top 20 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

Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

https://donotnotify.com/

7 months ago

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/x-blames-users-for-grok-generated-csam-no-fixes-announced/

7 months ago

All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

https://idiallo.com/blog/all-ai-videos-are-harmful

7 months ago

A spider web unlike any seen before

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/science/biggest-spiderweb-sulfur-cave.html

7 months ago

Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale

https://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitch

7 months ago

Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring

https://www.barchart.com/story/news/36862423/weve-done-our-country-a-great-disservice-by-offshoring-nvidias-jensen-huang-says-we-have-to-create-prosperity-for-all-not-just-phds

7 months ago

Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density

https://www.donutlab.com/ces-battery-announcement/

7 months ago

Sega co-founder David Rosen has died

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/jan/05/sega-co-founder-david-rosen-dies

7 months ago

Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?

https://calnewport.com/why-didnt-ai-join-the-workforce-in-2025/

7 months ago

ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-facial-recognition-app-mobile-fortify-dfdd00bf

7 months ago