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Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:11:19 +0000

Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions People occasionally ask me how I think Guix compares to Nix. Let me set the stage: I've been using Nix for many years, have large projects using Nix, used to be very active in the Nix community, and even wrote multiple Nix language interpreters, so I'd say that I'm at least fairly comfortable with Nix. I'm also one of those people who live in Emacs. I'm no stranger to Lisps (although my experience with Scheme is limited) and am very fond of them. It feels nat

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15 Years of Building Jefit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-15 22:18:32

Embrace the Grind: 15 Years of Building Jefit The Start of Something I Didn't Expect to Last 15 Years Fifteen years ago, Jefit wasn't a company. It wasn't even a business idea. It was just a project I started in my dad's living room in North Carolina, fresh out of college, working from my own laptop. I was broke and unsure about the future, frustrated by how hard it was to track workouts. There was no easy way to stay consistent or see real progress. I wasn't chasing a startup dream, jus

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15 Years If Jefit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-16 08:18:32

Embrace the Grind: 15 Years of Building Jefit The Start of Something I Didn't Expect to Last 15 Years Fifteen years ago, Jefit wasn't a company. It wasn't even a business idea. It was just a project I started in my dad's living room in North Carolina, fresh out of college, working from my own laptop. I was broke and unsure about the future, frustrated by how hard it was to track workouts. There was no easy way to stay consistent or see real progress. I wasn't chasing a startup dream, jus

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Crypto’s Wild West Era Is Over

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-19 20:49:25

For more than a decade, cryptocurrency lived in a regulatory gray zone. Loved by libertarians, feared by bankers, and mocked by lawmakers, it was treated like a side project of the internet, too weird to regulate and too volatile to embrace. That era just ended. The U.S. House of Representatives has officially passed the GENIUS Act, a landmark bill that sets federal rules for stablecoins—the digital currencies pegged to the U.S. dollar. The bill is expected to be signed into law by President Do

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USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Dennis Schubert 2025-07-19 23:14:33

2021-04-25 2022-10-14 electronics, hardware Just to start this off on a fun note: this article is not a review. This fact will become clear later on, but I figured it’s worth highlighting that just in case somebody finds this text via their search engine of least distrust. I have one of those laptops lacking a lot of accessory ports. In fact, I’m writing this on an Apple MacBook Pro, and all I got was four lousy USB-C ports. If I want to connect pretty much anything, I need some sort of adapte

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My Favorite All-in-One Kitchen Appliance Is on Sale for 20% Off

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-19 21:13:00

Too often, all-in-one kitchen appliances end up doing a lot of things poorly instead of doing one thing well. And, because some models have a lot of components, they can be a nightmare to clean. But the Chefman Everything Maker quickly won me over. The nonstick cooking surfaces heat up quickly and cleanup takes minimal effort (a serious win in my book). I've made crispy hash browns, gooey grilled cheese, breakfast sandwiches and perfectly golden pancakes -- all in one compact machine. And it's

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My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-20 01:27:24

My Experience With Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures 17 Jul, 2025 Hatching... Cursor Shenanigans Cursor, my beloved, started rate limiting shenanigans a few days back. For a good 2 weeks after June 16, 2025, we had almost infinite API request access. I had a lot of code-related work around this time as I was working on Gumroad bounties plus my AI engineering/LLM eval-related consulting work. Apart from just codegen, I also use these tools to onboard/understand codebases faster and just

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My experience with Claude Code after 2 weeks of adventures

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-20 11:27:24

My Experience With Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures 17 Jul, 2025 Hatching... Cursor Shenanigans Cursor, my beloved, started rate limiting shenanigans a few days back. For a good 2 weeks after June 16, 2025, we had almost infinite API request access. I had a lot of code-related work around this time as I was working on Gumroad bounties plus my AI engineering/LLM eval-related consulting work. Apart from just codegen, I also use these tools to onboard/understand codebases faster and just

