m.
Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" (comments)

Feb. 27, 2025

8:01 p.m.
GPT-4.5 (comments)
6:42 p.m.
EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert (comments)
5:03 p.m.
Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges (comments)

Feb. 26, 2025

6:19 p.m.
Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam (comments)
3:05 p.m.
TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] (comments)

Feb. 25, 2025

7:39 p.m.
Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC (comments)
6:39 p.m.
I Went to SQL Injection Court (comments)
3:51 p.m.
Hyperspace (comments)
8:17 a.m.
How Core Git Developers Configure Git (comments)
6:26 a.m.
Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty (comments)
2:27 a.m.
DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference (comments)
1:40 a.m.
DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse (comments)

Feb. 24, 2025

9:25 p.m.
“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study” (comments)
6:28 p.m.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code (comments)
3:48 p.m.
Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone (comments)
3:24 p.m.
Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique (comments)
12:15 p.m.
I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass (comments)
11:05 a.m.
Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US (comments)

Feb. 23, 2025

3:48 p.m.
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds (comments)
8:18 a.m.
Half-Life (comments)

Feb. 22, 2025

11:55 p.m.
Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022) (comments)
10:08 p.m.
OpenBSD Innovations (comments)
4:52 p.m.
FFmpeg School of Assembly Language (comments)
12:03 p.m.
DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes (comments)
9:18 a.m.
'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised (comments)

Feb. 21, 2025

10:07 p.m.
We are the builders (comments)
9:22 p.m.
20 years working on the same software product (comments)
6:22 p.m.
Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988) (comments)
5:46 p.m.
Why Ruby on Rails still matters (comments)
4:27 p.m.
I found a backdoor into my bed (comments)
3:05 p.m.
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row (comments)
2:52 p.m.
Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life (comments)
10:01 a.m.
Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding (comments)
4:24 a.m.
DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days (comments)

Feb. 20, 2025

9:39 p.m.
Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (comments)
7:36 a.m.
DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (comments)