MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verzali | 2026-01-03 09:38:09+00:00
> The Congress shall have Power...

> To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

> To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

> To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

> To provide and maintain a Navy;

> To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

> To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
by servo_sausage | 2026-01-03 09:38:11+00:00
Sure, I use and contribute to some; and participate in international groups.

The key part for me though is the voluntary nature. I can participate as much or as little as I like, and my motivation to participate can be entirely individualistic, and the whole thing still works (more or less).

Taxation and policing is not voluntary however; and I frequently see the proceeds going to short term initiatives, that are promoted based on how much they impact some minority group specifically.

Advancing one group in a democracy is not often even a neutral action; its entirely possible to use resources so poorly that it's harmful overall. (Both in economic terms, but also in more abstract things like public trust in policing, or tolerance of corruption)
by lylo | 2026-01-03 09:39:00+00:00
This is pertinent. I’ll get hundreds of page views a day on a blog post and if that’s syndicated to X it’ll get 55 views, never to be seen again despite having 1200 followers.

Focus on publishing your own work. Syndicate if it’s effortless, otherwise don’t worry about it.

Blogging lives! :)
by bluecalm | 2026-01-03 09:40:22+00:00
And on laptops you may need to write a script to disable Bluetooth before the lid closes and re-enable it when the lid opens because Microsoft in its wisdom forced S0 sleep but didn't care to make it stable enough so a drivers can't crash your system during it.

Additionally there is no reliable mechanism to do so as doing it through Task Scheduler causes a race condition - will your script be allowed to run and finish before S0 sleep cuts power to it? You can not be sure.

Additionally if you got cornered into making an online account Task Scheduler doesn't even work with that reliably (for task that require privileges like turning off BT on lock and turning it on on unlock) so then you have disable the online account Microsoft manipulated you to make. Of course the failure is silent so you have to discover all that by yourself.

That is a a driver but Windows can also crash during S0 sleep because of its own updater failing to update some random app (like Microsoft Phone w/e that is).

On Linux it's just not an issue. The script runs on events and is guaranteed to finish. Random updates at random times won't happen either.
by sl8s | 2026-01-03 09:40:28+00:00
Location: Ukraine

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Dart, Java, Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript, TypeScript, Flutter, Node.js, Express.js

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dA_BkL8fQXGfYFWS6025UBVfKMo...

Email: sl8sqw@gmail.com
by user34283 | 2026-01-03 09:40:49+00:00
No, it does not suck.

I attempted to use WinUI 3, and could not even get PNGs to render the colors correctly, no matter what setting I tried.

Then I gave Tauri a try, and everything worked out of the box, with the PNGs rendering even better than in the Windows Photos app.

Building the UI was much easier, it looked better, and you get to build the "backend" in Rust.

Nothing about this sucked.
Show HN: Boxed – Sovereign exec engine for AI agents (Vercel Sandbox inspired)
by akshayaggarwal | 2026-01-03 09:41:46+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been obsessed with the rise of "computer-use agents" lately—tools like Claude Code that don't just autocomplete but actually interact with the OS.

The problem is infra: giving an agent access to your host is a nightmare, and spinning up full cloud VMs for every task is slow and expensive. I spent last night building Boxed to solve this. It's an open-source (MIT) execution engine that gives agents a sovereign, ephemeral OS layer—fully under your control.

Why build it? I wanted something that handles the compute heavy-lifting (sub-second boot, native artifact streaming, persistent REPL sessions) so I could focus on building the agents themselves. No more wrestling with sandboxes that feel bolted-on.

Usage: It's simple to integrate. You run the Boxed control plane locally or in a container, and use the SDKs to spawn isolated sessions.

