MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adventured | 2026-01-03 16:29:07+00:00
The US has no use for Venezuelan oil. The US is sitting on a vast reserve of relatively good quality oil and is pumping as much as the global markets can handle. Venezuela is sitting on massive reserves of low quality, difficult to process oil.

The US goal is deprive China of access to Venezuelan oil. China is ~80% of all Venezuelan oil exports (legal or illegal). Venezuela represents a very large potential supply of oil for China, for the next 30-50 years (a time after which oil probably won't matter very much to China).

Note that the US also did not take Iraq's oil. China & India mostly have got that output. The US spent trillions of dollars, used its super power military to fully invade and occupy Iraq, and then did not take its oil. Read that again if anybody still feels brainwashed from the false campaign that endlessly proclaimed the US invasion of Iraq was to Steal The Oil.

Iraq was about the great power conflict with Russia across the Middle East (see: Syria, Libya, etc).

Venezuela is about the great power conflict with China and controlling what the US considers its backyard.
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-03 16:29:21+00:00
The compromised "ipv4+" idea a bunch of people keep asking for wouldn't require changing the spec down the road. ISPs would just need to clean up their routes later, and SLAAC could still exist as an optional (rather than default) feature for anyone inclined to enable later. Btw, IPv6 spec was only finalized in 2017, wasn't exactly one-shot.

I don't know if HTTP's job is easier. Maybe on the client side, since there were never that many browsers, but you have load-balancers, CDNs, servers, etc. HTTP/2 adoption is still dragging out because of how many random things don't support it. Might be a big reason why gRPC isn't so popular too.
by throwaway777x | 2026-01-03 16:29:24+00:00
I think it is a form of scientism to say Campbell is "wrong" but people love scientism. For many it is standard orthodoxy and a blind spot of mass stupidity.

I think Campbell is the pop version of The Golden Bough. I have only read a little of the The Golden Bough but is so immense, alien and unrelatable. I have also read how James George Frazer was also "wrong". As if the conclusions of a 19th century Victorian somehow negates the 12 volumes of collected mythology. Independent thought and reasoning though is not a strength of those prone to scientism.
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-03 16:29:37+00:00
Windows tends to be a black box. It works or not. Your options to fix a bad Windows install are usually reinstalling or hoping the next update fixes it..

However, on average Windows has less issues with compatibility, particularly on newer hardware. I had a laptop that had a brand new chip, and I pre ordered it so it arrived before the Linux support did.

I could never get Linux to work correctly. It eventually failed for unrelated reasons.

You have to test Linux on your hardware the day you get it. Some laptops will never work with Linux. You can argue the hardware oems are to blame, but that doesn't fix anything.

I'm actually hoping to get a really cheap used Thinkpad soon and experiment with Nix.
by 9rx | 2026-01-03 16:30:04+00:00
> I am surprised that people don't do a rails new for their new startups.

Technology never matters, but marketing does. Traditionally you had to use 'esoteric' technologies to attract top talent, which has long been held as an important factor in startup success. Rails had that moment in the sun, but that was decades ago.

Granted, it remains to be seen if the talent differential still matters in the AI era, but hiring norms haven't caught up either way.
by jeenuv | 2026-01-03 16:30:41+00:00
Location: UK/India.

Remote: Yes / mostly. Can travel to London semi-regularly or on a need-basis.

Willing to relocate: open.

Technologies: C++, C, Python, Rust, Java, Javascript, Typescript, Haskell, Elm, React, Shell script.

Resume: https://is.gd/jeenuv_resume

Email: See resume.

Headline: Strong system software (primarily ARM architecture) and low-level background. Currently works in low-latency/high-frequency trading. Interests: low-level programming, functional programming, distributed systems, formal modelling, web UI tooling, command-line. Open to opportunities in system software or anything adjacent to my expressed interests.
by toss1 | 2026-01-03 16:31:07+00:00
Unless Maduro was somehow actually deposed BEFORE the US mil came into the country, or at least into Maduro's residence, Trump just changed the standing international order of centuries to allow kidnapping of heads of state

So, Putin could now legitimately go grab Zelenskyy for "crimes", or Xi could go grab Trump for "crimes".

