top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-01-05

It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

7 months ago

There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout

https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/

7 months ago

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html

7 months ago

Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-org-domain-after-surprise-suspension/

7 months ago

Google broke my heart

https://perishablepress.com/google-broke-my-heart/

7 months ago

Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/

7 months ago

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/openai-refuses-to-say-where-chatgpt-logs-go-when-users-die/

7 months ago

RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499976

7 months ago

I switched from VSCode to Zed

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/

7 months ago

Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

https://www.office.com

7 months ago