Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
• What functional programmers get wrong about systems
• The number of abandoned oil tankers and other commercial ships has shot up
• Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
• Why is the sky blue?
• Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
• Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
• How I've run major projects (2025)
• LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
• Richard F. Burton: On the English adventurer and writer
• Stop using icons in data tables
• Sandboxels
• Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them
• Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016)
• UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
• Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
• Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World
• Thoughts on Generating C
• F# 10
• Information Is Beautiful
• Data exfil from agents in messaging apps
• I made an open-source juypter alternative
• Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
• Show HN: VillageSQL = MySQL and Extensions
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
• Mimes directing traffic in Bogotá had surprisingly loud impacts (2025)
• Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
• America has a tungsten problem
• Trump threatens to block opening of US-Canada bridge
• What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?