{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"1.6.26 | BGP anomalies during Venezuela blackout, 2025 database review, best promotion advice","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/452fdce7\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":676,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 6, 2026.\nFeel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights\nThere were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout\nhttps://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963\nDatabases in 2025: A Year in Review\nhttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103\nTry to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got\nhttps://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027\nPebble Round 2\nhttps://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-ever\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335\nI switched from VSCode to Zed\nhttps://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735\nBrave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%\nhttps://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501894\nenclose.horse\nhttps://enclose.horse/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211\nShow HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android\nhttps://donotnotify.com/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646\nWelcome to Gas Town\nhttps://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936\nShow HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale\nhttps://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitch\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501137","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nmCVUJ5pUFbIsTy4mvxtFFdN3d3RgMGSU08kiDg2ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NWYy/MGY3NDk0MDRhZjdh/MzljNmM4MTE4YzU0/MDNlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}