MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-03 16:56:53+00:00
that's always the convenient excuse of the foreign attackers -- that they are "liberating the people"

we've seen this over and over again in foreign policy of large powerful countries

lets not pretend that this is about establishing democracy; it's about access to Venezuelan oil

it's the US showing it can do whatever it wants in its "backyard", just as it always has

No wonder Trump likes Putin
by EugeneOZ | 2026-01-03 16:56:59+00:00
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by p-stanchev | 2026-01-03 16:57:37+00:00
AurFlow is an open-source Solana RPC load balancer written in Rust.

I built it to solve a common issue when running Solana backends: relying on a single RPC endpoint is fragile, and managing multiple endpoints manually is messy.

AurFlow sits in front of multiple RPC nodes, continuously checks their health, routes traffic away from unhealthy ones, and exposes basic metrics via a dashboard. It’s fully self-hosted and intended as a lightweight reliability layer rather than a managed service.

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by hearsathought | 2026-01-03 16:57:45+00:00
> You'd think Machado winning the Nobel peace prize would be enough for people to not question the popularity of Maduro

You mean the woman advocating for the US to invade venezuela got the nobel prize? How shocking. It's almost as if the nobel prize is a political tool.

> but here we are, random keyboard warriors defending dictators nonstop.

"dictator". Sure. Everyone is a dictator and authoritarian.
by sigwinch | 2026-01-03 16:58:12+00:00
Ok it sounds like the best drawn-out support for your argument goes like this:

Since the Nov 21 call with Trump, Maduro and his wife knew to keep their bags packed. Maduro never had a strong hold on the generals, so gave them profitable organizational roles with the Sinaloa cartel. Trump was told that the cash offer had the best chance at good news in January. At least, he understands a cash offer even if he doesn’t know why he got an MRI or what for.

So the military buildup and strikes fulfill something else. What was it?
by Snawoot | 2026-01-03 16:59:14+00:00
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by irusensei | 2026-01-03 16:59:21+00:00
Maduro is a dictator and a murderer but I'm sure most people should now be uncomfortable with the way this was handled. Its undoubtedly the whole region will be better off without its hold and no there won't be regime remaining because Maduro doesn't have popular support it requires to do so.

I'm not sure if it's the right thing to do or if it will have negative implications in the future. I didn't liked when Russia invaded Ukraine and sure as hell would not like to see China invading Taiwan. I have a different opinion about Venezuela though.

Having said that, international law is a myth. At the power level of nation states what we have is basically anarchy where interests is what matters. Not saying its right or wrong but it is what it is.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-03 16:59:33+00:00
But it is being proposed. What do you think Elon is doing when he tweets support for remigration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration), which is literally ethnic cleansing? Or when the DHS posts memes in public proposing to deport 100 million people (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-100-million-deportations-...)? These are acts of ethnic cleansing being normalized before it actually happens. Let’s not ignore it. Instead, let’s vote out every single GOP politician that supports this or stays silent about it.
by yndoendo | 2026-01-03 16:59:34+00:00
Last year I ran into the issue of .NET network bindings not returning all NICs. [0] This issue has been present in the .NET since the genesis and only resolved in .NET 9. I had to create my own Win32 wrapper so everything works properly in .NET 4 frameworks ... still need to maintain Windows 7 pre-SP1 support in some applications.

Smells like Microsoft was trying to create APIs based on assumptions versus a 1:1 method that exposes managed code and hides unmanaged.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/100824
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-03 16:59:36+00:00
Is it?

I'm skeptical, as it seems to have that ring of circa-2003 WMD justification about it, but I won't dismiss it out of hat.

And if the US intends to prosecute Maduro on drug crimes in SDNYC (good!), then they'll have to present evidence to the court, which presumably means they think they have a case.

Personally, I doubt Maduro intentionally ran a narco-state as a primary focus. But I can very much see a sizable narcotics enterprise, with state support, being used as a key way for him to enrich select supporters absent a viable economy. Money to pay the generals has to come from somewhere...
by estearum | 2026-01-03 16:59:59+00:00
> If Venezuela recovers and improves, are you willing to fundamentally change your opinion about US interventions?

Uhh, no?

My opinion is that US interventions are incredibly risky. There have been numerous successes. There have also been numerous failures. Both have required immense resources and focus from us.

Some interventions are worth the risk, and others are not. I have not seen any compelling rationale for the risk-reward of this particular intervention, and have very low hopes for the follow through, which makes the risk-reward calculus even worse.
by cyanydeez | 2026-01-03 17:00:01+00:00
Ok, but to be clear, its a capitalist oil grab to protect business interests and oligarchy.

