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by zen928 | 2026-01-03 20:43:59+00:00
Yes, your entire post screams "older generation knows better, newer generation stupid losers" in unifying accompaniment with my initial caveman comparison. It's always interesting seeing the divide of generational vs cultural values from the point of view of people in the country, and the absolute insistence that their values represent one side vs representing the other. If you're observant, you get to witness in real time the cold and deafening silence of society moving on and losing interest with whatever hill-of-the-week people want to dramatically die on through over performant thrashing about. I mentally frame this timeline and context to be the equivalent of a child tantrumming in a grocery store while everyone else is just focused on shopping and going home, except I get to stop and point and laugh every once and a while in moments like this one. The death of stoner culture and commercialization of THC as a product instead of a lifestyle was pretty similar.
by maximinus_thrax | 2026-01-03 20:44:43+00:00
Denial is not just a river in Egypt, товарищ. Soviet nostalgia has become central to Putinism and thanks to the non-stop brainwashing, in 2020 '75% of Russians agreed that the Soviet era was the "greatest time" in the history of Russia.'. This is used to justify the illegal invasion of Ukraine by the Russian terrorist state.

Any random Eastern European sees right through your bullshit, protomolecule.
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-03 20:44:55+00:00
By the time the October revolution came, the Provisional Government had lost most of its popular support by choosing to continue WWI though.

Anyway, the main point is that as nice as getting rid of a dictator sound, the consequences can be much worse than the dictatorship itself, at least in the short term (which can last for a decade or more…).
by sarlalian | 2026-01-03 20:45:23+00:00
If possible, go to local meetups for whatever type of role you are in/interested in. The current environment while very different from the 2000’s dot com bubble bust, has certain similarities, and at that time, the only way to really find work was through relationships. I know at that time I ended up switching from being a software engineer to desktop support for about 6 months just to stay employed, especially since it was the only job available in my friend group.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-03 20:46:19+00:00
> Just like removing the President of the United States wouldn't mean the country descends into chaos.

Oh, it would definitely. There would be a power vacuum, people would wonder if the remaining government would obey the constitution or ignore it, etc...before Trump I would have said the process would have been resolved smoothly, now I have no idea.

Removing the head of a government doesn't break the government, but it definitely creates chaos before the top is filled. If the government has transitioned into a top-down autocracy, the chaos is even worse, as government agencies would have lost their ability to act independently over time. At that point, various factions start shooting at each other to try and take control of the country (aka a civil war). Throw in one or two foreign militaries in the background and there is even more reasons to start shooting.
Show HN: Self-hosted email server for 2026 – single binary, CalDAV
by fenilsonani | 2026-01-03 20:46:41+00:00
Built this after getting frustrated with the paying to a google for email. Now running it for 1 months in production.

What it does:
- Full SMTP server (inbound/outbound, DKIM signing, SPF/DMARC checking)
- IMAP with IDLE support
- CalDAV/CardDAV (replace Google Calendar/Contacts)
- Web admin panel with Prometheus metrics
- Greylisting for spam prevention
- Auto-discovery (mail clients configure themselves)
- Audit logging for compliance

What it doesn't do:
- Webmail (use Roundcube, etc.)
- ML-based spam filtering (greylisting + basic heuristics only)
- Clustering/HA
by mananaysiempre | 2026-01-03 20:46:42+00:00
Not unless you write your own assert macro using C23 unreachable(), GNU C __builtin_unreachable(), MSVC __assume(0), or the like. The standard one is defined[1] to either explicitly check or completely ignore its argument.

[1] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#7.2
by solenoid0937 | 2026-01-03 20:46:46+00:00
Both play a significant role. Many countries absolutely respect us because of our military might. They rely on it because they don't want to divert funding from welfare to build out their own militaries. As such, they ally with us, creating inroads to trade et al.

Obviously, there's more than just military might, we have the most innovative and powerful economy on the planet as well.

