Top Hacker News Stories – March 12, 2026

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   US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike (lloydslist.com)

   174 pointsby everybodyknows3d ago295 comments
2. 32.
   Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due (e360.yale.edu)

   161 pointsby speckx3d ago50 comments
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   The Isolation Trap: Erlang (causality.blog)

   160 pointsby enz3d ago67 comments
4. 34.
   

   Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust (github.com)

   160 pointsby guyb33d ago50 comments
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   Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources (aminrj.com)

   154 pointsby aminerj3d ago49 comments
6. 36.
   

   WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations (github.com)

   150 pointsby 789c789c789c3d ago47 comments
7. 37.
   

   Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics (github.com)

   144 pointsby keks0r3d ago86 comments
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   Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US (theguardian.com)

   143 pointsby stevenwoo3d ago205 comments
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   Runners who churn butter on their runs (runnersworld.com)

   139 pointsby randycupertino3d ago85 comments
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    U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk (maritime-executive.com)

    134 pointsby mytailorisrich3d ago148 comments
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    Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices (blog.chromium.org)

    132 pointsby ingve3d ago75 comments
12. 42.
    

    Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload (gizmodo.com)

    120 pointsby jamesgill3d ago37 comments
13. 43.
    

    Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once (github.com)

    119 pointsby bayes-song3d ago41 comments
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    AI should not replace people at Atlassian, says CEO (heise.de)

    118 pointsby layer83d ago53 comments
15. 45.
    SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf] (research.gold.ac.uk)

    115 pointsby pabs33d ago82 comments
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    Reliable Software in the LLM Era (quint-lang.org)

    108 pointsby mempirate3d ago35 comments
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    Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud (theguardian.com)

    104 pointsby danso3d ago28 comments
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    Hyperlinks in terminal emulators (gist.github.com)

    104 pointsby nvahalik3d ago65 comments
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    First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3B (nbcnews.com)

    92 pointsby johnbarron3d ago78 comments
20. 50.
    The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved (owl.billpg.com)

    92 pointsby billpg3d ago217 comments
21. 51.
    Human Organ Atlas (science.org)

    86 pointsby bookofjoe3d ago4 comments
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    Another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" (bsky.app)

    84 pointsby doener3d ago47 comments
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    Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3) (thecloudlet.github.io)

    79 pointsby thecloudlet3d ago36 comments
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    I don't use LLMs for programming (neilmadden.blog)

    70 pointsby ms78923d ago99 comments
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    The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy (2025) [pdf] (data-workers.org)

    70 pointsby beepbooptheory3d ago18 comments
26. 56.
    Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference (ionrouter.io)

    70 pointsby vshah10163d ago36 comments
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    U.S. to suspend the Jones Act in a bid to curb oil prices (bloomberg.com)

    68 pointsby geox3d ago52 comments
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    USDA is closing buildings, relocating staff, and downsizing-a lot (foodpolitics.com)

    67 pointsby speckx3d ago58 comments
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    Illinois introduces OS-level age verification law (legiscan.com)

    60 pointsby rickcarlino3d ago73 comments
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    Does Where You're Born Matter More Than How Hard You Work? (decodeecon.com)

    60 pointsby NomNew3d ago29 comments