Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 9, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - Vouch
• (01:21) - Art of Roads in Games
• (02:20) - AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
• (03:27) - Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
• (04:34) - GitHub Agentic Workflows
• (05:45) - Dave Farber has died
• (06:43) - Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
• (07:38) - More Mac malware from Google search
• (08:38) - Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)
• (09:59) - A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
• (11:01) - Outro

Vouch
https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961

Art of Roads in Games
https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938511

AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
https://www.blundergoat.com/articles/ai-makes-the-easy-part-easier-and-the-hard-part-harder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939593

Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941603

GitHub Agentic Workflows
https://github.github.io/gh-aw/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934107

Dave Farber has died
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933401

Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
https://underhillgame.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936237

More Mac malware from Google search
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/30/more-malware-from-google-search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938398

Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938903

A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
https://gtaforums.com/topic/986492-grand-theft-auto-ready2play-full-game-windows-version/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938241