This so-called administration is insanely bad at thinking ahead.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-01-03 16:31:17+00:00
Not quite...

Medieval kings were considered the embodiment of the government, but that didn't make them autocratic. Indeed, they were not only bound by a thicket of obligations and customs, but authority itself is only legitimate when it is just, a view that is traditional; it is modern legal positivism that roots authority in fiat, making it inherently tyrannical.
by jcynix | 2026-01-03 16:31:36+00:00
The sense oft smell must be one of the oldest senses, think of small entities swimming in some "primordial" soup looking for nutritious stuff.

What I found most interesting to learn about our sense of smell some years ago is that "We Smell With Every Organ In Our Body, Not Just Our Noses" cf.
https://www.ravishly.com/2014/10/16/smell-nose-olfactory-rec...
by poslathian | 2026-01-03 16:31:41+00:00
This is the freshest take I have ever seen. Kudos, so cool.

My professional career has been 20 years of physical ai research and now industry. My dad insisted I take corporate accounting in undergrad.

It’s a skill I use every single day, double entry bookkeeping is one humanities great inventions and deeply related to conservation laws utility in various other areas. Could not have built my business without having gotten so into this
Topic.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-03 16:32:06+00:00
China is desperate, and also the enemy of essentially every source of oil ... "except" Venezuela (disregarding the fact that of course Maduro can't be trusted, and thus isn't really an ally of China. More accurately they're both desperate and might be able to help one another).

Russia is also desperate. And is extracting oil in Venezuela easier than doing it while under Ukrainian bombardment? Good question but we can summarize: extracting oil inside Russia is failing, thanks to Putin's 3-day special military operation ... and they've already had to import fuel twice in the past 6 months, despite how utterly ridiculous that is: the country that out-produced Saudia Arabia when it comes to oil needed to import fuel.
by thrance | 2026-01-03 16:32:12+00:00
The USA are a blight on the Americas and the larger World. Their fanatic population will immediately jump in to justify a violent, naked attempt at stealing this country's mineral resources. This already happened dozens of times, always with terrible outcome, yet here we are again. The fall of the American empire can't happen fast enough.

Your enlightened president, a few minutes ago on Fox News, when asked about Venezuelan oil: "What can I say? We have the greatest oil companies in the world, the biggest, the greatest, and we're going to be very much involved in it."
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-03 16:32:19+00:00
“The US has no use for Venezuelan oil.”

> Trump also said he believes that American companies will be “heavily involved” in rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt

Considering this was one of his first statements on what happened, I think it’s a clear signal for what his priorities are.

We are straight back to the Reagan years of toppling regimes for our own resource interests. There is no way we did this out of the kindness of our hearts or because we believe in open, free elections. We have clear material interests and he’s not even trying to hide it.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy (/s obviously) but let’s not pretend this was some sort of magnanimous gesture or that it shouldn’t be deeply concerning to their neighbors that the US has no problem attacking a sovereign nation’s capital city and making off with a country’s leader + family when we’re not even at war.

Again I am not losing sleep for Maduro specifically but the way this was handled is not something that should be simply glossed over because of who he was and how he came to power, and we should definitely not pretend “the US has no use for Venezuelan oil.”
by commandersaki | 2026-01-03 16:32:19+00:00
I should've qualified that as address exhaustion on the Internet, the side adventure of private networking has no bearing on the goal that IPng had set out to do, which was to address the impending address exhaustion. You say you wouldn't say so, but here we are, IPv4 exhausted, and IPv4 remains the incumbent. If IPv6 had succeeded, we would probably be having this very discussion on an IPv6 enabled site, the cost difference between a v4 address and a v6 address would be negligible, that is to say v6 would not be a second class citizen or an optional bolt-on to the Internet. I mean that's all that needs to be said about whether it has succeeded in what it needed to do.
by 827a | 2026-01-03 16:32:26+00:00
I have a founders edition Clicks keyboard for the iPhone 15 Pro. Its really a fantastic piece of hardware; worked great since I got it, idk, maybe 14 months ago. Obviously this is a full device and much more complicated, but I wouldn't personally have any qualms taking a risk on it given that their track record for the other clicks devices is pretty solid IME.
by ch4s3 | 2026-01-03 16:33:40+00:00
The previous poster totally misunderstands how the War Power Act works, and many of those statements are at best supposition and at worst demonstrably false. The war powers act does not allow any domestic action at all.

