Top Hacker News Stories – March 13, 2026

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

   108 pointsby a24venka2d ago69 comments
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   ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in court testimony (theguardian.com)

   104 pointsby mitchbob2d ago1 comments
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   U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. DOJ Scrapped It (propublica.org)

   102 pointsby johnbarron2d ago21 comments
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   Palantir CEO Makes Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power (newrepublic.com)

   100 pointsby mindracer2d ago22 comments
5. 35.
   Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount (reuters.com)

   99 pointsby Aboutplants2d ago22 comments
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   Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM (github.com)

   92 pointsby ivzak2d ago61 comments
7. 37.
   I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying (news.ycombinator.com)

   91 pointsby theseusares2d ago20 comments
8. 38.
   Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (news.stanford.edu)

   84 pointsby eatonphil2d ago49 comments
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   The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker (techcrunch.com)

   82 pointsby wateroo2d ago11 comments
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    Our Experience with I-Ready (moultano.wordpress.com)

    82 pointsby barry-cotter2d ago33 comments
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    The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health – and more (vox.com)

    79 pointsby epistasis2d ago1 comments
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    ArXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization (jobs.chronicle.com)

    76 pointsby robinhouston2d ago1 comments
13. 43.
    Gvisor on Raspbian (nubificus.co.uk)

    75 pointsby _ananos_2d ago17 comments
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    Vite+ Alpha: Unified Toolchain for the Web (MIT License) (voidzero.dev)

    74 pointsby cpojer2d ago7 comments
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    Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube Like It's Cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)

    73 pointsby speckx2d ago1 comments
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    Optimizing Content for Agents (cra.mr)

    72 pointsby vinhnx2d ago25 comments
17. 47.
    $2B nonprofit grants traced to find who's behind age verification bills (old.reddit.com)

    71 pointsby spaghetdefects2d ago1 comments
18. 48.
    

    100 Jumps (100jumps.org)

    70 pointsby pompomsheep2d ago16 comments
19. 49.
    

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

    69 pointsby ermis2d ago27 comments
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    Open-source, low-cost 10.5 GHz PLFM phased array RADAR system (github.com)

    67 pointsby keepamovin2d ago1 comments
21. 51.
    Show HN: Algorithms and Data Structures in TypeScript – Free Book (~400 Pages) (amoilanen.github.io)

    65 pointsby jsontwikkeling2d ago22 comments
22. 52.
    NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch (npr.org)

    62 pointsby Brajeshwar2d ago34 comments
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    Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files (runcaptain.com)

    57 pointsby CMLewis2d ago36 comments
24. 54.
    301M Records Exposed: The HIPAA Breach Epidemic (ciphercue.com)

    56 pointsby adulion2d ago36 comments
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    U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets (nytimes.com)

    50 pointsby standardUser2d ago27 comments
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    Reddit's Lawsuit Is a Dangerous Attempt to Expand Platform Power (serpapi.com)

    49 pointsby paigealyse2d ago12 comments
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    Revealed: Face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave (cam.ac.uk)

    47 pointsby thunderbong2d ago29 comments
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    You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you? (jvogel.me)

    45 pointsby ke4qqq2d ago33 comments
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    Who Goes Nazi? (1941) (harpers.org)

    44 pointsby Anon842d ago19 comments
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    Two long-lost episodes of 'Doctor Who' have been found (apnews.com)

    43 pointsby cf100clunk2d ago4 comments