MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-03 12:44:09+00:00
That "unlawful combatant" designation was invented by the US as an excuse and has always stood on shaky legal grounds even in the US. Other Western countries don't support this legal construction. That being said, the double-tapping was ordinary murder, not a war crime. Every bombing of those ships could have been avoided by boarding them and presenting those drugs as evidence, as the Coast Guard normally does. But that would only have worked if there had been any evidence to start with...
by libertine | 2026-01-03 12:44:35+00:00
I believe it's well established that it is primarily about gaining access to the vast oil reserves.

It's the new world order preached by Russia and supported by the BRICS.

The difference is that the US has the resources to play this game ruthlessly and effectively for the most part.

The coherent BRICS reply should be "we pray there's peace".

This is scary stuff.
by sgt | 2026-01-03 12:44:46+00:00
You're obviously just trolling. The US is still a solid democracy - a country you disagree with, sure. In a couple years Trump will be out and life goes on. As for Maduro, he's a dictator - he needed to go. He works closely with Iran, Russia and with China doing very nefarious things.

I agree however that Trump is largely self centered and this is a risk. Oil should not be the goal here, it should be the freedom of the Venezuelans.
by unionjack22 | 2026-01-03 12:44:50+00:00
Here's a trick I've learnt to get an authentic view of events like these, a nice way to parse through the keyboard warrior and ivory tower voices and noise is to hear what Venezuelans, the millions of Venezuelan migrants, and the citizens of neighboring countries who've had to reckon with the legacy of Chavez think about this. You can extend this to anything really with good results.

No valuable insight will be gleaned from chat boards and reddit in the immediate aftermath of these sorts of events.
by athrowaway3z | 2026-01-03 12:45:00+00:00
I highly doubt that weakening Iran and Russia is the goal here, and I'm not even sure how people got that idea. This isn't 2010 anymore.

These decisions require a pretty broad coalition to get a workable plan in front of Trump for him to activate for attention. So there is never 1 single reason, but my 2cents are that:

- Most of the oil export goes to China. Especially with the recent metals kerfuffle, this is a quick way to improve the US' negotiation position.

- The hawks in the army are getting restless and are clamoring for real-world modern drone warfare experience - especially if Taiwan turns hot. Getting a trial run in your backyard in similar terrain is good practice. (Assuming they'll send in an occupying force, and it's contested by china backed insurgents).
by meindnoch | 2026-01-03 12:45:13+00:00
A surgical strike that was over before the news broke out vs. a 4-year campaign of plundering with literal criminals, press-ganged foreigners, and chechen blocking detachments, featuring mass rape, executed civilians, abduction and forced reeducation of thousands of children, gross mistreatment of PoW, etc.

Hmmmm... indeed, hard to tell the difference!
by estearum | 2026-01-03 12:46:17+00:00
Yes this is a big problem but a large part of this is the total elimination of starter homes from the market. I.e. they would be able to afford the types of homes that earlier generations started in, but those homes simply don't exist anymore.

It's kind of a quality of life degradation, but it's a bit more complex than just "an attainable item is no longer attainable." It has never been normal to buy a 2600 sqft, 4 bedroom home at the start of a career.
by andrewaylett | 2026-01-03 12:46:26+00:00
You may have not realised that legitimate email has failed (and it might even be true) but my experience suggests it's unlikely that it hasn't happened. I only have a handful of users, but when I was greylisting I'd get reports of missing mail at least annually.

Which isn't to say it's not worth it, although nowadays I'd recommend that https://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html pre-greet checks are just as good at stopping spam and better at not blocking legit mail.
by Fade_Dance | 2026-01-03 12:46:31+00:00
Entirely different, from an American perspective.

Afghanistan had the context of 9/11. All Americans knew about 9/11, and most cared strongly about it.

I doubt most Americans know anything about Yemen or know anything about any US involvement there, nor do they care.

Military strikes in Yemen aren't seen as the same war. Afghanistan and Iraq were boots on the ground, building up military bases, hearing about the occasional death of US personnel, etc. It's also decades apart.

