MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by instagib | 2026-01-03 21:03:04+00:00
One thing I’ve noticed overseas is construction rules, fire rules, etc are different in each country or town. Requirements are vastly different and they may never re-inspect.

How much smoke does it take to fill and trigger an alarm if you have semi-exposed wood beams?

Many places don’t have or require expensive fire suppression sprinklers.

Some no smoke detectors or carbon monoxide sensors.

How far are you from the fire exit stairs?

Do you need to fight a fire with an emergency hose to get there?

Do they have a fire station nearby? Staffed? Buildings burn very fast.

Does the truck go up to your hotel’s 6th or higher floors?
by lisdexan | 2026-01-03 21:03:16+00:00
Beyond the other replies to your 'point', fent has nothing to do with Venezuela⁰. It's pretty obvious if you think about it for 5 seconds, it's a dense synthetic opioid. Is there incredible chemistry knowhow in the quite far off Venezuela? No. It makes as much sense as making meth on the Peruvian jungle.

The precursors are made in legal-ish Chinese and Indian labs and shipped to the US and Mexico (y'know close where the users are). It's finished state-side or in Mexico where the DEA has less power. In fact one of the routes is:

China Lab -> Conventional Post -> Porch of a clueless gringo with a new 'online job'-> Smuggled to Mexico -> Mexican Lab -> Smuggled to the USA -> Distribution

[0]: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...
by Fileformat | 2026-01-03 21:03:24+00:00
RSS.style is my site. I'm currently testing a JavaScript-based workaround that should look just like the current XSLT version. It will not require the XSLT polyfill (which sort-of works, but seems fragile).

One bonus is that it will be easier to customize for people that know JavaScript but don't know XSLT (which is a lot of people, including me).

You'll still need to add a line to the feed source code.
by hvb2 | 2026-01-03 21:03:26+00:00
> The most obvious example is North Korea - if the US had the ability to transition that country into democracy with little risk of something going wrong, they should obviously do that.

So let's say they take out Kim jong Un...

Now you have a country where every living being from their birth has been trained that US is bad and their leader is like God on earth.

Your 'little risk of something going wrong' is wishful thinking or naive
by the_snooze | 2026-01-03 21:03:34+00:00
>One evil thing they were doing that they've suddenly given up on: they spent a ton of money buying up gaming studios (highly anti-competitively) to win on the console front and to stymie Steam's ability to move off Windows. They wanted to make Windows/Xbox gaming the place everyone would be. They threw all of that away because AI became a bigger target.

No kidding, the totally threw it all away. It used to be that Windows was already the place for gaming. And the Xbox 360 arguably won its generation. But that was a long time ago. Has any Microsoft gaming release exceeded expectations lately? Call of Duty will always sell like hotcakes, but the latest Black Ops is a hot expensive mess that underperformed last year's title.
Show HN: Lock In – A goal Mac tracker controlled by commands (7 Days Free)
by TedOS | 2026-01-03 21:03:49+00:00
I built a task/goal tracker where the entire UI is one input field.
The idea: your goals live in four quadrants (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). Everything happens through commands. The app docks to the side of your screen.

Adding a goal:

/d 50 pushups

Chain them:

/d 50 pushups /w 3 gym sessions /m finish project /y learn piano

Updating progress:

Create an alias with /alias p pushups, then just type 25 p to add 25. Three characters.

Review your week with /review 7d. Rename goals, change targets, convert between quadrants—all through commands.

Each quadrant auto-resets at the right interval (daily at midnight, weekly on Monday, etc). You don't manage anything.

Why I built it this way: I kept bouncing between productivity apps looking for something faster. Nothing stuck because they all wanted me to click through menus and organise things. I just wanted to type and move on.

So I made something deliberately constrained. One input. Four quadrants. No settings screen. No integrations. The lack of features is the point.

