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

2 months ago

2045 upvotes – 2039 comments

Why Is the Sky Blue?

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

2 months ago

812 upvotes – 270 comments

Discord Alternatives, Ranked

https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/

2 months ago

674 upvotes – 474 comments

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

https://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock

2 months ago

606 upvotes – 193 comments

It's not you; GitHub is down again

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

2 months ago

513 upvotes – 410 comments

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

https://alltheviews.world

2 months ago

411 upvotes – 181 comments

Sandboxels

https://neal.fun/sandboxels/

2 months ago

406 upvotes – 69 comments

Another GitHub outage in the same day

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

2 months ago

375 upvotes – 285 comments

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/

2 months ago

369 upvotes – 560 comments

Nobody knows how the whole system works

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

2 months ago

360 upvotes – 219 comments
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