top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-03-13

Can I Run AI locally?

https://www.canirun.ai/

5 months ago

I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

5 months ago

1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

https://claude.com/blog/1m-context-ga

5 months ago

"This Is Not the Computer for You"

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

5 months ago

Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qatar-helium-shutdown-puts-chip-supply-chain-on-a-two-week-clock

5 months ago

TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

https://tui.studio/

5 months ago

The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We'll Be "Stunned" by NSA Under Section 702

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/the-wyden-siren-goes-off-again-well-be-stunned-by-what-the-nsa-is-doing-under-section-702/

5 months ago

Vite 8.0 Is Out

https://vite.dev/blog/announcing-vite8

5 months ago

Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

https://www.ft.com/content/e5fbc6c2-d5a6-4b97-a105-6a96ea849de5

5 months ago

Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software

https://github.com/TomBadash/MouseControl

5 months ago

★ 3.5k Python MIT

Digg Is Gone Again

https://digg.com/

5 months ago

E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May

https://help.instagram.com/491565145294150

5 months ago

John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/2032460578669691171

5 months ago

Your Phone Is an Entire Computer

https://medhir.com/blog/your-phone-is-an-entire-computer

5 months ago

Hammerspoon

https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

5 months ago

Bucketsquatting Is (Finally) Dead

https://onecloudplease.com/blog/bucketsquatting-is-finally-dead

5 months ago

More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

https://openhardware.directory

5 months ago

Sci-Fi Short Film "There Is No Antimemetics Division" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8AsTHfAG0

5 months ago

Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o

5 months ago

Parallels Confirms MacBook Neo Can Run Windows in a Virtual Machine

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/13/macbook-neo-runs-windows-11-vm/

5 months ago