Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-06

1. It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons tonsky.me - 881 comments 2274 points
2. There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout loworbitsecurity.com - 313 comments 644 points
3. Anna’s Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension torrentfreak.com - 318 comments 626 points
4. Databases in 2025: A Year in Review www.cs.cmu.edu - 156 comments 577 points
5. Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die arstechnica.com - 266 comments 456 points
6. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids news.ycombinator.com - 74 comments 417 points
7. Google broke my heart perishablepress.com - 176 comments 386 points
8. I switched from VSCode to Zed tenthousandmeters.com - 289 comments 322 points
9. Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” www.office.com - 246 comments 308 points
10. Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android donotnotify.com - 135 comments 304 points
11. All AI Videos Are Harmful - 2025 idiallo.com - 304 comments 295 points
12. X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced arstechnica.com - 509 comments 283 points
13. A spider web unlike any seen before www.nytimes.com - 136 comments 281 points
14. Jensen: ‘We’ve done our country a great disservice’ by offshoring www.barchart.com - 474 comments 268 points
15. Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% brave.com - 120 comments 265 points
16. Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale github.com - 21 comments 229 points
17. Sega co-founder David Rosen has died www.theguardian.com - 32 comments 225 points
18. Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density www.donutlab.com - 139 comments 197 points
19. Decorative Cryptography www.dlp.rip - 50 comments 160 points
20. CSS sucks because we don’t bother learning it - 2022 idiallo.com - 206 comments 150 points
21. Cigarette smoke effect using shaders garden.bradwoods.io - 24 comments 146 points
22. GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive www.gog.com - 76 comments 142 points
23. Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly www.thebignewsletter.com - 61 comments 140 points
24. So, you want to chunk really fast? minha.sh - 36 comments 135 points
25. Pentagon moves to punish Democratic senator over ‘seditious video’ www.bbc.com - 62 comments 131 points
26. Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war www.theguardian.com - 138 comments 127 points
27. Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes - 2023 retool.com - 21 comments 127 points
28. I/O is no longer the bottleneck? - 2022 stoppels.ch - 65 comments 122 points
29. How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders elbowgreasegames.substack.com - 85 comments 114 points
30. Strange.website strange.website - 29 comments 99 points