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Coca-Cola Won’t Confirm Trump’s Claim That It’s Switching to Cane Sugar

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-07-20 12:10:48

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Coca-Cola would switch from using high-fructose corn syrup to real cane sugar in its drinks. The president made his announcement on Truth Social, but people online were skeptical that Trump was telling the truth, and with good reason. Trump lies constantly. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump wrote Wednesday. “I’d like to thank all of those in authority

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My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-20 16:27:24

My Experience With Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures 17 Jul, 2025 Hatching... Cursor Shenanigans Cursor, my beloved, started rate limiting shenanigans a few days back. For a good 2 weeks after June 16, 2025, we had almost infinite API request access. I had a lot of code-related work around this time as I was working on Gumroad bounties plus my AI engineering/LLM eval-related consulting work. Apart from just codegen, I also use these tools to onboard/understand codebases faster and just

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Coca-Cola Won’t Confirm Trump’s Claim That It’s Switching to Sugar Cane

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-07-20 17:10:48

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Coca-Cola would switch from using high-fructose corn syrup to real cane sugar in its drinks. The president made his announcement on Truth Social, but people online were skeptical that Trump was telling the truth, and with good reason. Trump lies constantly. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump wrote Wednesday. “I’d like to thank all of those in authority

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When is tech not hype? Tulips, toilets, trains and tabs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-18 14:03:53

What do I do when I first wake up? I grab my phone. I'm reading the news, browsing Reddit, reading articles on HN, looking up the weather and anything else I might need to know about during the day. It's not until I open my tabs view, to switch back to something, that I realise I've managed to open half a dozen tabs within the space of minutes. In 2004, Mozilla Foundation placed a two-page ad in the New York Times announcing version 1.0 of Firefox. "Are you fed up with your web browser?" the ad

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When Is Tech Not Hype? Tulips, Toilets, Trains – and Tabs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-18 19:03:53

What do I do when I first wake up? I grab my phone. I'm reading the news, browsing Reddit, reading articles on HN, looking up the weather and anything else I might need to know about during the day. It's not until I open my tabs view, to switch back to something, that I realise I've managed to open half a dozen tabs within the space of minutes. In 2004, Mozilla Foundation placed a two-page ad in the New York Times announcing version 1.0 of Firefox. "Are you fed up with your web browser?" the ad

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America Still Yearns for ‘Bluey’

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-07-21 13:15:39

With a movie on the way, Bluey continues to dominate as the most-streamed show in the United States… despite the fact that the show itself has been on hiatus since early 2024. According to the Nielsen streaming charts, Bluey managed to again maintain its title as the most-streamed show in America so far this year, with data between January and June 2025 showing that the show was viewed for just over 25 billion minutes. All the more impressive among that data is the fact that its rivals for eyeb

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Perplexity’s CEO on why the browser is AI’s killer app

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-07-21 13:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. I’m hosting our Thursday episodes while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, we’re talking about how AI is changing the way we use the web. If you’re like me, you’re probably already using apps like ChatGPT to search for things, but lately I’ve become very interested in the future of the web browser itself. That brings me to my guest today: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, who

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Apple launches new emoji word game to take on Wordle and the NYT

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-07-21 13:47:23

It’s called simply Emoji Game, and each day you’re presented with three phrases, which have some letters filled in, but are mostly blank. There’s a partial hint as to what the word or phrase is that you’re trying to complete, and then a whole bunch of emoji at the bottom. The idea is to take the words or sounds the emoji represent and use them to fill in the blanks. So — and this is just an example I made up, so it’s not a spoiler — you might be presented with SH_ _ _, and an emoji of an elf. St

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Eddington gets the pandemic right but still isn’t a great movie

theverge.com Kevin Nguyen 2025-07-21 17:00:00

A24 is known for its prestige arthouse films, but in its early days as a distributor, it made most of its money from elevated horror films like Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar. Over a decade in, the ambitions of A24 and Aster have expanded beyond genre film. But for both, the more recent results have been mixed. Eddington, Aster’s latest, feels like a continuation of the maximalist guilt-trip Beau Is Afraid. Joaquin Phoenix stars once again, though the concerns here are less Jewish and Oed

