Hacker News on Monday, 9 March 2026

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)(pv-magazine.com)

971 points by robin_reala 7 months ago | 608 comments

pv magazine news article reporting that Ireland closed its last coal plant, Moneypoint, becoming the 15th coal-free country in Europe.

Willingness to look stupid(sharif.io)

691 points by Samin100 7 months ago | 237 comments

Personal essay by Sharif Shameem arguing that willingness to look foolish is an underrated advantage, or moat, in creative work.

Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse(felixturner.github.io)

545 points by imadr 7 months ago | 82 comments

Article describing how the author built procedurally generated medieval hex-tile islands using Wave Function Collapse and WebGPU, with a live demo and source code.

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)

541 points by dahlia 7 months ago | 539 comments

Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.

US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf](cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov)

515 points by dryadin 7 months ago | 398 comments

Ninth Circuit unpublished memorandum in Ireland-Gordy v. Tile and Life360 holding that terms of service updated by email notice can bind users through continued use.

Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional(cbs12.com)

439 points by 1970-01-01 7 months ago | 558 comments

CBS12 News report on a Florida judge dismissing a red-light camera ticket and ruling the state's red-light camera law unconstitutional.

FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font(arcade.pirillo.com)

437 points by rendx 7 months ago | 145 comments

FontCrafter is a free in-browser tool that converts scanned handwriting samples into installable font files like OTF, TTF, and WOFF2.

No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user(martinalderson.com)

401 points by jnord 7 months ago | 292 comments

Blog post by Martin Alderson rebutting a Forbes claim that Anthropic's $200/month Claude Code Max plan consumes $5,000 in compute per user.

OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle(cnbc.com)

375 points by spenvo 7 months ago | 220 comments

CNBC article reporting that OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle, and examining Oracle's debt-funded AI buildout.

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down(bsky.social)

367 points by minimaxir 7 months ago | 320 comments

Bluesky blog post by Jay Graber announcing she is stepping down as CEO to become Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.

JSLinux Now Supports x86_64(bellard.org)

361 points by TechTechTech 7 months ago | 116 comments

JSLinux by Fabrice Bellard, a page listing emulated systems (now including x86_64 Alpine Linux) that run Linux, Windows 2000, and FreeDOS in the browser.

How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier(old.reddit.com)

339 points by thunderbong 7 months ago | 152 comments

A Reddit r/KitchenConfidential thread about how Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha, treated its pepper supplier; the page shows a Reddit network-policy block.

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

253 points by david927 7 months ago | 932 comments

Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image(dgroshev.com)

240 points by dgroshev 7 months ago | 46 comments

DARPA’s new X-76(darpa.mil)

209 points by newer_vienna 7 months ago | 197 comments

Sir Tony Hoare has died(lefenetrou.blogspot.com)

205 points by nextos 7 months ago | 50 comments

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom(arstechnica.com)

201 points by randycupertino 7 months ago | 70 comments

FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale(engineering.fb.com)

200 points by sudhakaran88 7 months ago | 83 comments

The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)(smartlab.at)

198 points by jruohonen 7 months ago | 128 comments

The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future(europeancorrespondent.com)

186 points by mariuz 7 months ago | 238 comments

Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery(liliputing.com)

182 points by heresie-dabord 7 months ago | 117 comments

IMG_0416 (2024)(ben-mini.com)

179 points by TigerUniversity 7 months ago | 42 comments

Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists(fixfest.therestartproject.org)

163 points by robtherobber 7 months ago | 19 comments

Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol(tamarack.cloud)

162 points by baconomatic 7 months ago | 67 comments

Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler(internals-for-interns.com)

147 points by valyala 7 months ago | 27 comments

An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters(nicholas.carlini.com)

140 points by mad 7 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: The Mog Programming Language(moglang.org)

139 points by belisarius222 7 months ago | 67 comments

Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw(github.com)

128 points by kumar_abhirup 7 months ago | 108 comments

New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates(twitter.com)

123 points by bilsbie 7 months ago | 80 comments

No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026(lists.iana.org)

123 points by speckx 7 months ago | 128 comments

Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP(github.com)

122 points by knowsuchagency 7 months ago | 73 comments

Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day(twz.com)

120 points by throwawayffffas 7 months ago | 53 comments

Datahäxan(0dd.company)

117 points by akkartik 7 months ago | 9 comments

So you want to write an “app” (2025)(arcanenibble.github.io)

112 points by jmusall 7 months ago | 50 comments

Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents

110 points by filipbalucha 7 months ago | 76 comments

NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun(sciencenews.org)

110 points by pseudolus 7 months ago | 83 comments

FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing(vivianvoss.net)

109 points by vermaden 7 months ago | 41 comments

Open Weights isn't Open Training(workshoplabs.ai)

100 points by addiefoote8 7 months ago | 32 comments

Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)(rs-online.com)

96 points by ibobev 7 months ago | 54 comments

The Cost of Indirection in Rust(blog.sebastiansastre.co)

93 points by sebastianconcpt 7 months ago | 44 comments

I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does(aresluna.org)

88 points by tambourine_man 7 months ago | 48 comments

Rendezvous with Rama(blog.engora.com)

86 points by Vermin2000 7 months ago | 91 comments

Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer(appsoftware.com)

83 points by gbro3n 7 months ago | 41 comments

The first airplane fatality(amusingplanet.com)

79 points by Hooke 7 months ago | 20 comments

Algebraic topology: knots links and braids(aeb.win.tue.nl)

77 points by marysminefnuf 7 months ago | 10 comments

WebPKI and You(blog.brycekerley.net)

76 points by aragilar 7 months ago | 9 comments

We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works(gfrm.in)

69 points by slygent 7 months ago | 32 comments

Notes on Baking at the South Pole(newyorker.com)

68 points by mitchbob 7 months ago | 24 comments

Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'(theguardian.com)

65 points by tablets 7 months ago | 31 comments

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps(techcrunch.com)

64 points by monkeydust 7 months ago | 32 comments

Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14B(idnfinancials.com)

64 points by matthieu_bl 7 months ago | 21 comments

Getting Started in Common Lisp(lisp-stat.dev)

62 points by oumua_don17 7 months ago | 17 comments

Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."(anon-ex-uber.medium.com)

60 points by anon-ex-uber 7 months ago | 25 comments

Coding My Handwriting(amygoodchild.com)

58 points by bwoah 7 months ago | 5 comments

Things I've Done with AI(sjer.red)

57 points by shepherdjerred 7 months ago | 61 comments

How people woke up before alarm clocks(bbc.com)

56 points by tchalla 7 months ago | 47 comments

Dijkstra's Crisis: The End of Algol and Beginning of Software Engineering (2010) [pdf](tomandmaria.com)

55 points by ipnon 7 months ago | 18 comments

Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems(durdraw.org)

55 points by caminanteblanco 7 months ago | 21 comments

Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed(theguardian.com)

48 points by Red_Tarsius 7 months ago | 44 comments

The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19(lesswrong.com)

47 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 64 comments