When it comes to Yemen, the average American is probably entirely unaware of it, and the ones that do know about it are definitely going to place it in the Palestine/Israel context (which has huge mindshare circulation here, All things considered - we usually just ignore things outside of US borders and this is ultra politicized here). Maybe without that element, there would be more truth to what you were saying, but it's definitely in the Israel/Hamas war bucket as of now.
by clvx | 2026-01-03 12:46:47+00:00
Same as you. This piece of shit needed to be gone.
I've seen Venezuelans begging for food, money and shelter in geographic areas where you wouldn't even imagine due the exodus.
I've seen South American communities orbiting xenophobia on Venezuelans because the lack of opportunities of immigrants where almost impossible in countries where there weren't any for many of the current residents.
by ivan_gammel | 2026-01-03 12:46:51+00:00
According to West, not allowed. However, the West does not exist anymore, and we have two different ideological camps within it. According to USA, it’s bad, but it did not hurt American interests, so a good deal is possible. According to EU, foreign policy of which is hijacked by Baltic right, it is still not allowed, but… Deep currents indicate that as soon as it’s done with formal condemnations, it is desirable that business will resume as usual.
Show HN: A small personal project around code-inspired clothing
by atchett | 2026-01-03 12:47:39+00:00
This is a small personal project around code-inspired clothing.

I’ve been working as a developer for a long time, but I’ve never owned a developer t-shirt. I’ve always found most of them too loud or too jokey for everyday wear, so I eventually stopped looking.

With freelance work being quieter recently, I finally spent some time on an idea that had been in my head for years — seeing if I could make the kind of thing I’d actually want to wear.

From a technical point of view it’s pretty simple: Shopify for the storefront with Printful handling print-on-demand and fulfilment. It’s just me working on it alongside other commitments.

I’d be interested in feedback on a few fronts: whether this resonates at all, what people think of the choice of languages so far, whether there are others you’d expect or like to see, and — if the concept makes sense — whether anyone here has experience with a Shopify + Printful setup (good or bad). I have a longer list of languages in mind if there’s interest.

Link: https://slashstar.store

Thanks for taking a look.
by input_sh | 2026-01-03 12:48:12+00:00
It's because LLM tools have design guidelines as a part of the system prompt which makes everything look the same unless you explicitly tell it otherwise.

To give an example that annoys me to no end, Google's Antigravity insists on making everything "anthropomorphic", which gets interpreted as overtly rounded corners, way too much padding everywhere, and sometimes even text gradients (huge no-no in design). So, unless you instruct it otherwise, every webpage it creates looks like a lame attempt at this: https://m3.material.io/
Show HN: A local, offline document chat app for macOS
by navid72m | 2026-01-03 12:48:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a macOS desktop app that lets you chat with your documents completely locally.

No cloud, no API keys, no data leaving your machine. Everything runs offline on Apple Silicon using GGUF models and llama.cpp.

What it does:
- Upload PDFs, text files, and images
- OCR for images and scanned PDFs
- Local embeddings + retrieval (RAG)
- Chat with documents using a local LLM
- Models are downloaded on first run and stored locally

Tech stack:
- Electron (frontend)
- Python backend bundled as a native binary
- llama.cpp + GGUF (currently Gemma / Mistral class models)
- SentenceTransformers for embeddings
- FAISS for vector search
- Runs entirely on-device (CPU / Metal)

Why I built this:
I wanted a privacy-first alternative to cloud document chat tools. Packaging a full local LLM + OCR + RAG pipeline into a single macOS app turned out to be much harder than expected (Gatekeeper, PyInstaller, dylibs, model size, etc.).

Download:
GitHub release (macOS Apple Silicon):
https://github.com/navid72m/chatbot/releases/tag/v.0.1.2

Note on macOS security:
Because the app is not signed yet, macOS may block it on first launch.
You can run:
xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Document Chat.app"

I’d really appreciate feedback on:
- UX for document chat
- Model choices / performance
- How others approach local RAG on desktop

Happy to answer technical questions.
by abenga | 2026-01-03 12:48:20+00:00
Easy to have the best selling car when you sell very few models across your range. Other car companies "dilute" sales of individual models because they have multiple slightly different models targeting different price points in the same segment, for example globally Toyota sells the Highlander/4Runner/Crown Signia/Prado/Landcruiser SUVs, Corolla Cross/RAV4/bZ crossovers, Corolla/Prius/Camry/Crown/Mirai sedans/hatchbacks. Each of these cannibalizes each others sales, but in toto sell more than any single model Tesla sells for a single segment globally.
by soapdog | 2026-01-03 12:49:47+00:00
you can just post a message on bluesky and link it to your blog post at the end with some text saying "want to comment? Reply to this post."

