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/

1 month ago

1037 upvotes – 612 comments

Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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

1 month ago

632 upvotes – 361 comments

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

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

1 month ago

617 upvotes – 222 comments

The Emacsification of Software

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

1 month ago

458 upvotes – 283 comments

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

1 month ago

400 upvotes – 286 comments

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

1 month ago

389 upvotes – 613 comments

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

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

1 month ago

337 upvotes – 411 comments

Starship V3

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

1 month ago

325 upvotes – 633 comments

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

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

1 month ago

300 upvotes – 85 comments

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419

1 month ago

298 upvotes – 65 comments

Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time

https://ossresistance.com/

1 month ago

275 upvotes – 84 comments

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

https://isabisabel.com/gacha/

1 month ago

258 upvotes – 142 comments

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

1 month ago

253 upvotes – 186 comments

The US Is Winning the AI Race

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

1 month ago

240 upvotes – 676 comments

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/

1 month ago

229 upvotes – 106 comments

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

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

1 month ago

217 upvotes – 210 comments

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

1 month ago

★ 335Assembly
216 upvotes – 114 comments

My graduation cap runs Rust

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

1 month ago

214 upvotes – 93 comments

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

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

1 month ago

194 upvotes – 83 comments

Haiku

https://www.haiku-os.org

1 month ago

175 upvotes – 88 comments
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