Example (Python):

python

from boxed_sdk import Boxed
client = Boxed(base_url="http://localhost:8080", api_key="your-secret")
session = client.create_session(template="python:3.10-slim")
# Run code with ephemeral OS access & artifact capture
result = session.run("import pandas; print('Processing data...')")
print(result.stdout)
session.close()

typescript
import { Boxed } from '@boxed/sdk';

const client = new Boxed({ baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8080', apiKey: 'secret' });
const session = await client.createSession({ template: 'python:3.10-slim' });

// Runs in a secure, ephemeral environment
const { stdout } = await session.run("print('hello from HN')");
console.log(stdout);

await session.close();

Tech:
Control Plane: Built in Go for a high-performance, concurrent REST API.
Agent: A lightweight Rust binary injected into every sandbox to manage lifecycles and stream results via WebSockets.
Isolation: Docker-based for now (with Firecracker MicroVMs on the roadmap for Phase 2).

It's early days, but it’s running smooth in my own agent workflows. I’d love your feedback on the architecture

Repo: https://github.com/akshayaggarwal99/boxed

Demo and quickstart are in the README.
by Gorkys | 2026-01-03 09:42:30+00:00
I asked

> Is a panda or a Clio bigger

Would have thought it was obvious I was talking about cars? Its reply was hilarious:

> A Renault Clio is much bigger than a giant panda. While a panda can be 4 to 6 feet long and 2 to 3 feet tall, a Clio is typically 4.053 meters long and 1.440 meters tall, making it significantly larger in all dimensions, according to Auto Express and CarsGuide.
by LatencyKills | 2026-01-03 09:43:06+00:00
My brother left school after ninth grade and struggles financially — he can’t afford basic health insurance, yet he’ll spend $100 on lottery tickets whenever possible.

I understand the utility he’s purchasing: a temporary sense of hope. What concerns me is the implicit misunderstanding of probability. The difference in expected value between purchasing one ticket and fifty is statistically negligible. This isn’t about elitism — it’s simply about recognizing orders of magnitude and the arithmetic reality of vanishingly small odds.
by KingOfCoders | 2026-01-03 09:44:33+00:00
Guy: "Why do we have nukes if we don't use them?"

Same Guy: "If Europe doesn't buy more weapons from us, Russia should invade Europe, torture, plunder and kill people and do their worst."

People: "I guess I vote for that guy!"

Guy randomly bombs Iran, Yemen, Nigeria, Venezuela, Iraq, Somalia and Syria - people "Huh? I didn't vote for this".
by arendtio | 2026-01-03 09:44:54+00:00
If the internet is so awful, why don't we abandon it?

I mean, nobody forces us to use it.

Well, sometimes people do. But I think that's precisely the moment when we have to push back and tell them that we are not okay with using some WhatsApp group. And if they ask why, ask them if they know what Cambridge Analytica was, and if they like it when the political system is being manipulated.
by supermatt | 2026-01-03 09:45:14+00:00
Jeff, This is the second time you have been given a prosumer level cluster pretty much built for local LLM inference and on both occasions you have performed benchmarks without batching.

If you still have the hardware (this and the Mac cluster) can you PLEASE get some advice and run some actually useful benchmarks?

Batching on a single consumer GPU often results in 3-4x the throughput. We have literally no idea what that batching looks like on a cluster - because you arent performing useful benchmarks on the hardware you have been given and we aren’t willing to drop $10k+ just to find out.
by pixelpoet | 2026-01-03 09:46:02+00:00
What I wrote is very different and not difficult to understand at all.

Let me put it as a simple question: how are the people in America doing nothing to stop this any different from Russians doing the exact same?

If anything, Russians face a lot more resistance to protest, no?

So come on, stop silently downvoting me from your cozy AC'd homes while your leaders are warmongering for oil and Epstein distractions, and answer that simple question please, instead of making utterly transparent strawman arguments. It's a very simple question.
by antonymoose | 2026-01-03 09:46:55+00:00
If they have any brains they’ll keep the functionaries and install their own puppet as the new head, likely Machado.

