Hacker News on Sunday, 8 February 2026

Vouch(github.com)

1033 points by chwtutha 8 months ago | 447 comments

GitHub repository for Vouch, a project by Mitchell Hashimoto related to vouching for contributors, linked alongside an X post and a Ghostty pull request.

Art of Roads in Games(sandboxspirit.com)

569 points by linolevan 8 months ago | 185 comments

A blog post on the Sandbox Spirit site about how roads and intersections are designed and generated in games.

AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder(blundergoat.com)

441 points by weaksauce 8 months ago | 295 comments

A blog article on blundergoat.com arguing AI makes easy work easier and hard work harder; the captured page shows a 404 Page not found error.

“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work(vangemert.dev)

402 points by spmvg 8 months ago | 164 comments

Blog post by Steven van Gemert arguing that starting from an empty, clean work surface ("nothing") is the key to structuring your work and avoiding chaos.

DoNotNotify is now Open Source(donotnotify.com)

353 points by awaaz 8 months ago | 47 comments

Announcement page stating that DoNotNotify, an Android app for controlling notifications, is now open source with code on GitHub.

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory(github.com)

307 points by yi_wang 8 months ago | 143 comments

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

300 points by david927 8 months ago | 999 comments

Slop Terrifies Me(ezhik.jp)

298 points by Ezhik 8 months ago | 267 comments

I am happier writing code by hand(abhinavomprakash.com)

287 points by lazyfolder 8 months ago | 205 comments

I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color(blog.otterstack.com)

286 points by adunk 8 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books(underhillgame.com)

285 points by ariaalam 8 months ago | 100 comments

My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder(mtlynch.io)

285 points by mtlynch 8 months ago | 87 comments

GitHub Agentic Workflows(github.github.io)

282 points by mooreds 8 months ago | 133 comments

AI fatigue Is real and nobody talks about it(siddhantkhare.com)

278 points by sidk24 8 months ago | 214 comments

OpenClaw is changing my life(reorx.com)

270 points by novoreorx 8 months ago | 434 comments

Dave Farber has died(lists.nanog.org)

269 points by vitplister 8 months ago | 42 comments

Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

258 points by brandonb 8 months ago | 152 comments

More Mac malware from Google search(eclecticlight.co)

245 points by kristianp 8 months ago | 167 comments

MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake(technologyreview.com)

243 points by helloplanets 8 months ago | 115 comments

Why E cores make Apple silicon fast(eclecticlight.co)

231 points by ingve 8 months ago | 221 comments

Beyond agentic coding(haskellforall.com)

227 points by RebelPotato 8 months ago | 85 comments

Sandwich Bill of Materials(nesbitt.io)

218 points by zdw 8 months ago | 25 comments

Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models(latent.space)

205 points by aaronng91 8 months ago | 197 comments

A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck(gtaforums.com)

204 points by HelloUsername 8 months ago | 105 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles(mccloskeybr.com)

196 points by krapp 8 months ago | 36 comments

Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing(blog.hofstede.it)

194 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 78 comments

The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning (2023)(mitpress.mit.edu)

193 points by AlexeyBrin 8 months ago | 22 comments

Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin(hyperallergic.com)

192 points by bryanrasmussen 8 months ago | 68 comments

Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)(arxiv.org)

190 points by vinnyglennon 8 months ago | 174 comments

Eight more months of agents(crawshaw.io)

187 points by arrowsmith 8 months ago | 194 comments

Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?

185 points by StefanBatory 8 months ago | 80 comments

Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition(github.com)

184 points by napolux 8 months ago | 98 comments

Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL(znah.net)

180 points by znah 8 months ago | 24 comments

My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood(sampatt.com)

177 points by SamPatt 8 months ago | 66 comments

Vouch(github.com)

173 points by dboon 8 months ago | 38 comments

Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord(odd-lots-books.netlify.app)

172 points by muggermuch 8 months ago | 64 comments

Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler(github.com)

161 points by tosh 8 months ago | 34 comments

Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker(internals-for-interns.com)

160 points by valyala 8 months ago | 47 comments

Bun v1.3.9(bun.com)

155 points by tosh 8 months ago | 38 comments

Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens(nullcathedral.com)

154 points by nullcathedral 8 months ago | 63 comments

Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures(bobbiec.github.io)

153 points by bobbiechen 8 months ago | 36 comments

RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)(datatracker.ietf.org)

150 points by ipnon 8 months ago | 43 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997(fabiensanglard.net)

143 points by birdculture 8 months ago | 53 comments

Advanced Aerial Robotics Made Simple(drehmflight.com)

139 points by jacquesm 8 months ago | 11 comments

Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019)(habr.com)

131 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 72 comments

Cache Monet(cachemonet.com)

130 points by keepamovin 8 months ago | 39 comments

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck(jeffgeerling.com)

129 points by assimpleaspossi 8 months ago | 31 comments

The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster(insideevs.com)

129 points by andrewjneumann 8 months ago | 157 comments

Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox(github.com)

127 points by jingkai_he 8 months ago | 52 comments

The Little Bool of Doom (2025)(blog.svgames.pl)

127 points by pocksuppet 8 months ago | 48 comments

Quartz crystals(pa3fwm.nl)

117 points by gtsnexp 8 months ago | 36 comments

LineageOS 23.2(lineageos.org)

105 points by pentagrama 8 months ago | 32 comments

Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2(mattst88.com)

105 points by mattst88 8 months ago | 23 comments

Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly(voidtools.com)

102 points by idw 8 months ago | 43 comments

Stop generating, start thinking(localghost.dev)

101 points by frizlab 8 months ago | 61 comments

Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue(greensdictofslang.com)

99 points by mxfh 8 months ago | 15 comments

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA(theguardian.com)

97 points by treetalker 8 months ago | 27 comments

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles(kyledunbar.dev)

89 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 16 comments

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers(techcrunch.com)

83 points by witnessme 8 months ago | 38 comments

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600(github.com)

83 points by pacod 8 months ago | 3 comments