Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-10
- Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month www.theverge.com - 1464 comments 1515 points
- Why is the sky blue? explainers.blog - 178 comments 511 points
- GitHub is down again www.githubstatus.com - 386 comments 492 points
- Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock github.com - 155 comments 460 points
- Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth alltheviews.world - 158 comments 385 points
- Another GitHub outage in the same day www.githubstatus.com - 224 comments 308 points
- AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports www.reuters.com - 76 comments 285 points
- GitHub Is Down github.com - 3 comments 261 points
- Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk research.google - 376 comments 255 points
- Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months www.theguardian.com - 103 comments 253 points
- Sandboxels neal.fun - 30 comments 240 points
- Testing Ads in ChatGPT openai.com - 309 comments 228 points
- Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT www.theregister.com - 172 comments 217 points
- Thoughts on Generating C wingolog.org - 69 comments 217 points
- UEFI Bindings for JavaScript codeberg.org - 107 comments 210 points
- Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years’ jail www.bbc.com - 208 comments 205 points
- AI Doesn’t Reduce Work–It Intensifies It hbr.org - 155 comments 199 points
- MIT Living Wage Calculator livingwage.mit.edu - 262 comments 191 points
- Offpunk 3.0 ploum.net - 35 comments 178 points
- Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network truthout.org - 118 comments 177 points
- What functional programmers get wrong about systems www.iankduncan.com - 108 comments 167 points
- Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months www.rte.ie - 127 comments 166 points
- Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs arxiv.org - 100 comments 157 points
- America has a tungsten problem www.noleary.com - 152 comments 156 points
- Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective www.sciencedirect.com - 62 comments 154 points
- Luce: First Electric Ferrari www.ferrari.com - 144 comments 143 points
- Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM defusedcyber.com - 49 comments 133 points
- LiftKit – UI where “everything derives from the golden ratio” www.chainlift.io - 76 comments 131 points
- Rust implementation of Mistral’s Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser github.com - 17 comments 125 points
- The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers www.bbc.com - 60 comments 112 points
February 10, 2026 ∙