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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)
1914 points by x01 1 day ago | 1841 comments
2.
Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
731 points by udit99 1 day ago | 246 comments
3.
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)
580 points by tokyobreakfast 1 day ago | 186 comments
4.
Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
593 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 198 comments
5.
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
351 points by aleyan 23 hours ago | 519 comments
6.
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org/smnx)
246 points by ananas-dev 1 day ago | 112 comments
7.
Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
244 points by ingve 1 day ago | 87 comments
8.
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)
516 points by weaksauce 1 day ago | 352 comments
9.
More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)
275 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 199 comments
10.
Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)
362 points by Nezteb 21 hours ago | 278 comments
11.
Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
400 points by tombh 1 day ago | 173 comments
12.
America has a tungsten problem (noleary.com)
193 points by noleary 19 hours ago | 180 comments
13.
Luce: First Electric Ferrari (ferrari.com)
268 points by kaizenb 21 hours ago | 266 comments
14.
Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
101 points by ibobev 22 hours ago | 53 comments
15.
Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
187 points by muggermuch 1 day ago | 65 comments
16.
Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)
163 points by bobbiechen 1 day ago | 37 comments
17.
Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)
129 points by gtsnexp 2 days ago | 56 comments
18.
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
142 points by waihtis 1 day ago | 50 comments
19.
Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
333 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 207 comments
20.
Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016) (daeus.blog)
118 points by kurinikku 20 hours ago | 7 comments
21.
Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
205 points by znah 2 days ago | 26 comments
22.
GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)
501 points by MattIPv4 1 day ago | 396 comments
23.
Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)
191 points by arrowsmith 2 days ago | 208 comments
24.
Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (prosody.im)
164 points by zaik 20 hours ago | 182 comments
25.
LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com/naver)
119 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 25 comments
26.
AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)
295 points by redman25 1 day ago | 79 comments
27.
Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025) (atlasobscura.com)
113 points by IgorPartola 5 days ago | 27 comments
28.
Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (quantamagazine.org)
95 points by sohkamyung 5 days ago | 4 comments
29.
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)
87 points by jimbauwens 6 days ago | 22 comments
30.
Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
120 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 12 comments

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