top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-09

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/

5 months ago

A willingness to look stupid is the most underrated moat in doing creative work

https://sharif.io/looking-stupid

5 months ago

Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse

https://felixturner.github.io/hex-map-wfc/article/

5 months ago

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

5 months ago

US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, continued use implies consent [pdf]

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2026/03/03/25-403.pdf

5 months ago

Florida Judge Rules Red Light Camera Tickets Are Unconstitutional

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-news-judge-rules-red-light-camera-tickets-unconstitutional

5 months ago

Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html

5 months ago

No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user

https://martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-doesnt-cost-anthropic-5k-per-claude-code-user/

5 months ago

Oracle is building yesterday's data centers with tomorrow's debt

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/oracle-is-building-yesterdays-data-centers-with-tomorrows-debt.html

5 months ago

How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier

https://old.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1ro61g2/how_the_sriracha_guys_screwed_over_their_supplier/

5 months ago

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky

5 months ago

JSLinux Now Supports x86_64

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

5 months ago

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303111

5 months ago

FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/video-engineering/ffmpeg-at-meta-media-processing-at-scale/

5 months ago

In Memoriam, Tony Hoare

http://lefenetrou.blogspot.com/2026/03/in-memoriam-tony-hoare.html

5 months ago

Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image

https://dgroshev.com/blog/okmain/

5 months ago

The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/the-engine-of-germanys-wealth-is-blocking-its-future

5 months ago

The Death of Social Media Is the Renaissance of RSS

https://www.smartlab.at/rss-revival-life-after-social-media/

5 months ago

DARPA's new X-76 Experimental Plane

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-new-x-76-speed-of-jet-freedom-of-helicopter

5 months ago

Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery

https://liliputing.com/the-new-jolla-phone-with-sailfish-os-is-on-track-to-start-shipping-in-the-first-half-of-2026/

5 months ago

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom/

5 months ago

New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates

https://twitter.com/Lewis_Bollard/status/2030985704902099335

5 months ago

IMG_0416 (2024)

https://ben-mini.com/2024/img-0416

5 months ago

Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists

https://fixfest.therestartproject.org/

5 months ago

Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol

https://tamarack.cloud/blog/reverse-engineering-unifi-inform-protocol

5 months ago

An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026/how-to-win-a-best-paper-award.html

5 months ago

Show HN: The Mog Programming Language

https://moglang.org

5 months ago

Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler

https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/go-runtime-scheduler/

5 months ago

Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/thiel-epstein-barak-ai-israel/

5 months ago

Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw

https://github.com/DenchHQ/DenchClaw

5 months ago

Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day

https://www.twz.com/air/kuwaiti-f-a-18s-triple-friendly-fire-shootdown-gets-stranger-by-the-day

5 months ago

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

https://github.com/knowsuchagency/mcp2cli

5 months ago

So you want to write an "app" (2025)

https://arcanenibble.github.io/so-you-want-to-write-an-app.html

5 months ago

I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does

https://aresluna.org/fn/

5 months ago

No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026

https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/P6D36VZSZBUSSTSMZKFXKF4T4IXWN23P/

5 months ago

US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg548lyjnyo

5 months ago

Datahäxan

https://0dd.company/galleries/witches/7.html

5 months ago

FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/capsicum-vs-seccomp

5 months ago

Open Weights Isn't Open Training

https://www.workshoplabs.ai/blog/open-weights-open-training

5 months ago

The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/09/the-government-told-courts-it-could-easily-refund-unlawful-tariffs-now-it-says-it-cant/

5 months ago

NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spacecraft-changed-asteroid-orbit-nasa

5 months ago

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311657

5 months ago

Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."

https://anon-ex-uber.medium.com/uber-reported-to-the-state-that-i-was-fired-for-annoying-a-coworker-4ba7490cc0b8

5 months ago

Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcstation-ipx-part-1-psu-and-nvram

5 months ago

Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/08/dark-like-our-future-iranians-describe-scenes-of-catastrophe-after-tehrans-oil-depots-bombed

5 months ago

Rendezvous with Rama

https://blog.engora.com/2026/03/rendezvous-with-rama.html

5 months ago

60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-havana-syndrome-report-finds-u-s-government-tested-energy-weapon/

5 months ago

US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/us-blindsides-states-with-surprise-settlement-in-live-nation-ticketmaster-trial/

5 months ago

Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14B

https://www.idnfinancials.com/news/61918/zuckerberg-has-finished-with-alexandr-wang-worth-us14-billion

5 months ago

The Cost of Indirection in Rust

https://blog.sebastiansastre.co/posts/cost-of-indirection-in-rust/

5 months ago

Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-uks-multibillion-ai-drive-is-built-on-phantom-investments

5 months ago

Algebraic topology: knots links and braids

https://aeb.win.tue.nl/at/algtop-5.html

5 months ago

Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer

https://www.appsoftware.com/blog/introducing-vs-code-agent-kanban-task-management-for-the-ai-assisted-developer

5 months ago

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/08/owner-of-ice-detention-facility-sees-big-opportunity-in-ai-man-camps/

5 months ago

Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's

https://imgur.com/a/O9bjjQQ

5 months ago

The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dxffBxGqt2eidxwRR/the-optimal-age-to-freeze-eggs-is-19

5 months ago

WebPKI and You

https://blog.brycekerley.net/2026/03/08/webpki-and-you.html

5 months ago

Getting Started in Common Lisp

https://lisp-stat.dev/blog/2026/03/09/getting-started/

5 months ago

We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works

https://gfrm.in/posts/why-decision-theory-lost/index.html

5 months ago

Things I've Done with AI

https://sjer.red/blog/2026/built-with-ai/

5 months ago

Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/03/thomas-selfridge-first-airplane-fatality.html

5 months ago

Code Review for Claude Code

https://claude.com/blog/code-review

5 months ago

Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/uber-is-letting-women-avoid-male-drivers-and-riders-in-the-us-3229899/

5 months ago

The Most Beautiful Freezer in the World: Notes on Baking at the South Pole

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-most-beautiful-freezer-in-the-world

5 months ago

How people woke up before alarm clocks

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260306-the-wake-up-tricks-people-used-before-alarm-clocks

5 months ago

Anthropic sues to block Pentagon blacklisting over AI use restrictions

https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-sues-block-pentagon-blacklisting-over-ai-use-restrictions-2026-03-09/

5 months ago

Oil Is Near a Price That Hurts the Economy

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-is-already-near-a-price-that-hurts-the-economy-3cebcfdc

5 months ago

Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school

https://twitter.com/robertwrighter/status/2030482402628214841

5 months ago

Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

https://durdraw.org/

5 months ago