top 50% 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

The Delete Act

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/about-drop-and-the-delete-act/

7 months ago

Children and Helical Time

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/children-and-helical-time/

7 months ago

Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/02/hull-096-worlds-largest-electric-ship-battery-power-launched

7 months ago

Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dells-version-dgx-spark-fixes-pain-points

7 months ago

Flow5 released to open source

https://flow5.tech/docs/releasenotes.html

7 months ago

Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker

https://github.com/buyukakyuz/rustmm

7 months ago

Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring

https://bustermq.sh/

7 months ago

Build a Deep Learning Library

https://zekcrates.quarto.pub/deep-learning-library/

7 months ago

What *is* code? (2015)

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/

7 months ago

Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework

https://github.com/fsmunoz/datastar-cl

7 months ago

Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution

https://mehmetince.net/the-story-of-a-perfect-exploit-chain-six-bugs-that-looked-harmless-until-they-became-pre-auth-rce-in-a-security-appliance/

7 months ago

We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof/

7 months ago

Pixar's True Story

https://computerhistory.org/blog/pixars-true-story/

7 months ago

DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship

https://reason.com/2025/12/31/dhs-says-real-id-which-dhs-certifies-is-too-unreliable-to-confirm-u-s-citizenship/

7 months ago

WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/01/01/

7 months ago

Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP

https://centamori.com/index.php?slug=hierarchical-navigable-small-world-hnsw-php&lang=en

7 months ago

Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF

https://bugs.pwno.io/0014

7 months ago

Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop

https://www.phoronix.com/review/windows-beats-linux-arl-h

7 months ago

Making Magic Leap past Nvidia's secure bootchain and breaking Tesla Autopilots

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/making-the-magic-leap-past-nvidia-s-secure-bootchain-and-breaking-some-tesla-autopilots-along-the-way

7 months ago

Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/judge-to-texas-you-cant-age-gate-the-entire-internet-without-evidence/

7 months ago

Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows

https://lethain.com/agents-coordinators/

7 months ago

Bulgaria joins euro area from 1 January

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/de/ip_25_3123

7 months ago

Show HN: Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version

https://www.wario.style

7 months ago

Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit

https://textonly.github.io/git-prime/

7 months ago

Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology (2020)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-uncover-the-universal-geometry-of-geology-20201119/

7 months ago

The great shift of English prose

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/english-prose-has-become-much-easier

7 months ago

Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km

https://twitter.com/michaelnicollsx/status/2006790372681220530

7 months ago