top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-01

Linux is good now

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/

7 months ago

A website to destroy all websites

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

7 months ago

Spherical Snake

https://kevinalbs.com/spherical_snake/

7 months ago

Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone

7 months ago

Cameras and Lenses (2020)

https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/

7 months ago

I rebooted my social life

https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing

7 months ago

Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intl

7 months ago

Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust

https://openworkers.com/introducing-openworkers

7 months ago

iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan

https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines-jp/

7 months ago

Python numbers every programmer should know

https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/

7 months ago

2025 Letter

https://danwang.co/2025-letter/

7 months ago

Sergey Brin's Unretirement

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/google-co-founder-sergey-brins-unretirement-is-a-lesson-for-the-rest-of-us/91280208

7 months ago

BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-01/byd-sells-4-6-million-vehicles-in-2025-meets-revised-sales-goal

7 months ago

Can Bundler be as fast as uv?

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/12/29/can-bundler-be-as-fast-as-uv/

7 months ago

Welcome to Gas Town

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04

7 months ago

ACM Is Now Open Access

https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2026/january/acm-open-access

7 months ago

Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them

https://sherwood.news/tech/rather-than-fully-cracking-down-on-scam-ads-meta-worked-to-make-them-harder/

7 months ago

Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/playstation-5-rom-keys-leaked-jailbreaking-could-be-made-easier-with-bootrom-codes

7 months ago

50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player

https://lightcapai.medium.com/the-great-return-from-digital-abundance-to-analog-meaning-cfda9e428752

7 months ago

Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt

https://enroll.sh

7 months ago