HN 500

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

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July 10, 2025

4:29 p.m.

Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity (comments)

July 9, 2025

2:52 p.m.

Linda Yaccarino is leaving X (comments)

2:40 p.m.

Tree Borrows (comments)

July 8, 2025

10:42 p.m.

US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (comments)

5:46 p.m.

Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (comments)

8:23 a.m.

SVGs that feel like GIFs (comments)

2:18 a.m.

Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (comments)

July 7, 2025

10:58 p.m.

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (comments)

2:58 p.m.

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (comments)

12:44 p.m.

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (comments)

12:31 p.m.

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (comments)

12:05 a.m.

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (comments)

July 6, 2025

10:16 p.m.

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (comments)

7:50 p.m.

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (comments)

6:32 p.m.

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics (comments)

2:03 p.m.

Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (comments)

5:36 a.m.

Are we the baddies? (comments)

July 5, 2025

11:10 p.m.

Hidden interface controls that affect usability (comments)

2:45 p.m.

Local-first software (2019) (comments)

July 4, 2025

9:58 p.m.

Nvidia is full of shit (comments)

9:11 p.m.

Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (comments)

4:48 a.m.

The Rise of Whatever (comments)

2:04 a.m.

My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (comments)

July 3, 2025

3:03 p.m.

Introducing tmux-rs (comments)

July 2, 2025

9:10 p.m.

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (comments)

4:26 p.m.

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral (comments)

2:06 p.m.

Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) (comments)

1:40 p.m.

Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase (comments)

11:39 a.m.

Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) (comments)

July 1, 2025

7:39 p.m.

Figma files for proposed IPO (comments)

4:22 p.m.

The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million (comments)

10:20 a.m.

Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots (comments)

1:43 a.m.

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck (comments)

June 30, 2025

8:53 p.m.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering (comments)

7:03 p.m.

Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion (comments)

5:58 p.m.

Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers (comments)

June 29, 2025

1:55 p.m.

I made my VM think it has a CPU fan (comments)

7:45 a.m.

More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad (comments)

June 28, 2025

6:52 p.m.

JavaScript Trademark Update (comments)

2:45 p.m.

Engineered Addictions (comments)

2:22 p.m.

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System (comments)

11:49 a.m.

I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric (comments)

7:36 a.m.

IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites (comments)

5:27 a.m.

I deleted my second brain (comments)

12:08 a.m.

Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared (comments)

June 27, 2025

1:06 p.m.

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights (comments)

June 26, 2025

2:16 p.m.

AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome (comments)

June 25, 2025

11:26 p.m.

Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators (comments)

8:01 p.m.

A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up (comments)

7:53 p.m.

-2000 Lines of code (comments)

1:17 p.m.

OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio (comments)

1:10 p.m.

Gemini CLI (comments)

3:54 a.m.

A new PNG spec (comments)

12:13 a.m.

Thnickels (comments)

June 24, 2025

6:41 p.m.

Fun with uv and PEP 723 (comments)

6:21 p.m.

Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme (comments)

3:09 p.m.

Writing toy software is a joy (comments)

1:01 p.m.

A new PNG spec (comments)

June 23, 2025

4:27 p.m.

uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust (comments)

3:41 p.m.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images (comments)

3:14 p.m.

How I use my terminal (comments)

2:37 p.m.

Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto (comments)

June 22, 2025

9:12 p.m.

I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst (comments)

2:56 p.m.

Mechanical Watch: Exploded View (comments)

9:14 a.m.

Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022) (comments)

midnight

U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites (comments)

June 21, 2025

12:06 p.m.

Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague (comments)

3:06 a.m.

Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA (comments)

June 20, 2025

7:51 p.m.

Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly (comments)

5:01 p.m.

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures (comments)

2:57 p.m.

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix (comments)

June 19, 2025

2:42 a.m.

The Zed Debugger Is Here (comments)

12:33 a.m.

Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] (comments)

June 18, 2025

11:17 p.m.

Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry (comments)

11:11 p.m.

New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles (comments)

12:33 p.m.

Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform (comments)

June 17, 2025

8:24 p.m.

The Grug Brained Developer (2022) (comments)

5:50 p.m.

Building Effective AI Agents (comments)

5:40 p.m.

Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers (comments)

3:02 p.m.

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket (comments)

June 16, 2025

1:38 p.m.

WhatsApp introduces ads in its app (comments)

12:32 p.m.

Working on databases from prison (comments)

7:38 a.m.

Start your own Internet Resiliency Club (comments)

June 15, 2025

2:10 p.m.

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) (comments)

June 13, 2025

6:03 p.m.

I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it (comments)

8:40 a.m.

If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) (comments)

1:37 a.m.

Jemalloc Postmortem (comments)

June 12, 2025

7:05 p.m.

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure (comments)

6:11 p.m.

GCP Outage (comments)

4:12 p.m.

US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists (comments)

2:19 p.m.

Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway (comments)

11:41 a.m.

A receipt printer cured my procrastination (comments)

June 11, 2025

9:37 p.m.

Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub (comments)

8:23 p.m.

Chatterbox TTS (comments)

7:44 p.m.

Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole (comments)

June 10, 2025

7:12 p.m.

Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills (comments)

5:41 p.m.

OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80% (comments)

2:08 p.m.

Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (comments)

11:29 a.m.

"Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B (comments)

June 9, 2025

10:21 p.m.

Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests (comments)