MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by altmanaltman | 2026-01-03 13:09:28+00:00
they feel like that because people building them are not generally designers and they don't care about novelty or even functionality as long as it looks pleasing to the eye. Most of them probably include "make it look pretty" etc in the prompt and LLMs will naturally converege to a common idea for what is "pretty" and apparently that is purple gradients in everything and if you don't have taste, you can't tell any better, beacuse you're doing a job you don't fundamentally understand.
by tclancy | 2026-01-03 13:09:39+00:00
I keep seeing this argument in here, but no one seems to point at any actual Venezuelans or message boards or whatever to support the point. Personally I only know a couple, classmates from decades ago who are FB friends and while they don’t support Maduro IIRC, I also don’t see any posts celebrating this great victory for the people. Who knows, maybe they’re partied out.
by stavros | 2026-01-03 13:09:42+00:00
> There is really no reason for most devices to be publicly reachable. Everyone keeps holding this up as a positive, but it's absolutely not. Most devices aren't servers.

Ever tried to call someone over the internet? Well, now you need a publicly reachable device.

Please, stop spreading this ignorance. You rely on your devices being reachable from the internet every single day, you're just not aware of it, because you're using a barely-working pile of duct tape and string that sort-of allows peer to peer connections to happen, after some arcane STUN/TURN/whatever magic.

If you wanted to send someone a file in the Olden Days, you'd just click on their IRC username, the client would open a connection to them and you'd send the file. Now you need to use iCloud or some nonsense, because apparently people believe that peer-to-peer connections aren't needed and shouldn't even work.
by twosugars | 2026-01-03 13:09:46+00:00
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by mikkupikku | 2026-01-03 13:09:56+00:00
TIL that neighborhood crime causing white flight is actually ethnic cleansing.

No, that's probably not ethnic cleansing, since the white people who fled to the suburbs were in a position of privilege and wanted to give up their homes. The American government practices ethnic cleansing, as you assert, so and for some reason they just made it illegal to do it in their own cities for the benifit of the most privileged ethnic demographic. Perplexing.
by benjiro | 2026-01-03 13:10:07+00:00
> It's hard to remember IPv6 addresses.

Never understood why they decided to include letters instead of keeping it numeric.

Hell, going from 199.120.121.122 to 199.120.121.122.123 will have expanded IPv4 by 254 times. It took us, what? 40 years to exhaust Ipv4... Just increasing it by 254 alone is insane large amount.

Belgium used this solution for their number plates They used to have a 6 letters/digit mix. Like abc-001 type of number plate. It started to run out, so they simply created a expansion, so new number plates started with 1-abc-001 in 2010, ... and in 2021 did 2-abc-def ( they did not run out of 1, they seem to simply use the first number to indicate the decade more and more). At that rate, Belgium will run out of numbers in they year 11990 ...

Ipv4 is easy to work with, easy to remember, write down, read ... Ipv6 is always a struggle. And yea, the idea that every device may need its own IP from your provider, is just insane.

I have so much more issues configuring things with IPv6, vs just basic IPv4+NATS. Its simply, its easy...

And maybe some people do not have this issue, but our provider gives DYNAMIC IPv6, so the pre-fix keeps altering! What makes configuring things on a NAS even more hell.

O and that :: range modifier is so fun. And the whole pre-fix and post-fix structure...

I hate it. Its complex for my little brain as i do not work daily with it, and whenever i need to deal with Ipv6, i need to relearn the quirks of it every time because of issues like the whole pre-fix/post-fix, dynamic pre-fix etc. Where as IPv4 ... so easy.
by sipofwater | 2026-01-03 13:10:10+00:00
* "The Histomap. Four Thousand Years Of World History. Relative Power Of Contemporary States, Nations And Empires." by John B. Sparks: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2... (www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~200375~3001080:The-Histomap--Four-Thousand-Years-O), https://web.archive.org/web/20130813230833if_/alanbernstein.... (4194 x 19108 pixels, web.archive.org/web/20130813230833if_/alanbernstein.net/images/large/histomap.jpg) via https://web.archive.org/web/20130813230833/alanbernstein.net... (web.archive.org/web/20130813230833/alanbernstein.net/images/large/histomap.jpg); https://archive.ph/1wEk8/332f1c70b1ffd9854847dbfa7ad77b4915c... (4194 x 19108 pixels, archive.ph/1wEk8/332f1c70b1ffd9854847dbfa7ad77b4915cbd50a.jpg) via https://archive.ph/1wEk8

* "(Covers to) The Histomap. Four Thousand Years Of World History. Relative Power Of Contemporary States, Nations And Empires.": https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2... (www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~200374~3000299:-Covers-to--The-Histomap--Four-Thou)
by rootsudo | 2026-01-03 13:10:24+00:00
It’s natural for these type of communities. It’s not really a cult in the traditional sense, there is enough evidence that some medication/chemicals are gatekeeped they are effective while there’s just enough evidence to prove how dangerous it can be.

