news, !paper 2026-03-09

1009 Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) / pv-magazine.com / 643

560 Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse / felixturner.github.io / 86

554 Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft / writings.hongminhee.org / 561

539 US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf] / cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov / 435

481 Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional / cbs12.com / 644

465 FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font / arcade.pirillo.com / 156

412 OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle / cnbc.com / 240

412 How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier / old.reddit.com / 230

396 Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down / bsky.social / 359

369 JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 / bellard.org / 130

333 Two Years of Emacs Solo / rahuljuliato.com / 128

269 FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale / engineering.fb.com / 99

268 Tony Hoare has died / lefenetrou.blogspot.com / 33

247 Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner / realtuner.online / 59

244 The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future / europeancorrespondent.com / 324

239 The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025) / smartlab.at / 168

225 DARPA’s new X-76 / darpa.mil / 218

221 Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom / arstechnica.com / 81

219 Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery / liliputing.com / 148

204 New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates / twitter.com/Lewis_Bollard / 212

179 Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS / stonetools.ghost.io / 67

178 Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists / fixfest.therestartproject.org / 20

175 Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later / old.reddit.com / 95

172 Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol / tamarack.cloud / 75

161 Show HN: The Mog Programming Language / moglang.org / 75

158 An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters / nicholas.carlini.com / 41

145 Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day / twz.com / 145

145 Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP / github.com/knowsuchagency / 105

143 Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship / jacobin.com / 32

138 I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does / aresluna.org / 90

137 Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw / github.com/DenchHQ / 125

137 So you want to write an “app” (2025) / arcanenibble.github.io / 71

133 No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 / lists.iana.org / 145

131 Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL / arxiv.org / 104

130 Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers / wired.com / 195

123 FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing / vivianvoss.net / 54

118 The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't / techdirt.com / 41

112 Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents / news.ycombinator.com / 77

108 Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker." / anon-ex-uber.medium.com / 67

108 Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020) / rs-online.com / 54

106 Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed / theguardian.com / 207

104 Rendezvous with Rama / blog.engora.com / 117

103 I love email (2023) / blog.xoria.org / 51

101 Segagaga Has Been Translated into English / thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk / 37

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