HN 500

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

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Dec. 1, 2023

4:37 a.m.
Code is run more than read (comments)
1:53 a.m.
Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy (comments)

Nov. 30, 2023

6:39 p.m.
Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models (comments)
6:29 p.m.
The weirdest bug I've seen yet (comments)
10:09 a.m.
I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans (comments)
7:35 a.m.
Brickception (comments)
1:57 a.m.
Henry Kissinger Has Died (comments)
1:08 a.m.
Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (comments)

Nov. 29, 2023

7:29 p.m.
Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file (comments)
6:42 p.m.
Who makes the most reliable new cars? (comments)
9:18 a.m.
Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware (comments)
8:57 a.m.
The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster (comments)

Nov. 28, 2023

11:16 p.m.
My $500M Mars rover mistake (comments)
9:03 p.m.
Charlie Munger has died (comments)
5:56 p.m.
MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers (comments)
11:12 a.m.
Writing documentation for your house (comments)

Nov. 27, 2023

6:16 p.m.
My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar (comments)
4:50 p.m.
$20k bounty was claimed (comments)
4:47 p.m.
Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada (comments)
2:18 p.m.
Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop (comments)
12:54 p.m.
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data (comments)
7:57 a.m.
Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to Switch to Firefox (comments)
7:43 a.m.
Brother have gotten to where they are now, by not innovating (comments)
3:55 a.m.
Google Drive files suddenly disappeared (comments)

Nov. 25, 2023

6:14 p.m.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation (comments)
5:30 p.m.
Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers (comments)
3:44 a.m.
The Bond villain compliance strategy (comments)

Nov. 24, 2023

10:07 p.m.
Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall (comments)
4:50 p.m.
Generative AI for Beginners (comments)
6:37 a.m.
Unciv (comments)

Nov. 23, 2023

9:33 p.m.
YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster (comments)
4:16 p.m.
Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen (comments)
9:10 a.m.
Ansel (comments)
12:31 a.m.
test, [, and [[ (2020) (comments)

Nov. 22, 2023

11:07 p.m.
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster (comments)
4:44 p.m.
Reflecting on 18 Years at Google (comments)
12:17 p.m.
Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor (comments)
6:01 a.m.
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO (comments)

Nov. 21, 2023

10:30 p.m.
Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA? (comments)
7:01 p.m.
Stable Video Diffusion (comments)
5:20 p.m.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty (comments)
4:35 p.m.
Claude 2.1 (comments)
8:50 a.m.
Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh/kg (comments)

Nov. 20, 2023

11:31 p.m.
OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired (comments)
7:11 p.m.
Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO (comments)
6:47 p.m.
After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data (comments)
1:50 p.m.
550 of 700 Employees OpenAI tell the board to resign (comments)
1:41 p.m.
OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns (comments)
1:16 p.m.
I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions (comments)
10:16 a.m.
YouTube artificially slows down video load times when using Firefox (comments)
7:56 a.m.
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft (comments)
5:22 a.m.
Krita AI Diffusion (comments)
5:19 a.m.
Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down (comments)

Nov. 19, 2023

5:40 p.m.
StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech (comments)
12:54 a.m.
Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads (comments)

Nov. 18, 2023

10:51 p.m.
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (comments)
4:44 p.m.
Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection (comments)
4:07 p.m.
Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI (comments)
8:17 a.m.
New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy (comments)
7:04 a.m.
Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI (comments)
12:10 a.m.
Greg Brockman quits OpenAI (comments)

Nov. 17, 2023

11:42 p.m.
Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman (comments)
8:28 p.m.
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (comments)
6:35 p.m.
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update (comments)
3:02 p.m.
280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (comments)
2:57 p.m.
Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected (comments)

Nov. 16, 2023

6:04 p.m.
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (comments)
5:52 p.m.
I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video] (comments)
4:18 p.m.
Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive (comments)
11:07 a.m.
I think I need to go lie down (comments)

Nov. 15, 2023

9:41 p.m.
Push ifs up and fors down (comments)
8:42 p.m.
Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year (comments)
2:31 p.m.
The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021) (comments)
9:15 a.m.
Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer (comments)

Nov. 14, 2023

5:49 p.m.
Reptar (comments)
3:42 p.m.
GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting (comments)
12:11 p.m.
Blender 4.0 (comments)
10:17 a.m.
EU Parliament wants to remove chat control requirements and safeguard encryption (comments)
1:32 a.m.
Starship will attempt a launch this Friday (comments)
12:08 a.m.
A coder considers the waning days of the craft (comments)

Nov. 13, 2023

11:32 p.m.
Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony (comments)
5:17 p.m.
Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB (comments)
2:28 p.m.
Placemark is going open source and shutting down (comments)
9:18 a.m.
Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video] (comments)

Nov. 12, 2023

8:48 p.m.
Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of freedom (comments)
4 p.m.
HTML First (comments)

Nov. 11, 2023

6:05 p.m.
It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian (comments)
11:04 a.m.
How I got here (comments)
1:35 a.m.
Debugging tricks in the browser (comments)

Nov. 10, 2023

5:20 p.m.
Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it (comments)
7:39 a.m.
I skipped to the ending (comments)
4:04 a.m.
Cursorless is alien magic from the future (comments)

Nov. 9, 2023

10:45 p.m.
Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials (comments)
8:16 p.m.
Monaspace (comments)
5:55 p.m.
Steam Deck OLED (comments)
4:20 p.m.
What I learned getting acquired by Google (comments)
12:40 a.m.
Omegle founder shuts down site forever? (comments)

Nov. 8, 2023

2:02 p.m.
Major outages across ChatGPT and API (comments)
1:13 p.m.
How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet (comments)
10:41 a.m.
Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job (comments)