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1.
Happy Public Domain Day 2026 (publicdomainreview.org)
414 points by apetresc 1 day ago | 84 comments
2.
Why users cannot create Issues directly (github.com/ghostty-org)
718 points by xpe 1 day ago | 265 comments
3.
Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged (cnn.com)
481 points by wslh 1 day ago | 644 comments
4.
Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature (standardebooks.org)
345 points by WithinReason 17 hours ago | 54 comments
5.
HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark (eurosurveillance.org)
505 points by stared 15 hours ago | 269 comments
6.
FracturedJson (github.com/j-brooke)
505 points by PretzelFisch 13 hours ago | 138 comments
7.
10 years of personal finances in plain text files (sgoel.dev)
432 points by wrxd 14 hours ago | 166 comments
8.
Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt (enroll.sh)
250 points by _mig5 2 days ago | 48 comments
9.
39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos (ccc.de)
374 points by Jommi 12 hours ago | 77 comments
10.
Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface (github.com/maxpert)
174 points by zX41ZdbW 23 hours ago | 37 comments
11.
What you need to know before touching a video file (gist.github.com)
283 points by qbow883 6 days ago | 182 comments
12.
WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform (nullprogram.com)
90 points by ArmageddonIt 1 day ago | 4 comments
13.
Assorted less(1) tips (thechases.com)
177 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 39 comments
14.
Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc. (kaigaiiju.ch)
104 points by kibitan 7 days ago | 51 comments
15.
Contact the ISS (ariss.org)
104 points by logikblok 6 days ago | 28 comments
16.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
252 points by whoishiring 9 hours ago | 156 comments
17.
FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1) (co.ua)
130 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 44 comments
18.
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world (theregister.com)
252 points by Brajeshwar 10 hours ago | 535 comments
19.
Parental controls aren't for parents (beasthacker.com)
345 points by beasthacker 12 hours ago | 364 comments
20.
Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere (indieweb.org)
355 points by 47thpresident 6 hours ago | 88 comments
21.
Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy (iroiro.party)
73 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 16 comments
22.
A small collection of text-only websites (shkspr.mobi)
130 points by danielfalbo 14 hours ago | 55 comments
23.
 [flagged] I'm a developer for a major food delivery app (reddit.com)
576 points by apayan 20 hours ago | 276 comments
24.
Clicks Communicator (clicksphone.com)
255 points by microflash 8 hours ago | 183 comments
25.
James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies (fordauthority.com)
192 points by NaOH 7 days ago | 195 comments
26.
One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household (lalitm.com)
118 points by ayi 15 hours ago | 70 comments
27.
Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone (punkt.ch)
125 points by ChrisArchitect 9 hours ago | 114 comments
28.
Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin (carette.xyz)
118 points by weird_trousers 17 hours ago | 77 comments
29.
ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform (github.com/thingsboard)
63 points by pretext 5 days ago | 5 comments
30.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
87 points by whoishiring 9 hours ago | 167 comments

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