Ireland Goes Coal-Free, You Can See Video on a LaserDisc, and Your Spam Folder Is Legally Binding

Kai and Maya cover the top stories from Hacker News for March 9, 2026: - Ireland shuts its last coal plant Moneypoint and becomes Europe's 15th coal-free nation, while data centers now consume more than 20% of the grid. - A YouTuber shows you can read video structure directly off a LaserDisc with a microscope because the format stores analog signal physically in the disc. - The Ninth Circuit rules that Terms of Service updates sent by email can count as consent if you keep using the product, even when the message lands in spam. - FontCrafter turns your handwriting into a real installable font entirely in the browser, with multiple letter variants for a more natural look. - Huy Fong Foods allegedly burned its long-time Sriracha pepper supplier, lost badly in court, and sparked a broader debate about whether the sauce got worse afterward. - The chardet relicensing fight raises a bigger question: can AI rewrites dissolve copyleft obligations and shrink the open-source commons. - A Florida judge rules red-light camera tickets unconstitutional in one case because the law shifts the burden onto the registered owner instead of proving who was driving. - Bluesky CEO Jay Graber steps down, raising questions about growth, governance, and whether the AT Protocol can outlive the company itself.