top 50% 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

The Tulip Creative Computer

https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc

7 months ago

Games Workshop bans staff from using AI

https://www.ign.com/articles/warhammer-maker-games-workshop-bans-its-staff-from-using-ai-in-its-content-or-designs-says-none-of-its-senior-managers-are-currently-excited-about-the-tech

7 months ago

Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/lets-be-honest-generative-ai-isnt

7 months ago

The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/11/how-the-uk-is-shaping-a-future-of-precrime-and-dissent-management/

7 months ago

Are two heads better than one?

https://eieio.games/blog/two-heads-arent-better-than-one/

7 months ago

Indifference is a power

https://aeon.co/essays/why-stoicism-is-one-of-the-best-mind-hacks-ever-devised

7 months ago

Mozilla's open source AI strategy

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-open-source-ai-strategy/

7 months ago

The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-cathedral-megachurch-bazaar/

7 months ago

FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FE7ULY-foss-in-times-of-war-scarcity-and-ai/

7 months ago

Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011

https://primoco.me/en/

7 months ago

How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-london-finally-cracked-mobile-phone-coverage-on-the-underground-86784/

7 months ago

vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep

https://blog.vllm.ai/2025/12/17/large-scale-serving.html

7 months ago

A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source

7 months ago