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Open is a new open-source initiative that aims to create a unified language for microscopes and bring back classic features to Windows through its Open-Shell utility collection.

1. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (dl.acm.org)
   2031 points by Kerrick 19 days ago | 239 comments
2. Netflix Open Content (opencontent.netflix.com)
   663 points by tosh 7 days ago | 134 comments
3. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (simonwillison.net)
   587 points by simonw 25 days ago | 324 comments
4. OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026 (www.economist.com)
   514 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 days ago | 762 comments
5. Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust (openworkers.com)
   500 points by max_lt 5 days ago | 158 comments
6. Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die (arstechnica.com)
   486 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 286 comments
7. Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders (quill-os.org)
   467 points by Curiositry 22 days ago | 152 comments
8. Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ (thenewstack.io)
   437 points by MilnerRoute 23 days ago | 248 comments
9. Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views (github.com)
   400 points by SG- 10 days ago | 202 comments
10. ACM Is Now Open Access (www.acm.org)
    337 points by leglock 5 days ago | 50 comments
11. OpenSCAD is kinda neat (nuxx.net)
    327 points by c0nsumer 17 days ago | 253 comments
12. Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI (www.cnbc.com)
    327 points by tiahura 26 days ago | 2 comments
13. NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle (philippeoger.com)
    302 points by jeanloolz 29 days ago | 169 comments
14. The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora (openai.com)
    269 points by inesranzo 26 days ago | 501 comments
15. Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
    243 points by CharlesW 25 days ago | 110 comments
16. Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches? (shkspr.mobi)
    235 points by sedboyz 17 days ago | 27 comments
17. It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs (benjojo.co.uk)
    215 points by pavel_lishin 22 days ago | 110 comments
18. Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics (github.com)
    214 points by nateb2022 11 days ago | 28 comments
19. CUDA Tile Open Sourced (github.com)
    201 points by JonChesterfield 18 days ago | 106 comments
20. Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect (www3.nhk.or.jp)
    185 points by shlip 25 days ago | 34 comments
21. IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf] (github.com)
    180 points by shenli3514 4 days ago | 49 comments
22. Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool (github.com)
    163 points by simonpure 17 days ago | 25 comments
23. Flow5 released to open source (flow5.tech)
    152 points by picture 6 days ago | 10 comments
24. Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price (finance.yahoo.com)
    136 points by pera 25 days ago | 127 comments
25. 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay (dri.es)
    131 points by geerlingguy 28 days ago | 162 comments
26. MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory (github.com)
    131 points by taylorsatula 17 days ago | 53 comments
27. Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model (huggingface.co)
    130 points by dvrp 19 days ago | 21 comments
28. Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation (fedorarepository.org)
    121 points by cernocky 25 days ago | 54 comments
29. Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source (www.ubicloud.com)
    116 points by ben_s 19 days ago | 28 comments
30. My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions (www.timothychambers.net)
    115 points by todsacerdoti 13 days ago | 122 comments