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The best VR accessories for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-22 04:00:37

Let’s get something out of the way first: any pair of wired headphones will work with any VR headset. The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 4 headphones aren’t specifically designed for VR headsets, but they have plenty of features for enthusiasts. They have 360-degree spatial audio, a real game-changer for VR experiences, an AI-assisted microphone that reduces ambient noise and a fully customizable EQ, which comes in handy when streaming video or listening to music on a VR headset. These are also wirele

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Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt crashed the model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-22 05:13:15

People have been worrying about U.S. debt basically ever since there even was a U.S. “The accumulation of debts is a most fearful evil,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1787. At the time, U.S. debt was around $40 million. Today, it’s closer to $40 trillion. At the same time, the U.S. economy is bigger and more powerful than Jefferson could have ever imagined, and things are looking pretty good: unemployment is near record lows, inflation is under control… so what’s the problem? “Part of the problem i

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Gaslight-driven development

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Prokopov 2025-07-22 05:26:56

Gaslight-driven development Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks is just part of the experience. Millions of people create accounts, confirm emails, dismiss notifications, solve captchas, reject cookies, and accept terms and conditions—not because they particularly want to or even need to. They do it because that’s what the computer told them to do. Like it or not, we are already serving the machines. Well, now there is a new way to serve

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After 6 months, I’m still not over Samsung’s lazy Galaxy S25 launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-21 21:00:43

Back in January, when Samsung launched the three main phones in the Galaxy S25 series, I wasn’t shy with my criticism. I openly wondered why the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus even exist, and pointed out how the Galaxy S25 Ultra is such a nominal upgrade over the Galaxy S24 Ultra that it’s a wonder Samsung didn’t drop the price. Surprisingly, at the time, Samsung teased that a significant part of the Galaxy S25 family was yet to come: an ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight phone called the Galaxy S25

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Zack Snyder Can’t Let ‘Rebel Moon’ Die

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-07-22 17:15:44

Remember Rebel Moon? Netflix’s two-part movie series created by Zack Snyder, released in late 2023 and early 2024, which then had two longer, bloodier versions released that same year? Snyder’s answer to Star Wars, in which he created his own sci-fi world from the ground up? Ring a bell? If not, that’s because they did well on the streamer but didn’t quite resonate culturally like most probably hoped. Nevertheless, it seems Snyder isn’t ready to give up on the franchise just yet. Case in point,

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The Former CEO of Uber Kind of Sounds Like He's Losing It When He's Talking About AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-23 00:15:05

It sounds like the co-founder and former CEO of Uber has had a big gulp of the AI Kool-aid — and then some. On a recent episode of the All-In podcast, Travis Kalanick, who resigned from the ride-hailing company in disgrace in 2017, spoke rapturously about his experience using chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok. That's when he revealed his sincere conviction that he, a mere college dropout, was on the verge of achieving a breakthrough in physics just by probing the AI models. "I'll go down this thr

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Cyberpunk 2077's latest update brings VRR to consoles and introduces an autodrive mode

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-23 05:19:33

There's another big update for Cyberpunk 2077 coming our way. Update 2.3 brings some notable new features to PC and consoles. CD Projekt Red (CDPR) is adding official in-game support for VRR on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. This should help with screen tearing when the frame rate drops and is of particular use when running the game in performance mode. There's also an official AutoDrive feature, which is something that has long-existed in the modding community. This is available in all cars and moto

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How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop

news.ycombinator.com The Irrationalist 2025-07-22 09:35:35

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” I hadn’t lost everything — just my backpack with two passports and my laptop — so I became only a little freer. This story happened three months ago. It is an embarrassing story. It is embarrassing and difficult to tell — but that's exactly why I'm telling it to you. *** Sunday morning. I woke up at a small table in the entrance hall of some house in London — no idea which one, but definitely not mine. The last thing I re

