MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by djoldman | 2026-01-03 19:37:18+00:00
> Gemini lowered its grades by an average of 2 points after seeing Claude's and OpenAI's more rigorous assessments. It couldn't justify giving 17s when Claude was pointing to specific gaps in the experimentation discussion.

This is to be expected. The big commercial LLMs generally respond with text that agrees with the user.

> But here's what's interesting: the disagreement wasn't random. Problem Framing and Metrics had 100% agreement within 1 point. Experimentation? Only 57%.

> Why? When students give clear, specific answers, graders agree. When students give vague hand-wavy answers, graders (human or AI) disagree on how much partial credit to give. The low agreement on experimentation reflects genuine ambiguity in student responses, not grader noise.

The disagreement between the LLMs is interesting. I would hesitate to conclude that "low agreement on experimentation reflects genuine ambiguity in student responses." It could be that it reflects genuine ambiguity on the part of the graders/LLMs as to how a response should be graded.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-03 19:37:31+00:00
I think it’s normalization. If they can ignore Congress, lie to them, break American law, ignore international law, what’s to stop them from violating the constitution? It’s how they will ultimately deport 100 million Americans, like they proposed a few days ago on the DHS Twitter account. Don’t fix things through the political process - just ignore them and use military force.
by x0x0 | 2026-01-03 19:37:32+00:00
Reddit chose this, unfortunately.

When you let google read your site, let alone sign deals with them, you create commercial incentives to rank/post on reddit. Everything that follows is inevitable and obvious.

They have now positioned themselves as an ai-slop source of truth. Expect everyone interested in ranking well in google's AI Overview -- essentially every marketer -- to treat reddit as a high-priority slop/advertising target.
by Joker_vD | 2026-01-03 19:37:35+00:00
The USA does not have jurisdiction outside the US borders. Shocking, I know.

But it doesn't, so the charges of "possession of machineguns" [0] is an utter bullshit. Talk about kangaroo courts...

[0] https://xcancel.com/AGPamBondi/status/2007428087143686611
by smileson2 | 2026-01-03 19:37:53+00:00
yeah it feels like the sort of thing that will go sideways easily, I get the "optimistic" angle who doesn't love strong men being removed from power, but it seems more like a recipe for civil war that we're forced to be heavily involved in

will all of the military and paramilitary forces there suddenly become to compliant? will other nations try to turn it into a proxy war to drag the us down possibly as payback for Ukraine?

maybe everyone moves on I have no idea, I'd personally rather just not be involved
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-03 19:38:24+00:00
> This is nonsense the defense industry contributes pretty much evenly to each party.

Horseshit:

> Across 2017–2022, analyses based on OpenSecrets data find the defense industry’s contributions split at ~57% to Republicans vs ~43% to Democrats (a “kitchen-sink” strategy of giving to both parties).

Giving 1/3 (32.6%) more is not "pretty much even".
by zephen | 2026-01-03 19:38:28+00:00
> Namespaces to me are more about naming conflict resolution and code readability, and I think of them more as prefixes to namespace member names, as opposed to those member names being part of a hierarchy.

That's a perspective. Are we talking about the 'bar' that comes from 'foo' or are we talking about the 'bar' that comes from 'baz'?

But another perspective is that 'foo' is important and provides several facilities that are intimately related to foo, so 'bar' is simply one of the features of foo.

> It also helps code readability to know that a::b is referring to a namespace

For you, perhaps. As someone who reads a lot of Python, I don't personally find this argument persuasive.
by rkeene2 | 2026-01-03 19:38:42+00:00
So a thought experiment: If China were to put out a warrant for Trump's (the most unpopular president in US History, someone the majority of Americans disapprove of, a convicted criminal, and a pedophile who raped young people and has not been brought to account for these crimes as of yet) under the pretense that some of his victims were Chinese nationals and then invaded the Whitehouse to forcibly remove him to China, would that also be legal and justified ? What would you expect the reaction in the US to be ?