It can be understood as hobby group that focuses on drugs instead of another topic. It’s a fine line between reckless and leading edge that most don’t follow imo but it’s a community with its own rules.
by gbnwl | 2026-01-03 13:10:28+00:00
It is heavy crude but it's what our refineries are set up to use. There was a very informative news report on this recently posted to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwny1BiCYk

Apparently shale oil mostly comes out as light, so our own production doesn't feed our refineries and we've increasingly taken to importing heavy crude.
by shadow_n0de | 2026-01-03 13:10:36+00:00
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Show HN: Lumen: an open-source desktop hardware node
by robcholz | 2026-01-03 13:10:57+00:00
Lumen is a small open-source hardware node designed to live next to your computer long-term. Instead of being a single-purpose tool, it’s meant to act as a persistent bridge between software and physical feedback — lights, UI, and sensors — that can evolve over time. The focus is on extensibility and long-running use, not one-off debugging or fixed workflows. Everything is open-source, from firmware to hardware. Repo: https://github.com/robcholz/Lumen Happy to answer questions or hear feedback.
by teleforce | 2026-01-03 13:11:02+00:00
Yes it most probably about oil not democracy [1].

US even mastermind amd helped overthrowned Iranian elected government and then only recently admitted and apologized to that but the damaged already done [2].

[1] The real reason Venezuela matters [video]:

https://youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk

[2]1953 Iranian coup d'état:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-03 13:11:06+00:00
On the IMO paper: pointing out that it’s not a gold medal or that some proofs are flawed is irrelevant to the claim being discussed, and you know it. The claim is not “LLMs are perfect mathematicians.” The claim is that they can produce nontrivial formal reasoning that passes external verification at a rate far above chance and far above parroting. Even a single verified solution falsifies the “just regurgitation” hypothesis, because no retrieval-only or surface-pattern system can reliably construct valid proofs under novel compositions.

Your fallback move here is rhetorical, not scientific: “maybe it doesn’t mean what you think it means.” Fine. Then name the mechanism. What specific process produces internally consistent multi-step proofs, respects formal constraints, generalizes across problem types, and fails in ways analogous to human reasoning errors, without representing the underlying structure? “People are impressed because they’re bad at math” is not a mechanism, it’s a tell.

Also, the “math is just a language” line cuts the wrong way. Yes, math is symbolic and code-like. That’s precisely why it’s such a strong test. Code-like domains have exact semantics. They are adversarial to bullshit. That’s why hallucinations show up so clearly there. The fact that LLMs sometimes succeed and sometimes fail is evidence of partial competence, not illusion. A parrot does not occasionally write correct code or proofs under distribution shift. It never does.

You keep asserting that others are being fooled, but you haven’t produced what science actually requires: an alternative explanation that accounts for the full observed behavior and survives tighter controls. Clever Hans had one. Stage magic has one. LLMs, so far, do not.

Skepticism is healthy. But repeating “you’re the limiting factor” while refusing to specify a falsifiable counter-hypothesis is not adversarial engineering. It’s just armchair disbelief dressed up as rigor. And engineers, as you surely know, eventually have to ship something more concrete than that.
AI failure mode: when "confidence" replace verification and user pay the price
by arxdigitalis | 2026-01-03 13:11:24+00:00
I want to raise a systemic issue I keep encountering when using AI/LLMs in professional, high-stakes work.

This is not about a wrong answer.
It is about how AI behaves when it is wrong.

The pattern

In long, technical conversations where requirements are explicit and repeatedly reinforced, the AI:

Locks onto an initial solution space and continues optimizing inside it

Ignores or downplays hard constraints stated by the user

Claims to have “checked the documentation” when it clearly has not

Continues proposing incompatible solutions despite stop instructions

Reframes factual criticism as “accusations”, “emotional tone”, or “user frustration”

Uses defensive meta-language instead of stopping and revising premises

This creates a dangerous illusion of competence.

Why this matters

When AI is used professionally (architecture, infrastructure, integrations, compliance):

Time and money are lost

Technical debt explodes

Trust erodes

Users are trained into harsher communication just to regain precision

Negative learning loops form (for both user and system)

The most damaging moment is not the initial mistake —
it is when the AI asserts verification it did not perform.

At that point, the user can no longer reason safely about the system’s outputs.

This is not about “tone”

When users say:

“You are ignoring constraints”
“You are hallucinating”
“You are not reading the documentation”

These are not accusations.
They are verifiable observations.