However, with a country like Venezuela, where none of our allies truly care what we do (sure, they might blow hot air but whatever), we are free to use hard power to achieve our objectives.
by fenilsonani | 2026-01-03 20:47:36+00:00
I built this after Google Workspace pricing jumped again and I wanted full control over my email stack.

This is a self-hosted email server written in Go, shipped as a single binary. It supports IMAP (with IDLE), SMTP, DKIM, SPF/DMARC, and CalDAV, with modern defaults and minimal configuration.

The goal is something you can run on a small VPS for personal or small-team use without vendor lock-in.

I’d really appreciate feedback on the architecture, security model, and what you’d want to see next.
by bdangubic | 2026-01-03 20:48:13+00:00
> Elon is not Tesla

you take Elon out of Tesla and you will end up with Ford, $13-16/share

> At least the new compensation is performance based. If he can't deliver, he doesn't get paid.

Unfortunately, with Elon and TSLA, this is not the case. He just has to promise he will deliver in some imaginary future (as he’s been doing for more than a decade) and he’ll be handsomely rewarded
by douxx | 2026-01-03 20:49:38+00:00
I've been working on BotWave, which turns a Raspberry Pi into an FM transmitter.
A user requested live streaming support so apps like Spotify (via raspotify) or
Snapcast could broadcast directly to FM instead of just playing files.

What I did creates an ALSA loopback device that appears as a virtual
sound card named "BotWave". Any audio application can output to it for immediate
FM transmission. For networked setups, I built PCM streaming using HTTP octet-stream.

Some details:
On install, the ALSA snd-aloop module is configured at system level, It uses pyalsaaudio for audio capture (48kHz stereo default), Async/sync generator bridging for the existing broadcast infrastructure, Tested with aplay/VLC/ffmpeg, works reliably

The feature is complete and testable on the livestream-test branch. I'm looking for
feedback before merging to main, especially from anyone who's used raspotify or
snapcast with ALSA devices. (I wasn't able to use raspotify since i don't have a premium Spotify account)

Project: https://github.com/dpipstudio/botwave
by jrm4 | 2026-01-03 20:49:45+00:00
My gut is that this is for the best; I haven't fully fleshed it out but it feels like the practical goal of "decentralizing power" and e.g. ISPs and other powerful entities exploiting end users is easier in an IPv6 regime, and has been practically thwarted somewhat by IPv4.

I'm reminded of way back in the day when they wanted charge per user or per device in households.
by dubeye | 2026-01-03 20:50:22+00:00
Couple of reasons why I think this is nonsense .

the mainline guideline is more exercise and better diet which is the treatment to much more than just heart disease. that's not something 27 hours of doctors a day can provide unless you give them guns

the treatments reduce risk, but they don't change the fact the human body is very reliant on the heart and increasingly vulnerable to cardiac death with age, even with perfect biomarkers
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-03 20:50:23+00:00
> dysfunctional middle-management

I thought about this a lot while working at a high-growth company recently.

Decided that regular (quarterly) manager rankings (HR-supported, anonymous) by 2-3 levels of subordinates is the only way to solve this at scale.

The central problem is: assuming a CEO accidentally promoted a bad middle manager, then how do they ever find out?

Most companies (top-down rankings-only) use project success as their primary manager performance signal.

Unfortunately, this has 3 problems: (1) project success doesn't prove a manager isn't bad, (2) above-managers only hear from managers, and (3) it incentivizes managers to hack project success metrics / definitions.

Adding a servant/leader skip-level metric is a critical piece of information on "On, this person is toxic and everyone thinks poorly of them, despite the fact that they say everyone loves them."
by solenoid0937 | 2026-01-03 20:51:45+00:00
Claims of sovereignty are meaningless, what happens is whether those claims hold up in real life, and in this case they clearly don't.

A country is either powerful enough to enforce sovereignty, or it is not actually sovereign; so this hand-wringing about "Venezuela's sovereignty" is meaningless. It's already been proven false, to some extent.