Curious what the HN crowd thinks—especially if the command syntax feels intuitive or too obscure. Still iterating.
by ineedaj0b | 2026-01-03 21:05:47+00:00
the entire readership of this website is clueless, it’s an echo chamber. Unless you write a thoroughly detailed contra comment you get downvoted. If you say Elon is good you get downvoted. I do not want to source my comments, I work a job! Maybe Elon is sometimes good and sometimes bad. Maybe I don’t want to drop how I know something because my employer would be very mad.

You can no longer get the full picture because all the guys with alpha (investing term) left and post on Twitter/X now. All rando accounts without their faces. Anything interesting for AI is on there now and you can chat with the actual researchers too, you don’t need to bump into them at a shoes off party after work.

There’s a lot of very uncomfortable discussion on Twitter/X if you can stomach it, you’ll end up with a much clearer picture of the world. There’s a lot of dumb stuff on there too! You have to sift through it.

HN hit its Eternal September. There’s still some really great technical stuff you can find on here though. I don’t know how long the decline has been but it doesn’t seem to be getting better.
by dpark | 2026-01-03 21:05:48+00:00
> His claims to control the country and its resources would be inadmissible as charges, because they have not happened.

I fail to see the relevance of this tangent. You haven’t even specified what the hypothetical inadmissible charges would be.

It seems like you are trying to say that an unsuccessful invasion should not count as an invasion, which is absurd. If Canada sent 100k troops to DC to take over America but they were all promptly killed, would that not count as an invasion?
by lokicik | 2026-01-03 21:06:09+00:00
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by antonvs | 2026-01-03 21:06:27+00:00
Sure, happy to discuss in detail, here or in email (where we can arrange anything else.) Base64 decode the value in my profile a couple of times (sorry for the inconvenience.)

Re isolation, my question would be, what's the threat model? Despite the theoretical risks, for example, cloud providers run user containers on their managed clusters and other service. Of course, those services and the containers they run are locked down in various ways, but that can be replicated if you're running on bare metal.

Especially if you're going to be running in the cloud, microVMs will hurt you in terms of performance, because you'll be running your own VMs within the cloud provider VMs. Similarly, using microVMs makes it harder if not impractical to take advantage of orchestrators like Kubernetes.

If you're running on bare metal, then it's probably not the best idea to run containers directly on e.g. an un-hardened Linux. You'd be better off running something like k8s for container management, and run that on a container-specific OS like Flatcar.

In that scenario, I suppose the advantage of a microvm is mainly that it could help protect you from threats you may not have considered - after all, you and I aren't AWS or Google. But pragmatically, I think the disadvantages of micro VMs outweigh the largely theoretical risks.
by edent | 2026-01-03 21:06:40+00:00
Someone once asked me how I found the time to read so many books. I just prefer reading to most other activities. I'd rather have my nose in a book than [your favourite activity].

It is the same with blogging. I'd rather spend time writing than I would watching YouTube, mowing the lawn, or whatever.

Although, since starting an adult gap year 12 months ago, I've actually been blogging less as I find more interesting things to do than work :-)
by Zambyte | 2026-01-03 21:06:55+00:00
> and I really don't like how the author is so stubbornly in favour of unused-variables-as-errors

FWIW, they also have a goal to emit as much output as possible, even in the face of compilation errors. They have stated that even syntax errors should have the compiler exit with a non-zero exit code, but still produce an executable that will give you a syntax error at runtime. The point of this being to allow you to iterate quickly, but force things like CI to fail.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-03 21:07:04+00:00
There's a massive difference, and that difference is that American oil companies, unlike the Venezuelan state run industry, are actually very competent at extracting oil. This means more good paying jobs, more state revenue, and massive economic growth. Contrary to the claims of most of the economically illiterate morons commenting here, having a functional local oil industry run by foreign companies will actually be great for Venezuela.
by dzhiurgis | 2026-01-03 21:07:31+00:00
Blocking is basically abuse nowadays in form of “coward block”. Very common in reddit, around topics about EVs (interestingly many of their usernames follow same pattern which makes me think these are malicious bots).