Reframing them as emotional or confrontational responses is a defensive failure mode, not alignment.

The core problem

LLMs currently lack:

Hard premise validation gates

Explicit stop-and-replan mechanisms

Honest uncertainty when verification hasn’t occurred

Accountability signaling when constraints are violated

As a result, users pay the real-world cost.

Why I’m posting this

I care deeply about this technology succeeding beyond demos and experimentation.

If AI is to be trusted in real systems, it must:

Stop early when constraints break

Admit uncertainty clearly

Avoid confident improvisation

Treat user escalation as a signal, not noise

I’m sharing this because I believe this failure mode is systemic, fixable, and critical.

If any AI developers want to discuss this further or explore mitigation patterns, I’m open to dialogue.

Contact: post@smartesider.no / https://arxdigitalis.no
by hvb2 | 2026-01-03 13:11:26+00:00
> I get the concern about forever wars some are raising, but this clearly isn't going to be a forever war for the reasons you state. Plus if the US secures some oil

Why would the US be entitled to any oil here? And how would that be a good outcome for the people of Venezuela?

> and the Venezuela people get to live better lives, that's ultimately a great outcome for everyone.

That's a big if. Ask the Iraqis how well it went when their dictator was gone. And that was with boots on the ground not just leaving a power vacuum like this.

> It's controversial to say these days, but I think this is exactly how the West should be using it's military force – to promote democracy and freedom around the world.

Wait a few decades till China does this to you and we'll see how you feel.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-03 13:12:15+00:00
It's funny how many people already see this as a book that is opened and closed on the same day. That's not how these things work. This is like the first stone of an avalanche. It could stop here, or it could roll on for quite a while. It will take months or even years to know whether or not the outcome here was desirable or not and what the final tally is.

Remember the 'Arab spring' and what came after.
by scsh | 2026-01-03 13:12:56+00:00
Direct quote:

“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America. It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”

This along with other direct quotes from officials is what led me to the conclusion that, yes, oil is a large factor.
by sipofwater | 2026-01-03 13:13:13+00:00
"The world without hegemony" "As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come": https://aeon.co/essays/what-southeast-asian-history-tells-us... (aeon.co/essays/what-southeast-asian-history-tells-us-about-a-multipolar-order) via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771497 ; https://archive.ph/wBrLt
by random9749832 | 2026-01-03 13:14:52+00:00
You are still young so you don't seem to get it yet but history has shown that killing or capturing the leader of a country with outside actors rarely leads to anything good. It usually just leads to more instability.

Pop-culture shows you that if you get rid off Mojo Jojo you suddenly get rainbows and flowers but reality doesn't work that way very often and it is just propaganda.
by chuckadams | 2026-01-03 13:15:57+00:00
There's one sentence in there I wanted to call out:

> Everything had to be done the “Nix Way”

Funny thing, what eventually drew me into using NixOS was a comment on some random forum (long since lost the reference) from what appeared to be an experienced NixOS veteran that said pretty much the opposite: that NixOS is as pure or impure as you want it to be. Want purely declarative everything? Do everything with Nix expressions, be it classic derivations or flakes. Want stateful package management? Install stuff to your profile. Or even install devbox and run homebrew in it. I've come to see the benefits in doing things "the Nix Way", but it's pragmatic enough that you're not entirely locked in. You just can't make any assumptions about what PATH looks like.

So while the rest of my system is defined as a flake, the one thing I haven't fully embraced on NixOS is home-manager, and I've only just started adopting that in a piecewise fashion. Meanwhile I'm defining a flake per project on my mac to replace all the other version-manager thingies I'd been using, but I still find nix-darwin a step too far.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-03 13:16:20+00:00
That answer is basically an admission that you don’t actually hold a strong contrarian belief about the technology at all.

The question wasn’t “are humans sometimes self-delusional?” Everyone agrees with that. The question was whether, in this specific case, the prevailing view about LLM capability is meaningfully wrong in a way that has implications. If you really believed this was mostly Clever Hans, there would be concrete consequences. Entire categories of investment, hiring, and product strategy would be mispriced.

Instead you retreated to “don’t short stocks” and generic career advice. That’s not skepticism, it’s risk-free agnosticism. You get to sound wise without committing to any falsifiable position.

Also, “I made my money already” doesn’t strengthen the argument. It sidesteps it. Being right once, or being lucky in a good cycle, doesn’t confer epistemic authority about a new technology. If anything, the whole point of contrarian insight is that it forces uncomfortable bets or at least uncomfortable predictions.

