top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-13

Scott Adams has died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_JrOIo3SE

7 months ago

AI generated music barred from Bandcamp

https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/

7 months ago

Apple Creator Studio

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/introducing-apple-creator-studio-an-inspiring-collection-of-creative-apps/

7 months ago

We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2025/12/11/we-cant-have-nice-things-because-of-ai-scrapers/

7 months ago

Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7184969

7 months ago

Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/11/onlyfans-influencers-us-o-1-visa

7 months ago

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation

https://discuss.python.org/t/anthropic-has-made-a-large-contribution-to-the-python-software-foundation-and-open-source-security/105694

7 months ago

When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software

https://www.marcia.no/words/eol

7 months ago

Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/01/opinion-local-journalism-is-how-democracy-shows-up-close-to-home/

7 months ago

A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap

https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-current-thread-user-time/

7 months ago

Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/signal-president-and-vp-warn-agentic-ai-is-insecure-unreliable-and-a-surveillance-nightmare/

7 months ago

Every GitHub object has two IDs

https://www.greptile.com/blog/github-ids

7 months ago

The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-truth-behind-the-2026-jp-morgan

7 months ago

Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25759181.network-scottish-x-accounts-go-dark-amid-iran-blackout/

7 months ago

No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams

https://www.ablg.io/blog/no-management-needed

7 months ago

Text-based web browsers

https://cssence.com/2026/text-based-web-browsers/

7 months ago

Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

https://github.com/19-84/redd-archiver

7 months ago

The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260114.html

7 months ago

How to make a damn website (2024)

https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html

7 months ago

What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025

https://scotthelme.co.uk/what-a-year-of-solar-and-batteries-really-saved-us-in-2025/

7 months ago