Episode Details

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 6, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
• (01:27) - Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
• (02:47) - Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
• (03:58) - Pebble Round 2
• (04:56) - I switched from VSCode to Zed
• (06:14) - Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
• (07:20) - enclose.horse
• (08:10) - Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
• (09:07) - Welcome to Gas Town
• (10:16) - Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
• (11:10) - Outro

There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103

Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
https://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027

Pebble Round 2
https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-ever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335

I switched from VSCode to Zed
https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735

Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501894

enclose.horse
https://enclose.horse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211

Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
https://donotnotify.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646

Welcome to Gas Town
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936

Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
https://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501137