top 50% 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

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4

5 months ago

Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs

https://www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-was-told-pt-2

5 months ago

The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer

https://blog.voxagon.se/2026/03/13/teardown-multiplayer.html

5 months ago

Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked

https://darkwebinformer.com/full-source-code-of-swedens-e-government-platform-leaked-from-compromised-cgi-sverige-infrastructure/

5 months ago

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/opinion_os_verification/

5 months ago

Meta Platforms: Lobbying, Dark Money, and the App Store Accountability Act

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

5 months ago

Claude Tips for 3D Work

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/claude-3d

5 months ago

Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly

https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide

5 months ago

Font Smuggler – copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs

https://brianmoore.com/fontsmuggler/

5 months ago

Drone strikes in Haiti that killed 1250, 17 children, condemned by rights group

https://haitiantimes.com/2026/03/11/hrw-condemns-haiti-drone-strikes-killing-children/

5 months ago

I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me

https://lr0.org/blog/p/crocker/

5 months ago

I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source Documentation Sites

https://benzimmermann.dev/blog/algolia-docsearch-admin-keys

5 months ago

Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

https://apnews.com/article/italy-peter-thiel-paypal-pope-vatican-c3a6c7d2daba501caf8152558ac2d743

5 months ago

Show HN: Oxyde – Pydantic-native async ORM with a Rust core

https://github.com/mr-fatalyst/oxyde

5 months ago

Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/google-fiber-will-be-sold-to-private-equity-firm-and-merge-with-cable-company/

5 months ago

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/

5 months ago

Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes

https://nanoclaw.dev/blog/nanoclaw-docker-sandboxes/

5 months ago

OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas

https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/64584

5 months ago

Ceno, browse the web without internet access

https://ceno.app/en/index.html?

5 months ago

Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

https://machinelearningplus.com/python/101-pandas-exercises-python-interactive/

5 months ago

Chrome extension adjusts video speed based on how fast the speaker is talking

https://github.com/ywong137/speech-speed

5 months ago

Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI

https://github.com/sadreck/ThermalMarky

5 months ago

Why the militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517766-why-the-worlds-militaries-are-scrambling-to-create-their-own-starlink/

5 months ago

Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

https://www.getspine.ai/

5 months ago

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in court testimony

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/ice-agent-court-testimony-oregon

5 months ago

Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators

https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda

5 months ago

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

5 months ago

U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. DOJ Scrapped It

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties

5 months ago

Palantir CEO Makes Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

5 months ago

I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361235

5 months ago

Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM

https://github.com/Compresr-ai/Context-Gateway

5 months ago

Electron microscopy shows 'mouse bite' defects in semiconductors

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/electron-microscopy-shows-mouse-bite-defects-semiconductors

5 months ago

In space, no one can hear you kernel panic

https://increment.com/software-architecture/in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-kernel-panic/

5 months ago

Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019)

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/11/first-ever-recording-blue-whales-heart-rate

5 months ago

ArXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization

https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678/chief-executive-officer

5 months ago

The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/the-wild-six-weeks-for-nanoclaws-creator-that-led-to-a-deal-with-docker/

5 months ago

Vite+ Alpha: Unified Toolchain for the Web (MIT License)

https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-vite-plus-alpha

5 months ago

The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health – and more

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/482363/nih-medical-research-grants-cut-2025

5 months ago