To be very clear I do not support this -- out leaders should be held to account to their people, not foreign invaders deciding for us. Even if it seems unlikely that they ever will be, it's our process and people.

This argument doesn't really hold water because the jurisdiction of a nation isn't the whole world.

If we have a warrant for a Sovereign or someone else with Diplomatic Immunity we -- at the very least -- should not invade their territory to carry it out. That's not how the civilized society works, and that's not how we want it to work as evidenced by the thought experiment above.

If we are at war with a nation or people, and reject the premise of their fundamental sovereign or diplomatic nature of course it's a different story since we are talking about a fundamental disagreement of reality. There's a separate process for that weighty decision by the US people's representatives.
by FergusArgyll | 2026-01-03 19:39:03+00:00
Broadly speaking, you can shape the world, or decide to sit it out and let everyone else try.

We should absolutely do everything in our power to make the world a better place for us.

The last 80 years taught me we can take down the USSR if we try, we can build europe back up if we try etc. I don't know what lessons you've learned from the past but there were many who were anti fighting (not literally, but through proxies, economics - soft power) the USSR and they were wrong. It's possible to win! & yes, I'm happy we have that spirit again
by littlecranky67 | 2026-01-03 19:39:05+00:00
> Which Venezuelans?

All which are currently in foreign countries and are free to express their voices without fear of prosecution. I live in spain with my venezuelan girlfriend, and everybody here from her venezuelan bubble is celebrating and cheering - hoping this is a first step towards freedom. You can turn on your TV to "rtve Telediaro", it is a spanish 24h news channel where they also show venezuelan expats getting together and celebrating from within spain. Other cities in latin america are the same, just watch some news channels from the spanish-speaking world.

They were probably also cheering in the streets in the US, if they weren't afraid of ICE deportations.
Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
by stets | 2026-01-03 19:39:46+00:00
Hi! I took a cheap $25 walmart phone and put a static server on it? Why? Just for a fun weekend project.

I used Claude Code for most of the setup. I had a blast.

It's running termux, andronix, nginx, cloudflared and even a prometheus node exporter.

Here's the site:

https://walmartphone.stetsonblake.com/
by sgc | 2026-01-03 19:40:49+00:00
Because having so many unsolvable problems would be an extreme edge case (if you had one, it would be much more likely a bug than a basket full of what you are calling unsolvable problems), and there are a lot of bad setting recommendations out there which make it rather difficult to find the right one for your device. It can take quite a bit of experience and quite a bit of persistence - which is again, as I said, not the way it should be. If you are sure you have exhausted your options, please file bug reports.
by TimBurman | 2026-01-03 19:40:58+00:00
I bought this book in the early 1990s and still have it with the red cover. My favorite part that stuck with me all those years was this section:

"And right here let me say one thing: After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!"
by perfmode | 2026-01-03 19:41:13+00:00
Reading through this thread is disturbing not because people disagree, but because of how the disagreement is happening.

What I'm seeing is a breakdown in the ability to hold consistent principles across contexts. The same people who condemned Russian actions in Ukraine are now making "realpolitik" arguments about Venezuela. The same people who claim to oppose foreign intervention are now calculating whether this was "done cleanly enough." Positions seem determined entirely by tribal affiliation rather than any coherent framework about sovereignty, international law, or the use of military force.

There's also a striking historical amnesia at work. The US has been running this exact playbook in Latin America for over a century. We have extensive data on how these interventions typically unfold, what the second and third-order effects tend to be, and how the initial justifications relate to the actual outcomes. Yet that entire body of evidence seems to have evaporated from the conversation. People are reasoning about this as if it's a novel situation requiring fresh analysis, rather than a well-worn pattern.

Most concerning is the casual normalization. We're discussing whether it's "justified" to invade a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader as if this is a routine policy question. The window of what's considered shocking has shifted so far that outright imperial aggression gets the same treatment as a zoning dispute. When someone points out we didn't even attempt to follow Constitutional requirements for declaring war, the response is essentially "yeah, we stopped doing that decades ago, so what?"

