Top Hacker News Stories – March 13, 2026

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   US forecasts Blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once (apnews.com)

   41 pointsby throwaway815232d ago4 comments
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   The Accidental Room (2018) (99percentinvisible.org)

   40 pointsby blewboarwastake2d ago5 comments
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   The Colorado River Does Not Reach 2030 (drlennecefer.substack.com)

   39 pointsby ThemalSpan2d ago14 comments
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   AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately (bbc.co.uk)

   38 pointsby fredley2d ago14 comments
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   How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what? (news.ycombinator.com)

   38 pointsby zain__t2d ago64 comments
6. 66.
   US issues 30-day sanctions waiver for purchase of Russian oil at sea (reuters.com)

   36 pointsby geox2d ago6 comments
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   High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds (theguardian.com)

   35 pointsby chrisjj2d ago3 comments
8. 68.
   Trump now Selling National Security Briefing Membership (cnn.com)

   34 pointsby mandeepj2d ago6 comments
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   Computing in Freedom with GNU Emacs (protesilaos.com)

   33 pointsby birdculture2d ago0 comments
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    Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing (tomshardware.com)

    32 pointsby inaros2d ago23 comments
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    How Russia's new elite hit squad was compromised by Google Translate (theins.press)

    32 pointsby dralley2d ago6 comments
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    Chrome extension adjusts video speed based on how fast the speaker is talking (github.com)

    31 pointsby MrBuddyCasino2d ago7 comments
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    BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI (futurism.com)

    29 pointsby jsheard2d ago2 comments
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    Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees (waldencui.com)

    29 pointsby cui2d ago7 comments
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    Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis (weirdgloop.org)

    28 pointsby cookmeplox2d ago3 comments
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    Why Technology Makes Us More Productive but Not Richer (fullstackpm.tech)

    27 pointsby harshakcheruku3d ago15 comments
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    Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, "robbing them blind" (arstechnica.com)

    26 pointsby oldnetguy2d ago1 comments
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    Federal Judge Quashes Justice Department Subpoenas of Fed Chair Jerome Powell (cnn.com)

    26 pointsby rickcarlino2d ago4 comments
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    Cookie jars capture American kitsch (2023) (eater.com)

    25 pointsby NaOH2d ago2 comments
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    AI engineer uses ChatGPT+AlphaFold to develop cancer vaccine for his dog (theaustralian.com.au)

    25 pointsby bensandcastle2d ago3 comments
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    Ask HN: Why can't we just make more RAM? (news.ycombinator.com)

    25 pointsby chatmasta2d ago21 comments
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    The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler (ssg.dev)

    23 pointsby sedatk2d ago14 comments
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    What changes happen in the aging brain? (salk.edu)

    23 pointsby hhs2d ago1 comments
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    District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data (theregister.com)

    23 pointsby goplayoutside2d ago9 comments
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    The anxiety driving AI's brutal work culture is a warning for all of us (theguardian.com)

    22 pointsby saikatsg2d ago4 comments
26. 86.
    1997 Kyl–Bingaman Amendment prohibits high res satellite imagery of Israel (en.wikipedia.org)

    22 pointsby spaghetdefects2d ago0 comments
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    Sci-Fi Short Film "There Is No Antimemetics Division" [video] (youtube.com)

    21 pointsby Anon842d ago3 comments
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    "Added 1M context window for Opus 4.6 by default for Max, Team, and Enterprise" (raw.githubusercontent.com)

    21 pointsby taspeotis2d ago5 comments
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    Anthropic, Do Not A/B Test My Workflow (backnotprop.com)

    21 pointsby ramoz2d ago2 comments
30. 90.
    Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful (rakhim.exotext.com)

    20 pointsby stock_toaster2d ago9 comments