Best of 2026

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2026. 2,238 posts.

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ACM Is Now Open Access

As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.

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The federated code forge

For most of the past two decades, the code forge has been where projects live: where code is hosted, where changes are reviewed, and where contributors find each other. Forges offered convenience in exchange for centralisation.