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The Xerox PARC Archive

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Free Public Domain Audiobooks

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Show HN: Personalized book recommendations with Librarian AI

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MacUser 1996: How to Rig Up the Fastest Photoshop Machine

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Digital Public Library of America

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Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Infiltration – the zine about going places you're not supposed to go

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Explore Wikipedia's New Look

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Welcoming 1927 to the Public Domain

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Practice typing by retyping entire novels

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Little Free Library

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Internet Archive Scholar

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Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book

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Internet Archive Seeks Material for Library of Amateur Radio and Communications

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The Steve Jobs Archive

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The Illustrated Guide to Video Formats: fifty years of video history

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Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership for AI-generated code

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Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile

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Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats

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All of Wittgenstein is now public domain

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Internet Sacred Text Archive

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What will enter the public domain in 2022

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Free public domain audiobooks

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Copy This Book. An artist’s guide to copyright

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Types and Programming Languages (2002)

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Giant, free index to world's research papers released online

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Ask a Librarian

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The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free

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Waxing lyrical: taking ear wax seriously

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Phil's Old Radios

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Little Free Library

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Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore

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Old Book Illustrations

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Show HN: Learn Spanish quickly while reading

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The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Library Holdings from Tokyo Univ. Now Available Through the Internet Archive

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Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

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A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (1984)

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January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all

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Open Security Training: open license training material for computer security

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Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database

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Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs

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Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

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Database of Databases

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Whole Earth Software Catalog (1984)

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Street-Fighting Mathematics

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Community open letter against renaming Wikimedia to Wikipedia

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The Art of Prolog (1994)

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LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks

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Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised

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University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs

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British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free

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A book on algorithmic programming in Lisp

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Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (1981)

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Introduction to Permaculture (1994)

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The Petrucci Music Library

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A National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books

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Wayback Machine was down

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Cambridge University Press make their books free until May

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Announcing the New PubMed

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Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973) [pdf]

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Show HN: Stack – Save and explore books and book lists

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Julia Academy: Learn ML, Parallel Programming, Julia and More

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Vital Wikipedia Articles

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I used ML to find public domain Krazy Kat comics in newspaper archives

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South Korea's booming 'webtoons'

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A list of the biggest datasets for machine learning

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Computer Software (1984)

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Do not donate to me (2013)

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Top books discussed on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites

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Phenylephrine Is No More Effective Than Placebo for Nasal Congestion (2015)

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Digitized Books from 1923 Now Available at the Internet Archive

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The Best History Books 2018

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The little black book of scams (2016)

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Three hundred and sixty years of United States caselaw

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The Art of Prolog, Second Edition

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Internet Archive, decentralized

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Line Breaking (2014)

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Kialo – a platform for rational debate

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Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles

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Translations of the Dao De Jing

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Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub

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The Wikipedia Zero program will end in 2018

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Programming Notes for Professionals books

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H2O, a platform for creating, sharing and remixing open course materials

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Google News Archive

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Show HN: 100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new book

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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: The Tragedy of Google Books

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The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (1992)

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Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)

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Wikimedia in Iraq has nearly 12M subscribers free of mobile data charges

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IDPF, EPUB Standardizing Body, Has Combined with W3C

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George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon

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Announcing 10x donation matching on Watsi

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Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml

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Category Theory for the Sciences

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Book of Proof – An introduction to the methods of proving mathematical theorems

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Child-Computer Interaction (2015)

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Street-Fighting Mathematics

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LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks

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The binary search of distributed programming

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Show HN: Wallabag, a self-hostable application for saving web pages

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New York Public Library Enhances Public Domain Collections for Sharing and Reuse

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Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project

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Archivists are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble

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Show HN: Readlang – Learn a language while you surf the web

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Terms of Service, Didn't Read

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Internet Archive: What’s new with v2

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Khan Academy: Algorithms

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Borderlands Books is Closing

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Show HN: LocalWiki, the open platform for local knowledge

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The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering

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UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository

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JSON Web Tokens

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Little Free Library

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Wikipedia Zero and Net Neutrality: Protecting the Internet as a Public Space

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Identify mystery text, win $1000

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Free Online Courses In Advanced Engineering Topics

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We want your old T-shirts

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Show HN: SlaveryStories.org – Memoirs from American Slaves

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The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (2007)

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A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation

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Getty Just Made 4,600 Images Public Domain

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Paul Dirac's handwritten notes for his PhD, the first ever on quantum mechanics

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Terms of Service; Didn't Read

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Interactive Data Visualization for the Web (a D3 book by Scott Murray)

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How can I submit prior art to the Patent Office?

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Coursera: 33 Universities, 200 Courses, 1.3 Million Students

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Paulo Coelho advertises on Pirate Bay front page

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List of best free online learning sites

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Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language

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15 uncoupled simple pendulums of increasing lengths dance together

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Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"

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Peititon for Wikpedia to become first digital World Heritage Site

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Free (Creative Commons) Book on How To Do Proofs

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250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

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Stanford CS Book: Mining of Massive Datasets [pdf]

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Walgreen’s now selling $99 Android tablet

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Wikipedia lets you create books

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How a call girl can earn far more by actually working far less

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Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

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What will enter the public domain in 2024?

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MyHeritage debuts OldNews.com, offering access to myriad historical newspapers

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The Getty makes nearly 88k art images free to use

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Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

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Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech

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Julia for Economists (2022)

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