MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drunx | 2026-01-03 08:22:55+00:00
I think the notion of the comment about westerners is to highlight that as a common person you can believe in rules based order, or you are made to believe in that and live your life by that, however the leaders don't really care about it all that much. They are happy the masses are "ruled" and controlled, but as for their decisions - rules don't always apply.

And in many cases western societies tend to express the idea that inn other, dictatorship countries, people sort of "let the dictators dictate", while "westerners" not.

But I think this current case (and Trump's presidency at large) is an example of how little we can decide or influence. Even in the supposed "democracy".

I wish to believe that voting matters, but Trump showed that you can make people vote for anything if you put massive upfront effort into managing information/missinformation and controlling the minds through populism, etc. Then voting becomes... Powerless. As it has no objective judgement.

And despite possible disagreements some might voice - revolutions don't happen anymore. People can't anymore fight the leaders as leaders hold a monopoly on violence through making sure the army is with them.

Well... We as people lost and losing the means to "control" our leaders. Westerners, easterners - doesn't matter.
by ulfw | 2026-01-03 08:23:26+00:00
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by donkeybeer | 2026-01-03 08:23:27+00:00
They have a right to self defense like anyone else, illegal aggressors should be killed. Nationalism as in racialism. I have no problem with defining a country on principles you have agree to follow, in fact its one of the best forms of countries. I am ambivalent to apathetic to "Iran" remaining "Iranian race" or "France" remaining "French race".
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-03 08:23:33+00:00
> no way the former allies of the US are going to normalise relations with them before they fix this though

I think you genuinely hold this take and it's admirable. I'm not seeing any indication (a) our militarised allies are behaving particularly differently or (b) they're concerned about us bombing stuff in the Western Hemisphere. (Versus in their backyards, creating refugee crises.)

> fallout for this is going to be a lot larger than I think you suspect

Maybe. Hopefully. I doubt it. Russia, China, Israel, France and the UK are doing fine.
by phtrivier | 2026-01-03 08:23:56+00:00
That's not going to play well with DJT's bid for Nobel Peace Prize. Although I guess invading Sweden would be a solution, and there are probably plenty of reasons to invade Sweden - they must be looking badly at Russia, or he can mix it up with Groenland, or something.

That being said, how many continents are we left from being able to call that a bona fide world war ? Can we count Africa as "in a state of war per default", leaving only Oceania ? Should Australians brace themselves ?
by Gareth321 | 2026-01-03 08:25:02+00:00
I think people might be equivocating over the word “ad.” Some people consider ads to be interstitial modals which steal focus and have nothing to do with current context. I am much more sensitive and consider any notification to buy or use a service to be an ad. Maybe not pre-installed games but I would prefer they not be there. Microsoft is about as bad as Apple is at suggesting we use their cloud services. I also consider these ads. Still, if I’m honest, they’re infrequent and hardly insurmountable. If one is sensitive to this, the Pro version of Windows makes it easy to disable almost all of this stuff.
by beardyw | 2026-01-03 08:25:26+00:00
Venezuela accuses US after explosions and low-flying aircraft reported in Caracas – live

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-e...

Venezuela accuses US of attacking Caracas as explosions rock capital

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/explosions-rep...
by nkmnz | 2026-01-03 08:25:44+00:00
The notion of external clients is a smell. If that’s the case, you need a compat layer between that client and your entrypoints, otherwise you’ll have a very hard time evolving anything. In practice, this can include providing frontend assets under previously cached endpoints; a version endpoint that triggers cache busting; a load balancer routing to a legacy version for a grace period… sadly, there‘s no free lunch here.
by donkeybeer | 2026-01-03 08:26:34+00:00
I don't have any problems living in any liberal capitalist democracy. I could be equally as happy living in say Germany as in Canada more or less. But then again, your example scenario is funny, how many times have liberal capitalistic democracies been attacking other liberal capitalistic democracies ever even happened vs wars fought over religion and nationalism since times immemorial and wars fought over fascism/nazism/communism in the WW2?
Show HN: Lazyworktree, a TUI manager for Git worktrees
by Chmouel | 2026-01-03 08:26:53+00:00
Inspired by lazygit, I have been working on a TUI to manage git worktrees easily, making some workflows for creating and managing worktrees a bit more straightforward. For example, creating a worktree from a PR/MR or from local changes. Executing commands on a worktree, or running a custom tmux session directly on a selected worktree.

