1.6.26 | BGP anomalies during Venezuela blackout, 2025 database review, best promotion advice

Hacker News Highlights · Jan 6, 2026 · 11m

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…