> 2. it satisfies the biggest donors to the republican party - weapons manufacturers and oil companies.

This is nonsense the defense industry contributes pretty much evenly to each party. And the oil industry bit is just like the nonsense take on the Iraq war which saw virtually no contracts going to US companies.

Additionally:

>truth is there are effectively no drugs coming in from venezuela.

While Venezuela does not supply drugs bound for the US the regime there has long partnered with FARC to smuggle cocaine and weapons[1].

> Bonus: honors the practice of a republican president invading a country under bullshit premises to capture oil. Bush I and II both did so.

The first Gulf War was about kicking Saddam out of Kuwait, not capturing oil, so yeah conspiracy and false statements.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela_and_state-sponsored_...
by xnx | 2026-01-03 16:34:03+00:00
"I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour."

https://x.com/rakyll/status/2007239758158975130
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 16:34:10+00:00
> 1. Maduro stole an election. He is not legitimately in power. Many other people in power, like the military and other political factions, opposed this and wants him removed.

Can US administration claim a domestic election (like the upcoming 2026 mid-terms) was stolen and… do stuff?

> 3. With the tacit approval of these folks, the US arrests Maduro for previously indicted crimes.

Concern:

> This argument means that any time a president wants to invade a country "legally," he just has to get his DOJ to indict the country's leader. It makes Congress' power to declare war totally meaningless.(

* https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2007450814097305734#m
by perryizgr8 | 2026-01-03 16:34:33+00:00
Windows 11 has स्वेद steadily gotten worse. It was better at launch!
For me, the phone link feature seems to constantly consume 8-10% CPU regardless of whether my phone is connected or not. Windows malware process is another big offender, making me wonder if an actual virus might have lesser effect on performance. The start menu sometimes hangs if I try to type something in the search box.
It just screams incompetent software to me.
by wseqyrku | 2026-01-03 16:34:43+00:00
"Officials from the United States and other countries have questioned the legality of the strikes."

Look, this is getting tiring. You have no idea what the people in this country went through and they might as well see it as a "good thing". I think the same applies to Iran, an intervention by the US could be the best thing that ever happened in these countries, so the "legality" issue doesn't quite sound warranted in my opinion.
by yokoprime | 2026-01-03 16:34:49+00:00
I'm not maining windows, but i dual-boot it on my gaming pc (no BF6 on Linux). In all fairness, Windows is no better or worse now than it was 5 years ago. Its not like its suddenly become completely unusable (or more unusable, depending on your perspective). Copilot fluff is being injected a lot of places, but you can largely ignore it and use windows as before. I do feel like Windows is on some sort of life support, that its not the main focus of Microsoft. Again, this is not really new.
Ask HN: Where else do you keep up-to-date?
by throwaway132448 | 2026-01-03 16:34:50+00:00
I still love hacking, but I stopped trying to be the smartest person in the room 5-6 years ago, and don't enjoy the *-maximalism that is most HN commentary today.

Can anyone recommend communities that cater to curiosity, but with more humility/humanity and less SV god complex?

Thanks!
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-03 16:35:03+00:00
This is really, really exciting. The moment this spark ignites, it will herald a new reality for industrialization of space, and I for one cannot wait to see it succeed.

One of the things I truly believe will elevate our species is space industrialization. If, in 20 years or so, we send a fleet of space furnaces to 16 Psyche [1], there is a very real possibility that we will be able to move a lot of Earths heavy industrial processes to space. Can you imagine - 3D printed Starship hulls being made from the immense resources of 16 Psyche?

Literal pallets of iPhones being landed from near earth orbit.

