HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-09

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)

    2046 points · HN #46945663

  2. 02

    Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)

    813 points · HN #46946401

  3. 03

    Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com/jim11662418)

    606 points · HN #46947096

  4. 04

    Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)

    611 points · HN #46938511

  5. 05

    Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)

    370 points · HN #46947777

  6. 06

    UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org/smnx)

    259 points · HN #46945348

  7. 07

    Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)

    263 points · HN #46945235

  8. 08

    AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)

    532 points · HN #46939593

  9. 09

    Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)

    375 points · HN #46949452

  10. 10

    More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)

    279 points · HN #46938398

  11. 11

    Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)

    412 points · HN #46943568

  12. 12

    Luce: First Electric Ferrari (ferrari.com)

    291 points · HN #46949642

  13. 13

    America has a tungsten problem (noleary.com)

    205 points · HN #46951057

  14. 14

    Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)

    107 points · HN #46948273

  15. 15

    Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)

    189 points · HN #46939685

  16. 16

    Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)

    171 points · HN #46939312

  17. 17

    Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)

    361 points · HN #46941882

  18. 18

    Quartz crystals (pa3fwm.nl)

    132 points · HN #46932444

  19. 19

    Game Theory Patterns at Work (daeus.blog)

    155 points · HN #46950756

  20. 20

    Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)

    149 points · HN #46946062

  21. 21

    Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)

    217 points · HN #46933955

  22. 22

    Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)

    223 points · HN #46933223

  23. 23

    GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)

    514 points · HN #46946827

  24. 24

    Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (prosody.im)

    193 points · HN #46950780

  25. 25

    LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com/naver)

    119 points · HN #46889710

  26. 26

    AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)

    305 points · HN #46945497

  27. 27

    Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025) (atlasobscura.com)

    114 points · HN #46895089

  28. 28

    Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (quantamagazine.org)

    102 points · HN #46898840

  29. 29

    Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing (sir68k.re)

    87 points · HN #46885841

  30. 30

    Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)

    123 points · HN #46877291