It's hard to justify Tahoe icons(tonsky.me)
2231 points by lylejantzi3rd | 873 comments
Nikita Tonsky's blog post critiquing the menu icons added throughout macOS Tahoe and arguing they are hard to justify from a UI design perspective.
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There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout(loworbitsecurity.com)
896 points by illithid0 | 395 comments
Low Orbit Security Radar #16, a weekly offensive-security newsletter issue discussing BGP routing anomalies observed during the Venezuela blackout.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)
640 points by viveknathani_ | 173 comments
Andy Pavlo's annual blog post reviewing the major trends and happenings in the database industry during 2025.
Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension(torrentfreak.com)
578 points by CTOSian | 298 comments
TorrentFreak news article reporting that shadow library Anna's Archive lost its annas-archive.org domain after it was suspended and placed on serverHold status.
Google broke my heart(perishablepress.com)
470 points by ingve | 222 comments
A blog post by web developer Jeff Starr on Perishable Press reflecting on losing trust in Google as a helpful presence on the web.
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%(brave.com)
458 points by skaul | 243 comments
Brave blog post announcing an overhaul of its Rust-based adblock engine using FlatBuffers, reducing memory consumption by 75%.
I switched from VSCode to Zed(tenthousandmeters.com)
427 points by r4victor | 384 comments
A blog post on tenthousandmeters.com describing the author's switch from the VSCode editor to the Zed editor.
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die(arstechnica.com)
411 points by randycupertino | 240 comments
Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.
RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids
368 points by red-polygon | 65 comments
Hacker News text post alleging YC-backed IB test prep startup RevisionDojo runs astroturfing and fake review campaigns on Reddit targeting students.
Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android(donotnotify.com)
320 points by awaaz | 151 comments
Landing page for DoNotNotify, a free on-device Android app that logs notifications and blocks or allows them using app and content rules including regex.
All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)(idiallo.com)
250 points by Brajeshwar | 247 comments
Strange.website(strange.website)
185 points by abelanger | 64 comments
Decorative Cryptography(dlp.rip)
154 points by todsacerdoti | 47 comments
So, you want to chunk really fast?(minha.sh)
124 points by snyy | 35 comments
Dealing with abandonware (2024)(blog.hris.to)
122 points by mondobe | 39 comments
How wolves became dogs(economist.com)
107 points by mooreds | 95 comments
Favorite Tech Museums(aresluna.org)
65 points by justincormack | 35 comments
On Getting Hacked(ahmeto.com)
54 points by ahmetomer | 39 comments
![Screenshot of gwern.net: Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/6/aab124bb-449c-439a-9691-307418228886.jpg)
NeXTSTEP on Pa-RISC(openpa.net)
50 points by andsoitis | 13 comments
Utopian Scholastic(wol.fm)
49 points by birdculture | 15 comments
Intellectual Junkyards(forester-notes.org)
49 points by ysangkok | 15 comments
Sandboxing Untrusted Python(gist.github.com)
44 points by mavdol04 | 38 comments
