Hacker News on Friday, 13 March 2026

Can I run AI locally?(canirun.ai)

1375 points by ricardbejarano 7 months ago | 326 comments

CanIRun.ai is a web tool that estimates which AI models your machine can run locally, using browser APIs to detect hardware and grading each model's expected performance.

Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act(github.com)

1168 points by shaicoleman 7 months ago | 483 comments

A GitHub repository compiling findings on Meta Platforms' lobbying, dark money funding, and the App Store Accountability Act, though the capture showed a Reddit network block page.

1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6(claude.com)

1157 points by meetpateltech 7 months ago | 493 comments

Anthropic blog post announcing that the 1M-token context window is generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6.

“This is not the computer for you”(samhenri.gold)

899 points by MBCook 7 months ago | 331 comments

Personal blog essay by Sam Henri Gold reflecting on growing up with Apple computers, opening with a childhood photo of himself at a desk with Macs.

Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock(tomshardware.com)

646 points by johnbarron 7 months ago | 566 comments

Tom's Hardware article on how a helium production shutdown in Qatar threatens semiconductor manufacturing supply within about two weeks.

TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool(tui.studio)

572 points by mipselaer 7 months ago | 276 comments

Landing page for TUI Studio, an alpha-stage visual design tool for building terminal user interfaces, runnable via Docker with export features.

Vite 8.0 Is Out(vite.dev)

487 points by kothariji 7 months ago | 161 comments

Official Vite blog post announcing the release of Vite 8.0, dated March 12, 2026.

The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing(techdirt.com)

476 points by cf100clunk 7 months ago | 140 comments

Techdirt article on Senator Ron Wyden warning that Americans will be stunned when a secret NSA interpretation of FISA Section 702 is declassified.

Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters(ft.com)

452 points by merksittich 7 months ago | 678 comments

Financial Times article reporting that Elon Musk has pushed out more xAI co-founders as the company's AI coding effort struggles.

Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software(github.com)

403 points by avionics-guy 7 months ago | 133 comments

GitHub repository for MouseControl (Mouser), a lightweight open-source Python alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping MX Master 3S mouse buttons.

Digg is gone again(digg.com)

372 points by hammerbrostime 7 months ago | 401 comments

Digg's homepage announcement "A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next" explaining the company is significantly downsizing its team after struggling to find product-market fit.

E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May(help.instagram.com)

344 points by mindracer 7 months ago | 177 comments

Instagram Help Center article on end-to-end encryption, noting E2E encrypted messaging will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026.

Hammerspoon(github.com)

329 points by tosh 7 months ago | 120 comments

GitHub repository for Hammerspoon, an open-source macOS desktop automation tool scripted with Lua.

Your phone is an entire computer(medhir.com)

323 points by medhir 7 months ago | 278 comments

Blog post arguing that smartphones like the iPhone are full computers, citing the A18 Pro-powered MacBook Neo, and criticizing restrictions on running other software and operating systems.

Bucketsquatting is finally dead(onecloudplease.com)

311 points by boyter 7 months ago | 160 comments

John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists(twitter.com)

310 points by tzury 7 months ago | 412 comments

More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware(openhardware.directory)

310 points by iosifnicolae2 7 months ago | 47 comments

Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine(macrumors.com)

286 points by tosh 7 months ago | 396 comments

Lost Doctor Who episodes found(bbc.co.uk)

279 points by edent 7 months ago | 89 comments

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video](youtube.com)

276 points by yincrash 7 months ago | 104 comments

Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video](youtube.com)

265 points by Anon84 7 months ago | 82 comments

Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs(moment.dev)

253 points by antics 7 months ago | 115 comments

Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked(darkwebinformer.com)

213 points by tavro 7 months ago | 208 comments

The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer(blog.voxagon.se)

204 points by lairv 7 months ago | 54 comments

Meta Platforms: Lobbying, Dark Money, and the App Store Accountability Act(github.com)

183 points by SilverElfin 7 months ago | 21 comments

Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs(brianmoore.com)

159 points by lanewinfield 7 months ago | 74 comments

Claude Tips for 3D Work(davesnider.com)

155 points by snide 7 months ago | 32 comments

Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly(github.com)

152 points by tosh 7 months ago | 42 comments

I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites(benzimmermann.dev)

150 points by kernelrocks 7 months ago | 45 comments

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)(randomascii.wordpress.com)

148 points by mariuz 7 months ago | 46 comments

Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people(haitiantimes.com)

142 points by e12e 7 months ago | 68 comments

Show HN: Oxyde – Pydantic-native async ORM with a Rust core(github.com)

137 points by mr_Fatalyst 7 months ago | 66 comments

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting(theregister.com)

134 points by jjgreen 7 months ago | 98 comments

OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas(github.com)

117 points by nwalters512 7 months ago | 36 comments

I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me(lr0.org)

115 points by ghd_ 7 months ago | 187 comments

Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes(nanoclaw.dev)

115 points by outofdistro 7 months ago | 51 comments

Chrome extension adjusts video speed based on how fast the speaker is talking(github.com)

114 points by MrBuddyCasino 7 months ago | 30 comments

Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)(machinelearningplus.com)

112 points by selva86 7 months ago | 30 comments

Ceno, browse the web without internet access(ceno.app)

104 points by mohsen1 7 months ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI(github.com)

98 points by howlett 7 months ago | 36 comments

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

98 points by a24venka 7 months ago | 67 comments

Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors(news.cornell.edu)

95 points by hhs 7 months ago | 30 comments

Hyperlinks in terminal emulators(gist.github.com)

93 points by nvahalik 7 months ago | 60 comments

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud(theguardian.com)

86 points by danso 7 months ago | 14 comments

Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink(newscientist.com)

81 points by mooreds 7 months ago | 115 comments

Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM(github.com)

81 points by ivzak 7 months ago | 49 comments

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

78 points by eatonphil 7 months ago | 45 comments

Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures(apnews.com)

73 points by aureliusm 7 months ago | 58 comments

In space, no one can hear you kernel panic (2020)(increment.com)

71 points by p0u4a 7 months ago | 15 comments

Prompt-caching – auto-injects Anthropic cache breakpoints (90% token savings)(prompt-caching.ai)

66 points by ermis 7 months ago | 24 comments

Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube Like It's Cable TV(channelsurfer.tv)

63 points by speckx 7 months ago | 24 comments

The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker(techcrunch.com)

61 points by wateroo 7 months ago | 8 comments

Gummy Geometry(newkrok.github.io)

60 points by memalign 7 months ago | 8 comments

Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran(boatnews.com)

58 points by divbzero 7 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Algorithms and Data Structures in TypeScript – Free Book (~400 Pages)(amoilanen.github.io)

57 points by jsontwikkeling 7 months ago | 7 comments

Gvisor on Raspbian(nubificus.co.uk)

55 points by _ananos_ 7 months ago | 12 comments

NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch(npr.org)

54 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 29 comments

Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files(runcaptain.com)

52 points by CMLewis 7 months ago | 35 comments

The Accidental Room (2018)(99percentinvisible.org)

44 points by blewboarwastake 7 months ago | 5 comments

Two long-lost episodes of 'Doctor Who' have been found(apnews.com)

40 points by cf100clunk 7 months ago | 11 comments