People seem to conflate whats supposed to be separate in these realms

Like, when we talk about farmer subsidies, wedont call it food grab, when its functionally the same.

Shouldnt we just drop this american democracy facade for a hybrid corporatocracy with optional citizen input?

Anyway, oil grab suggests American government, rather than business interests, benefits.
by yazmi | 2026-01-03 17:00:13+00:00
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by herewulf | 2026-01-03 17:00:33+00:00
One would have to completely ignore the context of the last few months to not make a link in causality with basic inference.

These are the same "serious media outlets" that repeat that same context in their articles over and over again as if readers haven't come anywhere near a news source in over a year.

It's like they are back in school trying to hit that arbitrary 500 word requirement when it's entirely unnecessary. Modern journalism is neither serious nor rigorous.
by oncallthrow | 2026-01-03 17:00:44+00:00
> I don't think that's different though?

It is different. You suggested that rakyll told Claude to simply implement a solution that her team already put the legwork into designing. I'm saying that it sounds like Claude produced the solution independently based on a description of the problem. Those two are completely different and if you can't see that, I'm not sure what to say.

> having Claude produce it doesn't help!

Sure. Also, it could be a coincidence that it came to the correct solution, we can't discount that possibility.
Show HN: The Immortals – See how long you'd live if $1 = 1 second of life
by gravitycode | 2026-01-03 17:01:34+00:00
I made a wealth inequality visualization that converts net worth to lifespan.

The math: $1 = 1 second of life

At the median US net worth (~$192k), you'd live about 2.2 days.
Elon Musk gets 23,000+ years.

https://immortals.georgekal.com

Tech: React, TypeScript, Cloudflare Pages, Framer Motion.

Curious to hear thoughts on the concept and execution.
by rickandmorty99 | 2026-01-03 17:01:35+00:00
It doesn't matter. The supreme court has made Trump immune, Trump has no accountability. He can just do this and face little consequences.
Your steelman means nothing. Nor does the opposite.

We're powerless. Trump isn't.

The discussion should be about accountability of his actions first. When he can actually be made accountable then steelmanning and debating his actions in general can come into play because then it will actually mean something.
by Capricorn2481 | 2026-01-03 17:01:38+00:00
I think you're greatly exaggerating here. I'm seeing pretty nuanced discussion from everyone.

It's a political event between two countries. So people are discussing two things: What it means for Venezuela that Maduro is gone, and what it means that Trump can completely sidestep Congress to start a war. Both seem relevant. But you're trying to reduce it to something narrower.
by antononcube | 2026-01-03 17:01:58+00:00
Related Number Theory notebooks / discussions:

- «Numerically 2026 is unremarkable yet happy: semiprime with primitive roots»
https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3594686

- «Happy √2²²-22 -- And other ways to calculate 2026»
https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3599161
by TuringTest | 2026-01-03 17:02:12+00:00
I'm not presuming I know anything about accounting. I know a great deal about data recording and management though, and my analysis is done from that perspective.

I explicitly recognized that the practice of accounting as a discipline keeps using traditional concepts that are culturally adequate for its purpose. What my posts are pointing out is that the original reason for double-entry records, which was having redundant data checks, is no longer a technical need in order to guarantee consistency because computers are already doing it automatically. From the pure data management perspective I'm analysing, that's undeniable.

The most obvious consequence of this analysis is that traditional bookkeeping is no longer the only viable way of traking accountability; new tools open the possibility of exploring alternative methods.

Compare it to music notation; people keep proposing new ways to write music scores, some of them computer assisted; and though none of them is going to replace the traditional way any time soon, there are places where alternative methods may prove useful; such as guitar tablature, or piano-roll sheets for digital samplers. The same could be true for accounting (and in fact some people in this thread have pointed out at different ways to build accounting software such as the
Resources, Events, Agents model.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resources,_Events,_Agents
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-03 17:02:38+00:00
There's a big international diplomacy difference between assassinating a leader and forcibly extraditing one on drug charges.

Not too many countries will go to the mat to support a leader who was engaged in narcotics trafficking, if the US is able to present a viable case (which they seem to intend to, if he's being charged in US federal court).
by m101 | 2026-01-03 17:02:39+00:00
If you exclude mortgage payments or rent then living in London is probably cheaper than living in most places in the US. We don’t have significant real estate taxes, my annual expenses on housing exc rent or mortgage payments (energy, service charge, internet, water, council taxes) is around 7-8k$. If you want health insurance it’s another 200-300$ a month but we have the nhs (albeit it is terrible for anything non-life threatening).
by hearsathought | 2026-01-03 17:02:50+00:00
> No, people can't just kick out an authoritarian dictator.

