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Stories from February 9, 2026
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1.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)
2046 points by x01 9 days ago | 2041 comments
2.
Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
813 points by udit99 9 days ago | 270 comments
3.
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
606 points by tokyobreakfast 9 days ago | 193 comments
4.
Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
611 points by linolevan 10 days ago | 207 comments
5.
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
370 points by aleyan 9 days ago | 561 comments
6.
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org/smnx)
259 points by ananas-dev 9 days ago | 113 comments
7.
Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
263 points by ingve 9 days ago | 98 comments
8.
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
531 points by weaksauce 10 days ago | 367 comments
9.
Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)
375 points by Nezteb 9 days ago | 285 comments
10.
More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
279 points by kristianp 10 days ago | 204 comments
11.
Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
412 points by tombh 9 days ago | 181 comments
12.
Luce: First Electric Ferrari (ferrari.com)
291 points by kaizenb 9 days ago | 289 comments
13.
America has a tungsten problem (noleary.com)
204 points by noleary 9 days ago | 201 comments
14.
Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
107 points by ibobev 9 days ago | 55 comments
15.
Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
189 points by muggermuch 10 days ago | 65 comments
16.
Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
167 points by bobbiechen 10 days ago | 39 comments
17.
Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
361 points by azhenley 9 days ago | 219 comments
18.
Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
132 points by gtsnexp 10 days ago | 57 comments
19.
Game Theory Patterns at Work (daeus.blog)
155 points by kurinikku 9 days ago | 9 comments
20.
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
149 points by waihtis 9 days ago | 52 comments
21.
Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
217 points by znah 10 days ago | 26 comments
22.
Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)
223 points by arrowsmith 10 days ago | 241 comments
23.
GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
513 points by MattIPv4 9 days ago | 410 comments
24.
Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (prosody.im)
193 points by zaik 9 days ago | 209 comments
25.
LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com/naver)
119 points by PaulHoule 14 days ago | 25 comments
26.
AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)
304 points by redman25 9 days ago | 82 comments
27.
Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025) (atlasobscura.com)
114 points by IgorPartola 14 days ago | 28 comments
28.
Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (quantamagazine.org)
102 points by sohkamyung 13 days ago | 4 comments
29.
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
87 points by jimbauwens 14 days ago | 22 comments
30.
Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
123 points by surprisetalk 15 days ago | 13 comments

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