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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)
1647 points by x01 18 hours ago | 1567 comments
2.
Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
582 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 194 comments
3.
Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
582 points by udit99 17 hours ago | 200 comments
4.
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
500 points by tokyobreakfast 17 hours ago | 161 comments
5.
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
511 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 351 comments
6.
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org/smnx)
223 points by ananas-dev 19 hours ago | 108 comments
7.
Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
224 points by ingve 19 hours ago | 75 comments
8.
More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
273 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 199 comments
9.
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
279 points by aleyan 16 hours ago | 409 comments
10.
Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
389 points by tombh 23 hours ago | 161 comments
11.
Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
186 points by muggermuch 1 day ago | 65 comments
12.
Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)
330 points by Nezteb 14 hours ago | 250 comments
13.
Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
159 points by bobbiechen 1 day ago | 37 comments
14.
Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
127 points by gtsnexp 2 days ago | 55 comments
15.
Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
93 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 40 comments
16.
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
137 points by waihtis 18 hours ago | 50 comments
17.
Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
313 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 197 comments
18.
Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
188 points by znah 1 day ago | 24 comments
19.
GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
496 points by MattIPv4 17 hours ago | 388 comments
20.
America has a tungsten problem (noleary.com)
169 points by noleary 12 hours ago | 160 comments
21.
LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com/naver)
118 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 25 comments
22.
AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)
291 points by redman25 19 hours ago | 77 comments
23.
Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025) (atlasobscura.com)
108 points by IgorPartola 5 days ago | 26 comments
24.
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
87 points by jimbauwens 5 days ago | 22 comments
25.
Luce: First Electric Ferrari (ferrari.com)
176 points by kaizenb 14 hours ago | 181 comments
26.
Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
119 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 11 comments
27.
Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (quantamagazine.org)
85 points by sohkamyung 4 days ago | 4 comments
28.
Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC (harshanu.space)
343 points by unchar1 1 day ago | 348 comments
29.
Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016) (daeus.blog)
83 points by kurinikku 13 hours ago | 6 comments
30.
Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT (theregister.com)
219 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 173 comments

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