Personally, I prefer using webmentions. I got them back to my site using a combination of services, so if someone talk about a post I made in bluesky or mastodon, I usually get a webmention back to the post.
by SA128009 | 2026-01-03 12:50:50+00:00
First hand experience here, 6 years ago I had tonsil cancer from HPV16. It SUUUCKED. Doing well now though thank god. I’ve had a hard time getting decent info even from my oncology team in the years since as to whether I should even consider getting the vaccine now. I am 45, married and my wife of 5 years (yes we went through all of that while engaged) has gotten her series of shots 3 years ago.
I have heard from my Drs that as obviously I have already had at least the one strain, there isn’t really a point in getting the shots now. Is there any newer info regarding this semi specific situation that anyone is aware of?
by torginus | 2026-01-03 12:51:51+00:00
I will fully and honestly admit I don't understand much about IPv6 - however, I have a question - why didn't they just add 8-32 bits to IPv4 and call it a day?

Legacy IPv4 would be trivial to support via NAT, and we wouldn't have to deal with address shortages either globally or locally. I'm sure every sysadmin/cloud person dealt with having to arrange subnets by hand, or the fallout when you just ran out of addresses and had to tear down multiple layers of routing just to make more address space.

Computers default to 64 bit integers, I don't see why this couldn't be done on the network.
by amunozo | 2026-01-03 12:52:17+00:00
You say that as if the reason is that Venezuela is a dictatorship. I despise Maduro but this break of international rules is everything but morally good. It opens a world of brute force and lack of international rules. It is only "morally good" in the short term. In the medium-long, it's morally horrible and terrifying.
by worksonmine | 2026-01-03 12:52:18+00:00
If you're genuinely curious dig into the protests 2014, who won the election, who asked her supporters to take to the streets, and what has she been advocating for for a long before.

It's all about Crimea and the black sea fleet and pipelines. Every time the same conflict, as Orwell put it: We've always been at war with Eurasia.
by chongli | 2026-01-03 12:52:27+00:00
Central servers are useful for more than just NAT hole-punching. They’re also great as a centralized database of records and statistics as well as a host for anti-cheating services and community standards enforcement.

Peer to Peer games with no central authority would be so rife with cheating that you’d only ever want to play with friends, not strangers. That sucks!
by SchwKatze | 2026-01-03 12:52:39+00:00
As a Latino and friend of several people that scaped from Maduro's regime I can easily say that people in South America are happy as ever.

Also, some people seems to miss the fact that South America military power is very weak, and we, culturally, are way less proned to fight and die than people in middle east.

Yeah, we know this is all about oil, and I'm interested to know what kind of democracy will emerge. But the fact is we don't have a, undeniable, dictator as neighbor, and my friends can see their families again.
by PedroCaetano | 2026-01-03 12:52:59+00:00
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by rubslopes | 2026-01-03 12:53:01+00:00
I agree. I use Opus 4.5 daily and I'm often trying new models to see how they compare. I didn't think GLM 4.7 was very good, but MiniMax 2.1 is the closest to Sonnet 4.5 I've used. Still not at the same level, and still very much behind Opus, but it is impressive nonetheless.

FYI I use CC for Anthropic models and OpenCode for everything else.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-03 12:53:30+00:00
Most of Manufacturing Consent is about ideological alignment in media and government being an emergent property, not the product of deliberate conspiring. People seek out jobs with people/organizations they already agree with. People hire people they already agree with. People are more likely to get promoted if their boss thinks they have good opinions, etc. It's not a conspiracy, at least there doesn't need to be a conspiracy, because Manufacturing Consent describes an anti-conspiracy. All of this obviously still happens today, there hasn't been any fundamental change in human behavior, people still have special affinity for people they agree with. Always have, and always will.

Chomsky, as a linguist, was probably better equipped to understand the implications of emergent behavior than more mainstream political scientists.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-03 12:54:22+00:00
First, read up on Venezuela's oil. I don't think that's the case. At the very least it's very expensive oil, hard to use and very bad for engines, refineries and for the environment and also oil is over (meaning oil will go into terminal decline probably before 2028 and that will be the end of the oil companies)

Second, when the US did have Venezuela's oil things were going a lot better in Venezuela for the whole population. So would that really be such a bad thing?

