top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-02-08

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349

6 months ago

Art of Roads in Games

https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/

6 months ago

AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder

https://www.blundergoat.com/articles/ai-makes-the-easy-part-easier-and-the-hard-part-harder

6 months ago

AI fatigue Is real and nobody talks about it

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

6 months ago

"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work

https://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothing

6 months ago

DoNotNotify is now Open Source

https://donotnotify.com/opensource.html

6 months ago

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

6 months ago

I am happier writing code by hand

https://www.abhinavomprakash.com/posts/i-am-happier-writing-code-by-hand/

6 months ago

I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color

https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202512-gbshader/

6 months ago

OpenClaw Is Changing My Life

https://reorx.com/blog/openclaw-is-changing-my-life/

6 months ago

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696

6 months ago

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt

6 months ago

Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41506004/

6 months ago

MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/

6 months ago

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/

6 months ago

Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books

https://underhillgame.com/

6 months ago

GitHub Agentic Workflows

https://github.github.io/gh-aw/

6 months ago

Dave Farber has passed away

https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/

6 months ago

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

6 months ago

More Mac malware from Google search

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/30/more-malware-from-google-search/

6 months ago

Why E cores make Apple Silicon fast

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/08/last-week-on-my-mac-why-e-cores-make-apple-silicon-fast/

6 months ago

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding

6 months ago

Sandwich Bill of Materials

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/08/sandwich-bill-of-materials.html

6 months ago

Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning

6 months ago

A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck

https://gtaforums.com/topic/986492-grand-theft-auto-ready2play-full-game-windows-version/

6 months ago

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents

6 months ago

Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

https://znah.net/graphs/

6 months ago

Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

6 months ago

Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/292452

6 months ago

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html

6 months ago

My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood

https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-12-13-my-grandma-was-a-fed-lessons-from-digitizing-hundreds-of-hours-of-childhood/

6 months ago

Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing

https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/

6 months ago

The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546379/the-little-learner/

6 months ago

Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin

https://hyperallergic.com/curating-a-show-on-my-ineffable-mother-ursula-k-le-guin/

6 months ago

Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934622

6 months ago

Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

https://odd-lots-books.netlify.app/

6 months ago

Bun v1.3.9

https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.3.9

6 months ago

Vouch

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

6 months ago

Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/main/doc/scheduler/sched_clutch_edge.md

6 months ago

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html

6 months ago

Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens

https://nullcathedral.com/posts/2026-02-08-roundcube-svg-feimage-remote-image-bypass/

6 months ago

The First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is a Winter Range Monster

https://insideevs.com/news/786509/catl-changan-worlds-first-sodium-ion-battery-ev/

6 months ago

RFC 3092 – Etymology of "Foo" (2001)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3092

6 months ago

Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker

https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/the-go-linker/

6 months ago

Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures

https://bobbiec.github.io/cistercian-font.html

6 months ago

Stop Generating, Start Thinking

https://localghost.dev/blog/stop-generating-start-thinking/

6 months ago

Exploring a Modern Smtpe 2110 Broadcast Truck

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/

6 months ago

Matchlock: Linux-based sandboxing for AI agents

https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock

6 months ago

Voidtools Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly

https://www.voidtools.com/

6 months ago

Cache Monet

https://cachemonet.com

6 months ago

Advanced Aerial Robotics Made Simple

https://www.drehmflight.com

6 months ago

The Little Bool of Doom

https://blog.svgames.pl/article/the-little-bool-of-doom

6 months ago

Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot

https://habr.com/en/articles/446238/

6 months ago

LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/

6 months ago

Quartz Crystals

https://www.pa3fwm.nl/technotes/tn13a.html

6 months ago

Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2

https://mattst88.com/blog/2026/02/08/Reverse_Engineering_the_PROM_for_the_SGI_O2/

6 months ago

Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue

https://greensdictofslang.com/

6 months ago

Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption"

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994

6 months ago

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit

6 months ago

Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs

https://cinegraphs.ai/

6 months ago

Willow – Protocols for an uncertain future [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CVGZAV-willow/

6 months ago

Why there is no official statement from Substack about the data leak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-phone-numbers/

6 months ago

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

https://www.kyledunbar.dev/2026/02/05/Implementing-auto-tiling-with-just-5-tiles.html

6 months ago

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600

6 months ago