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

12 hours ago

1291 upvotes – 1294 comments

It's not you; GitHub is down again

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

11 hours ago

483 upvotes – 385 comments

Why Is the Sky Blue?

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

11 hours ago

422 upvotes – 159 comments

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

https://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock

10 hours ago

415 upvotes – 142 comments

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

https://alltheviews.world

17 hours ago

380 upvotes – 155 comments

Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC

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

22 hours ago

336 upvotes – 343 comments

Nobody knows how the whole system works

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

21 hours ago

291 upvotes – 185 comments

Another GitHub outage in the same day

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

8 hours ago

277 upvotes – 206 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/

12 hours ago

274 upvotes – 69 comments

GitHub Is Down

https://github.com/

10 hours ago

260 upvotes – 3 comments

TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan

https://apnews.com/article/semiconductors-tsmc-japan-taiwan-ai-11256f2bfde73ca23d08331ad138d6d5

22 hours ago

236 upvotes – 168 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

8 hours ago

227 upvotes – 97 comments

Testing Ads in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/

8 hours ago

222 upvotes – 297 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/

10 hours ago

217 upvotes – 334 comments

Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat/

15 hours ago

215 upvotes – 168 comments

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript

https://codeberg.org/smnx/promethee

13 hours ago

203 upvotes – 103 comments

Thoughts on Generating C

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

13 hours ago

203 upvotes – 66 comments

Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8d5pl34vv0o

11 hours ago

200 upvotes – 196 comments

AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It

https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

12 hours ago

199 upvotes – 155 comments

Sandboxels

https://neal.fun/sandboxels/

11 hours ago

179 upvotes – 30 comments
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