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

(www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out)

720 points by x01 7 hours ago | loading comments

America Has a Tungsten Problem

(www.noleary.com/blog/posts/1)

31 points by noleary an hour ago | loading comments

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

(github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock)

315 points by tokyobreakfast 5 hours ago | loading comments

Why is the sky blue?

(explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/)

285 points by udit99 6 hours ago | loading comments

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

(research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/)

131 points by aleyan 4 hours ago | loading comments

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

(blog.prosody.im/2026-letsencrypt-changes/)

19 points by zaik an hour ago | loading comments

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

(jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/gba-audio-interpolation/)

43 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | loading comments

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript

(codeberg.org/smnx/promethee)

175 points by ananas-dev 8 hours ago | loading comments

Another GitHub outage in the same day

(www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd)

159 points by Nezteb 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM

(defusedcyber.com/ivanti-epmm-sleeper-shells-403jsp)

109 points by waihtis 6 hours ago | loading comments

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Information Is Beautiful

(informationisbeautiful.net/)

75 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | loading comments

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MIT Living Wage Calculator

(livingwage.mit.edu/)

120 points by bear_with_me 2 hours ago | loading comments

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The Markets of Old London (2024)

(spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/20/the-markets-of-old-london-i/)

34 points by zeristor 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Thoughts on Generating C

(wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c)

170 points by ingve 8 hours ago | loading comments

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The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá

(www.atlasobscura.com/articles/traffic-mimes-of-colombia)

72 points by IgorPartola 5 days ago | loading comments

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

(alltheviews.world)

338 points by tombh 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Sandboxels

(neal.fun/sandboxels/)

76 points by 2sf5 6 hours ago | loading comments

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What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

(quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/whats-the-entropy-of-a-random-integer/)

22 points by sebg 4 days ago | loading comments

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Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network

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

30 points by cdrnsf an hour ago | loading comments

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How I've run major projects (2025)

(www.benkuhn.net/pjm/)

10 points by thomascountz 6 days ago | loading comments

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An articulated archer automaton [video]

(www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc0bIpDVEa8)

14 points by Teever 2 hours ago | loading comments

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

(github.com/jnidzwetzki/pg-dev-container)

14 points by mariuz 4 days ago | loading comments

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

(znah.net/graphs/)

137 points by znah a day ago | loading comments

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Art of Roads in Games

(sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/)

565 points by linolevan a day ago | loading comments

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

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237 points by david927 a day ago | loading comments

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Luce: First Electric Ferrari. Designed by LoveFrom

(www.ferrari.com/en-US/auto/ferrari-luce)

69 points by kaizenb 2 hours ago | loading comments

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Testing Ads in ChatGPT

(openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/)

173 points by davidbarker 3 hours ago | loading comments

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

(www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-monks-wrote-over-a-copy-of-an-ancient-star-catalog-now-a-particle-accelerator-is-revealing-the-long-lost-original-text-180988123/)

63 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | loading comments

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GitHub is down again

(www.githubstatus.com/incidents/54hndjxft5bx)

435 points by MattIPv4 5 hours ago | loading comments

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

(www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/senator-says-att-verizon-blocking-release-salt-typhoon-security-assessment-2026-02-03/)

238 points by redman25 7 hours ago | loading comments