top 50% 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

Why Is the Sky Blue?

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

6 months ago

Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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

6 months ago

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

It's not you; GitHub is down again

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

6 months ago

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

https://alltheviews.world

6 months ago

Sandboxels

https://neal.fun/sandboxels/

6 months ago

Another GitHub outage in the same day

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

6 months ago

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

Nobody knows how the whole system works

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

6 months ago

Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC

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

6 months ago

Using an engineering notebook

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

6 months ago

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

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

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

https://www.chainlift.io/liftkit

6 months ago

Luce: First Electric Ferrari. Designed by LoveFrom

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

6 months ago

Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module

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

6 months ago

Thoughts on Generating C

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

6 months ago

GitHub Is Down

https://github.com/

6 months ago

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript

https://codeberg.org/smnx/promethee

6 months ago

Testing Ads in ChatGPT

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

6 months ago

TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan

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

6 months ago

AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It

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

6 months ago

Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

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

6 months ago

Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API

https://hallucinatingsplines.com

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-physics-dead-dying-or-just-hard-20260126/

6 months ago

America Has a Tungsten Problem

https://www.noleary.com/blog/posts/1

6 months ago

MIT Living Wage Calculator

https://livingwage.mit.edu/

6 months ago

Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network

https://truthout.org/articles/super-bowl-ad-for-ring-cameras-touted-ai-surveillance-network/

6 months ago

Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

https://blog.prosody.im/2026-letsencrypt-changes/

6 months ago

Offpunk 3.0

https://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.html

6 months ago

Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0209/1557514-seamus-culleton/

6 months ago

Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000649

6 months ago

gRPC: From service definition to wire format

https://kreya.app/blog/grpc-deep-dive/

6 months ago

Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016)

https://daeus.blog/2026/01/18/game-theory-patterns-at-work/

6 months ago

HeyWhatsThat

https://www.heywhatsthat.com/faq.html

6 months ago

Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM

https://defusedcyber.com/ivanti-epmm-sleeper-shells-403jsp

6 months ago

The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddg885344do

6 months ago

I Wrote a Scheme in 2025

https://maplant.com/2026-02-09-I-Wrote-a-Scheme-in-2025.html

6 months ago

Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)

https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/

6 months ago

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-checks-after-data-breach-exposed-70000-ids/

6 months ago

A Brief History of Oral Peptides

https://seangeiger.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-oral-peptides

6 months ago

How the Little Guy Moved

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-little-guy-moved

6 months ago

Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor

https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-js-editor

6 months ago

Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure

https://www.wirewiki.com

6 months ago

The Sling: Humanity's Forgotten Power

https://www.slinging.org/

6 months ago

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/gba-audio-interpolation/

6 months ago

From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/bezos-washington-post-trump-6950317-Feb2026/

6 months ago

Job Hunters Are So Desperate That They're Paying to Get Recruited

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hunters-are-so-desperate-that-theyre-paying-to-get-recruited-44891ac2

6 months ago

Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/why-is-singapore-no-longer-cool.html

6 months ago

The World of Harmonics – With a Coffee, Guitar and Synth

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260204

6 months ago

Do Metaprojects

https://taylor.town/wealth-001

6 months ago

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

6 months ago

Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders

https://printableclassics.com

6 months ago