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Stories from February 9, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)
1336 points by x01 12 hours ago | 1323 comments
2.
Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
575 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 191 comments
3.
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
503 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 341 comments
4.
More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
273 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 195 comments
5.
Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
380 points by tombh 17 hours ago | 155 comments
6.
Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
183 points by muggermuch 1 day ago | 65 comments
7.
Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
158 points by bobbiechen 1 day ago | 37 comments
8.
Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
430 points by udit99 11 hours ago | 163 comments
9.
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
425 points by tokyobreakfast 11 hours ago | 143 comments
10.
Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
127 points by gtsnexp 1 day ago | 54 comments
11.
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org/smnx)
204 points by ananas-dev 13 hours ago | 103 comments
12.
Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
204 points by ingve 13 hours ago | 66 comments
13.
GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
484 points by MattIPv4 11 hours ago | 385 comments
14.
Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
291 points by azhenley 22 hours ago | 185 comments
15.
Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
179 points by znah 1 day ago | 24 comments
16.
LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com/naver)
117 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 24 comments
17.
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
131 points by waihtis 12 hours ago | 47 comments
18.
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
219 points by aleyan 10 hours ago | 336 comments
19.
AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)
275 points by redman25 13 hours ago | 71 comments
20.
Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)
282 points by Nezteb 8 hours ago | 208 comments
21.
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
87 points by jimbauwens 5 days ago | 22 comments
22.
Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025) (atlasobscura.com)
94 points by IgorPartola 5 days ago | 22 comments
23.
Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC (harshanu.space)
336 points by unchar1 23 hours ago | 343 comments
24.
Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
115 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 11 comments
25.
Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT (theregister.com)
216 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 169 comments
26.
Offpunk 3.0 (ploum.net)
177 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 35 comments
27.
TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan (apnews.com)
236 points by dev_tty01 22 hours ago | 169 comments
28.
Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
77 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 35 comments
29.
America has a tungsten problem (noleary.com)
129 points by noleary 6 hours ago | 133 comments
30.
Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear (durham.ac.uk)
71 points by andsoitis 4 days ago | 13 comments

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