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Stories from January 5, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
It's hard to justify Tahoe icons (tonsky.me)
2405 points by lylejantzi3rd 1 day ago | 932 comments
2.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review (cmu.edu)
659 points by viveknathani_ 1 day ago | 176 comments
3.
There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout (loworbitsecurity.com)
907 points by illithid0 1 day ago | 404 comments
4.
Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got (grahamyooll.com)
546 points by yuppiepuppie 4 days ago | 267 comments
5.
How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
182 points by spacemarine1 1 day ago | 117 comments
6.
I switched from VSCode to Zed (tenthousandmeters.com)
439 points by r4victor 1 day ago | 396 comments
7.
Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android (donotnotify.com)
332 points by awaaz 1 day ago | 156 comments
8.
Welcome to Gas Town (steve-yegge.medium.com)
318 points by gmays 4 days ago | 203 comments
9.
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% (brave.com)
482 points by skaul 1 day ago | 258 comments
10.
Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? (stats.stackexchange.com)
303 points by azeemba 2 days ago | 75 comments
11.
Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale (github.com/adversis)
264 points by thesubtlety 1 day ago | 28 comments
12.
Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension (torrentfreak.com)
652 points by CTOSian 1 day ago | 348 comments
13.
Google broke my heart (perishablepress.com)
517 points by ingve 1 day ago | 269 comments
14.
Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician (koreaherald.com)
251 points by mikhael 2 days ago | 82 comments
15.
During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website (sparkbox.com)
341 points by CqtGLRGcukpy 1 day ago | 186 comments
16.
A spider web unlike any seen before (nytimes.com)
289 points by juanplusjuan 1 day ago | 141 comments
17.
Agentic Patterns (github.com/nibzard)
167 points by PretzelFisch 2 days ago | 45 comments
18.
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018) (arxiv.org)
116 points by felineflock 3 days ago | 27 comments
19.
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die (arstechnica.com)
486 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 287 comments
20.
Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution (mehmetince.net)
112 points by ozirus 5 days ago | 25 comments
21.
Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025? (calnewport.com)
219 points by zdw 1 day ago | 345 comments
22.
Dealing with abandonware (2024) (hris.to)
136 points by mondobe 1 day ago | 51 comments
23.
Sega co-founder David Rosen has died (theguardian.com)
246 points by n1b0m 1 day ago | 35 comments
24.
Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina (bbc.com)
151 points by rmason 6 days ago | 50 comments
25.
Decorative Cryptography (dlp.rip)
165 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 52 comments
26.
Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023) (retool.com)
142 points by twalichiewicz 1 day ago | 30 comments
27.
The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves (matduggan.com)
198 points by sagacity 8 days ago | 140 comments
28.
Show HN: Circuit Artist – Circuit simulator with propagation animation, rewind (github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever)
132 points by rafinha 6 days ago | 18 comments
29.
Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density (donutlab.com)
248 points by aeonfox 23 hours ago | 211 comments
30.
California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info (ca.gov)
302 points by memalign 1 day ago | 82 comments

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