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KDB-X: KX releases FREE Commercial KDB license

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 09:09:36

This is it ladies and gentleman! The moment we’ve all been waiting for! KX just dropped the long-promised Community Edition, and IT'S FREE. Yes!!, you read that right: it's free. Not for a week. Not for personal use only. Free to use, even commercially. Holy cow, this honestly feels like Christmas came early this year. If you're wondering what all the hype is about and why I'm so excited about this breaking news, keep reading, you don't want to miss this. First thing first, let's start with the

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GMC Hummer EV outsold the Tesla Cybertruck last quarter

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-07-23 09:19:29

Sales of Tesla’s Cybertruck have plummeted from their peak last year, to the point that the hulking (and expensive) GMC Hummer EV outsold the polarizing steel-clad curiosity in the second quarter. Tesla sold just 4,306 Cybertrucks in the second quarter, just shy of the 4,508 Hummers that GMC moved in the same period, according to new data from Cox Automotive. Both were beat by Ford’s F-150 Lightning, which once again became the best-selling electric truck in the U.S. in the first quarter, beat

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How I Lost My Backpack with Passports and Laptop

news.ycombinator.com The Irrationalist 2025-07-22 14:35:35

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” I hadn’t lost everything — just my backpack with two passports and my laptop — so I became only a little freer. This story happened three months ago. It is an embarrassing story. It is embarrassing and difficult to tell — but that's exactly why I'm telling it to you. *** Sunday morning. I woke up at a small table in the entrance hall of some house in London — no idea which one, but definitely not mine. The last thing I re

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Tidy up your Mac office space with a Thunderbolt dock hidden under your desk

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-07-24 14:46:13

Like many people these days, I work from home and use a 16-inch MacBook Pro with an external display. I have been a long-time user of the OWC Thunderbolt Dock which lets me connect my display and various peripherals to the hub’s I/O ports, with only a single cable plugged in to the laptop. This dock has simply sat atop the desk, until recently. I came across a further improvement to my setup which helps declutter even more. Quite simply, I discovered this cable management tray that lets the doc

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Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-20 17:47:30

In my recent foray into learning Dutch for my relocation to the Netherlands – I'm sure there'll be much to blog about – I fell victim to the siren song of the Green Owl again. It's too tempting - you get showered with instant feedback, encouragement in-app rewards, social stuff etc. To be fair it is fun, and you really feel that you're doing something useful. …except. I last used it in earnest it to 'learn' German before a trip to Berlin. I racked up a 150+ day streak or something nuts like t

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Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

15 Years of Building Jefit

15 Years If Jefit

Crypto’s Wild West Era Is Over

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

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My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

My experience with Claude Code after 2 weeks of adventures

Coca-Cola Won’t Confirm Trump’s Claim That It’s Switching to Cane Sugar

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When is tech not hype? Tulips, toilets, trains and tabs

When Is Tech Not Hype? Tulips, Toilets, Trains – and Tabs

America Still Yearns for ‘Bluey’

Perplexity’s CEO on why the browser is AI’s killer app

Apple launches new emoji word game to take on Wordle and the NYT

Eddington gets the pandemic right but still isn’t a great movie

The best VR accessories for 2025

Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt crashed the model

Gaslight-driven development

After 6 months, I’m still not over Samsung’s lazy Galaxy S25 launch

Zack Snyder Can’t Let ‘Rebel Moon’ Die

The Former CEO of Uber Kind of Sounds Like He's Losing It When He's Talking About AI

Cyberpunk 2077's latest update brings VRR to consoles and introduces an autodrive mode

How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop

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GMC Hummer EV outsold the Tesla Cybertruck last quarter

How I Lost My Backpack with Passports and Laptop

Tidy up your Mac office space with a Thunderbolt dock hidden under your desk

Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

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