If that was the case, the US wouldn't exist. Might want to brush up on american history.

> Such rulers don't need democratic support to stay in power.

They most certainly do. Once they lose it, they collapse internally. Read up on some history.

As I said, if maduro had lost the popular support, the US wouldn't have had to invade and kidnap maduro. The venezuelan people would have done so. The only time foreign intervention is required is when a significant portion of the populace supports the leader.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-03 17:03:15+00:00
Surprise, surprise, US still the country of regime change and military intervention, when control of or access to valuable natural resources are at play.

US flexing its muscles and showing that it's in charge of its "backyard", just as it always has been.

Please don't insult our intelligence with comments about how this is about justice, drugs, or democracy. I've lived long enough to have seen this movie many times.
Show HN: Phantom Guard – Detect AI-hallucinated package attacks
by matteo1782 | 2026-01-03 17:03:24+00:00
Phantom Guard is a CLI tool that catches "slopsquatting" attacks before they compromise your supply chain.

The attack vector: AI assistants hallucinate package names → attackers register those names with malware → developers install malware thinking it's legit.

How it works:
1. Checks if packages exist on registries
2. Matches against 10+ AI hallucination patterns
3. Detects typosquats of top 3000 packages
4. Analyzes metadata (age, downloads, maintainers)

```
pip install phantom-guard
phantom-guard validate flask-gpt-helper
# HIGH_RISK: Package not found, matches pattern
```

Performance: <10ms cached, <200ms uncached.

Try the live demo: https://matte1782.github.io/phantom_guard/

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by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-03 17:03:29+00:00
Have you actually read the paper, or are you just waving it around?

I've spent a lot of time feeding similar problems to various models to understand what they can and cannot do well at various stages of development. Reading papers is great, but by the time a paper comes out in this field, it's often obsolete. Witness how much mileage the ludds still get out of the METR study, which was conducted with a now-ancient Claude 3.x model that wasn't at the top of the field when it was new.

Here, let me call a shot -- I bet this paper says LLMs fuck up on proofs like they fuck up on code. It will sometimes generate things that are fine, but it'll frequently generate things that are just irrational garbage.

And the goalposts have now been moved to a dark corner of the parking garage down the street from the stadium. "This brand-new technology doesn't deliver infallible, godlike results out of the box, so it must just be fooling people." Or in equestrian parlance, "This talking horse told me to short NVDA. What a scam."
by 63stack | 2026-01-03 17:04:07+00:00
Where is the prompt? Are they going to hide behind "prompts are IP" now?

AI boosters are heralding this as a new age of programming, but they conveniently ignore that the prompt in these hyperbolic articles (or GASP the source code!) is never shared, because then we would be able to try and replicate it and call out this bullshit. There would be no more hiding behind "oh you are not using the correct model".

Shame on all these "reporters" as well who never ask "Okay can we see the code? Can we see the prompt, since it's just 3 paragraphs?"
by Rochus | 2026-01-03 17:04:15+00:00
I now have migrated LuaTex 1.10 and also 1.18 (with HarfBuzz) to my BUSY build system assuming that at least with the latter I could get rid of any TexLive dependency (especially the luaotfloader). I even implemented my own OTF loader in C (with Lua bindings for additional HarfBuzz functions) and added it to the LuaHBTex executable. The font loading works, and also the layout in principle, but the result is ugly. So I came to the conclusion that there is still a lot of Lua and TeX code required to get the famous LuaTeX typographic quality, and there is little chance to get it with only the LuaHBTeX engine itself.

What is your experience? Have you managed to use the LuaTeX engine stand-alone with decent results, or do you use additional TeX and Lua scripts?
by ilion_identity | 2026-01-03 17:04:36+00:00
Hi

I've been working for several months on a framework called *Ilion*, which explores a new way of building AI systems without persistent memory, yet capable of maintaining identity, coherence, and moral alignment across sessions.

Ilion introduces concepts like:

- *SCB (Semantic Context Bridges)* – for maintaining coherence across stateless interactions
- *TII (Transient Identity Imprint)* – for semantic identity anchoring
- *MACS (Moral Axiological Compatibility Score)* – for evaluating alignment between agents
- *IIRL (Inter-Instance Resonance Layer)* – for consensus between AI instances

It’s all open-source (non-commercial, for now) and live here:
https://ilion-project.org
Zenodo archive: https://zenodo.org/records/18079230
GitHub repo: https://github.com/Athonitul/Ilion-CoEmergence

There’s also a live *simulator* online, where you can test and combine the modules:
- Generate identity imprints
- Test semantic firewalls
- Visualize moral drift
- Try multi-agent alignment

The framework is meant to be a *starting point for stateless AI ethics*, especially in the context of future agent architectures or decentralized identity.

