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Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure

I'm launching Wirewiki.com today! Wirewiki makes the internet’s hidden infrastructure browsable. I quit my job 5 years ago to scale Nslookup.io. But after reaching 600k monthly users, I hit a ceiling. I couldn't naturally expand beyond DNS because of

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Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944245 Points: 85 # Comments: 58

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Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers

This is an educational reference implementation showing how to build reasonably secure, standards-compliant authentication from first principles on Cloudflare Workers. Stack: Hono, Turso (libSQL), PBKDF2-SHA384 + normalization + common-password check

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Offpunk 3.0

Article URL: https://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943752 Points: 29 # Comments: 2

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Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth

We're Tom and Ryan and we teamed up to build an algorithm with Rust and SIMD to exhaustively search for the longest line of sight on the planet. We can confirm that a previously speculated view between Pik Dankova in Kyrgyzstan and the Hindu Kush in

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RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)

Article URL: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3092 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934499 Points: 143 # Comments: 41

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Nobody knows how the whole system works

Article URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/nobody-knows-how-the-whole-system-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941882 Points: 34 # Comments: 13

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A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hunters-are-so-desperate-that-theyre-paying-to-get-recruited-44891ac2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941850 Points: 10 # Comments: 1

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TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/semiconductors-tsmc-japan-taiwan-ai-11256f2bfde73ca23d08331ad138d6d5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941640 Points: 55 # Comments: 19

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Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC

Article URL: https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941603 Points: 68 # Comments: 18

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NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms in containers

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen/status/2020701159175155874 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941280 Points: 20 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books

I built a desktop Mars colony survival game called Underhill, in homage to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Land on Mars, build solar panels and greenhouses, and try not to pass out during dust storms. Eventually your colonists split into faction

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Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019)

Article URL: https://habr.com/en/articles/446238/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934579 Points: 108 # Comments: 61

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A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please

"There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong."

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In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgn2k285ypo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940511 Points: 37 # Comments: 42