MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kristopolous | 2026-01-03 13:44:05+00:00
I'm in LA.

The Persian expats here want us to Bomb Iran.
The Vietnam expats want us to go back Into Vietnam.
The Cubans want us to go take over Cuba again.

People who flee country X to the global hegemon seem to be in support of invading country X.

It's a selection bias. Kinda like saying everyone who walked out on their job at company X doesn't think much of company X.

I mean heck, you can probably find Canadians who fled for one reason or another and want America to invade Canada.

I really don't put any credence into that perspective.
by theandrewbailey | 2026-01-03 13:44:46+00:00
I'm not sure if my story is useful for you: I had a friend working there when they had an opening. He recommended me, and the boss asked if I knew my stuff; he said yes. I'm struggling to remember how my friend got in there.

I work in the refurb division. I walk though the receiving and demanufacturing areas looking for things that would be worth our time to resell. Laptops, desktops, and servers above a certain spec, CPUs, drives (hot right now), RAM (very hot right now), power adapters, docking stations, switches, etc.

Though if you have a chemistry degree, you'd probably be more helpful to the people we sell scrap to. From what the boss told me, they're the ones who shred PCBs, drives, etc. and dissolve them in acid to extract metals and other materials, like one would with mined ore.

And our certifications require us to use buyers who don't turn around and ship things off to the third world for "processing": https://sustainableelectronics.org/welcome-to-r2v3/
by chrisjj | 2026-01-03 13:45:01+00:00
Is an image of someone wearing only a bikini seriously claimed to be sexual here?

Not by this article, for sure.

"The service prohibits pornography involving real people’s likenesses and sexual content involving minors, which is illegal to create or distribute.

Still, users have prompted Grok to digitally remove clothing from photos — mostly of women — so the subjects appeared to be wearing only underwear or bikinis."
Show HN: Nixwrap – Run Nix packages from Python without Nix installed
by eloh | 2026-01-03 13:45:26+00:00
I built a tool that lets you run any package from nixpkgs without having Nix installed on your system.

uvx nixwrap ripgrep --version
uvx nixwrap jq --help
uvx nixwrap bat README.md

How it works:
1. Queries nix-index-database to find packages
2. Fetches NARs from cache.nixos.org
3. Uses patchelf to fix binaries with hardcoded /nix/store paths
4. Runs via bundled ld-linux with the correct library path

There's also a PEP 503 package index, so you can install tools via pip/uv:

uvx --index-url https://elohmeier.github.io/nixwrap fd --version

Requires Python 3.14+ (uses stdlib compression.zstd for zero external dependencies). Linux only for now.

Works great for simple CLI tools. Complex packages with hardcoded runtime paths (like neovim) have limitations.
by max_lt | 2026-01-03 13:45:45+00:00
Yes, I see this is a popular request. Will add it soon. For now, compose files are in the infra repo: https://github.com/openworkers/openworkers-infra

Fun fact: I tried K8s early on but found it overkill for my setup, so I stayed on Compose. Will revisit it properly now.
by exceptione | 2026-01-03 13:46:03+00:00
«Arguably the real military power behind the throne in Venezuela today is the tens of thousands of Cuban operatives in the country. These range from bodyguards protecting Maduro (a sign he cannot trust his own people) to intelligence operatives, to “sports advisers” to ground forces which are not called as such. Estimates of the total number of Cuban operatives range as high as 30,000.

One of the reasons Maduro has been unable to flee is that the Cubans, reportedly, were threatening to kill him if he did. Cuba needs Venezuelan oil to live, otherwise its regime could fail. The Cuban economy is a mess and the island has suffered regularly from power outages. Venezuelan fuel is keeping it going. The slow down already in oil deliveries because of the US attacks over the last few months has been felt seriously in Cuba.

If those Cuban forces remain in Venezuela, they will almost certainly try and play a role in trying to replace Maduro with another Maduro—which is why the US cannot hope to succeed unless they get the Cubans out.»