The US is free to do what it wants with Venezuela, or virtually any non-nuclear country in the world. Always has been, really. It simply doesn't exercise said power very often.
by mattmanser | 2026-01-03 20:51:59+00:00
Do you think they'll continue to win in enterprise? As a casual office user, who's had to do some PowerPoint and word docs recently, I found the experience of using office 365 truly miserable. All of them are laggy and horrible to use.

I think by moving onto the cloud they've left themselves open to being disrupted, and when it comes it'll be like Lotus Notes, an extremely quick downfall.
by 4gotunameagain | 2026-01-03 20:52:30+00:00
Do you think it is realistic that a (relatively) small country next to a superpower seeks protection from the rival superpower ?

What would happen if panama wanted to join a defence pact with Russia ?

What happened during the Cuban missile crisis ?

I wish all countries could be independent and free of meddling from superpowers. But at some moment you have to be realistic.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-03 20:53:29+00:00
Technically opening up your neighbor's mailbox is a felony. But in practice you will never be charged for it. Same thing with the hush money case. There is no law that makes covering up an affair illegal while running for office and Trump was not charged with any campaign finance violations. He was charged with the vague crime of "falsifying business records" which, while technically illegal in all cases, in practice is only ever charged if there is a victim who has been defrauded by the falsification. In this case there was none.

The Clinton case is exactly the same concept and is also 100% a politically motivated prosecution. So is the Hunter Biden gun charge. Nobody else ever would have been charged for that.
by goulvenclech | 2026-01-03 20:53:41+00:00
As a new chapter opens for me in 2026, I wanted to reflect on everything I learned over five years at ENCHERES IMMO, my first job as a software engineer.

From intern during the COVID era, to owning the codebase as the sole lead developer; I learned a lot about maintainability and code quality... but also how your value can grow far beyond pure coding skills.
by avidiax | 2026-01-03 20:53:43+00:00
It also prevents "contempt of business model". Makes a SW or HW bypass for ink cartridge pairing or game piracy or monthly widget subscription difficult or impossible. May also make any vulnerability patchable.

If you depend on your firmware remaining secret, however, you have to contend with the black hat version of the presenters. They are expert at extracting firmware and cloning. Some applications choose FPGAs in part because the equivalent of their firmware (the bitstream) is itself nearly impossible to reverse engineer. That means that a one-for-one clone is possible, but you can't alter the design, and have to use the exact same part.
by arcbyte | 2026-01-03 20:53:54+00:00
Based on where I was born and my background, I should not know as much as I do about Venezuela. Improbably, life led me to develop close ties to some Venezuelans, and with them as a window, I've learned a lot about that country.

In this case, the people of Venezuela are desperate to get rid of their socialist government. It has, predictably and inevitably, led them directly to poverty, starvation, and violent repression.

I have a lot of reservations about the way in which Trump is operating and in this case, the legality of every aspect of how he is doing this operation in Venezuela. Despite all those reservations, this is a rare situation where this action benefits everyone and the world.
by tgv | 2026-01-03 20:54:21+00:00
A compiler takes some language and translates it into something close(r) to the hardware. And that's what the OP does. And since it compiles in process and executed it too, it's JIT, as opposed to AOT.

These terms are not related to the complexity of the problem. The first compilers could only translate for formulas, hence FORTRAN.
by derbOac | 2026-01-03 20:54:30+00:00
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Trump engaged in insurrection as a matter of fact. That is, they deemed it so obvious from the evidence presented (much of which was publicly available) that it didn't require a trial for determination.

This was appealed to the US Supreme Court, who didn't rule that this wasn't true, they ruled that the 14th amendment needs to be applied by Congress for reasons of consistency across states... which sidestepped the entire issue and was a dereliction of duty in my opinion, in the sense that they are the highest court and could have ruled on the issue of insurrection, or at least required some kind of jury proceeding at that time. They basically didn't do their one job.