For some reason we wisely keep the machineries of government in place in Japan and Germany post-war and threw that lesson out the window in Iraq. Always boggles my mind, how the CPA ran things immediately into the ground.
by IlikeMadison | 2026-01-03 09:47:23+00:00
> Bush assembled a serious international coalition before going for Iraq

Uh? Bush failed to assemble a coalition by providing dubious and faked proofs of supposed WMDs and chemical weapons. The Europeans and especially the French didn't fall for it. The only one who did was Tony Blair and he's still paying the price both domestically in the UK and abroad. AFAIK, Trump isn't planning to send troops in Venezuela on the scale Bush did in Iraq.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-03 09:48:03+00:00
So correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like a new kind of crime committed by the US? We've been involved in a lot of regime change operations but I can't think of one where we just straight up kidnap a foreign head of state and bring them to the US. I guess Saddam Hussein but that was after we caused the collapse?

Is the goal now to just put Maduro through a televised sham trial as a new cover for the Trump admin?
by monerozcash | 2026-01-03 09:48:32+00:00
The obviously reply to that would be "The US forces were invited by the democratically elected Venezuelan leadership to put a stop to the ongoing coup"

The concept of "international law" here is pretty confusing because to begin with you'd need to choose who decides what counts as a violation of Venezuelas sovereignty. Presumably the people backed by the US are okay with this, and team Maduro isn't.

Presumably, if you were to agree that Maduro wasn't in fact the legitimate leader of Venezuela, you'd just consider this an internal issue with US helping in local law enforcement matters.

If you disagree and consider Maduro to be the legitimate president, presumably no amount of justification will help you see it differently. But then, I'm not sure anyone particularly cares about your opinion either.
by bluecalm | 2026-01-03 09:48:51+00:00
Even if you are plugged all the time you may want batteries as it prevents crashes when power is cut off or the cable randomly disconnects (especially with USB-C that can easily happen as it's designed to disconnect easily). It's not that file system of today are immune to stability issues when power randomly cuts off not to mention losing your work/state. Batteries are like UPS for a desktop computer.
by donkeybeer | 2026-01-03 09:49:02+00:00
And for me the slicing in dicing happens for non-racial axes, I don't like certain racial minorities getting some subsidies but I don't "feel it in my bones" so to speak whereas I absolutely hate in my very bones the fact that eg conservative voting provinces are getting services from my tax money. Ideally of course I'd prefer not subsidizing any racial groups. Again, the concept of a country or nation defined without race or ethnicity is much closer to what I believe in anyways, except I want it at an even large scale.
by orwin | 2026-01-03 09:49:35+00:00
All this fuckery date from at least bush 2nd. Election mess, with heavy involvement of his brother the governor despite promises to revise, crowds attacking poll workers, war crimes, putting incompetent friends at the head of agencies (remember FEMA response to Katrina? Or the initial response to the subprime crisis?), attacks on science programs and schools, and the use of executive orders to bypass congress. Obama was so tame compared to Bush2.
by gspetr | 2026-01-03 09:50:19+00:00
> Where's Malaysia?

I can tell you where it's not.

https://www.isis.org.my/2024/07/04/pew-study-finds-more-mala...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-russia-vladimi...

"Pew study finds more Malaysians, Singaporeans view Russia favourably; backing of Palestine, Putin’s macho image seen as key factors

Of the respondents in the 35 countries surveyed, Malaysians had the most positive view on Russia."

It's not anywhere close to any place that supports your beliefs.

EDIT: https://fulcrum.sg/malaysias-royal-rendezvous-in-russia-reas...

"From 6 to 10 August, Ibrahim, the Malaysian King (Yang di-Pertuan Agong), visited Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin. This marked the first visit of a Malaysian head of state to Russia since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1967."
by servo_sausage | 2026-01-03 09:50:28+00:00
I think it's important to draw the distinction specifically between multiculturalism (the idea of allowing the nation to be just an economic zone containing multiple cultures), and nationalism (the idea that the citizens of a nation should have a shared culture and identity).

And promotion of that shared identity is absolutely vital; it should be independent of race, but not ethnicity, since typically I understand ethnicity to include cultural identity.

