HN 500

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

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April 26, 2024

5:33 p.m.
Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years (comments)
4:36 a.m.
Passkeys: A shattered dream (comments)

April 25, 2024

9:42 p.m.
Open Sourcing DOS 4 (comments)
5:23 p.m.
FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules (comments)
12:58 a.m.
You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it (comments)

April 24, 2024

10:29 p.m.
Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights (comments)
8:21 p.m.
IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal (comments)
3:59 p.m.
Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest (comments)

April 23, 2024

10:46 p.m.
ESPHome (comments)
7:17 p.m.
FTC announces rule banning noncompetes (comments)
4:43 p.m.
The man who killed Google Search (comments)
9:32 a.m.
Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout (comments)

April 22, 2024

11:38 p.m.
Krazam OS (comments)
8:36 p.m.
No one buys books (comments)
6:59 p.m.
NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth (comments)
3:54 p.m.
Meta Horizon OS (comments)
10:37 a.m.
Equinox.space (comments)
3:51 a.m.
Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges (comments)

April 21, 2024

12:53 p.m.
I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen (comments)
11:21 a.m.
Tiny World Map (comments)
6:28 a.m.
I should have loved biology (2020) (comments)
5:40 a.m.
Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) (comments)

April 19, 2024

3:33 p.m.
Daniel Dennett has died (comments)

April 18, 2024

10:44 p.m.
Calculus Made Easy (comments)
4:42 p.m.
I keep a WTF notebook (2021) (comments)
3:57 p.m.
Meta Llama 3 (comments)
12:51 a.m.
Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii (comments)

April 17, 2024

8:17 p.m.
Hardest problem in computer science: centering things (comments)
5:48 p.m.
CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred (comments)
5:42 p.m.
Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG (comments)
5:09 p.m.
Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer (comments)
2 p.m.
Mixtral 8x22B (comments)
noon
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile? (comments)
9:28 a.m.
The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet (comments)
2:44 a.m.
Stop Acting Like You're Famous (comments)

April 16, 2024

4:07 p.m.
This is a teenager (comments)
3:49 a.m.
Descent 3 Source Code (comments)
2:27 a.m.
A curious phenomenon called 'Etak' (comments)
12:19 a.m.
Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation (comments)

April 15, 2024

7:24 p.m.
PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias (comments)
2:42 p.m.
Show HN: Building a GPS receiver (comments)

April 14, 2024

11:38 p.m.
Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video] (comments)
4:24 a.m.
Obituary for a Quiet Life (comments)

April 13, 2024

7:10 p.m.
The darker side of being a doctor (comments)

April 12, 2024

8:16 p.m.
Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game (comments)
5:06 p.m.
Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens (comments)
11:17 a.m.
I Lost Faith in Kagi (comments)
9:27 a.m.
Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P (comments)
8:53 a.m.
An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data (comments)

April 11, 2024

4:06 p.m.
Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD (comments)
1:34 p.m.
Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem (comments)
6:01 a.m.
AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License (comments)

April 10, 2024

10:13 a.m.
Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph (comments)
9:31 a.m.
U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS (comments)

April 9, 2024

7:29 p.m.
Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness (comments)
4:21 p.m.
Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died (comments)
3:09 p.m.
Beeper acquired by Automattic (comments)
3:04 p.m.
Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS (comments)
6:24 a.m.
Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card (comments)

April 8, 2024

8:38 p.m.
Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA (comments)
3:48 p.m.
Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home (comments)
9:07 a.m.
Hello World (comments)
6:49 a.m.
How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals? (comments)

April 7, 2024

8:51 a.m.
How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain (comments)

April 5, 2024

1:53 p.m.
Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on? (comments)
4:31 a.m.
FFmpeg 7.0 (comments)

April 4, 2024

9:57 p.m.
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice (comments)
9:53 p.m.
Mario meets Pareto (comments)
6 p.m.
The design philosophy of Great Tables (comments)
1:57 p.m.
AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License (comments)
10:35 a.m.
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program (comments)
9:19 a.m.
German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice (comments)

April 3, 2024

9:27 p.m.
Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone (comments)
4:22 p.m.
Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners (comments)
2:50 p.m.
'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza (comments)

April 2, 2024

5:39 p.m.
Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores (comments)
4:44 p.m.
3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine (comments)
9:05 a.m.
The xz attack shell script (comments)
3:58 a.m.
Timeline of the xz open source attack (comments)

April 1, 2024

5:07 p.m.
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining (comments)
3:40 p.m.
Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor (comments)
2:17 a.m.
LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs (comments)

March 31, 2024

6:52 a.m.
Guess my RGB (comments)

March 30, 2024

11:34 p.m.
Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects (comments)
9:08 p.m.
Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained (comments)
6:19 p.m.
XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." (comments)
1:56 p.m.
IrfanView (comments)
12:56 p.m.
Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock? (comments)

March 29, 2024

4:16 p.m.
Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise (comments)
8:08 a.m.
Simon Riggs has died (comments)

March 28, 2024

11:44 p.m.
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy (comments)
10:27 p.m.
The race to replace Redis (comments)
7:42 p.m.
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (comments)
3:48 p.m.
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison (comments)

March 27, 2024

9:40 p.m.
Writing Gnome Apps with Swift (comments)
3:09 p.m.
Daniel Kahneman has died (comments)
12:23 p.m.
DBRX: A new open LLM (comments)

March 26, 2024

2:53 p.m.
Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor (comments)
12:58 p.m.
Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses (comments)
7:25 a.m.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed (comments)