Prepare for a mess.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-01-03 13:46:49+00:00
Q: While I agree strongly with the philosophy of this article, and twice I have set up static site generators for blogs hanging underneath my top level personal domain markwatson.com, each time I cause I could only blog when sitting at my computer, not when I was using an iPad or iPhone (I limit my daily time at a computer to just a few writing and coding sprints, otherwise I literally put my laptop away - out of sight out of mind).

Does anyone know of any mobile friendly static site generators?

I think I have about 3000 blog articles between Substack and Blogspot.
Ask HN: AI progress – what are the main ways people measure it?
by ericlamb89 | 2026-01-03 13:47:07+00:00
I’m interested in how AI progress is currently evaluated and trying to build a list of the major approaches people actually use.

I’m aware that all of these measures have limitations and that many are controversial or imperfect by design. I’m not assuming they’re “good” or that they cleanly map to real-world capability.

I’d love to hear:

- What measures, benchmarks, or methodologies you think belong on this list

- What you see as their key strengths and failure modes

- How (or whether) you personally use them to interpret AI progress

My goal here is discovery and understanding, not to defend or attack any particular framework.
by lydionfinance | 2026-01-03 13:47:08+00:00
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by tyre | 2026-01-03 13:47:35+00:00
I don’t know how many Americans actually approve of this. The left will hate it. Trump’s base has largely been isolationist.

Obviously if someone like Italy bombed us we would invade and beat the shit out of them. We did a two decade, trillions of dollars revenge tour for like 2700 people dying.

(I’m not advocating for any of this but US policy is pretty consistent. Part of the value of a US passport is knowing (and everyone else knowing) that the government will go to incredible lengths to get you back.)
by missizii | 2026-01-03 13:47:46+00:00
We are a “low screen” homeschooling family. We have a babysitting phone for my daughters to take to babysitting jobs and a landline. At our local pool in the summer, my kids meet neighborhood kids, exchange numbers, but my kids say, “it’s a landline, no texting.” The response: “You just have a landline?!? You can’t text?!?” in a tone of disgust. Every time. Fortunately, we have a community of homeschooling & religious community friends who are raising their kids similarly. But every time a kid’s friend gets a cellphone, texting becomes the medium of socialization, and they drop us. My kids will be the 1% of their generation who can talk on the phone.
by dataflow | 2026-01-03 13:48:11+00:00
> Regardless of your opinion on Maduro, you can still acknowledge that the head of a sovereign state being captured (...)

The US administration contends that he wasn't the legitimate head of state. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/marco-rubio-nicolas-m...

[2] I'm (obviously) being sloppy regarding head of state vs. head of government.
by lukan | 2026-01-03 13:48:32+00:00
No, I don't mean that. That the deal between Trump and Putin might have been of sphere of interest. With Trump not interested in europe. Does not mean, that Putin will succeed. But unfortunately it is not out of the question as europe is not united. Some parts of germany for example voted 40% for a russian friendly party. Hungary is pretty much over the fence already. Etc. If they unite under Putin's leadership, things might look dark.
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-03 13:48:51+00:00
I didn't say there's no competitive e-sports; I said basically no players are part of it, and that's true. The amount of money around a tournament is irrelevant to the fact that 99.99% of players do not participate in such tournaments.

Millions of people play American football casually vs a couple thousand in the NFL, and football isn't a very popular sport to actually play. We don't need to drug test everyone at the park. We don't need to require everyone to play with official league equipment. Again, >99.9% of football players are not in the NFL. The NFL is a tiny bubble in the world of people who play football.

And it's trivial for e-sports tournament organizations with millions of dollars in prizes to spend $50k on a set of standard, controlled computers to play on. Cheating shouldn't be a problem when money is on the line because the only time a player touches the machine is at the tournament. You use standard league equipment during league games. Otherwise who cares?

As far as I know, GTA V does have a bunch of cheaters and has since the beginning, so it's apparently an example of how it doesn't matter.

