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

1131 x01 2026-02-09 15:04:06 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 1130

Discord is rolling out global age verification starting next month, setting users to a "teen-appropriate" experience unless they verify as adults. Verified users will have access to age-restricted servers and channels, while unverified users will face content filters and restrictions.

The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers

34 1659447091 2026-02-10 00:04:06 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 4

A rise in oil tanker and commercial ship abandonment worldwide is attributed to geopolitical instability, supply chain disruptions, and the growth of "shadow fleets" with obscure ownership and poor maintenance. This has left thousands of merchant sailors, including those on a Russian oil tanker, without pay, food, and basic necessities, with many facing health and safety risks.

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

383 tokyobreakfast 2026-02-09 17:04:06 UTC github.com/jim11662418 Llama Share 127

A project uses a WEMOS D1 Mini ESP8266 module and Arduino sketch to display local time on an analog quartz clock, automatically adjusting for daylight savings time. The ESP8266 stores clock hand positions in EERAM and retrieves them after power interruptions, allowing the clock to resume accurately.

Why is the sky blue?

394 udit99 2026-02-09 16:04:06 UTC explainers.blog Llama Share 144

The color of the sky is determined by the scattering of photons by small molecules in the atmosphere, with blue photons being scattered more than others due to their resonant frequency with nitrogen and oxygen molecules. The sky appears blue because of this scattering, and its color can change depending on the presence of other particles or gases in the atmosphere.

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

193 aleyan 2026-02-09 18:04:06 UTC research.google Llama Share 291

Researchers used hard-braking events as a leading indicator of crash risk, finding a statistically significant positive correlation between HBE frequency and crash rates in California and Virginia. This high-density signal can identify high-risk locations even without long-term collision history, enabling targeted engineering interventions.

Stop Using Icons in Data Tables

50 ctward 2026-02-09 22:04:06 UTC medium.com/@codythistleward Llama Share 16

Designers often treat icons as a solution to cognitive load but they actually increase it due to high spatial frequency and visual entropy. Using icons in data-heavy products forces the brain to decode intricate shapes, creating a "cognitive tax" that users pay every time they scan the table.

How I've run major projects (2025)

92 thomascountz 2026-02-09 20:04:06 UTC benkuhn.net Llama Share 11

The author shares their project management playbook, emphasizing the importance of clear goals, situational awareness, and frequent communication to ensure projects run smoothly and efficiently. They provide a set of habits and rituals, including regular meetings, a master doc, and a clear description of goals, to help team members stay on track and make autonomous decisions.

LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

36 peter_d_sherman 2026-02-09 22:04:06 UTC chainlift.io Llama Share 12

LiftKit solves visual issues with button icons by dynamically adjusting padding and whitespace. It offers customizable components with a unique harmony based on the golden ratio.

Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016)

20 kurinikku 2026-02-09 23:04:06 UTC daeus.blog Full Share 0

Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent. Outcomes depend not just on what you do, but on what others do, and what they expect you to do. Game theory begins where individual optimization ends. While formal solutions rarely exist for real-world situations, the framework is useful for pattern recognition at…

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript

198 ananas-dev 2026-02-09 15:04:06 UTC codeberg.org Full Share 97

Promethee loads script.js from the boot volume and runs it. That script is your bootloader. If you can do it with UEFI services, you can do it in JavaScript. Your entrypoint is script.js. The run target copies it to the UEFI FAT volume as \script.js.

Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World

39 sohkamyung 2026-02-09 21:04:06 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 3

Scientists struggle to study microbe details due to tough cell walls and expensive technologies. Expansion microscopy, using a hydrogel found in diapers, inflates samples for clearer images on basic microscopes.

Sandboxels

144 2sf5 2026-02-09 16:04:06 UTC neal.fun Full Share 27

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

67 ibobev 2026-02-09 18:04:06 UTC jsgroth.dev Llama Share 26

A Game Boy Advance emulator can implement audio enhancement to reduce aliasing and noise by using its own interpolation algorithm to resample audio channels' sample rates directly to the emulator's audio output sample rate. This approach can produce higher-quality results than accurate emulation and works with any GBA game, though quality can vary by game.

Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?

38 mellosouls 2026-02-10 00:04:06 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 40

Particle physicists face a crisis as the Large Hadron Collider's data matches the Standard Model, leaving no new physics to be found. Despite this, researchers are exploring new ideas, such as the Future Circular Collider and muon colliders, and turning to theoretical studies like amplitudeology.

Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them

15 kmansm27 2026-02-09 23:04:06 UTC omnara.com Llama Share 15

The author is trying to define the term "async agent" and finds that existing definitions are vague or incorrect. They propose that an async agent is not inherently async, but rather depends on how it's used, and that the real async agents are the event loops that manage concurrent execution.

F# 10

49 tosh 2026-02-09 23:04:06 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 4

F# 10 is a refinement release with improvements in clarity, consistency, and performance, including scoped warning suppression, improved syntax for computation expressions, and better auto property accessors. It also includes a type subsumption cache for faster compilation and tooling performance.

America has a tungsten problem

115 noleary 2026-02-09 21:04:06 UTC noleary.com Llama Share 111

The US needs a secure tungsten supply due to increasing demand from industries like semiconductors and munitions.

Thoughts on Generating C

193 ingve 2026-02-09 14:04:06 UTC wingolog.org Llama Share 59

The user shares their experience and best practices for generating C code from other languages, focusing on avoiding undefined behavior, using static inline functions, and explicit type conversions. They also discuss the benefits and drawbacks of generating C code, including its limitations in handling stack management, side tables, and source-level debugging.

Information Is Beautiful

107 surprisetalk 2026-02-09 17:04:06 UTC informationisbeautiful.net Full Share 10

we’re an independent collective making sense of the world with infographics & data-visuals we turn data, information and knowledge into interactive graphics, stories, live performances and books

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

366 tombh 2026-02-09 11:04:06 UTC alltheviews.world Llama Share 145

Researchers used CacheTVS to find the longest line of sight on Earth, which groups around peaks and ridges. Notable views include Colombia's Pico Cristobal and Russia's Mount Elbrus to Turkey's Pontic Mountains.

Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM

124 waihtis 2026-02-09 16:04:06 UTC defusedcyber.com Llama Share 44

A new exploitation wave of Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) has been observed, deploying a dormant in-memory Java class loader. The campaign is consistent with initial access broker (IAB) tradecraft, aiming to gain access for later sale or handoff.

Show HN: VillageSQL = MySQL and Extensions

10 metzby 2026-02-10 00:04:06 UTC github.com/villagesql Llama Share 1

VillageSQL is an open-source MySQL fork with an extension framework for the agentic AI era, currently in alpha. It requires building from source and has a complex setup process for development and testing.

The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá

89 IgorPartola 2026-02-09 16:04:06 UTC atlasobscura.com Full Share 20

Data exfil from agents in messaging apps

7 sarelta 2026-02-09 23:04:06 UTC promptarmor.com Prefix Share 4

Communicating with AI agents (like OpenClaw) via messaging apps (like Slack and Telegram) has become much more popular. But it can expose users to a largely unrecognized LLM-specific data exfiltration risk, because these apps support ‘link previews’ as a feature. With previews enabled, user data can be exfiltrated automatically after receiving a malicious link in an LLM-generated message -- ...

Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network

146 cdrnsf 2026-02-09 21:04:06 UTC truthout.org Llama Share 75

Amazon's Ring touted an AI-powered surveillance network through their camera systems in a Super Bowl ad, claiming it helps find lost dogs. However, analysts say it's a nationwide surveillance system with features like license plate reading and face recognition.

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

255 david927 2026-02-09 01:04:06 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 870

Users are working on various projects including a color palette tool, a language learning app, a daily puzzles website, an AI-based time tracker, and more. They are also experimenting with new technologies such as auxetic geometries, data visualization, and AI-powered code review tools, and seeking feedback and advice from others in the community.

Another GitHub outage in the same day

258 Nezteb 2026-02-09 20:04:06 UTC githubstatus.com Full Share 188

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Issues, Actions and Git Operations.

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

27 mariuz 2026-02-09 19:04:06 UTC github.com/jnidzwetzki Llama Share 6

This project provides a Visual Studio Code development container for PostgreSQL that allows developers to debug and test PostgreSQL extensions. The container includes a PostgreSQL build with debug symbols and assertions, and provides tools for attaching a debugger and browsing the source code.

What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

36 sebg 2026-02-09 18:04:06 UTC quomodocumque.wordpress.com Llama Share 5

The user asks for the entropy of a probability distribution related to prime factorizations of random integers and a similar distribution from breaking up random permutations into cycles. They estimate the mean entropy and ask if it converges to a distribution and if the exponential of the entropy, the perplexity, has a mean.

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

165 znah 2026-02-09 11:04:06 UTC znah.net Full Share 24

An experimental simulation of emergent complexity, inspired by Paul Cousin's work on Graph-Rewriting Automata.