Basically they’ll respond to your comment with a falsehood and block you so you can’t respond (and most times won’t even see the response). Comment stays up for rest of the gang to brigade on.
by spudlyo | 2026-01-03 21:08:13+00:00
With both Windows 11 and macOS Tahoe now being non-starters for many, it's clear that we're going to continue to see impressive growth in the Linux desktop in 2026. Last year I migrated my Windows gaming machine to Ubuntu, and it's been a great success. I don't play games that require kernel level anti-cheats, so for me, Proton has worked great. I'm playing new games like Anno 117 on my 2019 vintage RX 5700xt and am having a blast. I'm about to wipe my Windows 10 partition and not look back.

I still have an M1 laptop with a broken screen that is going strong in clam shell mode, but once it dies or I can no longer run Sequoia for whatever reason, I'll be tempted to abandon macOS if Apple can't move beyond the mess they've made with Tahoe.
by packet_mover | 2026-01-03 21:08:31+00:00
Thanks for chiming in - super helpful context.

I am trying to learn from real deployments as I design Corviont's updater for edge boxes (bandwidth caps, maintenance windows, unreliable WAN, atomic swap + rollback).

When you say transit "zones" are small enough to deploy incrementally - what is the actual artifact per zone (roughly what format), and what sizes do you typically see?

And when a transit zone dataset changes, how do you roll that out safely - do you restart/reload the backend that serves that zone, or do you bring up a new backend/version and then flip travelmux to point at it?
by bigyabai | 2026-01-03 21:08:33+00:00
Yep, Cook has worked against his personal interests for decades. He probably feels like a sociopath, but why would that stop him? There's money to be made.

Moreover, it's fascinating how both sides of America's political aisle refuse to see anything but the best in Apple. To liberals, Apple is a shining beacon of innovation and social justice that exercises their private cudgel to bring digital offenders in-line. To conservatives, Apple is a stalwart defender of private capital and the halcyon of privacy and free speech for the common man. Neither one can decipher the fact that they've been duped, instead they both hold onto the belief that Apple will fully embrace their politics and vindicate their faith.
by anthk | 2026-01-03 21:08:41+00:00
So, like the Cold War? WIll the CIA sell drugs in black 'hoods in order to finance war in South America too?

Maybe the Black communities should embrace the Straight Edge movement. Hispanics, too, just in case. Drug cause poverty and, yes, poverty drives people into drugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...

kinda like the Chinese did against opium. They could declare any drug dealer something like a White KKK supporter against the Blacks/Hispanics.

So, 2x1. Less violence coming from impoverished Ethnic homes, more educated people overall and less money would be spent on social programs.

Now, if you want to play with DMT, earn yourself a Bachelor's at least and do R&D in proper places.
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2026-01-03 21:09:24+00:00
Biden's new Title IX rules became law on August 1, 2024 so they weren't "might". Thankfully, we only had a few months under this particular imposition on our basic rights and push never came to shove. We agree that Orange Man does some Bad Things. I would bet history will look more kindly on him than society does now, though.

> the intentions of it are to widen the hiring pools to consider more people.

I think this is a charitable take. To "consider" more people. But: 1) considering people takes resources, and if there's an optimal amount of "considering" to do and you force the pool one way or another...you're forcing people out as well as in. There's no way to "consider" more people efficiently. It's a nice lie that many people told themselves and others.

2) More importantly, and because of 1), this is not generally how it worked imho. We got quotas and mandates, people were put to the "bottom of the pile" (i.e., their applications not looked at). It was clear-cut illegal discrimination at large corporations and in academia, and there's plenty of direct first-hand evidence of that (including here on HN). I saw it myself many times (admittedly in academia, which as you rightly point out is a white-hot ball of crazy in this regard).