Even so, no game ever is 50% cheaters, or anywhere near that. Even games like Gunz: The Duel where the netcode was so garbage that hits were decided on the computer of the person being shot still didn't have many cheaters. Probably less than 1% of players. The overwhelming majority are just having fun. Cheats are boring after like 5 minutes.
by hvb2 | 2026-01-03 13:48:56+00:00
I meant does this to the US or any other country. The precedent that's being set is that you can just fly in and kidnap a head of state that you disagree with.

> If you think the EU’s “diplomacy over force” approach will deter anyone, look at Ukraine.

Enlighten me, what's the policy of the USA as of last year? Because I honestly don't know. It depends who the guy last talked to. That's American foreign policy now, no plan, all based on the irrational behavior of an 80 year old.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-01-03 13:49:04+00:00
Boy is trying to outdo both Regan and Dubya. He didn't even try to sell it to us like they did with Iraq.

Venezuelans, I'm sorry my shithole country is about to inflict a fascist puppet state on you. Nobody here gives enough of a shit despite all the chest-thumping and "MUH LIBERTY TREE". We'd rather have drum circles and ask for permission to dissent.
by pqtyw | 2026-01-03 13:49:07+00:00
So it's not longer 30 years but 100? What the US did pre WW2 was in no way abnormal or worse than that what every other powerful was doing..

Also US never technically invaded Lybia, Yemen or Syria (unless you count their intervention to support the Kurdish and Iraqi governments against ISIS an invasion...)

What happened in Korea was the opposite of the invasion (of course the South Korea regime they were saving was extremely oppressive and arguably not worse at all than the one in the North at the time).

Also are you implying that the majority of military bases US has in other countries (especially in Europe) is involuntary?
by etiron | 2026-01-03 13:49:23+00:00
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Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qEACgPkJOKiXyzb77v746sihP_f...

Email: eduard.tiron@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardtiron/

Software & DevOps Engineer with 9yoe. Most of my career I've led research and startup-like commercial projects for companies wanting to modernize their processes, using whichever technology I felt was adequate. Some examples are: deployment of multiple applications on EC2 instances and on Kubernetes (with AKS, EKS, Helm Charts, ArgoCD, Istio), telemetrics pipeline and dashboards with AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, Grafana, Postgres) to track millions of daily messages from a fleet of vehicles, firmware for two 1M€ industrial EVs, a plugin for Cura 3D printing software, knitting machine defect detection with computer vision, redid my employer's website from scratch, telemetry of a global fleet of threading machines, a cloud connected tractor using satellite data for fertilization, firmware of a machine that manufactures medical plastic parts with ultrasounds... I've also won the Swisshacks hackathon with an AI RAG tool for financial analysts.

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by toastal | 2026-01-03 13:49:36+00:00
Location: Eastern Thailand (UTC +7)
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: 98% no
Technologies: Nix, NixOS, & functional programming (OCaml is current favorite)
Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills/ (contact for more specific details iff required)
Email: toastal+hn@posteo.net
by int_19h | 2026-01-03 13:49:45+00:00
> I guess it’s the only way the American people will get a grip, if the rest of the world starts punishing the US and its allies economically.

I doubt that. It's far more likely to backfire into increased support for aggressive right-wing populism of the kind Trump peddles. It also seems doubtful that Europe could really afford that economically at the time when it's already in an open confrontation with Russia and not exactly on friendly terms with China.

> does anyone see any other way to reign in the warmongers? What say you, Americans? You are, after all, the only effective mechanism by which your own war mongers can be brought to justice.

We do not have an effective mechanism for that. Even if our democracy were truly functional, people have voted for candidates who promised no more wars for >15 years now, and yet here we are. Meaningful reforms that would _perhaps_ enable this require constitutional amendments, which have such a high bar as to be unattainable in this political climate. I don't think the system can recover, but it still has a lot of capacity to do damage as it breaks down.
by m4nu3l | 2026-01-03 13:50:10+00:00
I believe the problem with democracy is that it's affected by various problems analogous to the ones of markets, but often amplified.

In this case, to me, it really seems a matter of extreme information asymmetry as you'd never see in a regular market.

Does he actually mean those things, or is that some sort of joke? How do you even know? BTW, he didn't actually use Nukes, and I don't believe he will. On the other hand, he said he wanted to end wars and sounded like he was against starting new ones.

