Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-10

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