top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-13

I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe

https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/

3 months ago

Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo

https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/

3 months ago

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain

https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/

3 months ago

The Emacsification of Software

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/

3 months ago

Kickstarter Is Forced to Ban Adult Content by Payment Processors

https://kotaku.com/kickstarter-is-the-latest-platform-seemingly-forced-to-ban-adult-content-by-payment-processors-2000695648

3 months ago

Princeton mandates proctoring in-person exams, upending 133 years of precedent

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedent

3 months ago

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/

3 months ago

Starship V3

https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3

3 months ago

Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128003

3 months ago

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419

3 months ago

Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time

https://ossresistance.com/

3 months ago

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

https://isabisabel.com/gacha/

3 months ago

Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent

https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/13/dutch-suicide-prevention-hotline-shares-visitor-data-tech-companies

3 months ago

The US Is Winning the AI Race

https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html

3 months ago

European governments: 3.000 tracking sites, 1.000 phpMyAdmins, and 99% poorly

https://internetcleanup.foundation/2026/05/european-governments-3000-tracking-sites-1000-phpmyadmins-and-99pct-poorly-encrypted-email-introducing-securitybaseline-eu/

3 months ago

"Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage

https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations

3 months ago

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

3 months ago

★ 335 Assembly

My graduation cap runs Rust

https://ericswpark.com/blog/2026/2026-05-12-my-graduation-cap-runs-rust/

3 months ago

Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads

https://www.theverge.com/tech/929091/meta-ai-threads-account-block

3 months ago

Haiku

https://www.haiku-os.org

3 months ago