A lot of other tools are more CLI-oriented. I have tried to compile an honest comparison here: https://github.com/chmouel/lazyworktree/blob/main/COMPARAISO...

Some of the code and documentation was written with an LLM if that bothers anyone :)
by martin-t | 2026-01-03 08:26:56+00:00
> Some of today’s autocratic leaders are incredibly smart and educated people and still took the wrong turn

This assumes every person has the same goals. The reality is that the privileged (autocrats at the extreme end of the spectrum) have completely different incentives and objectives. E.g. a person who gets most of their income through salaried work benefits from completely different (often opposite policies) than a person who gets most of their income from renting real property or from taking a cut from the profit of companies he "owns".

> Maybe the current times of turbulence are the precursor to the development of new moral frameworks?

Hopefully.

I for one would like to see a consistent (without contradictions) moral system not based on "authority" (religion or state).
by tavavex | 2026-01-03 08:27:04+00:00
> people who have no idea that a modern operating system should be fast, customizable, and open

What a ridiculous idea. Any serious person knows that a modern operating system must, above all, be profitable, profitable and profitable. Caring about people doesn't make you any money, and since you already make up most of the market, it's not like you need to entice anyone over.

A slightly less provocative and crass version of the above, yet one that still conveys the exact same message, is probably what most of the higher-ups of the software world believe. At least the ones that call the shots seem to.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-03 08:28:22+00:00
> The U.S. is not a signatory.

Being a signatory is not required for being subject to ICC jurisdiction, though it is one route to being subject to it, and, in any case, not being a signatory is not an immutable condition. So the upthread suggestion that “All of your former allies are going to insist on it before they will even think about treating your normally again” is not rebutted by observing that the US is not currently a signatory of the Rome Statute.

> But it's America joining China and Russia (and Iran and Israel and India and every other regional power who have selectively rejected the rules-based international order).

No, the US despite rhetorically appealing to it when other countries are involved, has led, not followed, in rejecting the rules-based order when it comes to its own conduct.
by aiahs | 2026-01-03 08:28:40+00:00
Thanks for the reply, yeah that's interesting, I remember also having issues with VLC as a kid (I'm in my late 20's now), but I always chalked it up to me being a noob and not knowledgeable, I wonder retrospectively how much of that were actual me-issues and how much VLC-issues. Recently one of my parents wanted to play a DVD via VLC which did not work, where the issues ultimately was missing DVD libraries which apparently can't be shipped in Ubuntu due to licensing issues (libdvdcss). 12 year old me wouls not be able to debug this issue to be honest.
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-03 08:28:57+00:00
> 1) Even locally in countries where education is decent, democracy seems to be weakening, with authoritarianism rising.

I mean, either these voters are right and are seeing something I don't. Or they aren't smart enough to vote. I'm not trying to be elitist but the world does feel a bit like a bus where the people are increasingly voting to go down the cliff, just to shake things up a bit.

> Maybe voters should have to answer a few questions

I think about it from time to time. I guess the concern would be that the flat earthers & co will be more motivated and organised, grit their teeth, pass the tests (since political pressure will stop them from being too hard) and educated people will be less keen. I can totally imagine this in my native Poland, where the populist right is actually polling consistently around only 35% but is very organised and has the highest turnouts.
by SachinnJainn | 2026-01-03 08:29:36+00:00
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by SilverElfin | 2026-01-03 08:29:54+00:00
It’s funny how the America First, America Only crowd is cheering on this shameless regime change whose ultimate goal isn’t about drugs or democracy, but getting access to oil and minerals to make the Trump family richer.