The nihilism is the most insidious part. "What are we supposed to do about it?" Well, at minimum, we could refuse to let the Overton window keep drifting. We could maintain some continuity of ethical standards. We could recognize power plays for what they are instead of generating elaborate post-hoc rationalizations about democracy and narcotics.

The question isn't whether Maduro is a dictator (he is) or whether this particular operation succeeded tactically (it apparently did). The question is whether we've collectively lost the capacity to see what we're actually doing and where this pattern of behavior leads.
by icedchai | 2026-01-03 19:41:28+00:00
Practically speaking, even without any firewall, NAT provides some level of security. If I can't route to your network, I can't access it. Yes, theoretically someone may establish a route to an RFC-1918 address block across the Internet or within your ISP, but doing so without ISP cooperation is unlikely. To say it is "easily" exploitable is an over-exaggeration.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-03 19:41:44+00:00
Contracts are a way to express invariants, "This shall always be true".

There are three main things you could do with these invariants, the exact details of how to do them, and whether people should be allowed to specify which of these things to do, and if so whether they can pick only for a whole program, per-file, per-function, or whatever, is separate.

1. Ignore the invariants. You wrote them down, a human can read them, but the machine doesn't care. You might just as well use comments or annotate the documentation, and indeed some people do.

2. Check the invariants. If the invariant wasn't true then something went wrong and we might tell somebody about that.

3. Assume these invariants are always true. Therefore the optimiser may use them to emit machine code which is smaller or faster but only works if these invariants were correct.

So for example maybe a language lets you say only that the whole program is checked, or, that the whole program can be assumed true, or, maybe the language lets you pick, function A's contract about pointer validity we're going to check at runtime, but function B's contract that you must pick an odd number, we will use assumption, we did tell you about that odd number requirement, have the optimiser emit that slightly faster machine code which doesn't work for N=0 -- because zero isn't an odd number assumption means it's now fine to use that code.
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-03 19:42:04+00:00
I wasn't even thinking about the drugs. Is that a real thing? North Korean nuke isn't a real concern.

Iraq had no goal. The stated reason was WMDs and 9/11, so bogus and unrelated. Stability wasn't our concern either, I mean we funded Saddam Hussein to begin with. US companies did set up oil drilling, but I really don't think the driving motivation was oil, otherwise we'd have gone to Venezuela first.
by nicolaslem | 2026-01-03 19:42:31+00:00
I hear you, personally grabbing the charger for overnight stays hasn't been a problem but there are a few compact/inexpensive third-party dongles that are like the official charging cable but without the cable[0]. They can be stay in a car, laptop bag, etc. and charge the watch from an iPhone or another usb-c power source.

[0] Random example for illustration https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKV9JBR4
by AnthOlei | 2026-01-03 19:42:43+00:00
I switched my parents onto Linux a couple months ago, after my mom kept getting confused between edge and chrome - not being to uninstall edge was the last straw, but the massive amount of adware slowing down her capable-but-old laptop was a close second.

So far so good! Some smaller hiccups, like chrome won’t use dolphin, but I installed rustdesk so I can help them through whatever.

Over Christmas the in-laws were asking about Linux because of windows issues, which was surprising since they’re technologically literate but in a layman sense. I didn’t try to switch them over since the parent experiment is still ongoing but a couple more months of seamless use and I’ll consider it a success.

All this to say I’m very glad for Microsoft leadership!
by bawolff | 2026-01-03 19:43:11+00:00
> As an example, the American Revolution had support from France, the Netherlands, and Spain

But to what extent did they do it to "free" america vs to take Britian down a peg because they worried Britian was getting too powerful?

I think most people here are doubtful of Trumps motives or that this coup will actually lead to a free Venezuela.