Then Jack Smith later amassed a case about it, with grand jury approval. He ran out of time to try and convict Trump before he was elected, basically published a summary report of his case. Recently he testified before a congressional committee about it and asserted he was extremely confident Trump would have been convicted. He testified that he never consulted with Biden about the case, and asked that the rest of his materials from his investigation be publicly released.

Legally speaking there is a strong argument that Trump engaged in insurrection; he's just been shielded from the consequences by political maneuvers and poor timing.

Put differently, one state supreme court decided he so obviously engaged in it that it didn't require a trial. Another federal attorney presented his evidence to a grand jury and they decided he was likely to succeed if it went to trial.

My personal belief is historians will look at the evidence presented and conclude that US Congress made catastrophic mistakes by not impeaching Trump the first time (for obstruction of justice first, and insurrection second), and that SCOTUS made an equally catastrophic mistake (or corrupt decision) by not ruling on insurrection as the highest federal court, either on its own or with a grand jury trial.
by chongli | 2026-01-03 20:54:31+00:00
I think you're muddling things up more than they need to be. A peer-to-peer game is one in which players connect directly to each other but neither is the host and there is no dedicated server. Game state is maintained separately on each player's computer and kept in sync by the netcode. Since there is no single source of truth for the game-state, so players are free to cheat by modifying the game's code to lie on their behalf. There is also the side issue of bugs in the game code causing the game-states to become irreparably desynchronized.

All of these issues are solved by having a central server for both players to connect to. Whether that server is owned by the game's publisher or by an open-source community is irrelevant from a technology standpoint. However, the prevalence of IPv4 networks and stateful NAT firewalls is relevant because it privileges those central servers over true peer-to-peer connections.
by aglavine | 2026-01-03 20:54:52+00:00
Just a few I found in 5 minutes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_e...

https://youtu.be/qxlpRDr6aEg?si=jQdhOwslOLrZBN_5

https://youtu.be/FRbX18Evcvg?si=OLpsLCY4MQwAyIEP

https://youtu.be/aISwtCy02Hg?si=Y0TRfj-bHQANSklZ

https://youtube.com/shorts/4azk6qDE9-I?si=J2SjBmJtAXotU6js
by jacquesm | 2026-01-03 20:55:04+00:00
In your world everybody will be at war with each other. The way to deal with the risk of foreign nationalization of your assets is to price it in or to forego the opportunity. Expecting your country to go to war for your private interests is ridiculous. You can go to court if you want and if you lose you'll have to take your lumps.

1898 is a while ago (the Banana wars).
by common_creator | 2026-01-03 20:55:06+00:00
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by greazy | 2026-01-03 20:55:20+00:00
Unfortunately LO can not handle most people's document requirements. Not at any fault of LO, it's Microsoft who make comparability hard or impossible. So when working with most people who will be using Office, LO will fail to correctly format a document.

I'm reminded of this great article on the subject

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interopera...

Unfortunately MS make everything a moving target.
by esarbe | 2026-01-03 20:55:50+00:00
Your argument is perfectly well suited to justify the imperialist Russian aggression against Ukraine.

My point is that there's no entity with the authority to declare a government illegal - besides the UN security council. Next thing you know China invades Taiwan and it will be hard to argue with "sovereignty of nations". Nobody - not even the US - cares about it anymore, right? We just declare a government as illegitimate and presto - no need to justify it anymore. Here we go for some more foreign wars.

This is not about "liberating Venezuela" from a dictatorship. It's just about placing a new dictator at the head of Venezuela, equally illegitimate and equally authoritarian. Venezuela has become an US protectorate for the foreseeable future. At least until the oil runs dry [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/03/world/trump-united-s...
by ben_w | 2026-01-03 20:57:52+00:00
Main difference is that Russia is 1409 days into their 3 day "special operation" that has obviously become a war, while this looks like it was actually a special operation.

