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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!

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485227

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?

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

2026-02-08 @ 13:18:37Points: 165Comments: 24

Stop Using Icons in Data Tables

2026-02-05 @ 16:42:55Points: 51Comments: 16

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

2026-02-05 @ 15:09:45Points: 27Comments: 6

Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World

2026-02-05 @ 12:18:59Points: 40Comments: 3

What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

2026-02-05 @ 09:47:53Points: 36Comments: 5

The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá

2026-02-05 @ 02:58:50Points: 89Comments: 20

How I've run major projects (2025)

2026-02-03 @ 22:38:21Points: 92Comments: 11

Information Is Beautiful

2026-02-03 @ 21:05:42Points: 107Comments: 11

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