Top Hacker News Stories – March 9, 2026

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

   1018 pointsby robin_reala6d ago666 comments
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   Willingness to look stupid (sharif.io)

   750 pointsby Samin1006d ago252 comments
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   Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (felixturner.github.io)

   578 pointsby imadr6d ago86 comments
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   Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (writings.hongminhee.org)

   569 pointsby dahlia6d ago593 comments
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   US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf] (cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov)

   547 pointsby dryadin6d ago444 comments
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   Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional (cbs12.com)

   507 pointsby 1970-01-016d ago665 comments
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   FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font (arcade.pirillo.com)

   481 pointsby rendx6d ago157 comments
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   No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user (martinalderson.com)

   479 pointsby jnord6d ago350 comments
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   OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle (cnbc.com)

   423 pointsby spenvo6d ago247 comments
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    Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down (bsky.social)

    403 pointsby minimaxir6d ago371 comments
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    JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 (bellard.org)

    380 pointsby TechTechTech6d ago138 comments
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    SSH Secret Menu (twitter.com)

    353 pointsby piccirello6d ago178 comments
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    Two Years of Emacs Solo (rahuljuliato.com)

    350 pointsby celadevra_6d ago142 comments
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    FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale (engineering.fb.com)

    281 pointsby sudhakaran886d ago101 comments
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    Tony Hoare has died (lefenetrou.blogspot.com)

    268 pointsby nextos6d ago34 comments
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    Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image (dgroshev.com)

    251 pointsby dgroshev6d ago47 comments
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    The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future (europeancorrespondent.com)

    247 pointsby mariuz6d ago337 comments
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    DARPA’s new X-76 (darpa.mil)

    229 pointsby newer_vienna6d ago220 comments
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    Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery (liliputing.com)

    226 pointsby heresie-dabord6d ago150 comments
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    Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom (arstechnica.com)

    223 pointsby randycupertino6d ago82 comments
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    New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates (twitter.com)

    207 pointsby bilsbie6d ago227 comments
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    Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (batsov.com)

    200 pointsby psibi6d ago138 comments
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    IMG_0416 (2024) (ben-mini.com)

    198 pointsby TigerUniversity6d ago46 comments
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    Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists (fixfest.therestartproject.org)

    181 pointsby robtherobber6d ago20 comments
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    Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol (tamarack.cloud)

    175 pointsby baconomatic6d ago77 comments
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    A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016) (karpathy.github.io)

    173 pointsby vismit20006d ago110 comments
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    An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters (nicholas.carlini.com)

    169 pointsby mad6d ago42 comments
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    Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art (kapwing.com)

    168 pointsby jenthoven6d ago168 comments
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    Show HN: The Mog Programming Language (moglang.org)

    163 pointsby belisarius2226d ago82 comments
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    Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler (internals-for-interns.com)

    156 pointsby valyala6d ago46 comments