top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-02-09

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

10 hours ago

1145 upvotes – 1147 comments

It's not you; GitHub is down again

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/54hndjxft5bx

9 hours ago

474 upvotes – 382 comments

Why Is the Sky Blue?

https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/

9 hours ago

397 upvotes – 144 comments

Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock

https://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock

8 hours ago

387 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth

https://alltheviews.world

15 hours ago

367 upvotes – 147 comments

Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC

https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/

20 hours ago

335 upvotes – 341 comments

Nobody knows how the whole system works

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/nobody-knows-how-the-whole-system-works/

19 hours ago

280 upvotes – 183 comments

AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/senator-says-att-verizon-blocking-release-salt-typhoon-security-assessment-2026-02-03/

10 hours ago

266 upvotes – 68 comments

Another GitHub outage in the same day

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd

6 hours ago

260 upvotes – 189 comments

GitHub Is Down

https://github.com/

9 hours ago

259 upvotes – 3 comments
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