America worked out really well. There are many many examples in history where imperial powers interfering in a local power struggle worked out very poorly for the average person of the country.
by JoeAltmaier | 2026-01-03 19:43:48+00:00
Deepsea beds also change with volcanism, seismic events, whale carcass deposition and maybe more. Wouldn't studying those events inform the question? Without introducing more destruction.

In fact, estimating the frequency of those 'natural' events, and knowing the current density of deep-sea organisms, aren't we capable of calculating the answer using statistics?
by eichin | 2026-01-03 19:44:00+00:00
This is interestingly analogous to nelhage's memory sampling approach https://blog.nelhage.com/2013/03/tracking-an-eventmachine-le... where if something is leaking "at scale", let it - then gcore it, and pick a random page of the core and see what's there. (An even cheaper variant I've used a few times with python is to just run "strings | sort | uniq -c | sort -n" on the core, so you get the most common strings which are usually part of object metadata and give you a solid hint without needing to go in with a debugger...) The ^C approach basically samples time instead of memory.
by yuppiepuppie | 2026-01-03 19:44:15+00:00
Maybe it’s just the way I use Reddit, but I still find it very informative and engaging. I subscribe to communities I can’t find elsewhere and the small niche communities there are fantastic. For instance, in r/peloton which I follow heavily, a number of pros post there and engage with their fans.

I stay far away from the front page, even my own. I use an rss reader for all the subs and when I want to comment I login into old.reddit.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-03 19:44:37+00:00
Lol. Disassembled the VT420 ROM's and slapped a AGPL license on it. It's probably okay. I don't think anyone at HP remembers they once owned the DEC IP (or which of the HP spin-offs kept the DEC/COMPAQ IP, HPE?) And forgiveness instead of permission is usually the way to go. Just sort of hilarious you're stealing someone's IP and slapping a restrictive license on it.
by perfmode | 2026-01-03 19:44:49+00:00
This is a unilateral invasion and regime change operation with no Congressional authorization, no UN mandate, no coalition. It's unprecedented in its brazenness—not because the U.S. hasn't done regime change before (Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, etc.), but because there's not even the pretense of justification or coalition-building.

The "narco-terrorism" charges are a legal fig leaf. The real drivers appear to be oil (Venezuela has the world's largest proven reserves), geopolitical positioning (removing a Russian/Chinese/Iranian ally from the hemisphere), domestic politics (Trump wants a "win" and to appear strong), and what seems like a personal vendetta given how publicly Trump has obsessed about Maduro.

What's disturbing goes beyond the act itself. Trump literally said the U.S. will "run Venezuela"—not "support democracy," not "help transition"—run the country. That's colonial language with no euphemism.

There was no Congressional authorization. This violates the War Powers Act at minimum. If a president can unilaterally invade a country, kidnap its leader, and declare we're taking control, what's the limiting principle? Where does this stop?

The mask is completely off. Previous imperial adventures at least performed the ritual of justification, built coalitions, went through motions at the UN. This is naked power. Trump explicitly mentioned oil, saying American companies will "invest billions" to "refurbish" Venezuela's oil industry. He's just admitting it openly.

What we're witnessing is the final abandonment of even the performance of international norms. The question isn't whether this is legal or justified—it clearly isn't. The question is whether there are any remaining constraints on executive power when it comes to foreign military action.
by well_ackshually | 2026-01-03 19:44:58+00:00
Congratulations on living in a country that doesn't take playing sports with integrity I guess. I've been playing handball, soccer, swimming, from age 8+ on, in a club. Every single saturday game was taken seriously by players. Yes, we fucked around on other games, but competition has always been on every player's mind. If you don't want the pressure of competition, you just tell the coach, and you're not put in for those games.

And no, it's not "parents who think their kid will be in the NBA", it's that children who register in a club want to play competitively. On a country of 70 million, we have about 5 million registered players in different sports, the majority of which take integrity to heart.