I've seen people regretting voting for Trump because of tariffs, even though they supported tariffs in the first place.
They had no idea that Trump's "tariff" would mean some blanket tariffs at those rates. They thought it was some small tariffs on "key industries".

A further confirmation of the information asymmetry is that after a year, support for Trump is far below what would be needed to elect him.

I'm not sure what the solution is.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 13:50:22+00:00
> - I don't have a shortage of IPv4. Maybe my ISP or my VPN host do, I don't know. I have a roomy 10.0.0.0/8 to work with.

10/8 is great until two organizations with 10.0.0.0/24 in their OSPF or IS-IS topologies are brought together via a merger/acquisition. Then you can end up with NAT with-in an organization itself. (Internal split-horizon DNS here we come.)
by krapp | 2026-01-03 13:50:22+00:00
Most businesses don't compete on difference - most competitors are virtually indistinguishable from one another. Rather they tend to compete on brand identity and loyalty.

I think businesses assume the output of AI can be the same as with their current workflow, just with the benefit of cutting their workforce, so all upside and no downside.

I also suspect that a lot of businesses (at least the biggest ones) are looking into hosting their own LLM infrastructure rather than depending on third party services, but even if not there are plenty of "indispensible" services that businesses rely on already. Look at AWS.
by delulustream | 2026-01-03 13:50:36+00:00
Interesting tool for bank transaction classification! This reminds me of another useful financial tool I came across - DeluluStream (https://delulustream.app/). It's a platform that helps with financial data visualization and analysis. While Tally focuses on transaction classification, DeluluStream provides broader financial insights through interactive dashboards. Both tools show how AI can help make sense of complex financial data.
by DecoySalamander | 2026-01-03 13:50:46+00:00
It's not entirely unexpected - you must have missed the recent deployment of the US Navy in the region, which looked like a naval blockade. But this operation is certainly daring - far more impressive than simply blowing Maduro up with a drone strike, which I personally expected.

It's justified by portraying Maduro as a drug kingpin responsible for the fentanyl epidemic in the US. He is also blamed for some gang activity.
by Lapel2742 | 2026-01-03 13:52:14+00:00
> Did we just remove a terrible regime in a comparably bloodless way?

You captured Maduro in an blatantly illegal act of war and until now the Regime is still there.

I hope for the people in Venezuela that this will end without a bloodshed. AFAIK Maduro has still support, especially in the poorer part of the population.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-01-03 13:52:24+00:00
“With a project like this, we need to be 100% accurate, and that’s really difficult with this technology"

Yes, the results may sound plausible but expecting accuracy from a probabilistic language prediction engine is a misapplication and an exercise in frustration.

Most companies trying to replace workers with AI will discover the same. There are not too many applications were AI slop is acceptable.
by FpUser | 2026-01-03 13:52:56+00:00
>"If you want to be blunt, yes."

I am blunt. Murder is a murder.

>"But if you want to go that path, some of those countries tried and were willing to do the same - or suddenly we forgot what Saddam's Iraq did?"

I did not and I have never claimed that Iraq, Iran etc. were good guys. They were murderous regimes. What's your point?

>"But remind me, what did Ukraine do?"

Ukraine is a victim here, so again what's your point?
by SecretDreams | 2026-01-03 13:53:21+00:00
> Americans who are upset don’t possess the wherewithal to hold them accountable.

Any attempt at holding the admin accountable would make it look a bit more like Venezuela. NA is rightfully too soft to want to ever go that route. They'll peacefully protest and that'll be it. Anything more than that would be the individuals throwing their lives away unless the whole country did it in unison.
Ask HN: Should HN be tech news and discussions only?
by letmetweakit | 2026-01-03 13:53:29+00:00
I always get caught in these political discussions and news, like just recently as a result of the US military actions in Venezuela. To be honest, it's the kind of news I try to stay away from. It would be nice (for me) if Hacker News was strictly tech only, no politics.
by petre | 2026-01-03 13:53:29+00:00
This is quite a bit like the invasion of Panama by US forces and the removal of Manuel Noriega from power. Except Noriega wasn't "elected" like Maduro and the US doesn't have a strategically important canal to protect in Venezuela.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...
by ericmay | 2026-01-03 13:54:03+00:00
It’s not a one-way street on principle. Italy could go do whatever it wanted. It’s a one-way street in capabilities to take action.

