Hacker News on 1 January 2020

• Software Disenchantment (2018)
• Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit
• Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free
• Hard deadlines are not user-first
• What Will Happen in the 2020s
• Godot Engine – A decade in retrospective and future
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)
• Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust
• Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?
• Guide to speaking at tech conferences