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Stories from January 5, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
It's hard to justify Tahoe icons (tonsky.me)
2304 points by lylejantzi3rd 21 hours ago | 889 comments
2.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review (cmu.edu)
590 points by viveknathani_ 1 day ago | 164 comments
3.
Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? (stats.stackexchange.com)
302 points by azeemba 1 day ago | 75 comments
4.
There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout (loworbitsecurity.com)
733 points by illithid0 12 hours ago | 330 comments
5.
Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension (torrentfreak.com)
632 points by CTOSian 23 hours ago | 323 comments
6.
Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android (donotnotify.com)
315 points by awaaz 18 hours ago | 144 comments
7.
Welcome to Gas Town (steve-yegge.medium.com)
265 points by gmays 4 days ago | 143 comments
8.
Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got (grahamyooll.com)
422 points by yuppiepuppie 3 days ago | 181 comments
9.
I switched from VSCode to Zed (tenthousandmeters.com)
348 points by r4victor 19 hours ago | 318 comments
10.
During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website (sparkbox.com)
337 points by CqtGLRGcukpy 1 day ago | 184 comments
11.
How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
132 points by spacemarine1 16 hours ago | 94 comments
12.
Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale (github.com/adversis)
235 points by thesubtlety 16 hours ago | 24 comments
13.
A spider web unlike any seen before (nytimes.com)
281 points by juanplusjuan 1 day ago | 137 comments
14.
Agentic Patterns (github.com/nibzard)
164 points by PretzelFisch 1 day ago | 45 comments
15.
Google broke my heart (perishablepress.com)
426 points by ingve 11 hours ago | 197 comments
16.
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% (brave.com)
317 points by skaul 15 hours ago | 147 comments
17.
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die (arstechnica.com)
464 points by randycupertino 17 hours ago | 267 comments
18.
Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution (mehmetince.net)
110 points by ozirus 4 days ago | 25 comments
19.
Sega co-founder David Rosen has died (theguardian.com)
232 points by n1b0m 15 hours ago | 32 comments
20.
Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina (bbc.com)
148 points by rmason 5 days ago | 50 comments
21.
Decorative Cryptography (dlp.rip)
163 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 50 comments
22.
Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023) (retool.com)
133 points by twalichiewicz 14 hours ago | 24 comments
23.
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018) (arxiv.org)
95 points by felineflock 3 days ago | 23 comments
24.
The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves (matduggan.com)
196 points by sagacity 7 days ago | 140 comments
25.
Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician (koreaherald.com)
173 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 47 comments
26.
Show HN: Circuit Artist – Circuit simulator with propagation animation, rewind (github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever)
129 points by rafinha 5 days ago | 17 comments
27.
Dealing with abandonware (2024) (hris.to)
88 points by mondobe 18 hours ago | 24 comments
28.
Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density (donutlab.com)
211 points by aeonfox 11 hours ago | 156 comments
29.
California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info (ca.gov)
296 points by memalign 1 day ago | 79 comments
30.
Building a Rust-style static analyzer for C++ with AI (mpaxos.com)
92 points by shuaimu 1 day ago | 56 comments

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