There isn’t anything stopping Italy, the sovereign state, from doing anything it thinks it could do. What is stopping it from bombing San Francisco (besides it not making sense whatsoever) would be that the US would physically stop the Italian Air Force and navy.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-03 13:54:16+00:00
The point is we say "well some people don't think much of their elected leader in X, so that justifies us destroying their cities, overthrowing their government and killing hundreds of thousands of people there!"

Alright, is this the global rule now? Where's the cutoff? Trump is getting 41%, is that low enough? Who gets to overthrow Washington? My vote is the Swedes, they seem pretty nice.
Show HN: Omni_genesis – A 132-modality AGI core built for execution
by AISovereignDev | 2026-01-03 13:54:21+00:00
I am a builder, not a researcher. I got tired of watching monolithic Transformers choke on non-text data and crash under the weight of real-time sensory streams, so I bypassed the whitepaper cycle to build OMNI_GENESIS (v0.7.0)—a modular framework designed for high-velocity AGI execution and frontal lobe emulation.

Repository: https://github.com/AI-Sovereign/Multimodal-AGI-Architecture-...

The architecture handles 132 asynchronous modalities—from biological signals to network entropy via Scapy—flattened into a 1344-dimensional causal manifold. By utilizing a tiered "Tri-Brain" pipeline across decoupled packages (see /packages and /TCS), the system maintains cognitive stability where standard models fail.

Technical Specifications:
* Modular Architecture: Distributed logic across specialized directories, separating the Sensory Cortex from the Causal Inference engine.
* Tiered Processing: Integration of snnTorch (Spiking Neural Networks) for reflexive temporal triggers and torch_geometric (GNNs) for episodic memory retention.
* TCS-25 Plasticity: Implementation of Hebbian-modified logic prioritizing "Surprisal" (MSE delta) over static weights, enabling online learning without backprop latency.
* Performance: Optimized with Polars for sub-millisecond entropy checks across the full 132-modality buffer.

Current Status:
The Sensory Cortex and HTSP (Hierarchical Temporal) units are fully operational. The system handles the 512-to-4096 latent space expansion with high precision. This is an implementation-first project; the codebase is the proof.

I am releasing this v0.7.0 codebase for architectural peer-review and technical validation. I am specifically interested in discussing the HLS projection math and the orchestration of modular inference engines with anyone working on non-transformer AGI paradigms.
by paulwetzel | 2026-01-03 13:54:25+00:00
If you set up the static site generator as a CI/CD action in you favorite git provider, can work with both hosted GitHub, GitLab, etc. or self hosted Forgejo [1], you have both version control for your blog as well as an automatic way of publishing.

Sure, the UX is not that great as with a dedicated interface like substack, but building a Hugo site is really just editing markdown files anyway, most mobile git enabled editors should be able to do that.

[1]: https://home.futuretim.io/posts/hugo_build_and_post/
by throw310822 | 2026-01-03 13:54:26+00:00
No intention to deny individual episodes of war crimes, but the ratio of civilian to military casualties in the conflict is pretty low, despite a drawn out war and massive military casualties: we're talking about 12-15 thousand civilian deaths in almost four years of war. Absolutely tragic but doesn't seem to indicate a genocidal intent. Compare with the widespread massacres of civilians perpetrated by Israel in Palestine.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 13:54:34+00:00
> I learn new things all the time. IPv6 is much more complicated, and importantly, more complicated than it needs to be. There is really no reason for most devices to be publicly reachable.

Sigh. This myth really won't die.

Publicly addressable ≠ publicly reachable.

With my last ISP I had IPv6: every device (including my printer) on my local network had a public IPv6 address, but exactly zero were reachable thanks to the stateful packet inspection (SPI) on my Asus.