MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marginalia_nu | 2026-01-03 11:04:54+00:00
It's a difficult balance, though I think most open source projects are too modest in asking for donations, which, fair enough is pretty uncomfortable at first. You can definitely be too in-your-face, like Jimbo Wales is the sad-eyed picture of taking this too far sometimes.

Thing is that explicitly asking for money works, it gets results. If you can get people to pay money to watch you screaming at video games on Twitch, you can definitely get people to pay money for working on useful software.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-03 11:05:17+00:00
> it's still the season of perpetual hope wherever you are

At this moment in time, the President has bombed Caracas (presumably under the War Powers Act [1]) and claims to have captured Maduro.

From here, there are paths that wind up marginally good and many that end up somewhat catastrophically. Few wind up great. Few wind up as total shitshows (the risk in this being a Venezuelan civil war).

Seeing that there are positive possible outcomes isn't an expression of naive hope. It's identifying possible futures. I have no clue, personally, how to prevent a civil war in Venezuela–I'm neither hopeful nor on the edge of my seat.

And again, none of this justifies the actions. A gambler may win big betting his house. That doesn’t make it a good call, even if we can recognise that the outcome wound up favourably.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution#Provisio...
by thephyber | 2026-01-03 11:05:47+00:00
> There's a difference between buying hope, and decreasing the quality of what you do have significantly

You are making the same category error that the parent is talking about. It’s not a rational risk/reward calculation.

It’s more like a compulsion / addiction to the soothing / hopeful feeling that people feel for a few minutes when they think about the problems in their life that would be alleviated by winning.

Remember that the lottery is effectively the same game that used to be called “running numbers” when mob families ran it in the 20th century. The government though encouraging gambling addiction at the time was not worth the social costs. Now those costs are apparently the fault of the addict / family and not the government/ lottery contractor.
by RadiozRadioz | 2026-01-03 11:05:50+00:00
What my local secret service does is they rent various houses in a circle around their headquarters and order pizzas to them frequently. Mostly the pizzas are securely destroyed, but on days with large meetings they're transported from the houses to the headquarters via underground pneumatic tubes. I would have thought a similar DPS (Decentralised Pizza Strategy) would be employed in the US too, but I suppose they are not as tactically advanced in that area.
Show HN: I built an AI app builder where you can edit the UI visually
by Parameswar | 2026-01-03 11:06:12+00:00
Hi HN — I built Zolly after getting frustrated with AI app builders that generate code but make even small UI changes painful.

Most tools stop at code generation. The moment you want to tweak layout, spacing, text, or colors, you’re back to manually editing code. That breaks the fast-iteration promise for solo builders.

Zolly generates websites and simple web apps from a prompt, but the core idea is a real visual editor on top of the AI output. You can click, drag, and edit the UI instead of digging through generated code.

You can:
– Generate websites, landing pages, and small web apps from prompts
– Visually edit layout, text, and styles
– Upload existing HTML and modify it visually or with AI
– Generate from an image or screenshot
– Choose between multiple AI models
– Publish with one click or export clean HTML

This is still early, and I’d really appreciate honest feedback — especially on whether a visual-first AI workflow actually solves a real problem, or if I’m missing something obvious.
by monerozcash | 2026-01-03 11:06:14+00:00
No, I don't think anyone seriously doubts whether or not Trump actually won the elections after which he was appointed president.

The same however is not true of Maduro, where "Maduro did not actually get sufficient votes to win the latest election" is a pretty commonly held view backed by evidence. You might reasonably doubt the veracity of that evidence, but directly comparing Maduro's position with that of Trump is simply ridiculous.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-03 11:07:00+00:00
> as an american living in america projecting your vision of "net good"

American living in America who knows Venzeulans in America, most of whom didn't want this.

