A 60-Year-Old Falls in Love with Code Again, Meta Says Piracy Is Fair Use, and LLM Code Is 20,000x Slower

Kai and Maya cover the top stories from Hacker News for March 7, 2026: - A 60-year-old programmer says Claude Code reignited his love of coding, sparking a wide discussion about creativity, aging, and AI as a new kind of tool. - Meta argues that uploading pirated books via BitTorrent can still qualify as fair use in AI training, which sent Hacker News into a copyright spiral. - An AI-generated SQLite reimplementation becomes the cautionary tale of the day after turning out to be roughly 20,000 times slower than the original. - Go is finally getting a UUID package in the standard library, ending one of those tiny but surprisingly persistent ecosystem gaps. - KDE Plasma Bigscreen pitches an open-source TV interface and revives the dream of a Linux-first living room experience. - Docker turns 10, prompting a mix of nostalgia, gratitude, and arguments about what containers actually changed. - FLASH radiotherapy shows how delivering cancer treatment in about a millisecond could dramatically reduce damage to healthy tissue.