Third, Chavez made things so bad in Venezuela it's tough to imagine this making it worse. Oh and then he died and Maduro came ... and made things worse.
by Roark66 | 2026-01-03 12:54:57+00:00
You know there are regulated labs you can send samples to and serious sellers (like the one I use) attach a testing certificate you can authenticate with the lab. So you know for sure what is it you're getting and what purity etc.

On the actual efficacy and safety fair point. But we're all adults here (I hope). And as for "society's consequences" other people mention most of these compounds are taken is such tiny amounts it is very unlikely they are harmful once they have been out for a couple of years and people have been taking them(for example 250ug every second day for bpc-157 my favourite compound that is proven by research to improve necrotic wound healing in mice and significantly improve injury recovery in my personal experience).

As for modification of hormonal pathways. Retatrutide is in a middle of human trials. There is no indication so far it is harmful. Personally I've not taken it (despite my doc literally pitching ozempic to me a month ago, my bmi is 31 and I never seriously tried to diet in my life - I decided to try "the natural way" first - to be fair the doc was also interested in the improvement in the glucose metabolism not just weight loss in my case). But I might in next 6 months if I don't get the results I want.
by notahacker | 2026-01-03 12:56:25+00:00
Earth's surface isn't a microgravity environment. The principle that you can get purer crystalline structures with less interference from the earth's gravitational pull has explored on space stations since the 1970s; that aspect and potential applications in higher performing semiconductors and drugs are fairly well understood

What hasn't been solved yet and Space Forge (and Varda et al for biotech) are hoping to solve are the unit economics of reentry vehicles to actually make it viable for manufacturing.
by 97-109-107 | 2026-01-03 12:56:49+00:00
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by frumiousirc | 2026-01-03 12:57:16+00:00
I was also wondering about the inherent resolution for the BPM precision claims.

Besides the sample period, the total number of samples matter for frequency resolution (aka BPM precision).

44100 Hz sampling frequency (22.675737 us period) for 216.276 s is 9537772 samples (rounding to nearest integer). This gives frequency samples with a bandsize of 0.0046237213 Hz which is 0.27742328 BPM.

Any claim of a BPM more precise than about 0.3 BPM is "creative interpretation".

And this is a minimum precision. Peaks in real-world spectra have width which further reduces the precision of their location.
by suspended_state | 2026-01-03 12:57:44+00:00
> Are memory leak fixes described as memory leak fixes in the logs or intentionally omitted as such? Are kernel panics or hangs not described in the commit logs even if they only happen in weird scenarios?

I don't know nor follow kernel development well enough to answer these questions. My point was just a general reflection, and admittedly a reformulation of Linus's argument, which I think is genuinely valid.

If you allow me, one could frame this differently though: is the memory leak the symptom or the problem?
by ziofill | 2026-01-03 12:57:45+00:00
> 36 students examined over 9 days, 25 minutes average

I could accept this for a 300 students class, but 36? When I got my degree, ALL exams had an oral component, usually more than 30 minutes long. The prof and one or two TAs would take a couple days and just do it. For 36 students it’s more than doable. If I was a student being examined by an LLM I would feel like the professor didn’t care enough to do the work.
by HenriTEL | 2026-01-03 12:57:53+00:00
The goal of the article is not to know the exact numbers by heart, duh!

Care about orders of magnitude instead, in combination with the speed of hardware https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 you'll have a good understanding of how much overhead is due to the language and the constructs to favor for speed improvements.

Just reading the code should give you a sense of its speed and where it will spend most time.
Combined with general timing metrics you can also have a sense of the overhead of 3rd party libraries (pydantic I'm looking at you).

So yeah, I find that list quite useful during the code design, likely reduce time profiling slow code in prod.
by throwaw12 | 2026-01-03 12:58:00+00:00
fair, but it doesn't mean some of them are genuinely experimenting and figuring out interesting ways to use LLMs, some examples I personally love and admire

* simonw - Simon Willison, he could just continue building datasette or help Django, but he started exploring LLMs

* Armin Ronacher

* Steve Yegge

and many more
by chongli | 2026-01-03 12:58:04+00:00
If your dishwasher has a 5G antenna + modem built-in and connects to the manufacturer’s own wireless account then your router doesn’t enter the picture. The dishwasher can happily serve you ads and conduct routine surveillance all day long and the only thing you can do is cut power to the device (until they start including a battery backup for that stuff).