And that’s so why there is a lack of effort to justify it. The right has been compromised and will support anything the party does - deporting citizens, invading countries, making things unaffordable with tariffs.
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-01-03 08:31:07+00:00
I’m at the point where I take it as a red flag when someone doesn’t understand this, and instead bangs on about “low odds” and “the idiots that think that they’ll win”. A combination of superficial booksmarts, a misplaced sense of elitism, and a very real lack of emotional intelligence, that I know that I don’t enjoy being around. There’s definitely a low end on this bell curve, but I think that your average Joe Blow off the street has about as good an undemanding of the chances of winning the lottery as you or I. Which is to say that we’re all definitely flawed in our ability to intuitively comprehend very large numbers, but not uniquely so. It’s just nice to feel like something good might possibly be coming your way. It’s about hope, exactly as you say. I’m barely even an occasional gambler, including the lottery. The one or two times where I’ve bought a ticket, it was worth the $10 or whatever I paid, which I truly do not miss an iota and never have. It’s a game. Anyone who doesn’t get that is deranged.
by runtimepanic | 2026-01-03 08:31:17+00:00
Nice idea and clean execution. One question though: where does the “AI” add durable value beyond a rules engine plus a decent questionnaire? For workout planning, constraints and progression logic often matter more than free-form generation. Curious how you validate routines over time (injury risk, overload, adaptation) and whether users can audit or override the model’s decisions. Open-source here is a big plus
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-03 08:31:22+00:00
Just because DJT has limited subtlety, doesn't mean he has zero subtlety. The ambassador to Sweden will tell the members of the committee, one by one in a way where they can't confer with each other, to accept the bribes or "else". It's not like it would be the first inducement to the committee in recent years, so they are likely to go along with it.

Edit, for the benefit of all: /s
by Gareth321 | 2026-01-03 08:32:13+00:00
> Competent cheat makers don't have much difficulty in defeating in-kernel anticheats on Windows. With the amount of insight and control available on Linux anticheat makers stand little chance.

The issue isn’t binary, but a spectrum. Studios clearly believe that there is less cheating when using kernel level anti-cheats. They have the data so they would know. This is an existential threat to their profit so we can trust they use the most effective tool. Anecdotally, I and many others also experience less cheating in games using kernel level anti-cheat. I’m not saying no cheating. I’m saying less cheating. That’s very important for me and many others.

Valve has stated they are working on kernel level anti-cheat “tools”, but they haven’t yet revealed a method. The entire concept is antithetical to the Linux security model so it requires significant refactoring. That’s a huge investment in not just capex and opex because the fork becomes much more difficult to maintain over time. I think they’ll do their best to work in user space, but I don’t think they’ll succeed and will have to bite the bullet. SteamOS will become more and more its own fork, including consumer-friendly features which Linux fans typically don’t care about.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-03 08:32:26+00:00
Trump is blaming Venezuela for the fentanyl crisis in America. But it’s actually about stealing Venezuela’s oil and minerals:

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-22/oil-gold...

Once a puppet regime has been established, you can bet Trump-related companies will get contracts to extract this stuff.
Show HN: Vanilla PHP genetics engine – 14 loci, zero dependencies
by platoon5121 | 2026-01-03 08:32:37+00:00
Built a genetics engine for lovebird breeders (Agapornis roseicollis).

- Vanilla PHP, zero dependencies
- 14 loci, 310+ ALBS-compliant phenotypes dynamically resolved
- Cartesian product across all loci computed in milliseconds
- Sex-linked inheritance (ZZ/ZW avian system) with proper hemizygosity
- Wright's inbreeding coefficient with 6-generation pedigree traversal
- Near-Bayesian inference engine: reverse-estimates parental genotypes from offspring phenotypes

No frameworks, no libraries. Just math and arrays.