[0] A poll on a subreddit, on a dead game with absolutely zero serious competitive scene does not count as "serious research". Yes, players play shitfaced also. The vast majority do not queue for competitive games and just fuck around in normals. Whether that's on modern games with dedicated queues for comp play, or games with dedicated leagues like ETF2L, Faceit and others.
by MultifokalHirn | 2026-01-03 19:45:01+00:00
I only get names starting with A, could not get it to do otherwise.
Also, is "popularity" of the name implicitly for the US..? I am not from the US and I doubt the results are as uncommon as my filter setting wants them to be.
Ideas:
- just add various optional filters that you can come up with, length, sillables, origin, first letter, must have letters etc etc
- allow the option to not select gender, since some people may look for names for children before pregnancy
- add some more info on the dataset, and maybe even let the users look at all the namesunfiltered. I was wondering how complete it is as well..?
by i_love_retros | 2026-01-03 19:45:03+00:00
God bless America and God bless President Trump!

This can only be good news for the Venezuelans, having lived in such poor conditions for so long. Soon they will be able to go to McDonald's, drink Starbucks, and maybe one day if they really prove themselves to have that special drive and spirit that only Americans have, apply for US citizenship!
by skoinks | 2026-01-03 19:45:07+00:00
Yes, so let's imagine for a second there was no US involvement (there was minimal, in an advisory and intelligence role); Would Yanukovich still be in power? Would 2014 would've gone any different? Do you know what events happened preceding the shootings? The police violently beating the protesters? Obviously not on all counts. So to say that the Maidan was a result of US involvement is a russian talking point on a good day and a blatant, filthy lie on any other.
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-03 19:45:10+00:00
>In terms of nation-building, it's not the worst plan.

Building which nation? The despotic dictatorship of USA one would have to assume you mean. The profits are no more likely to go to Venezuela's further development than they are to bring in universal health care in USA.

QoL is nothing if it is bought through the pain and suffering of others.

I don't know why you think this is a new beginning, it's just extension of USA's dictatorship to ensure even more people suffer and the USA oligarchy gets even more insanely wealthy.
by darthbanane | 2026-01-03 19:45:13+00:00
It was meant as an addendum. I might have confused it with the chancery house on the other side of the road, streetview footage shows construction signs for a coworking space so I assumed it would be that.
The actual address seems to be from a law firm, not sure how good of a sign that is.
It's not unusual for UK companies to use their solicitor's address
by 65 | 2026-01-03 19:45:18+00:00
Seriously. Hacker News is so adamant on Linux it's almost comical. I mean, I get it... this is a site for developers. But I'm a developer and MacOS is great for writing software, the hardware is better than everything else on the market by far, and I don't have to mess around with my computer just to get certain drivers or whatever to work.

I spent $1000 on a Macbook Air, it instantly works with zero headache, has way more app support than Linux, is super fast, and so on.

If I want to play games, I bought the cheapest gaming laptop from Best Buy for like $500 a few years ago and only use that computer to play games.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-03 19:45:21+00:00
Forget Venezuela, this is a major problem for America. Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth lied to Congress a couple weeks ago when they explicitly said that this is not about regime change. Entering an illegal war, committing acts of international piracy, and pledging to take over another country’s resources is completely illegal and a violation of American laws as well as international laws.

And right now, the entire right wing is cheering on this situation. These are people who wanted an isolationist America that does not start new conflicts. Spineless Republican senators and legislators are staying quiet as they allow this horrific dictatorial action to go on without any criticism. And meanwhile, tech billionaires like Elon Musk are continuously tweeting sycophantic support for this illegal act of state terrorism.

How will America recover? Its political system is broken. And its international reputation is shattered.
by duxup | 2026-01-03 19:45:49+00:00
I'd argue it's more true on Reddit than anywhere. Subreddits are fairly self contained.

Other social media sites I feel like I'm fighting off a wave of whatever the site wants / momentum of all the users is.

Granted that doesn't mean they're completely isolated, a lot of smaller subs I was a part of have fallen into a mess of spam and engagement bots and so on so my total subs I'm interested in has fallen off.