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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
2026-02-09 @ 23:31:15Points: 39Comments: 40
LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
2026-02-09 @ 22:01:34Points: 38Comments: 12
America has a tungsten problem
2026-02-09 @ 20:49:21Points: 115Comments: 113
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
2026-02-09 @ 20:41:05Points: 147Comments: 75
Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators
2026-02-09 @ 20:31:44Points: 72Comments: 76
Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016)
2026-02-09 @ 20:30:10Points: 20Comments: 0
Data exfil from agents in messaging apps
2026-02-09 @ 20:21:27Points: 7Comments: 3
An articulated archer automaton [video]
2026-02-09 @ 19:32:23Points: 29Comments: 6
Another GitHub outage in the same day
2026-02-09 @ 19:07:25Points: 258Comments: 188
The Markets of Old London (2024)
2026-02-09 @ 18:20:56Points: 48Comments: 17
Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them
2026-02-09 @ 18:01:44Points: 15Comments: 15
Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
2026-02-09 @ 17:44:10Points: 67Comments: 27
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
2026-02-09 @ 17:09:37Points: 195Comments: 293
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
2026-02-09 @ 16:26:31Points: 384Comments: 127
Why is the sky blue?
2026-02-09 @ 15:39:51Points: 394Comments: 144
Sandboxels
2026-02-09 @ 15:31:09Points: 145Comments: 27
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
2026-02-09 @ 15:11:07Points: 124Comments: 45
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
2026-02-09 @ 14:37:38Points: 1135Comments: 1131
UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
2026-02-09 @ 14:07:36Points: 198Comments: 97
Thoughts on Generating C
2026-02-09 @ 13:54:48Points: 193Comments: 59
Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth
2026-02-09 @ 10:05:55Points: 366Comments: 145
We go into all the details at https://alltheviews.world
And there's an interactive map with over 1 billion longest lines, covering the whole world at https://map.alltheviews.world Just click on any point and it'll load its longest line of sight.
Some of you may remember Tom's post[1] from a few months ago about how to efficiently pack visibility tiles for computing the entire planet. Well now it's done. The compute run itself took 100s of AMD Turin cores, 100s of GBs of RAM, a few TBs of disk and 2 days of constant runtime on multiple machines.
If you are interested in the technical details, Ryan and I have written extensively about the algorithm and pipeline that got us here:
* Tom's blog post: https://tombh.co.uk/longest-line-of-sight
* Ryan's technical breakdown: https://ryan.berge.rs/posts/total-viewshed-algorithm
This was a labor of love and we hope it inspires you both technically and naturally, to get you out seeing some of these vast views for yourselves!
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
2026-02-08 @ 19:35:55Points: 255Comments: 870
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?