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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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 blackouthttps://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963Databases in 2025: A Year in Reviewhttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever gothttps://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027Pebble Round 2https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-everhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335I switched from VSCode to Zedhttps://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735Brave 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=46501894enclose.horsehttps://enclose.horse/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Androidhttps://donotnotify.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646Welcome to Gas Townhttps://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscalehttps://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501137 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.