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.

Dec. 7, 2022

6:06 p.m.
Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups (comments)
6:12 a.m.
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux (comments)

Dec. 6, 2022

6:53 p.m.
I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language (comments)
4:20 p.m.
Open-source hospital price transparency (comments)
1:15 p.m.
Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game (comments)

Dec. 5, 2022

5 p.m.
Mac OS 9 (comments)
10:12 a.m.
Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location (comments)

Dec. 4, 2022

7:22 a.m.
Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India (comments)

Dec. 3, 2022

9:19 p.m.
Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT (comments)

Dec. 2, 2022

11:49 p.m.
The Twitter Files (comments)
11:05 p.m.
Puter (comments)
5:43 p.m.
Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks (comments)
4:08 p.m.
People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life” (comments)

Dec. 1, 2022

10:35 p.m.
Android platform signing key compromised (comments)
8:21 p.m.
Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon (comments)
8:21 p.m.
Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids (comments)
6:39 p.m.
Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet (comments)
5:39 p.m.
Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (comments)
2:45 p.m.
Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought (comments)
8:59 a.m.
TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia (comments)

Nov. 30, 2022

8:35 p.m.
FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident (comments)
5:36 p.m.
The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned (comments)
5:05 p.m.
Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests (comments)
11:57 a.m.
Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds (comments)
11:55 a.m.
Inkbase: Programmable Ink (comments)
7:04 a.m.
Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders (comments)
12:24 a.m.
Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays (comments)

Nov. 29, 2022

7:59 p.m.
Firefox Translations: Translate websites in your browser without using the cloud (comments)
4:50 p.m.
Tales of the M1 GPU (comments)
1:26 p.m.
Goodbye, data science (comments)

Nov. 28, 2022

7:25 p.m.
Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes (comments)
3:32 p.m.
BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads (comments)
2:55 p.m.
Intentionally Making Close Friends (comments)
12:58 p.m.
Everything I wish I knew when learning C (comments)
9:30 a.m.
The Ultimate Guide to FFmpeg (comments)

Nov. 27, 2022

11:01 p.m.
Photography for geeks (comments)
8:17 p.m.
Git Notes (comments)
6:47 p.m.
Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on (comments)

Nov. 26, 2022

6:03 p.m.
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts (comments)

Nov. 25, 2022

3:58 p.m.
Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected? (comments)
2:16 p.m.
Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore so how do they connect to the internet? (comments)

Nov. 24, 2022

4:12 p.m.
A 3D-printed ethernet RJ45 clip to secure/repair/fix broken tab (comments)
4:08 p.m.
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving (comments)
2 p.m.
Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad (comments)
9:30 a.m.
Smart Move, Google (comments)
1:28 a.m.
Stable Diffusion 2.0 (comments)

Nov. 23, 2022

3:45 p.m.
Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information (comments)
3:04 p.m.
Ooh.directory (comments)
12:47 p.m.
An interactive guide to Flexbox (comments)
12:03 p.m.
Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game (comments)
5:03 a.m.
Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees (comments)

Nov. 22, 2022

9:11 p.m.
Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically (comments)
8:45 p.m.
Dwarf Fortress – randomly generated, persistent fantasy world (comments)
3:50 p.m.
High-documentation, low-meeting work culture (comments)
3:24 p.m.
CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people (comments)
2:26 p.m.
Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation (comments)
10:37 a.m.
D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source (comments)
3:20 a.m.
Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE (comments)

Nov. 21, 2022

9:20 p.m.
Is wine fake? (comments)
6:17 p.m.
CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows (comments)
3:12 p.m.
Show HN: A color picker for named web colors (comments)
9:44 a.m.
Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative? (comments)

Nov. 20, 2022

10:30 p.m.
AWS and Blockchain (comments)
8:57 p.m.
Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code (comments)
5:07 p.m.
Show HN: Haxophone (comments)
1:14 p.m.
Hacker News Parody Thread (comments)

Nov. 19, 2022

7:37 p.m.
I quit my programmer job to become a chicken (comments)
7:12 p.m.
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font (comments)
10:25 a.m.
The truffle industry is a scam (comments)

Nov. 18, 2022

10:22 p.m.
Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud (comments)
6:47 p.m.
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built? (comments)
5:44 p.m.
The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks (comments)
2:37 p.m.
Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research (comments)
2:56 a.m.
Fred Brooks has died (comments)
12:57 a.m.
Tailscale Funnel (comments)
12:08 a.m.
Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and badge access suspended (comments)

Nov. 17, 2022

2:20 p.m.
Apple Rankings (comments)
9:13 a.m.
Z-library founders arrested in Argentina (comments)

Nov. 16, 2022

11:22 p.m.
Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer (comments)
8:39 p.m.
Robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals [video] (comments)
6:58 p.m.
Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year (comments)
5:12 p.m.
Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile (comments)
11:33 a.m.
Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks (comments)

Nov. 15, 2022

11:18 p.m.
Digital books wear out faster than physical books (comments)
6:16 p.m.
Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended (comments)
5:39 p.m.
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client (comments)
5:38 p.m.
Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station (comments)
1:06 p.m.
Emergency SOS via satellite (comments)
12:43 p.m.
I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information (comments)
7:52 a.m.
My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator (comments)

Nov. 14, 2022

10:01 p.m.
PayPal inactivity fee (comments)
2:47 p.m.
Making a Go program faster with a one-character change (comments)
1:33 p.m.
Crypto Exchange AAX Suspends Withdrawals (comments)
1:31 p.m.
Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click? (comments)

Nov. 13, 2022

2:22 p.m.
Building an e-ink weather display for our home (comments)
noon
Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc. (comments)

Nov. 12, 2022

2:33 p.m.
Ur (comments)
2:17 p.m.
What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise? (comments)
5:30 a.m.
FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M (comments)

Nov. 11, 2022

9:12 p.m.
Bubbles (comments)