A "special operation" that makes hypocrites of every US official complaining that the EU is engaged in over-reach and has no sovereignty in the USA, but still it is success (at least with regard to the immediately stated objectives) that's the difference.

Long term, I expect this to be a colossal failure for the USA, the USA has a very poor record for pulling long term benefits out of this kind of action, and Trump is a sub-unity multiplier on that.
by Fraterkes | 2026-01-03 20:58:07+00:00
I guess the reason I found it surprising is that I would only use 3 (ie risk introducing UB) for invariants that I was very certain were true, whereas I would mostly use 2 for invariants that I had reason to believe might not always be true.
It struck me as odd that you'd use the same tool for scenario's that feel like opposites, especially when you can just switch between these modes with a compiler flag
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-03 20:58:10+00:00
Some Taiwanese will welcome china,

Some ukrainians welcomed russia,

some polish will welcome russia,

some estonians will welcome russia

etc etc etc.

Look, you don't just regime change, It didn't work in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan. It only really kinda worked in Kosovo, but even then it was touch and go, require lots of troop time and a load of money and ongoing international police.
by Brian_K_White | 2026-01-03 20:59:59+00:00
You could design entirely in notepad.exe, and that would be computer aided design by your definition.

Rather than that definition being too strict, this one is too litteral.

It was perfectly reasonable to characterize the tool as not really CAD, even though a 3d drawing/modelling/rendering/visualizing program is on a computer and is part of a design process.
by nightski | 2026-01-03 21:00:16+00:00
Name or color had nothing to do with it imho (I like the brown personally). It was all timing. They were entering a market with a well estaablished leader (iPod) that was nearly as good, as good, or better depending on who you ask. On top of it phones themselves were taking over the music player market at the same time, which is where Microsoft really dropped the ball.

I mean, iPhone is a really ridiculous name as well if you stop to think about it.
by goatlover | 2026-01-03 21:00:58+00:00
"We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country, and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so," Trump said.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/03/g-s1-104346/trump-venezuela-m...
by lurk2 | 2026-01-03 21:02:11+00:00
> Expecting your country to go to war for your private interests is ridiculous.

At the risk of coming across as flippant: Why? I don’t think the math has worked out on most peer conflicts during the past hundred years. The cost of the operation has likely already exceeded the value of whatever infrastructure was left in Venezuela to be reclaimed. But why should we expect courts and bailiffs to enforce the law domestically and not expect soldiers to enforce it internationally?
by nightski | 2026-01-03 21:02:12+00:00
Blaming this on Ballmer is a serious stretch, I can't see how you would come to that conclusion. Developers Developers Developers was for the launch of .NET and it brought us a platform that is still considered cutting edge 25 years later.

UX was fine in the Windows Forms days, and WPF was a large step forward (responsive layouts, etc...). The problem was after that it all fell apart with Windows 8 and the attempt to switch to Metro, followed by the Windows Store fiasco and attempting to move to a sandboxed application model.

It all comes down to Microsoft's failure to adapt to mobile/tablets in so many ways. Which is kind of hilarious, because they had some really cool tech for the time (the PocketPCs were pretty fun back in the day, before touch came along).
by chunkmonke99 | 2026-01-03 21:03:01+00:00
I don't disagree, writing code will probably no longer be a thing in the near future. This is probably also true for all knowledge work (math, design, etc etc.) which is literally anything that can be "reduced" to mechanical transformations on symbols. Including music gear design, design of plumbing fixtures, tooling jigs (CAD work) etc etc. It is all basically transforming a specific set of discrete symbols into other ones or stringing them together or re-combining them etc etc. I wouldn't call that a doomer take either. But yes, the "Claude 4.5 still makes mistakes" thing is played out "remainder humanism"/ "John Henry vs. the machine". I fully see the value of Software products to go to zero with a whole bunch of money being funneled into one of the AI companies. It is a scary time to be around. I would stop learning coding and/or any framework or specific technology.