But. All of whom would want their country to democratise. Whether blowing up the capital and kidnapping their dictator causes that to happen is questionable. But Venezuela has cultural memory of democracy. (On the other hand, there seems to be zero effort–again!–towards an after-the-bombs plan. I'll also note that this administration isn't exactly a fan, itself, of free and fair elections.)
by kjksf | 2026-01-03 11:07:41+00:00
A bigger difference is that Ukrainians want to defend Ukraine from Russia.

Maduro is a dictator. His first presidency was legitimate but he had to steal the last election and is now ruling by force, because he is so unpopular.

Majority of Venezuelan don't want to fight US. They want Maduro out and the person who actually won last election to rule.

US doesn't want to occupy Venezuela. They want a government that is aligned with US and not with Russia/China/Iran.

The goals of US and majority of Venezuelans align.
by mrighele | 2026-01-03 11:07:45+00:00
Lower GDP doesn't mean to lower standard of living, if it is due to lower population. Similarly, more foreigners doesn't mean better standard of living. There is no point in increasing the GDP if this doesn't translate.

Check the EU: millions of foreigner have arrived in the past 20 years, yet EU's GDP has been growing very little during the same time
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-03 11:09:06+00:00
Never tried it myself, but this Gracie interview (7:30-8:32) makes it sound as if Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (at least with enough skill) could be high-adrenaline meditative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRIBYw6kNQ&t=450s

(also 9:00-9:15. I believe what's happening here is that Gracie calls the end result, but he has multiple paths to get there; the interviewee defends against one path, and Gracie, like water, just "flows with the go" along another path)
by lukan | 2026-01-03 11:10:43+00:00
I believe there were many deals. With the russians to not interfer and send capable anti aircraft systems in the last months.

And I suspect there were deals with parts of the venezuelan military as well. The weak reaction indicates as much.

And everything else potentially dangerous, active radar and anti air systems were destroyed in the first wave of attacks. Possible with the help of special forces.
by volleyball | 2026-01-03 11:10:58+00:00
I will admit i was slow to catch on. But watching the whole abominable horror show laid out - Gaza, Ukraine, Epstein, Trump coins, resorts, and ballrooms. Seeing the Nobel prize being given to the woman literally calling for Trump to invade her country and take their oil and cheering as her countrymen get bombed. And then seeing the media and liberal elites spin it as a snub against Trump as she dedicates the prize to him. I am ashamed that i was taken in for so long.
by mothballed | 2026-01-03 11:12:14+00:00
US states literally have been built on the motto "come and take it." Americans have been the most common foreign volunteers to die in places like Ukraine and Syria.

Invading America would be like invading Afghanistan. If you wrestle a pig, expect they might even enjoy it. And yes I have fought in a civil war, I know what it's like, even without the advantage of American weapon, so no need to go down the road of me not understanding the implications. It would only embolden us, we wouldn't learn the lesson you're thinking.
by piva00 | 2026-01-03 11:12:17+00:00
> your reaction is stronger than if I had simply blamed speaking to crystals at 2 AM after 5 glasses of wine in an attempt to manifest a job. If I had even suggested going to a My Little Pony Convention in an attempt to do networking, you would’ve scoffed less, which hardly implies good faith even with yourself.

It would be the same, in real life I have a social circle that includes quite a few woo-woo people (crystals, manifestation, etc.), and I challenge them the same way I did with you. I came from a country with many superstitions which heavily impact daily life, I don't care when people keep their beliefs and superstitions for themselves, as their own means to cope with life. I actually feel if it's helpful it's a net-positive.

I don't tolerate people who approach this as a truism and try to use their personal experiences with their spiritual practices to bring others into the fold.

> Also, your arguments are hardly original. They are 2,300 years old, originating with Epicurus, older than both Christianity and Islam. Regurgitation of them with such certainty is Reddit 2013-era levels of uninspired; as though both religions did not address these arguments from their foundation. I also find it astoundingly arrogant, because it implies that religious people have never witnessed or endured intense suffering, lest it be self-evident.