3) I'm not going to do it, but I think it wouldn't be hard to find evidence of high-level people who were inflicting DEI explicitly saying it wasn't about "widening the hiring pools to consider more people", but rather directly about removing white people from power and replacing them with black, brown, gay, female, or ideally some combo people. Nothing to do with "considering", just a power grab under an alternative metric for fairness they called "equity".

As for court losses:
https://reason.com/2023/09/07/affirmative-action-loses-in-co... Affirmative action is over, is the biggest one

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/ames-v-ohio-depa... is another big one

More minor but:
Executive Order 14151 "Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing" was blocked but now is un-blocked and enforceable nationwide: https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-administration-appeals-...

EO 14173 "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity" had an injuction, but that injunction was stayed https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/marylan...

It appears to me that these programs pretty much have been axed across the board.
by yodsanklai | 2026-01-03 21:09:27+00:00
We got a commodore C64 for Christmas when I was about 8. There was a built-in basic interpreter and many books and magazines taught you about that. I don't know if you can call that coding, but I learned how to write simple programs. Then I upgraded to an Amiga, and learned some assembly and some 3D and various graphics effects, mostly from magazines and friends. I eventually got a proper CS education in college and then kept learning ever since.
by hvb2 | 2026-01-03 21:09:36+00:00
You do realize the guy also ripped up the trade deal with Mexico and Canada, right?

That was negotiated by whom again? Oh, right, trump in his first term...

So the only conclusion I can draw is that he's like a toddler. If you give him what he wants he'll want more. That's foreign policy now.

Also, NATO has seen article 5 invoked once. By the US and it's allies helped out after 9/11. So it hasn't been too bad for the US. I don't disagree with the fact that a lot of European countries should've been spending 2% of GDP though all along
by BrandoElFollito | 2026-01-03 21:09:45+00:00
> it's nonsensical to say tailscale works in places where wireguard is blocked

I have two machines on my desk, I configure a wg service on both. I also configure tailscale on both. Everything works.

I move one machine to another network, at a friend's place.

Wg does not work anymore. Tailscale works. So this is very much sensible to say what GP said.

Now, you can have all kinds of explanations about why wg dos not work and ts does, you know STUN, DERP, ts using wg under the hood, and whatnot but the facts are cruel: I cannot wg to my machine, but I can ts.
by memoriesofsmell | 2026-01-03 21:09:47+00:00
Two anecdotes to contribute here:
First, due to allergic rhinitis, my sense of smell was pretty muted for much of my life, only in the last few years when I developed a taste for wines did I start making a serious effort to manage that better and develop my sens of smell. It's been quite a pleasure to do.

Secondly, a friend of mine keeps (kept?) drawers full of jars with different things in them that had specific smells associated with them. In the same way someone might keep a photo album, she kept a collection of smells which would vividly recall a memory for her. To this day I still find that absolutely fascinating that she was able to do that so reliably.

The contrast of her experiences with smell vs mine was quite astounding to me and something I've thought about a lot since meeting her a few years ago.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-03 21:10:02+00:00
What strikes me about this list is how many of these blogs have been around for years - some over a decade. There's something to be said for just... showing up consistently.

I've been writing about building tools for bookkeepers (not exactly a glamorous niche) and the compound effect is real. Posts from 2 years ago still bring in readers who then find newer stuff. No algorithm decides to bury you if you take a month off.

The POSSE approach someone mentioned is interesting too. Own your content, syndicate to platforms. Too many people build their entire presence on rented land and then wonder why they're invisible when the algorithm changes.
by latexr | 2026-01-03 21:10:06+00:00
No need to get upset. I replied earnestly, I thought you might’ve skipped it.

The point I was making is that with more money you increase your chances to win. The fact that you may have to split the winnings isn’t relevant, you still won. I was explicitly responding to the “the lottery doesn't care about your current circumstance and everyone has an equal (equally small) chance” remark.
by janalsncm | 2026-01-03 21:10:43+00:00
There was a time in my life when I would spend a few hours learning about US-Venezuela relations and the Venezuelan government and related topics so I could have a skin deep understanding of it and play an internet expert in threads like this.