It's not so much about what we do voluntarily; Its about how we construct an argument that taxation and policing is ethical.
by beardyw | 2026-01-03 09:50:34+00:00
"Trump claims Maduro 'captured and flown out of the country'
US president Donald Trump claims that the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife have been “captured and flown out of the country”.

In a Truth Social post shared only moments ago, Trump wrote:

The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow. There will be a News Conference today at 11 A.M., at Mar-a-Lago. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.

The Guardian has been unable to independently verify this report."
by dmurray | 2026-01-03 09:50:56+00:00
> You are more likely to...get dealt a royal flush in poker on your first hand (1 in 649,740)

This is true but a bit misleading: 99% of people actually playing poker in the US today are playing Texas Hold'em or other variants where "your first hand" contains more than 5 cards and is vastly more likely to have a royal flush. I've had several royal flushes but would not want to think I'm only an order of magnitude or two away from having the luck of a Powerball winner.
by wodenokoto | 2026-01-03 09:51:35+00:00
What made a lot of Econ and related stuff click for me is the idea that there is no such thing as a sale, only a purchase. When you buy a tv for $200, the electronics store buys $200 dollars of cash for $200 of TV.

So the electronic store hasn’t made any money on the transaction. They lost $200 dollars of tv and received $200 of cash. So the tv account got deducted 200 and the cash account got increased 200.
by LatencyKills | 2026-01-03 09:52:44+00:00
If the goal is to learn how to solve a Rubik's Cube when you've never seen a Rubik's Cube before, you have no idea what "halfway solved" even looks like.

This is precisely how RL worked for learning Atari games: you don't start with the game halfway solved and then claim the AI solved the end-to-end problem on its own.

The goal in these scenarios is for the machine to solve the problem with no prior information.
Show HN: ScrollBump – adding friction to scrolling instead of blocking it
by nexgea | 2026-01-03 09:53:00+00:00
ScrollBump inserts short, unskippable pauses while you scroll. The goal isn’t to lock you out, but to make mindless scrolling inconvenient enough that you notice what you’re doing.

How it works
You define rules like:
• After X minutes in selected apps
• At location Y
• Insert a Z-second pause before you can continue

When triggered, the app is temporarily covered by a shield. The shield is customizable — you can set a short message, color theme, or even a photo of your dog or cat — but the core mechanic is the pause itself.

Why this instead of hard blocking
Hard blocks tend to fail. When an app is completely locked, people disable the blocker or route around it (iOS makes that easy).

ScrollBump is intentionally annoying, not absolute.
If you genuinely need the app, you wait a few seconds and continue.
If you’re doomscrolling, the pauses add up and break the habit loop.
by donkeybeer | 2026-01-03 09:53:40+00:00
That's where I differ. I see absolutely no point in ethnic identity and what benefits it gives us (over its negatives). If you tell me there is a plot of land available and I get enough people to agree I'd gladly jump in with peoples of liberal capitalistic democratic mindset with absolutely zero shits given about race or ethnicity or language to form a new country. We will set a common language but its simply a matter of common standards, not some emotional or historical appeal to thousands of years ago. I'd explicitly make it clear in the founding documents we are not founded on any race or ethnicity or religion.
by majgr | 2026-01-03 09:53:43+00:00
> nor attack any country

It is not like citizens of Iran decide to attack Israel or like sponsoring terrorist orgs attacking Israel. I am not sure if Russians freely vote in referendum to attack Ukraine. These decisions are made by despots ruling these countries and then their citizens suffer. Either they die in trenches or suffer economic misery. What for? China too can live without Taiwan. Chinese people do not need to have another island belonging to their country. Only despots wants to have statues raised after them, or write their names in history books, because all other things: Power, Money, Sex they already have.
Show HN: Weft – A reactive and interactive Python experience
by zeapo | 2026-01-03 09:55:41+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Weft over the last two weeks of Christmas break. I was teaching my kids Python and noticed the lack of interactivity in some of their learning experiences. The feedback loop was too long.