I didn't say they are original, and I don't present them as such at all. They still hold the same value, the addressing of these arguments is a thought-terminating cliche, they don't allow any logical system to challenge them because they are unfalsifiable truisms. That's the absolute cheap part of them, and in my opinion don't address at all the failures (because I reject the truism which they are based upon). If you believe them, it's yours to take but don't impose it for the non-believers because it requires exactly that: for you to be a believer. No logic in that, no way to be challenged.

You can keep your spiritual practices to the point it doesn't affect my reality, the moment you state that your God/entity is responsible for changing the world then it affects my reality, and you are arrogant in not considering that. If your God is real you can't know, by definition, since you are human, imperfect, incomplete, and by your own theisms incapable of knowing, so I don't understand why the need to impose unto others. Keep it to yourself, superstition has its place in your personal life.
by monerozcash | 2026-01-03 11:12:36+00:00
Depends on the point of view. I certainly agree that there are many very good reasons to see this as bad, but I don't think that concerns about Venezuela's national sovereignty rank very highly on that list.

From the perspective that regime change often goes horribly wrong? Absolutely.

From the point of view that Maduro was effectively in charge of a coup that the real elected candidates were desperately seeking foreign support to stop? Harder to see the intervention as bad, as it is probably the only way to rectify the situation.

There's no doubt that this heavily depends on one's personal views, so there's no obvious answers. At least the concern about regime change is fact-based and pretty much universal, regardless of personal beliefs. The concern about whether or not it's right or wrong for the US to go and arrest Maduro depends largely on how one views the recent Venezuelan election results, and therefore inherently relies on some major assumptions on matters where we're unlikely to ever see conclusive proof.

Of course, there are also pretty good technical reasons to believe the electoral receipts published by the Venezuelan opposition. I believe they would have been pretty much impossible to fake. That topic and others related to it have been pretty much endlessly discussed on HN already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155
by pixelpoet | 2026-01-03 11:12:51+00:00
Thanks for answering my question and imploring me to drone some mantra (I counter with: everything is a system, my dog is a system), and I'll guess I have to wait for New Zealand to do some invading.

sigh Nevermind, it's obviously way too much to ask for a simple answer to a simple question after being strawmanned.
by lukan | 2026-01-03 11:13:46+00:00
That is somewhat true, but how would you know that part?

"Majority of Venezuelan don't want to fight US. They want Maduro out and the person who actually won last election to rule."

We will see that, if there will be free elections soon.

And then I would be curious what would happen, if the winner is someone different and does not grant US companies exclusive oil deals, but keep them nationalized. What do you think will happen then?
by JodieBenitez | 2026-01-03 11:13:57+00:00
First, it's not that common. These are specialized tools you won't find in every producers tool belt. Not everyone cares that much about midi clock accuracy or many people will just circumvent the problem. Also, like homework, Discovery is very much a homestudio album, recorded at Bangalter's place. That's not what "top electronic studios" are. Ultimately we don't know and this whole thread is like seeing pictures in clouds to me.
by thesumofall | 2026-01-03 11:14:20+00:00
Because we all do. There is a limit to all of us how much we can process and how much we truly want to challenge rather than just accept. In personal life, at work, in politics, and even more so for the big questions of humanity. All of us accept a lot of things at face value and move on. Some put maybe more attention to politics, others have maybe better heuristics, and some select few are maybe smart enough that they can constructively challenge more than others
by Kon5ole | 2026-01-03 11:14:59+00:00
I think Windows has improved as a basic OS tremendously in the past decade, with things like WSL, winget, terminal, storage spaces, fancyzones and such.
The components of perhaps the best general purpose OS available right now are there, but they are buried behind a crappy car-salesman tabloid-press upsell circus that is frankly unbearable to some users.

What I don't get is why MS refuses to let you pay to avoid the circus - It's like a streaming service that only has the ad-financed tier!

I get that the people who care are a minority, but charging that minority a high purchase price for a just-the-os version of windows seems like easy money and would let them dodge all the badwill by presenting a choice.

