Hacker News on Wednesday, 13 May 2026

I moved my digital stack to Europe(monokai.com)

908 points by monokai_nl 5 months ago | 540 comments

A personal blog post by Monokai's creator describing how he moved his digital services and cloud stack to European providers for digital sovereignty.

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)(fredchan.org)

601 points by speckx 5 months ago | 205 comments

A blog guide explaining how to register a free somename.city.state.us locality domain in the US and point its DNS at a webhost.

Leaving GitHub for Forgejo(jorijn.com)

553 points by jorijn 5 months ago | 289 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author moved code from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, citing ownership concerns and the Dutch government's similar move.

The Emacsification of Software(sockpuppet.org)

394 points by rdslw 5 months ago | 247 comments

A blog post arguing developers want a good Markdown viewer, discussing how LLM agents have revived TUI tooling and an Emacs-like trend in software.

Scorched Earth 2000 – Web(scorch2000.com)

360 points by meshko 5 months ago | 141 comments

A playable browser version of Scorch 2000, a Scorched Earth-style turn-based tank artillery game with human and AI players.

Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent(dailyprincetonian.com)

341 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 513 comments

Daily Princetonian news article reporting that Princeton faculty voted to require proctoring for in-person exams, ending 133 years of unproctored exams under the honor code.

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble(jdhodges.com)

319 points by tosh 5 months ago | 373 comments

A personal blog post analyzing Apple's MacBook Neo, covering benchmarks, chip wafer economics, and its 8GB RAM configuration.

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics(arxiv.org)

286 points by matt_d 5 months ago | 65 comments

Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors(kotaku.com)

285 points by stalfosknight 5 months ago | 210 comments

Starship V3(spacex.com)

253 points by fprog 5 months ago | 407 comments

Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time(ossresistance.com)

231 points by mikemcquaid 5 months ago | 72 comments

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

231 points by pycassa 5 months ago | 67 comments

The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization(avkcode.github.io)

226 points by akrylov 5 months ago | 633 comments

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux(codeberg.org)

212 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 100 comments

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence(isabisabel.com)

210 points by babel16 5 months ago | 105 comments

SecurityBaseline.eu(internetcleanup.foundation)

203 points by aequitas 5 months ago | 101 comments

Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent(nltimes.nl)

200 points by giuliomagnifico 5 months ago | 141 comments

"Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage(propublica.org)

154 points by ceejayoz 5 months ago | 118 comments

Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads(theverge.com)

143 points by logickkk1 5 months ago | 70 comments

Haiku(haiku-os.org)

141 points by tosh 5 months ago | 62 comments

S-100 Virtual Workbench(grantmestrength.github.io)

119 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 25 comments

Making the news available at no cost is a victory(sltrib.com)

114 points by danso 5 months ago | 115 comments

3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend(bfeldman.me)

108 points by b__feldman 5 months ago | 10 comments

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming(theregister.com)

104 points by e12e 5 months ago | 34 comments

50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers(fortune.com)

103 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 95 comments

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

93 points by vc289 5 months ago | 38 comments

England Runestones(en.wikipedia.org)

77 points by cl3misch 5 months ago | 32 comments

The other half of AI safety(personalaisafety.com)

77 points by sofiaqt 5 months ago | 94 comments

Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs(bitplane.net)

75 points by davidsong 5 months ago | 52 comments

Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets(quantamagazine.org)

70 points by Xcelerate 5 months ago | 17 comments

ReactOS(reactos.org)

67 points by DeathArrow 5 months ago | 21 comments

Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems(atalaykutlay.com)

67 points by akutlay 5 months ago | 27 comments

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

66 points by brandonb 5 months ago | 45 comments

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

65 points by sagacity 5 months ago | 69 comments

A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools(andreafortuna.org)

60 points by speckx 5 months ago | 22 comments

ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board(autodidacts.io)

58 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 14 comments

Content-defined chunking added to Bazel(buildbuddy.io)

55 points by siggi 5 months ago | 5 comments

Composer leaks contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens(github.com)

54 points by damienwebdev 5 months ago | 20 comments

Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks(lareviewofbooks.org)

46 points by Caiero 5 months ago | 9 comments

The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans(lanl.gov)

43 points by LAsteNERD 5 months ago | 2 comments

Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions(medium.com)

43 points by olalonde 5 months ago | 39 comments

Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar(arstechnica.com)

39 points by Bender 5 months ago | 5 comments

The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare(kerkour.com)

36 points by randomint64 5 months ago | 19 comments

Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI(zero-native.dev)

35 points by gedy 5 months ago | 27 comments

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains(404media.co)

34 points by SpyCoder77 5 months ago | 23 comments

Temu is advertising filet mignon on X(twitter.com)

34 points by noleary 5 months ago | 4 comments

“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT(thestandard.com.hk)

31 points by hansmayer 5 months ago | 26 comments

A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing (2025)(yoeight.github.io)

29 points by goloroden 5 months ago | 2 comments

EditLens: Quantifying the extent of AI editing in text (2025)(arxiv.org)

25 points by horseradish 5 months ago | 3 comments

U.S. intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities(nytimes.com)

24 points by hebelehubele 5 months ago | 6 comments

The Physics–and Physicality–Of Extreme Juggling (2018)(wired.com)

22 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | 2 comments

The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly(theatlantic.com)

21 points by stalfosknight 5 months ago | 17 comments

Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability(phoronix.com)

19 points by mikece 5 months ago | 9 comments

The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world (2014)(bbc.com)

19 points by ilamont 5 months ago | 2 comments

Intercom changes name to Fin(intercom.com)

18 points by RyanShook 5 months ago | 21 comments

Recreation of the 1956 IPL-I version of the Logic Theorist theorem prover(github.com)

18 points by abrax3141 5 months ago | 1 comments

EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits(arxiv.org)

14 points by PaulHoule 5 months ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Rotunda - A browser built for agents with simulated typing(github.com)

12 points by icyfox 5 months ago | 0 comments