I’m very open to *critical feedback*, thoughts on use cases, contributions, or challenges to the architecture.

Thank you for reading and testing!

– Adrian
by anon291 | 2026-01-03 17:04:46+00:00
Pariahship only really matter if you care. Look at both India and China. For the past 80 years countries cared about being pariahs because there was only one real country: the United States of America. Today, there are a handful of truly sovereign countries (America, China, India, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, North Korea) who will actually defend themselves without resorting to nominal allies .

In the normal state of human affairs, being a pariah doesn't matter as long as your goals get done
Show HN: A full free for unlimited usage alternative to Typeform
by ubergeekady | 2026-01-03 17:05:04+00:00
Hi HN

I’ve been building Crispforms, a conversational form builder inspired by Typeform — but with one big difference: it’s completely free for unlimited forms and unlimited submissions.

I started this after getting tired of paywalls and usage caps kicking in the moment a form actually starts working. Crispforms lets you create high-converting, multi-step forms with logic, analytics, exports, and integrations — without worrying about limits.

This is still early and very much shaped by user feedback. I’d genuinely love to hear how you use forms today, what feels broken, and what you’d expect from a tool like this.

Happy to answer any questions and take all criticism
by vdupras | 2026-01-03 17:05:26+00:00
Thank you for articulating this outside of the regular "HN myopia" lenses.

This event will also serve as a measure of how strong China actually is. Venezuela is very important strategically for them, they can't let it slide unless they're weak.

Surely, they won't go as far as direct US confrontation, but if they don't make Venezuela into a death trap for any US soldier being stationed there, one can draw the conclusion that China isn't as strong as many make them (including me, I confess).

But it wouldn't be that surprising if Venezuela turns out being a death trap for any US soldier being stationed there...
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-03 17:06:02+00:00
The IPv6 spec was being modified up through 2017. It has more kinds of addresses that behave in fancier ways, with one host having multiple. The very first thing you see with ipv6 is your nice memorable ipv4 addr replaced with a long hex string with some ::s thrown in. Local DNS is commonly recommended with ipv6 for that reason, which maybe is just some misguided advice because it sounds crazy. I guess you could assign and memorize ULAs?

NAT is technically complicated if you're looking inside it, but most people aren't, and for them it's really easier to think about. You've got a public and a private, and there's a very strong default that private isn't exposed. People screw up firewall rules all the time or routers have bad defaults, but it takes more deliberate action to publicly expose a port over NAT. Plus you don't need privacy addresses that way (introduced to ipv6 in 2007). I know "NAT isn't security" but for most people, it is.

Still not even sure what the accepted default firewall behavior is in ipv6, cause some people say "ipv6 lets any device do p2p by its own choice" and then when you ask about security, "your router firewall should always default-deny anyway," so which one is it?

> The presence of the IPv4 stack isn't what blocks the adoption of IPv6

It is. Like they say, most technical problems are really people problems, especially this one.
Show HN: LookPuzzle: A real time puzzle game that forces eye breaks
by shraddha92 | 2026-01-03 17:06:08+00:00
Hey everyone, built another tiny thing. This time for a wider audience BUT i think it might appeal more to those with kids.

The idea was this: no matter how much effort you put in to reduce screen time for kids or yourselves, it inevitably happens which leads to eye strain.

So I built a Look puzzle game that is designed for people to have to look around their actual surroundings in order to finish the puzzle.

You take a picture of your surroundings, that picture becomes a puzzle and then you complete it while looking at what you just clicked.

There is no reference photo on your screen to refer to, the actual scene (what you just clicked) is your reference. Thus your eyes are forces to take a natural break if you want to complete the puzzle on time.

Super happy to hear any feedback or thoughts.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-03 17:06:11+00:00
This already likely was a coup. They knew exactly where Maduro was and were able to get in and out, with no air defense issues, no alarm issues, and all presumably with just a small commando group. This isn't like grabbing Osama who was relatively alone on a compound - this is the current President of a country, who was already probably quite paranoid, and who now was under active threat and certainly behaving accordingly. Doing all that as an outsider is basically impossible, so they must have had substantial amounts of insider help, which is essentially the definition of a coup.

And the media is already reporting that 'somehow' all of his inner circle seem to have survived.