Right now the official option is simply "suffer the circus or leave". It should at least be amended with "or pay".
by arch1t3cht | 2026-01-03 11:15:46+00:00
Thanks for the "encoder/decoder" correction.

But yes, as the other reply says, I am aware of this distinction, and I make a point not to use the word "codec" at any other point in the article. and explain in a lot of detail how much the encoder matters when it comes to encoding in some format. I mention the term to make people aware that it exists.

But, you're right, I will clarify this a bit more.
by lproven | 2026-01-03 11:16:58+00:00
> what exactly happens when you cancel your subscription?

I have the previous model, the MC02. I reviewed it here:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/05/mc02_swiss_private_ph...

The sub is for the email account. Cancel the sub, that email stops working. You can still use any other email account and client you wish.

This may no longer be the case -- but that's what I'd expect.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-03 11:18:15+00:00
Yeah, you really can do that.

The only caveat is that if you're using RFC1918, it greatly limits who can connect -- only your ISP, or another customer connected to the same shared VLAN your router is, or anyone that can physically attach to that network (or anybody in a position to order, blackmail or social engineer those three groups or their employees) can do it, because they're the only people that can set a route to your router for RFC1918 destinations.

Other than that, the connection will just head right on through your router. NAT's whole thing is to change the source address of your outbound connections. Inbound ones (when they don't match port forward rules) are ignored by it, which means they get routed by the router in exactly the same way they would if the router wasn't doing NAT.

At best you could argue that RFC1918 blocks connections, which would be somewhat closer to true, but... well, it doesn't. If you actually want to stop all connections from outside your network, you've always had to do it with a firewall on the router.

And of course, I said "if". You can NAT on public IP space. On residential connections you're unlikely to have public IP space on v4, but that's just a consequence of v4 being exhausted.
by leoc | 2026-01-03 11:19:11+00:00
Quite certainly not on v4 Unix, which apparently had few other sites and would not have been in the running for use as a serious university timesharing system. However Gates and Allen had already been among the secondary-school students who modified timesharing records to give themselves more time on a PDP-10 system https://web.archive.org/web/20191013171424/http://www.washin... .
by sylware | 2026-01-03 11:19:29+00:00
In my country, the last big _mobile_ internet provider finished its move to IPv6.

Land lines internet have been IPv6 for more than a decade.

While developping custom IPv6 internet software I am not blocked by NAT anymore, real p2p fiesta, everything works as intended.

The real challenge now is IPv6 with fixed mobile internet address (not random as it is is now, it should be device uniq). That to replace for good the phone numbers (the challenge of international roaming... which is already done for phone numbers). The idea would be to avoid a third party centralized internet account->ipv6 mapping.
by coreyh14444 | 2026-01-03 11:19:41+00:00
This is why I posted it from the perspective as an American. We don't have anything remotely comparable. Vaccinations are delivered by private doctors and public schools often require vaccinations or exemptions but the system works entirely differently. If you homeschooled your kids and if your doctor didn't mention it, you'd never even know that vaccinations were available.
by redleader55 | 2026-01-03 11:20:24+00:00
The rest of the industry relies on following a CVE list and ticking off vulnerabilities as a way to ensure "owners" are correctly assigned risk and sign it off - because there is nothing else that "owners" could do. The whole security through CVE is broken and is designed to be useful to create large "security organizations" that have the single purpose of annoying everyone with reports without solving any issues.
by mgrat | 2026-01-03 11:21:00+00:00
I can't defend all the modifications, but let's take a look at why they may have felt the need:

> Men should express their appreciation of a woman’s effort to look well and dress becomingly. All men forget, if they have ever realized it, how profoundly women are interested in clothes.

> Mrs Lincoln’s jealousy was so foolish, so fierce, so incredible, that merely to read about some of the pathetic and disgraceful scenes she created in public – merely reading about them seventy-five years later makes one gasp with astonishment. She finally went insane; and perhaps the most charitable thing one can say about her is that her disposition was probably always affected by incipient insanity.
by da_chicken | 2026-01-03 11:21:24+00:00
> NAT and firewall are two completely separate things that can exist independently of each other.