Live demo: http://kanarazu-project.com/gene-forge/Rosy-faced-Lovebird/?...
by runtimepanic | 2026-01-03 08:32:39+00:00
Lovely piece of digital archaeology. Reverse-engineering a Classic Mac era device is equal parts patience and respect for old constraints. What stood out to me is how much implicit knowledge was baked into drivers back then, timing assumptions, undocumented commands, “it just works on System 7”. Also a good reminder that long-term hardware usability often survives only because someone is curious enough to poke at it with a hex editor instead of letting it die in a landfill.
by drunx | 2026-01-03 08:33:03+00:00
Pre 2014 no Russian person would directly wish/hope/wait for the annexation of Crimea. Surely some fanatics and crazies existed, but society at large didn't "need" it.

One person made a decision.

And that started a 11+ years of propaganda, political acrobatics, war, manipulation of the masses, etc etc etc. Lots of things that are good for that one person to be able to stay in power.

Back to Venezuela and Trump - it's possible that Trump is testing grounds for a similar play. If he finds an enemy he can keep fighting for a long time - he will stay president for all that time. Elections won't matter. People will vote for those who fight "the enemy". You just need to create an enemy.
by sgjohnson | 2026-01-03 08:33:34+00:00
If you have a /48 assigned, you’ll burn the prefix in your brain. Leaves 16 bits for the network address.

e.g. you’ll get 2a06:a003:1234::/48 from the ISP - what you’ll really need to remember is the 2a06:a003:1234:xxxx::/64 part. And I use the VLAN id for the xxxx part. Trivial.
by avidiax | 2026-01-03 08:33:36+00:00
Maduro isn't a good leader. He's been very repressive, very likely stole the 2024 election from his opponent. Venezuela has terrible economic problems and food and medicine shortages.

They have been assisting Russia, operating a shadow fleet of oil tankers that routinely disable transponders to evade international sanctions against each other. They've also been helping Iran to manufacture UAVs.

They are also a narco-state. The cartel there has at least partially captured the government.

Installing a more palatable leader and administration would perhaps allow the sanctions to be lifted, oil to be sold on the global market, and aid to flow in. The brain drain from the country might partly reverse.

Or, it could devolve into a civil war, insurgency, mass refugee exodus, etc.

All the above describes many countries, more or less. Why the US is targeting Venezuela in particular likely has to do with oil, geopolitical principle (Monroe doctrine) and advantage (weaken Iran and Russia), Venezuelan immigration to the U.S., distraction from Trump's failing health, personal & political scandals, "red meat" for the base and war-hawks, and the political security afforded to a "war time" president.
by catgirlinspace | 2026-01-03 08:34:11+00:00
I’ve never had Apple Music add random songs to my library and the closest thing to an AI DJ is AutoMix which is easily disabled and I’ve never had it re-enable itself. Can also add your own music to iCloud Music Library with the Apple Music app on Mac and (I think) Windows. Think this requires iCloud+ though but I’m not 100% certain. Annoyingly can’t do it on the web app or an iPhone :/
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-03 08:34:16+00:00
> it’s actually about stealing Venezuela’s oil and minerals

It's multi-faceted. Venezuela is a hive of Russian, Chinese and Iranian activity in the Western Hemisphere. That is–long run–a problem for America.

Venezuela is also a brutal dictatorship that is oppressing its people and producing waves of migrants.

Finally, Venezuela is rich in underdeveloped mineral and energy resources. (Caveat: Exxon currently pumps those wells.)

Venezuela is also not Epstein, so, idk, there's that.
by nospice | 2026-01-03 08:34:16+00:00
I don't think you can meaningfully answer this without knowing the military goals or the ultimate outcome.

The worst-case outcome for the US is that it gets pulled into another unpopular, long-term conflict that undermines its international standing and allows assorted rogues to advance their goals (Ukraine, Taiwan, who knows what else).

