top 50% 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

50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers

https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/

3 months ago

Making the news available at no cost is a victory

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/05/12/just-days-tribune-reporting/

3 months ago

S-100 Virtual Workbench

https://grantmestrength.github.io/S100/

3 months ago

3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend

https://bfeldman.me/3dgs-weekend/

3 months ago

A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism

https://cipp.ug.edu.pl/A-desire-for-a-loud-car-with-a-modified-muffler-is-predicted-by-being-a-man-and-higher,162006,0,2.html

3 months ago

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

3 months ago

Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

https://www.tryardent.com/

3 months ago

Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/altman-forced-to-confront-claims-at-openai-trial-that-hes-a-prolific-liar/

3 months ago

Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways

https://vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/refl_enum_to_string.html

3 months ago

Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs

https://bitplane.net/log/2026/05/rars/

3 months ago

The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare

https://kerkour.com/the-limits-of-rust

3 months ago

Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems

https://atalaykutlay.com/or-tools-cp-sat-for-scheduling-problems.html

3 months ago

Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-unknowable-math-can-help-hide-secrets-20260511/

3 months ago

Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/medicares-new-payment-model-is-built-for-ai-and-most-of-the-tech-world-has-no-idea/

3 months ago

England Runestones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_runestones

3 months ago

A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

https://andreafortuna.org/2026/05/13/amarcord/

3 months ago

ReactOS

https://reactos.org/

3 months ago

The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-backlash-data-centers-political-violence/687151/

3 months ago

Show HN: Torrix, self hosted, LLM Observability,(no Postgres, no Redis)

https://github.com/torrix-ai/install

3 months ago

★ 18

GitHub Actions issued GitHub_TOKEN disclosure in GitHub Actions logs

https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-f9f8-rm49-7jv2

3 months ago

★ 29.4k PHP MIT

Residents furious as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash

3 months ago

ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board

https://www.autodidacts.io/cerelog-esp-eeg-affordable-openbci-like-board/

3 months ago

"I applied to be pope"

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/world/article/331886/I-applied-to-be-pope-Losing-grip-on-reality-while-using-ChatGPT

3 months ago

Content-defined chunking added to Bazel

https://www.buildbuddy.io/blog/content-defined-chunking/

3 months ago

The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/proton-power-for-public-health

3 months ago

Claude subscriptions no longer cover `claude -p`

https://x.com/i/trending/2054617957440143639

3 months ago

Temu is advertising filet mignon on X

https://twitter.com/shoptemu/status/2053092200632685016

3 months ago

EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/12/eu-law-bestows-6m-more-firefox-users-upon-us-moz-says/5238623

3 months ago

Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/neanderthals-drilled-cavities-to-treat-a-toothache-59000-years-ago/

3 months ago

Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI

https://zero-native.dev

3 months ago

I was asked to install malware during a fake interview

https://ashishb.net/security/contagious-interview/

3 months ago

U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/iran-missiles-us-intelligence.html

3 months ago

New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions

https://twitter.com/i/status/2054610152817619388

3 months ago

Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

3 months ago