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

   2034 points • 2012 comments • feb 09, 2026

2. Why is the sky blue?

   790 points • 260 comments • feb 09, 2026

3. Discord Alternatives, Ranked

   657 points • 432 comments • feb 09, 2026

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

   598 points • 191 comments • feb 09, 2026

5. GitHub is down again

   502 points • 396 comments • feb 09, 2026

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

   401 points • 175 comments • feb 09, 2026

7. Sandboxels

   394 points • 51 comments • feb 09, 2026

8. Another GitHub outage in the same day

   369 points • 280 comments • feb 09, 2026

9. Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

   367 points • 557 comments • feb 09, 2026

10. Nobody knows how the whole system works

    343 points • 211 comments • feb 09, 2026