This is kind of like saying that web browsers don't have to have a graphical interface. Or that a web browser doesn't necessarily support HTTPS. It's correct, but not practically correct.

The reality is that essentially all NAT software you'll actually encounter will be integrated into a stateful firewall because the two systems share so many functions that most projects and products that do one will also do the other. If you have a system with NAT set up and there is no packet filtering, it's most often because you've intentionally gone and disabled all the packet filtering, not because you need separate software for it.

It is important to understand that NAT doesn't have any inherent security to it, but criticizing people for talking like NAT is a feature built into firewalls when NAT is overwhelmingly a feature built into firewalls is a pretty unfair reading when we're talking about general deployments. Even with the technical audience of HN, we're not discussing carrier grade NAT here or other highly specialized or exceptional deployments.
by allanmacgregor | 2026-01-03 11:21:43+00:00
You are stuck on "If is not my brand of liberal, then they are MAGA and worse than Hitler" there is nuance in political opinions; people can be conservative and condemn and disagree with this war/administration/president.

Western society is turning into this tribalistic bullshit, is very visible in ithe US but to my suprise is now also in full force in Canada.
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-03 11:21:50+00:00
Russian war industry operating at levels it hasn’t in decades, 1.5 million dead or wounded == unverified and thus irrelevant as propaganda until it actually is verified, Sebastopol nuclear base still in Russian control with direct land corridors well and truly established, capture of cities not on the agenda for the special military operation (that’s your standard, not theirs), gas and oil revenues not plummenting (also unverified propaganda), and those of us who are aware of Russian military doctrine know all too well that the Russians escalate in ways that the US don’t (old Soviet stock goes first, new Russian stock saved for real war), so your standards may need to be adjusted if you want to understand this situation better.
by hdgvhicv | 2026-01-03 11:22:29+00:00
When the U.K. lottery launched you picked 6 from 49.

The prizes were shared amongst everyone

If the prize pot was say £10m, 4 winners would get £2.5m each.

I suspect that the hunebr of people choosing 123456 would be far higher than choosing 6 random numbers. Thus in the event your numbers did come up, you would get far less winning than someone who had the same odds but chose say 13 22 32 35 40 42
by deng | 2026-01-03 11:23:10+00:00
Not really, privacy extensions are usually on by default, at least on Windows and Linux. This means temporary ipv6 addresses will be used for outbound traffic and rotated regularly (usually every 24h by default, if I'm not mistaken). And if you're worried about tracking, we have lost this war ages ago, ipv6 wouldn't meaningfully change that.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-03 11:24:18+00:00
> Chromium is superior in every way. Rendering, features, speed, memory management

Being faster, prettier and using less memory[1] is pointless if the browser won't let me block all ads.

I mean, it's like comparing a turd sandwich made with expensive exotic bread, and a cheese sandwich made with cheap grocery store break.

Sure, the one has great exotic bread, but I don't want the turd it comes with.

So, yeah, it actually doesn't matter how much prettier, faster or smaller web pages are with Chrome, at least FF lets me (currently) block almost anything.

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[1] Chrome beats out FF in exactly one of those, and it's not the memory or speed. Turns out ads take up a lot of RAM, and slow down pages considerably.
Show HN: Compare object sizes visually – from animals to planets
by kaixinbaba1002 | 2026-01-03 11:24:55+00:00
I built a small tool to compare the sizes of things visually
(animals, vehicles, planets, etc).

The idea came from watching one of those space videos that makes
everything else feel tiny. Numbers never really worked for me,
so I wanted something more visual.

It’s live here:
https://objectsizecomparison.com

This is very much a work in progress.
I’m a backend dev and UI is not my strong side, so parts of this
are probably awkward or just wrong.

Would love feedback on what feels confusing or pointless,
and what comparisons you’d actually want to see.