Top Hacker News Stories – March 13, 2026

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   Can I run AI locally? (canirun.ai)

   1464 pointsby ricardbejarano2d ago345 comments
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   Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com)

   1271 pointsby shaicoleman2d ago543 comments
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   1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)

   1189 pointsby meetpateltech2d ago507 comments
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   Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (tomshardware.com)

   689 pointsby johnbarron2d ago622 comments
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   TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)

   632 pointsby mipselaer2d ago287 comments
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   The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (techdirt.com)

   551 pointsby cf100clunk2d ago168 comments
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   Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters (ft.com)

   516 pointsby merksittich2d ago810 comments
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   Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software (github.com)

   434 pointsby avionics-guy2d ago147 comments
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   E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (help.instagram.com)

   410 pointsby mindracer2d ago200 comments
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    Digg is gone again (digg.com)

    409 pointsby hammerbrostime2d ago456 comments
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    John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists (twitter.com)

    368 pointsby tzury2d ago481 comments
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    Your phone is an entire computer (medhir.com)

    362 pointsby medhir2d ago303 comments
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    Hammerspoon (github.com)

    350 pointsby tosh2d ago141 comments
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    Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (bbc.com)

    337 pointsby gostsamo2d ago197 comments
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    Bucketsquatting is finally dead (onecloudplease.com)

    326 pointsby boyter2d ago170 comments
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    Lost Doctor Who episodes found (bbc.co.uk)

    301 pointsby edent2d ago105 comments
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    Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (macrumors.com)

    301 pointsby tosh2d ago451 comments
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    Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked (darkwebinformer.com)

    232 pointsby tavro2d ago244 comments
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    Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting (theregister.com)

    202 pointsby jjgreen2d ago219 comments
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    Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com)

    202 pointsby SilverElfin2d ago3 comments
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    Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people (haitiantimes.com)

    175 pointsby e12e2d ago111 comments
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    I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)

    168 pointsby ghd_2d ago315 comments
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    I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites (benzimmermann.dev)

    157 pointsby kernelrocks2d ago46 comments
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    Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures (apnews.com)

    155 pointsby aureliusm2d ago144 comments
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    An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills (old.reddit.com)

    153 pointsby pabs32d ago14 comments
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    Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes (nanoclaw.dev)

    151 pointsby outofdistro2d ago59 comments
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    OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas (github.com)

    149 pointsby nwalters5122d ago48 comments
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    Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)

    147 pointsby waits2d ago38 comments
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    Ceno, browse the web without internet access (ceno.app)

    132 pointsby mohsen12d ago38 comments
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    Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink (newscientist.com)

    110 pointsby mooreds2d ago164 comments