Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 8, 2026. Featuring: Art of Roads in Games, Vouch, Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2, Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing, Quartz crystals, and more.
Stories covered:
1. Art of Roads in Games
https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938511
2. Vouch
https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961
3. Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2
https://mattst88.com/blog/2026/02/08/Reverse_Engineering_the_PROM_for_the_SGI_O2/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939187
4. Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing
https://sir68k.re/posts/rh1-firmware-available/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885841
5. Quartz crystals
https://www.pa3fwm.nl/technotes/tn13a.html
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932444
6. Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/main/doc/scheduler/sched_clutch_edge.md
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938280
7. Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures
https://bobbiec.github.io/cistercian-font.html
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939312
8. More Mac malware from Google search
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/30/more-malware-from-google-search/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938398
9. Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord
https://odd-lots-books.netlify.app/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939685
10. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696