I wanted to provide them with an experience similar to Bret Victor's concepts on Learnable Programming; i.e. an easier way to learn is to see immediately the reaction to your actions. Hence the reactivity ;)

It is currently in early alpha and I’m planning to open-source the repo under AGPLv3 soon once I clean up the prototype code.

I wrote up a short blog post with more details on the "Why" and the implementation here: https://zenadi.com/posts/weft-announcement

I’d love to hear your feedback or ideas on how to make this better.
by michaelt | 2026-01-03 09:56:05+00:00
Unless you're thinking of huge online courses like Udacity/Coursera, I don't think that's really a thing?

If it is, I'd be fascinated to learn more.

I mean, the logistics would be pretty wild - even a large university's largest lecture theatres might only have 500 seats. And they'd only have one or two that large. It'd be expensive as hell to build a university that could handle multiple subjects each admitting over a thousand students.
Ask HN: How to Make the Most of an Acquisition?
by francoispiquard | 2026-01-03 09:56:31+00:00
Hello HN
I was in the lucky position of selling my saas recently.

Are there some hiring manager/VC tips on how to communicate on that/ what you look for for when you see that on a CV.

I can't disclose the amount but I would like to make sure I can capitalize on that for my """personal brand"""
by ErneX | 2026-01-03 09:57:13+00:00
It’s completely unrelated, I find a bit insulting that even our own wrongdoings have to be blamed to the US. Not everything wrong that happens in the world is caused by the US, the regime has been very capable of their own wrongdoing and mismanagement through the past couple of decades. Just look up the UN reports of human right abuses committed by the regime, thousands killed and tortured.
by 6r17 | 2026-01-03 09:59:20+00:00
I have to disagree it's worst than you think ; open-bsd has so many mitigation in place that your computer will probably run 50% slower than a traditional OS. In reality you do not want to be playing 100% safety everywhere because this is simply expensive. You might prefer to create an isolated network on which you can set up un-mitigated servers - those will be able to run at 100% capacity.

This can be looked upon when compiling the linux kernel, the mitigation options are rather numerous - and you'll have to also pick a sleep time ; what i'm saying is - currently linux only allows you to tune a machine to a specific requirement - it's not a spaceship on which you can change the sleep time frequency; dynamically shutdown mitigation ; and imagine that you are performing - In the same spirit, if you are holding keys on anything else than open-bsd ; I hope for you that you have properly looked up what you were installing.
by antonymoose | 2026-01-03 09:59:53+00:00
We dropped a lot of ordnance on Germany and Japan and they seem to be doing alright.

I suppose South Korea is doing fine as well, so let’s just hope Chinese troops do not flow over their land border with Venezuela.

If we need a more recent and perhaps more relevant comparison point, Operation Just Cause had a successful outcome.

I know it’s trendy and important to mock Iraq and Vietnam but it’s not all a failures.
by sha-3 | 2026-01-03 10:00:11+00:00
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, SQL, TypeScript, React, FastAPI, Node.js, GCP/Azure, Docker, CI/CD

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: hacker-news.5d063@aleeas.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/open-source/

22yo final-year CS student. Available to join full-time immediately.

I have been fiddling with and building for computers since I was a kid. While my current role is in a non-technical domain, I spend my free time building full-stack apps and experimenting with Linux.

I'm a quick learner who loves diving into new tech stacks and meeting people who are passionate about what they build. I am looking to pivot into a technical role where I can solve real problems.
by juliangmp | 2026-01-03 10:01:03+00:00
Honestly, until encrypted client hello has widespread support, why bother?
I mean I did it for fun the first time and now with caddy its not a lot of effort. But for a personal blog, a completely static site, what benefit do you get from the encryption? Anyone monitoring the traffic will see the domain in clear text anyway. And they'd see the destination IP, which I imagine in this case being one server that has exactly one domain pointed at it.