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Stories from January 5, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
It's hard to justify Tahoe icons (tonsky.me)
2357 points by lylejantzi3rd 1 day ago | 916 comments
2.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review (cmu.edu)
631 points by viveknathani_ 1 day ago | 173 comments
3.
There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout (loworbitsecurity.com)
847 points by illithid0 18 hours ago | 375 comments
4.
Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got (grahamyooll.com)
498 points by yuppiepuppie 4 days ago | 249 comments
5.
I switched from VSCode to Zed (tenthousandmeters.com)
424 points by r4victor 1 day ago | 382 comments
6.
How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
162 points by spacemarine1 22 hours ago | 113 comments
7.
Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android (donotnotify.com)
328 points by awaaz 1 day ago | 153 comments
8.
Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? (stats.stackexchange.com)
303 points by azeemba 1 day ago | 75 comments
9.
Welcome to Gas Town (steve-yegge.medium.com)
305 points by gmays 4 days ago | 185 comments
10.
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% (brave.com)
420 points by skaul 22 hours ago | 227 comments
11.
Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale (github.com/adversis)
253 points by thesubtlety 23 hours ago | 28 comments
12.
Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension (torrentfreak.com)
644 points by CTOSian 1 day ago | 340 comments
13.
Google broke my heart (perishablepress.com)
492 points by ingve 18 hours ago | 249 comments
14.
During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website (sparkbox.com)
340 points by CqtGLRGcukpy 1 day ago | 185 comments
15.
Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician (koreaherald.com)
224 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 72 comments
16.
A spider web unlike any seen before (nytimes.com)
284 points by juanplusjuan 1 day ago | 140 comments
17.
Agentic Patterns (github.com/nibzard)
166 points by PretzelFisch 1 day ago | 45 comments
18.
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018) (arxiv.org)
112 points by felineflock 3 days ago | 26 comments
19.
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die (arstechnica.com)
481 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 274 comments
20.
Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution (mehmetince.net)
110 points by ozirus 4 days ago | 25 comments
21.
Dealing with abandonware (2024) (hris.to)
126 points by mondobe 1 day ago | 44 comments
22.
Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025? (calnewport.com)
196 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 301 comments
23.
Sega co-founder David Rosen has died (theguardian.com)
242 points by n1b0m 21 hours ago | 35 comments
24.
Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina (bbc.com)
149 points by rmason 5 days ago | 50 comments
25.
Decorative Cryptography (dlp.rip)
164 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 52 comments
26.
Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023) (retool.com)
139 points by twalichiewicz 21 hours ago | 29 comments
27.
The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves (matduggan.com)
197 points by sagacity 7 days ago | 140 comments
28.
Show HN: Circuit Artist – Circuit simulator with propagation animation, rewind (github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever)
131 points by rafinha 5 days ago | 17 comments
29.
Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density (donutlab.com)
235 points by aeonfox 17 hours ago | 194 comments
30.
California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info (ca.gov)
300 points by memalign 1 day ago | 80 comments

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