HN 500

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

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May 15, 2025

6:06 p.m.
Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment (comments)
2:57 a.m.
Human (comments)

May 14, 2025

3:10 p.m.
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms (comments)
12:46 p.m.
What is HDR, anyway? (comments)

May 13, 2025

11:49 a.m.
Internet Artifacts (comments)
10:31 a.m.
The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority (comments)
8:41 a.m.
Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? (comments)
5:23 a.m.
Firefox moves to GitHub (comments)

May 12, 2025

4:39 p.m.
I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher) (comments)
3:28 p.m.
The Barbican (comments)

May 11, 2025

4:31 p.m.
Plain Vanilla Web (comments)
5:11 a.m.
One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software (comments)
3:01 a.m.
Leaving Google (comments)

May 10, 2025

2:37 p.m.
A critical look at MCP (comments)
3:39 a.m.
Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp (comments)
2:56 a.m.
A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules (comments)

May 9, 2025

8:51 p.m.
Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools (comments)
2:31 p.m.
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC (comments)
12:13 p.m.
NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions (comments)
4:55 a.m.
LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego (comments)

May 8, 2025

6:40 p.m.
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (comments)
5:02 p.m.
Reservoir Sampling (comments)
4:35 p.m.
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (comments)
4:30 p.m.
First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (comments)
1:59 p.m.
My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (comments)
1:05 p.m.
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? (comments)

May 7, 2025

5:32 p.m.
Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server (comments)
2:57 p.m.
Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O (comments)
2:24 p.m.
Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem (comments)
12:33 p.m.
Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (comments)
12:18 p.m.
CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (comments)
6:38 a.m.
Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (comments)

May 6, 2025

8:39 p.m.
Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools (comments)
5:51 p.m.
Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ (comments)
3:10 p.m.
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (comments)
3:02 p.m.
Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs (comments)
6:01 a.m.
The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything (comments)
12:57 a.m.
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B (comments)

May 5, 2025

8:17 p.m.
Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency (comments)
6:08 p.m.
Evolving OpenAI's Structure (comments)
12:22 p.m.
The Death of Daydreaming (comments)

May 4, 2025

7:17 p.m.
I'd rather read the prompt (comments)
5:38 p.m.
Design for 3D-Printing (comments)
7:13 a.m.
I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt (comments)

May 3, 2025

6:26 p.m.
We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails (comments)
6:15 p.m.
Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor (comments)
8:28 a.m.
Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire (comments)
6:45 a.m.
Accountability Sinks (comments)

May 2, 2025

11:20 p.m.
Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials (comments)
6:12 p.m.
Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics (comments)
10:58 a.m.
How to live an intellectually rich life (comments)

May 1, 2025

4:02 p.m.
Claude Integrations (comments)
3:56 p.m.
Redis is open source again (comments)
3:01 p.m.
Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research (comments)
12:27 p.m.
Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral (comments)
11:15 a.m.
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers (comments)
12:06 a.m.
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (comments)
12:03 a.m.
Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds (comments)

April 30, 2025

3:18 p.m.
Someone at YouTube needs glasses (comments)
1:07 p.m.
Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week (comments)
11:42 a.m.
Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left (comments)
9:17 a.m.
Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools (comments)
7:45 a.m.
I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors (comments)
3:06 a.m.
Sycophancy in GPT-4o (comments)

April 29, 2025

8:59 p.m.
Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule (comments)
5:19 p.m.
Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself (comments)
3:37 p.m.
Firefox tab groups are here (comments)
2:30 p.m.
Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 (comments)
7:08 a.m.
Try Switching to Kagi (comments)
5:45 a.m.
LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo (comments)

April 28, 2025

11:27 p.m.
Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background? (comments)
11:03 p.m.
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding (comments)
10:28 p.m.
I use zip bombs to protect my server (comments)
8:44 p.m.
Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster (comments)
6:47 p.m.
Migrating away from Rust (comments)
11:44 a.m.
Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python (comments)
10:50 a.m.
Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal (comments)

April 27, 2025

7:26 p.m.
Internet in a Box (comments)
7:12 p.m.
How a single line of code could brick your iPhone (comments)

April 26, 2025

1:04 p.m.
Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining (comments)
12:51 p.m.
Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad (comments)
11:41 a.m.
The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting (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)
5:31 a.m.
Cloth (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)