top 20 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

6 months ago

2045 upvotes – 2039 comments

Why Is the Sky Blue?

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

6 months ago

812 upvotes – 270 comments

Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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

6 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

6 months ago

606 upvotes – 193 comments

It's not you; GitHub is down again

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

6 months ago

513 upvotes – 410 comments

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

https://alltheviews.world

6 months ago

411 upvotes – 181 comments

Sandboxels

https://neal.fun/sandboxels/

6 months ago

406 upvotes – 69 comments

Another GitHub outage in the same day

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

6 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/

6 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/

6 months ago

360 upvotes – 219 comments

Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC

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

6 months ago

354 upvotes – 360 comments

Using an engineering notebook

https://ntietz.com/blog/using-an-engineering-notebook/

6 months ago

340 upvotes – 148 comments

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention

6 months ago

322 upvotes – 124 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/

6 months ago

304 upvotes – 82 comments

LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

https://www.chainlift.io/liftkit

6 months ago

301 upvotes – 155 comments

Luce: First Electric Ferrari. Designed by LoveFrom

https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/auto/ferrari-luce

6 months ago

290 upvotes – 289 comments

Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module

https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/text-classification-zstd/

6 months ago

264 upvotes – 57 comments

Thoughts on Generating C

https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c

6 months ago

263 upvotes – 98 comments

GitHub Is Down

https://github.com/

6 months ago

262 upvotes – 3 comments

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript

https://codeberg.org/smnx/promethee

6 months ago

259 upvotes – 113 comments
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