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TIL: Parental Controls Aren't for Parents

I found a stranger texting my 12-year-old on a 'kid-safe' Gabb phone. Parental controls are broken.

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Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

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Assorted Less(1) Tips

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Show HN: OfferGridAI – side-by-side comparison of real estate offers from PDFs

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Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc.

New Year’s Eve 2024 – this is our final broadcast of the year! Following the previous episode, we’re bringing you the second half of our special interview with Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, the creator of the globally-used programming language Ruby! This segment also features excerpts from the same

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Joseph Campbell Meets George Lucas – Part I (2015)

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A website to destroy all websites

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

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10 years of personal finances in plain text files

I've been tracking my finances using Beancount in plain text files for 10 years. Here are the numbers, the workflow, and why I believe plaintext accounting will outlive any app.

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Round the tree, yes, but not round the squirrel

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Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception?

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A small collection of text-only websites

A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative. Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle, but the joy of the web is that there are no…

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One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household

Two people. Eighteen accounts spanning checking, savings, credit cards, investments. Three currencies. Twenty minutes of work every week. One net worth number I actually trust. The payoff: A single, trustworthy net worth number growing over time. No app did exactly what I needed, so I built my own personal finance system using plain-text accounting principles and a powerful Python library called Beancount. This post shows you how I handle imports, investments, multi-currency, and a two-person view. How I got here It all started during the 2021 tax season. I had blocked out an entire weekend and was juggling statements, trying to compute capital gains, stressing about getting the numbers mixed up. “This is chaos”, I thought. “There must be

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Happy Public Domain Day 2026

Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.

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FracturedJson

JSON formatter that produces highly readable but fairly compact output. - Home · j-brooke/FracturedJson Wiki

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HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

BACKGROUND Danish women vaccinated with the 4-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (HPV types: 6/11/16/18) at age 14 in 2008 reached screening age in 2017, allowing assessment of long-term effects on prevalence, persistence and incidence of HPV infections. AIM To examine the HPV status of cervical samples over time among women vaccinated as girls. METHODS Between February 2017 and February 2024, residual material from cytology-analysed samples collected through the ‘Trial23’ study, part of the national screening programme, was tested for HPV16/18 and non-vaccine high-risk (HR) HPV types. Prevalence in first, second and third samples, and persistence and incidence between samples were calculated. RESULTS Over 7 years, 8,659 women provid

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What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File

What you NEED to know before touching a video file - video_noob_guide.md

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39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos

Video Streaming Portal des Chaos Computer Clubs

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Show HN: Dealta – A game-theoretic decentralized trading protocol

Dealta-Foundation has 3 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Why users cannot create Issues directly

Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first. Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or feature requests. Instead, we use GitHub...

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)

Prototyping a Home NAS with RAID1 on FreeBSD on a virtual machine: system installation via SSH with bsdinstall, configuring ZFS mirror and working with datasets

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On this day

Two aircraft collide on a runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, killing 5 and injuring 18.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

TIL: Parental Controls Aren't for Parents

Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

Assorted Less(1) Tips

Show HN: OfferGridAI – side-by-side comparison of real estate offers from PDFs

Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc.

Joseph Campbell Meets George Lucas – Part I (2015)

A website to destroy all websites

10 years of personal finances in plain text files

Round the tree, yes, but not round the squirrel

Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception?

A small collection of text-only websites

One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household

Happy Public Domain Day 2026

FracturedJson

HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File

39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos

Show HN: Dealta – A game-theoretic decentralized trading protocol

Why users cannot create Issues directly

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)

On this day

Two aircraft collide on a runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, killing 5 and injuring 18.

Massive nationwide protests and unrest break out in Kazakhstan over the sudden increase of liquefied petroleum gas prices, leading to 238 people dead and thousands injured by January 11.

Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.

Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.

Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia.

Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people.

One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.

The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.

At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.

The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football match.

Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California.

Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac.

Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.

Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.

India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.

Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history; Also known as the Duquesne Spy Ring.

World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines.

World War II: The Cardiff Blitz severely damages the cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.

The Young Brothers engaged in a gun battle resulting in the deaths of six law enforcement officers; the worst single killing of US police officers in the 20th century.

World premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové.

The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.

American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.

Chicago Canal opens.

Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.

American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Stones River ends in a Union victory when the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg are repulsed for the final time by the Army of the Cumberland under General William S. Rosecrans.

The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six engineers; Thomas Telford would later become its first president.

Northwest Indian War: The Big Bottom massacre is committed by Lenape and Wyandot warriors in the Ohio Country, North America.

Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of General George Washington repulse a British attack led by General Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria amends the Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana to include the abolition of torture throughout the Habsburg-ruled countries of Austria and Bohemia.

Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkurat II of Mataram and his bodyguards execute the rebel leader Trunajaya.

Reconquista: The Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.

Christian forces defeat the Turks in the battle of Kunovica.

Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.

The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.

The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.

On this day

Two aircraft collide on a runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, killing 5 and injuring 18.

Massive nationwide protests and unrest break out in Kazakhstan over the sudden increase of liquefied petroleum gas prices, leading to 238 people dead and thousands injured by January 11.

Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.

Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.

Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia.

Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people.

One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.

The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.

At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.

The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football match.

Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California.

Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac.

Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.

Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.

India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.

Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history; Also known as the Duquesne Spy Ring.

World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines.