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by benrobo | 2026-01-03 14:32:36+00:00
I got tired of updating my codebase every time I wanted to share a new preview of my product. You know the drill - change the OG image, commit, deploy, wait... it was killing my momentum.

So I built RenderOG. Here's what it does:

*Visual editor for OG images* - Design templates once, then generate variations automatically. No code required.

*Link shortening with A/B testing* - Create shortened links (like rnder.me/product-launch) where each link can have a different OG image. Test multiple visuals by sharing different links, check analytics to see which one performs better, then stick with the winner. No code changes needed.

*Project slugs* - Use human-readable URLs (like og.yourdomain.com/my-project) instead of random IDs. Your URLs stay the same even if you delete and recreate a project.

Now, I can test different product previews via shortened URLs before deciding which one to commit to. No more updating code, deploying, and hoping it works. Just create a link, share it, check analytics, and decide.

I've been using it for product launches and it's saved me hours. Marketing can now test different visuals without bugging engineering.

It's currently in private beta. I'm letting a small group of founders in to test it. If you want early access, join the waitlist: https://renderog.com

What's your current process for testing different OG images? Still updating code or have you found a better way?
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-03 14:32:40+00:00
I'm confused why this isn't bigger news internationally.

Sure, it's the tip headline everywhere, but seems less emphasised than football world cup final results. More like, "Very large rain occured somewhere".

Trump, without even Congress' authority, never mind UN or any allied country consultation presumably, kidnaps a foreign president, "elected" likely fraudulently but still the head of his state, over accusations even more tenuous than WMD in Iraq.

What's next? Danish PM held hostage until Greenland is handed over? This seems like a really hostile move by the US, and the reaction seems to be, oh yeah, something's up.
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-01-03 14:32:43+00:00
> Then, he suspended the next election

Zelensky did not suspend elections. Ukraine's constitution prohibits the holding of elections under conditions of martial law.

"However, martial law—imposed after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 and still in place as the war continues—has prevented elections from taking place. Under Ukrainian law, elections cannot be held while martial law is in effect to ensure continuity of governance and support the nation’s defense." [1]

[1] https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ukraines-presidential...
by sillyfluke | 2026-01-03 14:33:06+00:00
I think you and the original poster are being a tad careless in your reading. This article is specifically about sanctioned individuals not countries-- a sanctioned ICC judge who concurred with a very specific ruling. If you want to discuss sanctioning countries you should state explicitly that you're taking a slight tangent because though these topics are very related they are definitly not the same, and vastly different with respect to the magnitude of the practical consequences.

The article specifically states that there are some 15,000 sanctioned individuals, many of which are IS and Al Quaeda members. These actors are often considered non-state terrorists. If you wish to dispute the article's claim that these actors represent the majority of sanctioned individuals feel free to do so, otherwise please explain how much practical pressure sanctioning the rest of the lot-- those compromised mainly from the top brass of authoritarian regimes -- could have effects remotely comparable to sanctioning an entire country composed of millions of people. Those sanctioned individual are also the people least affected by sanctions, since they have direct access to their countrie's financial and natural resources and could care less whether their daughter's visa or mastercard works at that fancy ski resort in the Austrian Alps.

Trump is sanctioning ICC judges because their rulings are complicating his blatant direct personal enchrichment and his family
business's real estate dealings for the "Gazan Riveria", which he wants implemented unopposed. It is just silly to say that this amount of in-your-face direct personal enrichment angle having an oversized impact on American foreign policy is just your regular American geopolitical machinations, as you would have to argue that the USA has always been a banana republic no different than any other.
by grumple | 2026-01-03 14:33:24+00:00
There are videos of Venezuelans celebrating in the streets, singing in large groups, cheering. I saw a video of someone from a balcony and it sounded like the entire city of Caracas was cheering. You can wait a few years for a survey or throw one up yourself.

The reaction I'm seeing from second-hand and direct reddit comments from actual Venezualans seems really positive.
by keeperxy | 2026-01-03 14:33:48+00:00
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by pqtyw | 2026-01-03 14:33:49+00:00
> Vice President Delcy Rodriguez is in charge

Today. She's still part of the same regime and party. It's not obvious Trump will let her stay in charge. Also the control the government had over the criminal gangs/syndicates/cartels was seemingly very weak anyway. Even if the current decapitated regime is allowed to stay it won't be very strong.
by baubino | 2026-01-03 14:33:52+00:00
I’m not disputing the right of the U.S. to intervene. I’m saying that we should call this “intervention” what it is — an act of war. It doesn’t matter what the cause or impetus for the act is; we need to stop pretending that forceful, military-based aggression into sovereign land (regardless of who the leader of that land is) is anything other than an act of war.
by throw310822 | 2026-01-03 14:34:17+00:00
There's 3.5 million people living in the Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine now. The Wikipedia entry about then even lists "forced Russification" as one of the abuses they suffer: "Ukrainians have been coerced into taking Russian passports and becoming Russian citizens". Now, as bad as this is, being forced to become a regular citizen of the occupying state is a far cry from being deported and murdered by that state. Nazi Germany wasn't giving German citizenship to Poles and Jews in occupied territories; Israel is not giving Israeli citizenship to Palestinians in occupied territories. Do you see the difference?

Putin himself has famously claimed that Russians and Ukrainians are the same people: this is the very opposite of the ideological premise to justify a genocide.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-03 14:34:46+00:00
"Venezuelan allies Russia, Cuba and Iran were quick to condemn the strikes as a violation of sovereignty."

Right, Russia, who has been attacking Ukraine not just for one night, but for four years, is now going to lecture the US about violations of sovereignty. Their moral high ground, if they ever had any, is long gone.

I'm not sad if Maduro's gone. I'm even less sad if this results in actual freedom for Venezuela after 20 years of nightmare.

But I am not happy about the president of the US, on his own authority, choosing to remove the head of other countries, on rather flimsy pretexts. (If he presents actual evidence that Maduro was actively and deliberately shipping drugs to the US, or worse, criminals, then I will change my opinion. But I need evidence, not just claims and bluster.)
by modoes | 2026-01-03 14:36:03+00:00
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by pavlus | 2026-01-03 14:36:47+00:00
This is how FPV jammers are often field-checked in Russo-Ukrainian war. It doesn't test frequencies or spectrum quality, but is a useful indicator, that jammer is actually emitting (has power and is turned on), so you can be sure, that if it's up to spec and covers frequently used frequencies at your location - it actually tries to do it's job, instead of being a costly paperweight.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-01-03 14:36:54+00:00
And you'd be right.

9/11 did not come out of a vaccumm

Unfortunately, everyday Americans' security is deeply impacted by the clowns with office desks in DC, since the 1990s.

It's not lost on me that I may lose living relatives living in the US because of Kissinger playing RISK for a living, back in the day.

Just as the clowns in government made horrible decisions and should potentially be legally in jeopardy for them, I can also say they are getting the venezuela one, right (at least for now).
by 0manrho | 2026-01-03 14:37:04+00:00
> If you don’t pay for a product, you are the product. With MC03, you pay to retain your data rather than paying with it.

Ah yes, more dystopian "You'll own nothing, and rent everything, including your own data" products. That's a hard no, do not pass go from me.

Technology has been enshittified enough, stop being part of the problem, and certainly don't try to pretend you're doing me a favor or protecting my privacy by holding my devices and/or data captive unless I pay an indefinite renters fee.

If they aren't selling the data, then why the hell do they want it? Want to protect my privacy? Sell me the damn device, let me do as I please with it, and let that be the end of the transaction. Keep your damn telemetry, backdoors, dark patterns, bloatware and subscription bullshit off it.
by al_borland | 2026-01-03 14:37:18+00:00
The Apple keyboard added swipe support a couple years ago, use your finger to make a single swipe across all the letters in the word you want to type. Like SwiftKey.

If you press and hold the emoji button in the lower left, you can pick to have the keyboard shift to the left or right, for easier one handed typing. On the iPad I think you can pull the keyboard apart so you can use one thumb on each side of the screen while holding it (last I used it, you could do this with a gesture of putting your two thumbs in the center of the keyboard and pulling them apart toward the sides).

Press and hold on letters or symbols for accidents or more related symbols. I don’t think this one is that big of a secret, but it’s worth going through all the symbols to see everything that’s available.

I don’t have an iPad currently, but I think it has the numbers on the top row of letters, and you can swipe up (or down, I don’t remember) on the key for quick entry of some numbers without changing to the symbol keyboard.

Double tap the shift key for CAPS LOCK.

In the Settings, there is built in text expansion support (Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement). Adding curse words in here was a way to get around the “ducking” auto-correct in the past, with the typed word and the replacement being set to the same word. If want a way to type more obscure symbols, this is a way to set that up as well, I can type , for example.

They upgraded the speech to text a few years ago. If you got in the habit of not bothering, because you had to be perfect in one take, it’s better now. You can speak, take breaks, and manually correct and add things with your keyboard in the middle of dictation.

That’s all that comes to mind for now.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-03 14:38:23+00:00
I think following the constitution is a good thing, even if bombs are falling. I mean, look, people are dying, and yet the country is not just hunkered down in bunkers for the last four years. Life is going on. People are getting up and going to work and coming home and eating dinner and going to bed. Surely they could also go and vote... if the constitution did not say what it says.
by arch1t3cht | 2026-01-03 14:38:57+00:00
The core idea of YCbCr - decoupling chrominance and luminance information - definitely has merit, but the fact that we are still using YCbCr specifically is definitely for historical reasons. BT.601 comes directly from analog television. If you want to truly decouple chrominance from luminance, there are better color spaces (opponent color spaces or ICtCp, depending on your use case) you could choose.

Similarly, chroma subsampling is motivated by psychovisual aspects, but I truly believe that enforcing it on a format level is just no longer necessary. Modern video encoders are much better at encoding low-frequency content at high resolutions than they used to be, so keeping chroma at full resolution with a lower bitrate would get you very similar quality but give much more freedom to the encoder (not to mention getting rid of all the headaches regarding chroma location and having to up- and downscale chroma whenever needing to process something in RGB).

Regarding the tone of the article, I address that in my top-level comment here.
by Semaphor | 2026-01-03 14:39:02+00:00
> My work computer takes a full five minutes to become usable on the first login after a cold boot, and that’s not even counting the time from boot to entering my password.

Yeah, that’s a misconfigured system. I bet you can fuck up Linux enough to get a similar experience.

I’ve always been using Windows and the only time I ever had to wait that long was around the Win98 times on slow hardware.

After login, I can instantly use everything on Win 11, and the only delay is a bunch of apps starting (that I chose to start on boot).
by drysine | 2026-01-03 14:39:09+00:00
>What do you mean? Do you think that Ukrainian natonalists started the war

You could start by watching Bush Sr.'s speech in Kiev in 1991: "Americans will not support those who seek independence in order to replace a far-off tyranny with a local despotism. They will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred".[0]

Americans later did support them, of course. [1]

Fast forward to 2014:

"The night before the clashes, Right Sector called on all of its members to ready themselves for a "peace offensive" on 18 February. <...> That morning, around 20,000 demonstrators marched on the parliament building as that body was set to consider opposition demands for a new constitution and government. Around 09:45, the demonstrators broke through the police barricade of several personnel-transport trucks near the building of the Central Officers' Club of Ukraine and pushed the cordon of police aside. The clashes started after some two dozen demonstrators moved a police vehicle blocking their path to parliament." [2]

Right Sector is "the right-wing, paramilitary confederation of several ultranationalist organizations" [3]

After overthrowing pro-Ukrainian president who was predominantly supported by the Eastern Ukraine, pro-Western Ukrainian nationalistic "government" started what they cynically called Anti-Terrorist Operation in the Eastern Ukraine

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkjxf76xRTw

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-meets-oleh-tyahn...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity#Protest_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Sector
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-03 14:39:19+00:00
The mainstream LLM crowd aren't making these sorts of major changes yet, although some like DeepMind (the OG pushers of RL for AGI!) do acknowledge that a few more "transformer level" breakthoughs are necessary to reach what THEY are calling AGI, and others like LeCun are calling for more animal-like architectures.

Anyways, regardless of who is currently trying to move beyond LLMs or not, it should be pretty obvious what the problems are with trying to apply RL more generally, and what that would result in if successful, if that were the only change you made.

LLMs still have room to get better, but they will forever be LLMs, not brains, unless someone puts in the work to make that happen.

You started this thread talking about "AGI", without defining what you meant by that, and are now instead talking about "cross-domain performance gains". This is exactly why it makes no sense to talk about AGI without defining what you mean by it, since I think we talking about completely different things.
by imtringued | 2026-01-03 14:39:24+00:00
>I don't want any of my devices listening on the public address, much less multiple.

If you don't listen to public ports on IPv4, then there is no point in touting any of the benefits of IPv4. Even if you think NAT is good, you're not using it in the first place so why care about it?

You basically ruined your entire case with that sentence.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 14:39:52+00:00
> You’re not wrong, but I have been running complicated multi-site VPNs with a small homelab multi-subnet / VLAN setup for 25 years and still have yet to have a collision.

And I've been in corporate IT networks with mergers/acquisitions where both organizations involved had 10.0.0.0/24. Ever have NAT inside a company? Fun stuff. (Thrown in some internal-only split-horizon DNS too.)

Then there's the fact that in the COVID period we had IPs for VPN clients (172.*) in the same range as what some developers used for their Docker stuff. Hilarity.
by GeneralMaximus | 2026-01-03 14:39:59+00:00
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by close04 | 2026-01-03 14:40:21+00:00
General rules don’t apply to superpowers or the countries they protect. China, US, Russia get to do whatever their military or economic power affords them, unprovoked aggression, war crimes, terror acts.

There are general rules against war crimes and they still happen day after day, under flimsy excuses. Bombed a hospital or a wedding party? There was a suspected terrorist there. White phosphorus over civilians? It was just for the smoke screen. Overthrew a government overseas? Freedom for those poor people.
Show HN: Moonfall
by Layogtima | 2026-01-03 14:40:28+00:00
Hallo HN, wrote a short sci-fi story called Moonfall.

It got stuck in my teeth and I couldn't shake it off, and here's where I've reached right now.

If you read it, would LOVE your take! I've not written for YEARS, and I wanted to get back to it.

Disclaimer on AI usage: Used Claude Sonnet for iterating through this
by exceptione | 2026-01-03 14:40:37+00:00
Answer: No.

Reason: 1. Our tendency to compartmentalize developments, be it social, cultural, political or technical, results in governance that let things rot and escalate. When the crisis becomes big enough, the Political Value of Time comes into play, aka we don't have time for plebs rights.

2. Without understanding of context, tech will misfire. A lot of problems only exist because we are conditioned to NOT take the bigger picture in mind. In media, in policy, people try to handle things as context-free phenomena.
For example, western democracies have/had a very narrow focus on foreign threats. If an adversary is bombing you, than we can talk about defense, because: kinetic threats = mil. defense. Simple, but that is exactly our weakness:

Economic sabotage => you will be lucky if there is any joint action over gov. branches
Political infiltration => uhm, we haven't thought about that. Lets pretend
nothing happens.
Disinformation campaigns, bribing influencers, sowing discord
=> uhm that is maybe something for the other department

I do understand the will to escape, but imho tech people should not flight reality; they should not lock themselves in a cave of ignorance. We don't have that luxury, especially as tech is the enabling instrument of authoritarians. Reality is complex and we should face it.
by tekne | 2026-01-03 14:41:49+00:00
I think there's something to be said for separating disdain for the person and disdain for the institution; unfortunately the latter is used as an excuse for the former.

But actually... there really are, IMO, better ways to "buy hope", or for that matter positive feelings, many of which actually have positive EV (even if not financially), and it is in my opinion a systemic flaw that we use well-known exploits in human psychology to take money from, statistically, the people who have the least.
by mocana | 2026-01-03 14:41:53+00:00
I am unhappy about Tesla's slide. My car is indeed worth less as there uncertainty about the company's ability to provide parts and services long term.
More importantly, Tesla was an American company making cars in the U.S. and leading the world in production and technology of EVs. Musk has stupidly pissed away Tesla's position and ceded it to Chinese companies. Perhaps this sounds overly nationalistic, but leading in one of the key industries of the coming decades in the U.S. would have been good for the country.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-03 14:41:59+00:00
"Taking out Maduro is likely to lead to similar consequences as toppling Saddam, isn’t it? "

I don't think so. The Near East is a simmering cauldron of ancient ethnic and sectarian hatreds. Compared to that, Venezuela is ethnically and religiously almost homogeneous.

There is no equivalent of mad clerics preaching to their flock that they have to exterminate their heretic neighbours and that God will grant them paradise for doing so.
by stocksinsmocks | 2026-01-03 14:42:44+00:00
I think heads of state bearing personal responsibility for misconduct is an excellent precedent that I would love to see applied much, much more widely. Preferably to the superpowers, especially if said leader were to say, for a totally-hypothetical example, recklessly create a massive security risk near our borders for the sole purpose of benefiting a foreign interest group… but I’ll take what I can get. I think the Sword of Damocles is missing all too often from high society. If life and death decisions, don’t come with life and death risks, then I think they become taken too lightly. I think we are too quick to insulate high society from the consequences of their actions.