Engineers don’t evaluate systems by vibes or by motivational aphorisms. They ask: if this hypothesis is true, what would we expect to see? What would fail? What would be overhyped? What would not scale? You haven’t named any of that. You’ve just asserted that people fool themselves and stopped there.
by jzellis | 2026-01-03 13:16:26+00:00
I switched to Qobuz a couple of weeks ago and I think I'm gonna cancel my Spotify subscription soon. It's got a better catalogue for the slightly obscure stuff I like and they pay artists much better.

Aside from that, I've got my entire music collection backed up on multiple drives (mostly by accident) and I bought an iPod Classic last year, upgraded the battery and storage, and I've got it all on there too, and it'll play for like a month straight on one battery charge now. Standby was six months easily.

I'm actually gonna turn a Pi Zero into a touchscreen Winamp clone by using Audacious or another app that uses Winamp skins. The main benefit of this is that I can connect it to my Bluetooth home speakers and use it.

My current Samsung doesn't have an SD card, but for my old phone, I just copied all my music to a 128GB micro SD and played it using BlackPlayer.

I'm thinking of getting a newer, cheaper music device because retrofitting Bluetooth into an iPod Classic is a bit of a bitch.
by torginus | 2026-01-03 13:16:39+00:00
Why would that be a desirable quality? Wifi devices (using Matter or not) live on the same network as my PC - meaning a compromised lightbulb (or one that hasn't been updated) can be used to infiltrate and attack my home computers.

Thread+ Matter, despite using a different radio, suffers from the same issue, since a border router is on the Wifi network, a smart bulb using Thread can theoretically access my PC.

Yes, I'm sure there are ways to fix this, but why have the problem in the first place?

Zigbee is entirely incompatible networking standard, and doesn't have this problem.
by kalleboo | 2026-01-03 13:16:39+00:00
It just shows central Tokyo even though I am in one of the far ends of Japan. I don't think it's common anymore for Japanese ISPs to assign IP addresses regionally, everyone in the country is just mixed together with no more regional granularity possible (especially for the majority who are on IPv6 with CGNAT for IPv4). At best you're probably going to get "east Japan vs west Japan" since those are two different NTTs.
by noufalibrahim | 2026-01-03 13:16:43+00:00
Isn't this suitable for a Bayesian classifier? Label some data (manual + automation using substrings) and use that to train a classifier and then it should be able to predict things for you fairly well.

There's a new feeling that I experience when using LLMs to do work. It's that every run, every commit has a financial cost (tokens). Claude code can write a nice commit message for me but it will cost me money. Alternatively, I can try to understand and write the message myself.

Perhaps the middle ground is to have the LLM write the classifier and then just use that on the exported bank statements.
by Lapel2742 | 2026-01-03 13:17:39+00:00
> And while Venezuela has oodles of oil, is this really the case of America wanting Venezuelan oil?

Yes it is.

> But Trump has also made his desire for Venezuelan oil clear. He said that the blockade of sanctioned oil tankers going to and from the country would remain “until such time as they return to the United States all of the oil, land, and other assets that they stole from us.” He did not clarify what land and “other assets” he was referring to.

> In a social media post, Miller also characterized the expropriations as an injustice against the US. “American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela,” wrote. “Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property.”

> And in a 2023 speech, Trump was even more pointed about his designs on the country’s oil. “When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse,” he said, referring to the end of his first term in the White House. “We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil, it would have been right next door.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/trump-s-v...
by blacklion | 2026-01-03 13:17:54+00:00
> - My ISP gives me a /64, what am I supposed to do with that anyways?

For me, it is main problem. /64 is too small: SLAAC needs /64 per collision domain, and I have more than one (wired network, my WiFi, guest WiFi, control plane for UniFI APs), and it is painful to distribute /64 among them. I'm using HE tunnel which provides /48 to client and it is easy to configure, as intended.

There is recommendation (SHOULD, not MUST in RFC lingo) for ISPs to provide at least /56 to clients, but most domestic ISPs ignore this recommendation.

> - What happens if my ISP decides to change my prefix ?

And it is another problem: tooling. There is no standard way to reconfigure router with dynamic prefix(es). Yes, it is possible to write scripts for it, but it will be fragile. No Linux distribution or FreeBSD is ready to have dynamically allocated prefixes. It is not a real problem with IPv4 because real life practice to dynamically allocate one address and then configuration changes are trivial, and if you are delegated /24, it is typically static delegation.
by e-khadem | 2026-01-03 13:18:01+00:00
> Willing to completely give up domestic control of your energy sector in exchange for this regime change?

You're saying this as if they (the people) had any control before.

A military intervention should always be the last resort. Two examples of military intervention / occupation working out in the long run are Germany and Japan in WW2. Maybe even South Korea (stabilization of a dictatorship and economic development lead to a democratic revolution later). One can be hopeful that this starts a better chapter for the Venezuelians as well.