It sounds like whacky science fiction now, and for now it really is just that, but the launch and successful mission of Space Forge and other companies like it bring us all a single step closer to seeing that reality play out.

I truly hope we can survive long enough to move heavy metal industry to space, and use that event to return the Earth to a garden state. It’s a long shot, but oh what a beautiful world it would be in 100 years time if this dream can be kept alive, and actually achieved.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche
by MisterMower | 2026-01-03 16:35:10+00:00
Increasing the supply of oil will lower its price. Bringing production in Venezuela back online will have this effect. Historically they have produced three million barrels per day, currently that number is closer to one million.

Russia is funding its war in Ukraine with profits on thier oil production. All else being equal, this makes it harder for them to keep doing that. They reportedly spent $6 billion on air defense systems in Venezuela, not for no reason.

Lower oil prices also reduce China’s dependence on Russia for energy. Reducing the incentive for those two countries two cooperate would be in US interests.

Energy is fungible and lower oil prices will help reduce the cost to operate AI data centers. On the margin it will improve their profitability and reduce public backlash about rising electricity prices in the US.

A large portion of the migrant crisis in the US has been driven by Venezuelan refugees fleeing Maduro’s gross mismanagement of the country. If the subsequent government can bring prosperity back to the country it also reduces illegal immigration in the US, something the current US administration clearly supports.

Lots of positive things could result here and you don’t have to be a “Kissinger psychopath” to imagine them and hope they materialize.
by Esophagus4 | 2026-01-03 16:35:19+00:00
Agreed on all parts.

Now it’s not clear who is running the country. Maduro’s administration is saying they’re still in charge via their VP, but the opposition has said they are “prepared to assume power,” wherever that may mean.

I fear that there could be so much suffering as a result of this. Power vacuums and forced regime changes don’t seem to go well.

This reminds me a little of when the US toppled Saddam Hussein in Iraq - initially there was celebration, which soon gave way to, “oh shit… now what?”
by rsynnott | 2026-01-03 16:35:36+00:00
> I looked up the actual stats, and sales growth has been slowing, with 2024 numbers being virtually identical to 2023

Where are you getting these stats/are you _sure_ they’re not US-only stats? Any actual data I find shows a healthy increase in sales on the order of 25% 2023-2024, maybe 20% 2024-2025. (Eg https://open-ev-charts.org/#electric-sales:quarter). Possibly you have a really unusual personal definition of the words ‘virtually identical’ and ‘slump’?
by hypeatei | 2026-01-03 16:35:45+00:00
> Was there a PowerPoint presentation citing evidence every time Bush and Obama blew up a wedding

Does it matter? I personally didn't support those actions and would condemn them just as harshly as these ones. You're doing the "But what about Obama?!" meme. A large part of Trump's 2024 campaign was about "peace" which turned out to be a complete lie. Will you admit that Trump lied or are you going to deflect to Obama again?

You again failed to acknowledge the pardon of a drug trafficker, btw.
by k310 | 2026-01-03 16:36:09+00:00
Tech is entwined with politics, and sad to say, an enabler of its worst actions, but that is a choice that people make.

Prove to me that DOGE hasn't planted backdoors and time b0mbs in critical government systems. And when Vance takes over, his pals Thiel and Musk will be running much of the show. BTW, both are immigrants.

I wouldn't mind a built-in filter facility. Other forums have them. Mainly, I use several devices to access HN and filtering means vary on my side.

Techie participation in authoritarian, privacy-robbing and murderous projects is a choice. I worked in aerospace, strictly in defensive projects, and departed the aerospace business per the customary cycles. Bush senior actually cut the defense budget. I worked for university, and per economic cycles, left that. Politics not involved? Very involved.

Great stuff lives past the home page, which I never read. Just checked, maybe one is of interest, whereas the daily scan turns up 10 or so, and I forward a couple a day to friends. I finally found an auto-pager that works on latest, so I can finally create the daily local/searchable digest. No slight on Algolia.

As for popularity, I can't read really long threads. I just scan "best" now and then to see if a goodie slipped past my scanning.