The best-case outcome is that this is a successful regime change operation which nets the US a resource-rich trading partner, undermines Russia, and scares Iran. How you assess the likelihood of these outcomes sort of depends on your priors.

I would say, however, that the recent history of US military interventions doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. Venezuela is nowhere near being the cluster---- that we've dealt in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc, but who knows.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-03 08:34:19+00:00
It won't help with oil. The Permian's breakeven prices have crept upwards and, because VZ crude grades are high-sulfur, the US refinery complex can't absorb it without retooling away from the plants specialised for the low-sulfur Permian output.

Possibly dragging supply down, with no net effect at best.
by jagrsw | 2026-01-03 08:34:20+00:00
To be fair, the existence of Surströmming [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming] is a valid casus belli. We aren't talking about food here - it's "haloanaerobic bacteria producing hydrogen sulfide in a pressurized vessel". An unregulated bio-weapons program hiding in plain sight.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-03 08:34:21+00:00
Interestingly, this is not just flaunting international law. It is a blatant violation of federal domestic law in the USA itself: Congress is the only body that can declare war, and they have not done so. The Presidency has no right whatsoever to attack a foreign country without a declaration of war.

While yes, Congress authorized the "War on Terror", there is very obviously no possible justification for applying that to the case of Venezuela.
by matwood | 2026-01-03 08:34:50+00:00
He's a shorter guy, and if you notice is always wearing big baggy clothes. Look up pics with his shirt off and he looks like someone who could walk on stage at a body building contest for someone in his weight class.

EDIT

From his IG https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1FBwQTPxmr/

Yep, not big at all...
by unethical_ban | 2026-01-03 08:35:10+00:00
>I don't want any of my devices listening on the public address, much less multiple.

That is good for you, but given the option between an address scheme that requires a proxy and one that does not, I would prefer the latter.

>I can have a both a firewall and a NAT. The two layers are better than one because at least my address is shouldn't be routable even if I failed to configure my firewall correctly.

Why? NAT is a network tool. Firewall is a security control.
by 9dev | 2026-01-03 08:35:37+00:00
For almost all cases, there is absolutely zero need to ever remember addresses, or dealing with them directly. Give your devices proper names, and your router’s DNS will handle resolution automatically.

There is no point in your network having sequential addresses, so you don’t need DHCP; routers advertise configuration, clients know where to look for it.

IPv6 is amazing, if you let it handle connectivity without trying to micromanage it.
by Scarblac | 2026-01-03 08:35:59+00:00
In the Dutch postcode lottery, they draw a random postcode (roughly a street) and everyone that lives there and has a ticket wins. The wider area code (village level) win smaller prizes.

People get FOMO - what if my neighbors become millionaires but I didn't have a ticket?

And in this case, some code very close to theirs won. It makes it seem you missed out by a tiny margin.
by apparent | 2026-01-03 08:36:11+00:00
I hear you, but the first new Pebble is getting good reviews. It's been out for months and I've not heard anything bad about it. While the upcoming models are a bit less derivative of past watches, they are still pretty well-grounded in prior Pebbles. The software is the same as the P2D, and the hardware is pretty similar to the prior rect/round Pebbles.

I believe things could go wrong, but I'm not sure what sort of latent errors would make sense to worry about. The battery life dropping precipitously? (Why would it do this?) Sensors breaking within a couple months? (Again, what would lead to this?).

I'm curious to know what you are concerned about. I agree that a year of track record would be great, but IMO a Pebble will be such a big upgrade over pretty much anything else out there (AWs etc. that need charging all the damn time), that I'd rather not wait a year for the additional data to come in.
by erichocean | 2026-01-03 08:36:40+00:00
The Federalist Constitution (as we now accept it) wasn't accepted until two years later, after the concession to the Anti-Federalists with the Bill of Rights.

(Ironically, the Bill of Rights is what Americans today cherish most.)

Point is, our system of government today was negotiated by the people and the States and can't reasonably be called a "coup."