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  1. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (www.theverge.com)
    1149 points • by x01 • yesterday at 2:37 PM • 1151 comments
  2. The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers (www.bbc.com)
    39 points • by 1659447091 • yesterday at 11:17 PM • 8 comments
  3. What Functional Programmers Get Wrong About Systems (www.iankduncan.com)
    12 points • by subset • today at 12:07 AM • 1 comment
  4. Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com)
    387 points • by tokyobreakfast • yesterday at 4:26 PM • 130 comments
  5. Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)
    397 points • by udit99 • yesterday at 3:39 PM • 144 comments
  6. Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk (research.google)
    198 points • by aleyan • yesterday at 5:09 PM • 300 comments
  7. Stop Using Icons in Data Tables (medium.com)
    56 points • by ctward • last Thursday at 4:42 PM • 16 comments
  8. LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio" (www.chainlift.io)
    42 points • by peter_d_sherman • yesterday at 10:01 PM • 15 comments
  9. How I've run major projects (2025) (www.benkuhn.net)
    95 points • by thomascountz • 02/03/2026 • 11 comments
  10. Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016) (daeus.blog)
    20 points • by kurinikku • yesterday at 8:30 PM • 0 comments
  11. Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (www.quantamagazine.org)
    42 points • by sohkamyung • last Thursday at 12:18 PM • 3 comments
  12. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org)
    199 points • by ananas-dev • yesterday at 2:07 PM • 98 comments
  13. Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them (www.omnara.com)
    18 points • by kmansm27 • yesterday at 6:01 PM • 17 comments
  14. Sandboxels (neal.fun)
    145 points • by 2sf5 • yesterday at 3:31 PM • 27 comments
  15. Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
    67 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 5:44 PM • 28 comments
  16. Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)
    194 points • by ingve • yesterday at 1:54 PM • 59 comments
  17. Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)
    108 points • by surprisetalk • 02/03/2026 • 11 comments
  18. F# 10 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    58 points • by tosh • last Wednesday at 7:06 PM • 7 comments
  19. Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)
    367 points • by tombh • yesterday at 10:05 AM • 147 comments
  20. Data exfil from agents in messaging apps (www.promptarmor.com)
    9 points • by sarelta • yesterday at 8:21 PM • 3 comments
  21. Show HN: VillageSQL = MySQL and Extensions (github.com)
    11 points • by metzby • last Thursday at 3:35 PM • 1 comment
  22. Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM (defusedcyber.com)
    125 points • by waihtis • yesterday at 3:11 PM • 45 comments
  23. America has a tungsten problem (www.noleary.com)
    117 points • by noleary • yesterday at 8:49 PM • 119 comments
  24. Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? (www.quantamagazine.org)
    41 points • by mellosouls • yesterday at 11:31 PM • 50 comments
  25. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) (self)
    256 points • by david927 • last Sunday at 7:35 PM • 871 comments
  26. The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá (www.atlasobscura.com)
    89 points • by IgorPartola • last Thursday at 2:58 AM • 20 comments
  27. Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL (github.com)
    28 points • by mariuz • last Thursday at 3:09 PM • 6 comments
  28. Another GitHub outage in the same day (www.githubstatus.com)
    262 points • by Nezteb • yesterday at 7:07 PM • 190 comments
  29. Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)
    169 points • by znah • last Sunday at 1:18 PM • 24 comments
  30. Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network (truthout.org)
    153 points • by cdrnsf • yesterday at 8:41 PM • 81 comments
  31. What's the Entropy of a Random Integer? (quomodocumque.wordpress.com)
    36 points • by sebg • last Thursday at 9:47 AM • 5 comments
  32. The Markets of Old London (2024) (spitalfieldslife.com)
    48 points • by zeristor • yesterday at 6:20 PM • 17 comments
  33. An articulated archer automaton [video] (www.youtube.com)
    29 points • by Teever • yesterday at 7:32 PM • 6 comments
  34. Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)
    281 points • by azhenley • yesterday at 5:28 AM • 183 comments
  35. Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs (arstechnica.com)
    35 points • by MysticOracle • yesterday at 9:51 PM • 1 comment
  36. Google AI Tools Start Blocking Disney-Related Prompts (deadline.com)
    9 points • by geox • yesterday at 11:51 PM • 0 comments
  37. AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (www.reuters.com)
    268 points • by redman25 • yesterday at 2:22 PM • 68 comments
  38. GitHub is down again (www.githubstatus.com)
    475 points • by MattIPv4 • yesterday at 4:12 PM • 382 comments
  39. Luce: First Electric Ferrari (www.ferrari.com)
    104 points • by kaizenb • yesterday at 7:19 PM • 111 comments
  40. Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations (www.quantamagazine.org)
    67 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 2:36 PM • 15 comments
  41. Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear (www.durham.ac.uk)
    70 points • by andsoitis • last Thursday at 2:20 PM • 13 comments
  42. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders (printableclassics.com)
    64 points • by bookman10 • yesterday at 12:09 PM • 29 comments
  43. MIT Living Wage Calculator (livingwage.mit.edu)
    169 points • by bear_with_me • yesterday at 7:50 PM • 237 comments
  44. Vouch (github.com)
    1045 points • by chwtutha • last Sunday at 3:09 AM • 459 comments
  45. Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)
    573 points • by linolevan • last Sunday at 9:05 PM • 190 comments
  46. Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective (www.sciencedirect.com)
    142 points • by Brajeshwar • yesterday at 2:18 PM • 58 comments
  47. Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)
    183 points • by muggermuch • last Sunday at 11:27 PM • 65 comments
  48. LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation (github.com)
    116 points • by PaulHoule • last Wednesday at 6:34 PM • 24 comments
  49. Why Section 230 Is a Good Law and Why Messing with It Would Be Bad (www.techdirt.com)
    22 points • by speckx • yesterday at 8:34 PM • 11 comments
  50. Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (blog.prosody.im)
    73 points • by zaik • yesterday at 8:31 PM • 78 comments