I’m not going to do that today. It’s sunny, and I want to spend time with family. Being naive about this topic doesn’t affect the core of things I want to be knowledgeable about. And the reality is, having a vote only gives me nominally more agency over US foreign policy than someone who can’t vote. I am mostly just observing.
by xpe | 2026-01-03 21:10:53+00:00
>> International law is an important factor

> I mean, if you ever needed smoking gun proof this is a lie, you got some today.

You are misunderstanding me. I had hoped my claim was clear, but maybe not, so I'll try again: if you want to understand and predict the world well, factoring in international law is an important factor. Claim: no serious scholars or analysts would disagree. Of course they will build different models (unfortunately relatively few are quantitative, but there are exceptions) and argue the details.

Now to your statement "I mean, if you ever needed smoking gun proof this is a lie, you got some today."...

Recency bias has a huge effect on people. But today is one data point out of many. It matters, in context, weighted appropriately. But how to weight it? Have you put thought into this? What was your prior and how much did today change it? (Admittedly, few people write down their priors, so for most of us, this exercise is sort of like a retrospective where we realize we probably never thought about it carefully in the first place!)
by nodesocket | 2026-01-03 21:11:19+00:00
> The president should not have the power to apprehend a countries president IN THEIR COUNTRY without a process thats more than just "I really want it".

"I really want it" is not the reason. Come on! Maduro is indicted in the Southern District of New York. Both charged with conspiracy to commit narco-terrorism and import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices against the US.

The military operation was merely to lead the operation to allow FBI to arrest. Now, the oil issue certainly can be argued as the real reason for the strike and capture, but frankly they were OUR oil fields (funded by US companies) before Maduro seized them and nationalized them.
by tim333 | 2026-01-03 21:11:25+00:00
Me neither but I guess so.

Falsifying business records with intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime.

The 'another crime' was never specified.

I guess he joins all the other people convicted of falsifying business records with an intent to commit another crime unspecified.

It does seem a bit made up for him. I'm sure lots of people have errors in their business reporting and how do you defend against being accused of an unspecified crime?

I'm not really a Trump fan but I think it would have been much better to prosecute him for something real like trying to steal the 2020 election than the above silliness that was just ignored and let him get back into office.
by lerno | 2026-01-03 21:11:38+00:00
The difference from an assert is that for "require" they are compiled into the caller frame, so things like stack traces (which is available in safe mode) will point exactly to where the violation happened.

Because of inlining them at the call site happens, static analysis will already pick up some obvious violations.

Finally, these contracts may be used to compile time check otherwise untyped arguments to macros.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-03 21:11:53+00:00
It is one thing to be disabled, it is another thing to be "diss abled" and be continuously angry about it. Same thing about people who have fibromyalgia, chronic lyme, etc. I mean, my wife has a good friend who has fibro and she is cool but the people I find online who first and foremost want to talk about their health challenges seem to build an identity and find meaning around it.

For instance you find a lot of people on Mastodon who complain that people don't put ALT text on images but I work really hard to write good ALT text for my photos and people aren't thankful for that.

I don't see the mentioned categories of inherently offensive but on platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon I see them as associated with emotional negativity.
by superlucky84 | 2026-01-03 21:11:58+00:00
I really relate to that.

There’s often a gap between what feels conceptually clean and what teams are actually willing to carry cognitively.
Rx in particular tends to exceed that budget pretty quickly.

That’s why fp-pack is intentionally narrow — it’s closer to making a few control-flow cases explicit in pipe-first code than introducing a broad new abstraction.
by throwaway173738 | 2026-01-03 21:12:08+00:00
You’re assuming that’s the only thing at issue here. When the US starts these wars for resources we always make statements about “spreading democracy” so we can hide behind that bailey. But Trump actually explained what it was really about in his speech: restoring access to cheap Venezuelan oil. Don’t give him the benefit of the doubt here. He’s doing the sane thing George W Bush did.