hacker news

Monday, Feb 9, 2026

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Another GitHub outage in the same day

githubstatus.com

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92 points

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an hour ago

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38 comments

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

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265 points

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4 hours ago

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95 comments

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

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501 points

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6 hours ago

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489 comments

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Luce: First Electric Ferrari. Designed by LoveFrom

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36 points

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an hour ago

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20 comments

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Why is the sky blue?

explainers.blog

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236 points

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5 hours ago

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79 comments

6.

MIT Living Wage Calculator

livingwage.mit.edu

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11 points

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29 minutes ago

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1 comment

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Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

research.google

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95 points

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3 hours ago

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136 comments

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Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

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32 points

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3 hours ago

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4 comments

9.

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript

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158 points

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6 hours ago

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79 comments

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Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM

defusedcyber.com

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95 points

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5 hours ago

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33 comments

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The Markets of Old London

spitalfieldslife.com

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27 points

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2 hours ago

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4 comments

12.

Information Is Beautiful

informationisbeautiful.net

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57 points

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6 days ago

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3 comments

13.

Thoughts on Generating C

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159 points

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6 hours ago

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42 comments

14.

The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá

atlasobscura.com

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60 points

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5 days ago

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13 comments

15.

What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

quomodocumque.wordpress.com

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14 points

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4 days ago

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0 comments

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Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth

alltheviews.world

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318 points

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10 hours ago

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130 comments

17.

Testing Ads in ChatGPT

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112 points

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an hour ago

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132 comments

18.

Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original

smithsonianmag.com

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59 points

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5 days ago

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38 comments

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Sandboxels

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42 points

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5 hours ago

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10 comments

20.

An articulated archer automaton [video]

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3 points

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an hour ago

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0 comments

21.

Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

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124 points

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a day ago

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17 comments

22.

Art of Roads in Games

sandboxspirit.com

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553 points

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a day ago

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181 comments

23.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

231 points

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a day ago

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790 comments

24.

GitHub is down again

githubstatus.com

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397 points

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4 hours ago

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360 comments

25.

Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy

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45 points

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2 hours ago

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24 comments

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Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL

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6 points

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4 days ago

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1 comment

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

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217 points

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6 hours ago

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54 comments

28.

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

quantamagazine.org

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56 points

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6 hours ago

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12 comments

29.

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

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59 points

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DyslexicAtheist

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3 hours ago

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28 comments

30.

Nobody knows how the whole system works

surfingcomplexity.blog

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231 points

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15 hours ago

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161 comments