HN 500

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

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Oct. 5, 2022

5:38 p.m.

Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models (comments)

Oct. 4, 2022

5:59 p.m.

The Illustrated Stable Diffusion (comments)

4:49 p.m.

LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape (comments)

3:49 p.m.

Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print (comments)

11:05 a.m.

The deception of “buying” digital movies (comments)

10:46 a.m.

EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 (comments)

7:29 a.m.

Using Google Maps history to see if my boyfriend and I could have met earlier (comments)

Oct. 3, 2022

9:58 p.m.

We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online (comments)

4:24 p.m.

Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown (comments)

2:25 p.m.

Postgres WASM (comments)

9:43 a.m.

The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken (comments)

1:57 a.m.

Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living (comments)

Oct. 2, 2022

5:32 a.m.

Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society (comments)

12:10 a.m.

Stadia died because no one trusts Google (comments)

Oct. 1, 2022

7 p.m.

Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic (comments)

9:58 a.m.

Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots (comments)

Sept. 30, 2022

4:44 p.m.

Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on (comments)

1:08 p.m.

Select * from cloud (comments)

9:39 a.m.

Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 (comments)

Sept. 29, 2022

10:41 p.m.

Why modern software is slow (comments)

7:37 p.m.

Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran – We need your help (comments)

7 p.m.

Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 (comments)

6:57 p.m.

DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion (comments)

4:17 p.m.

Google is shutting down Stadia (comments)

1:16 p.m.

Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text (comments)

11:53 a.m.

Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 (comments)

6:09 a.m.

How to build a personal webpage from scratch (comments)

4:08 a.m.

RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs (comments)

Sept. 28, 2022

10:55 p.m.

Show HN: ButtFish – Transmit Morse Code of chess moves to your butt (comments)

2:40 p.m.

Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real life (comments)

Sept. 27, 2022

9:32 p.m.

Integrating with Fastmail (comments)

7:49 p.m.

Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding (comments)

3:50 p.m.

Someone is pretending to be me (comments)

1:23 p.m.

Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea (comments)

1:01 p.m.

Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime (comments)

9:18 a.m.

Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI (comments)

Sept. 26, 2022

7:45 p.m.

Dear Chess World (comments)

7:19 p.m.

A CTO should be technical (comments)

7:13 p.m.

Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates (comments)

8:37 a.m.

Turns are better than radians (comments)

Sept. 25, 2022

10:21 p.m.

Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used (comments)

7:38 p.m.

Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar (comments)

4:24 p.m.

3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror (comments)

3:04 p.m.

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere (comments)

12:15 p.m.

Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos (comments)

Sept. 24, 2022

5:04 p.m.

Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring (comments)

12:35 p.m.

Aging programmer (comments)

8:48 a.m.

Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers (comments)

8:34 a.m.

Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software (comments)

Sept. 23, 2022

11:34 p.m.

A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements (comments)

8:58 p.m.

The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash (comments)

7:21 p.m.

Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers (comments)

4:02 p.m.

Software I’m thankful for (2021) (comments)

2:29 a.m.

Nightdrive (comments)

Sept. 22, 2022

11:20 p.m.

Avoiding homework with code and getting caught (comments)

1:41 p.m.

Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health (comments)

1:37 p.m.

Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B (comments)

Sept. 21, 2022

10:01 p.m.

Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? (comments)

8:29 p.m.

AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different (comments)

4:16 p.m.

Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI (comments)

3:19 p.m.

The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition (comments)

2:33 p.m.

LiteFS (comments)

2:26 a.m.

Can I use a system call? (comments)

Sept. 20, 2022

8:33 p.m.

YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations (comments)

3:31 p.m.

Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript (comments)

1:38 p.m.

React I love you, but you're bringing me down (comments)

1:22 p.m.

Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about (comments)

1:13 p.m.

What I’ve learned from users (comments)

12:07 a.m.

It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ (comments)

Sept. 19, 2022

7:42 p.m.

I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data (comments)

7:07 p.m.

2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer (comments)

5:41 p.m.

1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video] (comments)

5:18 p.m.

“Return to Monkey Island” is out today (comments)

4:04 p.m.

I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fruit fly (comments)

3:15 p.m.

Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair (comments)

Sept. 18, 2022

6:17 p.m.

The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack (comments)

4:50 p.m.

Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty with legal language (comments)

4:37 a.m.

Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle (comments)

1:51 a.m.

Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it? (comments)

Sept. 17, 2022

2:31 p.m.

Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax (comments)

12:28 p.m.

U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech (comments)

Sept. 16, 2022

7:11 p.m.

EVGA terminates Nvidia partnership [video] (comments)

3:38 p.m.

GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge (comments)

12:07 p.m.

US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years (comments)

1:10 a.m.

Uber investigating breach of its computer systems (comments)

Sept. 15, 2022

10:29 p.m.

Plasma Bigscreen (comments)

4:33 p.m.

Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business (comments)

1:03 p.m.

Penpot, Open Source Figma (comments)

11:32 a.m.

Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B (comments)

6:47 a.m.

The Ethereum merge is done (comments)

Sept. 14, 2022

9:56 p.m.

Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers (comments)

7:45 p.m.

Patagonia founder gives away the company (comments)

Sept. 13, 2022

10:21 p.m.

“Secrets” about the consumer audio business you may find interesting (comments)

6:53 p.m.

Increase: Banking API (comments)

4:25 p.m.

FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts (comments)

3:26 p.m.

Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch (comments)

1:32 p.m.

The last person standing in the floppy disk business (comments)

Sept. 12, 2022

12:26 p.m.

Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project (comments)

1:02 a.m.

Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac (comments)

Sept. 11, 2022

2:24 p.m.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (comments)