HN 500

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

All times are in UTC. New posts are checked every 15 minutes. JSON feed.

March 20, 2023

3:56 p.m.
Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux (comments)
2:39 p.m.
Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts (comments)
1:22 p.m.
Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London (comments)

March 19, 2023

12:54 p.m.
Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video] (comments)
7:42 a.m.
I’m concerned AI will make CS jobs obsolete (comments)

March 18, 2023

4:27 p.m.
More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships (comments)
12:49 a.m.
SETI@home is in hibernation (comments)

March 17, 2023

4:10 p.m.
ViperGPT: Visual Inference via Python Execution for Reasoning (comments)
2:50 p.m.
Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says (comments)
2:29 p.m.
Negativity drives online news consumption (comments)
5:06 a.m.
Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents (comments)
4:39 a.m.
Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems (comments)

March 16, 2023

7:41 p.m.
We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams (comments)
7:11 p.m.
Introducing react.dev (comments)
5:19 p.m.
TypeScript 5.0 (comments)
5:14 p.m.
Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook (comments)
1:50 p.m.
Lego violates GPL by keep Blender-based BrickLink Studio source closed (2021) (comments)
12:46 p.m.
Not by AI (comments)

March 15, 2023

4:39 p.m.
Epic Games to pay $245M for tricking users into making unwanted charges (comments)
4:38 p.m.
DreamWorks releases OpenMoonRay source code (comments)
10:57 a.m.
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know (comments)
6:58 a.m.
Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you? (comments)

March 14, 2023

8:28 p.m.
My startup banking story (comments)
4:55 p.m.
GPT-4 (comments)
1:14 p.m.
Meta plans further 10k layoffs (comments)

March 13, 2023

9:14 p.m.
Experian is a pile of dark pattern garbage (comments)
8:42 p.m.
Changes at YC (comments)
4:45 p.m.
Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners (comments)
3:44 p.m.
Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013) (comments)
3:14 p.m.
Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python (comments)
3:01 p.m.
Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model (comments)
4:14 a.m.
Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course (comments)
3:49 a.m.
Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today (comments)

March 12, 2023

10:23 p.m.
Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC (comments)
10:17 p.m.
Dalai: Automatically install, run, and play with LLaMA on your computer (comments)
5 p.m.
Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11 (comments)
1:58 p.m.
TypeScripting the technical interview (comments)
9:49 a.m.
Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen (comments)

March 11, 2023

7:19 p.m.
Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment (comments)
6:20 p.m.
ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete (comments)
12:02 p.m.
Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof (comments)

March 10, 2023

8:01 p.m.
Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++, with Apple Silicon support (comments)
4:46 p.m.
FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank (comments)
3:44 p.m.
Giving the finger is a ‘God-given right’, Canadian judge rules (comments)
3:55 a.m.
Visual ChatGPT (comments)
2:39 a.m.
Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API (comments)

March 9, 2023

11:42 p.m.
Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus (comments)
9:16 p.m.
Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank? (comments)
5:15 p.m.
Flux Keyboard (comments)
2:29 p.m.
The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux (comments)
3 a.m.
Battery-free Game Boy (2020) (comments)

March 8, 2023

8:21 p.m.
Lisp-powered laptop with a battery life measured in years (comments)
7:28 p.m.
Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT (comments)
3:59 p.m.
Google Groups has been left to die (comments)
3:03 p.m.
AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search (comments)
6:03 a.m.
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021) (comments)

March 7, 2023

3:28 p.m.
Hardware microphone disconnect (2021) (comments)
2:39 a.m.
Discord, or the Death of Lore (comments)

March 6, 2023

5:47 p.m.
Reliability: It’s Not Great (comments)
5:06 p.m.
Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mistake (comments)
12:27 p.m.
Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content for other roles (comments)
10:21 a.m.
I'm a very slow thinker (2016) (comments)

March 5, 2023

6:35 p.m.
Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game (comments)
5:10 p.m.
After Dark Screensavers in CSS (comments)
11:10 a.m.
Dropping the SAT requirement is a luxury belief (comments)
4:13 a.m.
3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous (comments)

March 4, 2023

12:50 a.m.
Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion? (comments)

March 3, 2023

8:36 p.m.
ARM64 Linux Workstation (comments)
10:46 a.m.
Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents (comments)

March 2, 2023

10:28 p.m.
New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates (comments)
6:43 p.m.
Banning words won’t make the world more just (comments)
6:13 p.m.
A Senior Engineer's Guide to the System Design Interview (comments)
3:08 p.m.
Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning (comments)
9:51 a.m.
Honestly, It's Probably the Phones (comments)
2:11 a.m.
U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs (comments)

March 1, 2023

6:01 p.m.
Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs (comments)
8:21 a.m.
OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-Source, and For-Profit (comments)

Feb. 28, 2023

6:19 p.m.
Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks (comments)
4:49 p.m.
Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022 (comments)
5:55 a.m.
“Clean” code, horrible performance (comments)
4:13 a.m.
FFmpeg 6.0 (comments)

Feb. 27, 2023

10:41 p.m.
Keep your AI claims in check (comments)
4:16 p.m.
The Camera-Shy Hoodie (comments)
11:43 a.m.
Most data work seems fundamentally worthless (comments)
4:43 a.m.
Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery (comments)

Feb. 26, 2023

8:38 p.m.
Help! Is This Arabic? (comments)
12:41 p.m.
Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says (comments)

Feb. 25, 2023

5:09 p.m.
Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone (comments)
6 a.m.
My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account (comments)
5:40 a.m.
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (comments)

Feb. 24, 2023

7:24 p.m.
Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit (comments)
4:58 p.m.
I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to (comments)

Feb. 23, 2023

8:47 p.m.
The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web (comments)
7:06 p.m.
Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills (comments)
5:29 p.m.
Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical (comments)
4:06 p.m.
Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016) (comments)
7:35 a.m.
Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab (comments)

Feb. 22, 2023

7:47 p.m.
Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls (comments)
4:09 p.m.
Show HN: AskHN (comments)

Feb. 21, 2023

11:27 p.m.
Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible (comments)