I grew up just post Hiroshima and Nagasaki and spoke with someone last Thursday who survived Hiroshima in the womb. Open science and free and open source software mean a ton to me, as liberating, the opposite of surveillance, control and giant databases. The more that government and tech oligarchs have them, the less free we are. [0]
What Technology "wants" is liberation, not capture and control.

[0] https://fluidself.org/books/science/what-technology-wants
by afavour | 2026-01-03 16:36:10+00:00
> The US has no use for Venezuelan oil

Someone should tell Trump that because he’s not been remotely subtle about his thought process.

> Note that the US also did not take Iraq's oil

That doesn’t mean there was no desire to take that oil. And there very transparently was. Looking at the end result and working backwards is faulty thinking. The US disastrously mismanaged Iraq. They certainly didn’t intend to.
by falcor84 | 2026-01-03 16:36:18+00:00
Yes. Obviously no one is claiming that Claude Code literally made a year pass in an hour as if it were Superman spinning the Earth faster. Can we just keep the goalpost put for a second?

P.S. EDIT:

The big question will soon become - how technical do you need to be to build a system, because most of those learnings, concepts and associations are surely at the domain level. Or phrased differently: to what extent will future software development shift from hands-on engineering to hands-off technical guidance? Perhaps the future developer role would be much more similar to today's TPM (Technical Program Manager)?
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-03 16:36:20+00:00
That tweet is aimed at Google. I don't know much about Google's effort at IMO, but OpenAI was the primary newsmaker in that event, and they reportedly did not use hints or external tools. If you have info to the contrary, please share it so I can update that particular belief.

Gemini 2.5 has since been superceded by 3.0, which is less likely to need hints. 2.5 was not as strong as the contemporary GPT model, but 3.0 with Pro Thinking mode enabled is up there with the best.

Finally, saying, "Well, they were given some hints" is like me saying, "LOL, big deal, I could drag a Tour peleton up Col du Galibier if I were on the same drugs Lance was using."

No, in fact I could do no such thing, drugs or no drugs. Similarly, a model that can't legitimately reason will not be able to solve these types of problems, even if given hints.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-03 16:36:22+00:00
Thanks for taking time to respond.

>I had a friend working there

Also how I got my first tech job, working in a laptop repair facility (on-site for a large engineering team).

>you'd probably be more helpful to the people we sell scrap to

Thanks for the certification links (which has a map with hundreds of locations — none near me, but have been looking for a smaller community and this is helpful information).
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-03 16:36:28+00:00
Caracas was definitely hit in preparation for the operation, and I'd assume air defenses and assets within scramble range were the primary targets.

Example footage that seems to track with BBC confirmed Caracas strike locations: https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2007340229536239646

The US had previously positioned a lot of USAF and Army air assets in Puerto Rico and on offshore platforms: https://www.twz.com/news-features/cv-22b-osprey-mc-130j-comm...

Those appear to have been used: https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2007339573156950095

In addition, USAF/USN have been flying ELINT platforms (e.g. RC-135s) off the coast for months now.

So even without the cooperation of any of the Venezuelan military, it's possible the mission was:

1. Precision long-range strikes on air defense radars around Caracas (and possibly assets)
2. Closer SEAD with F-35s to clear a path
3. SOAR Delta Force infiltration with tactical air suppression
4. CAP from F-35s to intercept any scrambled fighters
5. Exfiltration along same route

If the intelligence was good (location of air defenses and Maduro), it's entirely possible the above just went off cleanly.

See: Desert Storm air campaign. Having capable anti-air assets doesn't matter when your enemy has access to more timely intelligence and the means to do something with it.
by diego_moita | 2026-01-03 16:36:42+00:00
When Russia invaded Ukraine it was imperialism, regardless of their "reasons".

When Trumpistan invades Venezuela it is also imperialism, regardless of its "reasons".

It seems that every 20 years the Americans forget the lessons from the wars 20 years ago.

I only hope a lot of Americans die, if that is the price to pay to avoid them to invading other countries and stop their imperialism.