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Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year?

news.ycombinator.com Uğur Erdem Seyfi 2025-12-14 14:49:30

Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? Around a year ago, I published a blog post explaining my overall experience Switching from Arch to NixOS. You can read it if you’re interested in my early experiences, but, to give you a spoiler, that post ends with me saying: Unfortunately, though, I don’t think the benefits I’ve gotten in this one month of using NixOS so far justified the cost I’ve initially spent and continue to spend learning Nix and NixOS. — Ultimately, whether the benefits of learnin

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Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 09:56:28

Schematra A minimal web framework for CHICKEN Scheme, inspired by Sinatra. Schematra is currently an early exploration project created for learning purposes, but hopefully it will grow into something more useful over time. Why Schematra? I created Schematra because I wanted to: Improve my knowledge of scheme : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms Creat

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The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 16:24:58

One of the most memorable events in my career so far was being selected as a host for the Fulbright Program. When Emily (Simons) approached me with her idea of applying for this type of scholarship, I was already blown away by her enthusiasm—but little did I imagine how immensely enriching her visit to the lab would turn out to be! We initially discussed a project aligned with our shared interest in healthcare topics; specifically, I proposed making Emily part of a planned project with cardiolo

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Schematra: A Sinatra love letter in Scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 15:56:28

Schematra A minimal web framework for CHICKEN Scheme, inspired by Sinatra. Schematra is currently an early exploration project created for learning purposes, but hopefully it will grow into something more useful over time. Why Schematra? I created Schematra because I wanted to: Improve my knowledge of scheme : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms Creat

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If you're remote, ramble

news.ycombinator.com Steph Ango 2025-12-14 12:32:51

A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think of them as personal journals or microblogs inside your team’s chat app, a lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion. People typically post short updates 1-3 times per week. Common topics include: ideas related to current projects musings about blog posts, artic

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Seed7 – The Extensible Programming Language

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Mertes 2025-12-14 17:11:55

Welcome to the Seed7 Homepage Seed7 is a general purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C/C++ and Java. The Seed7 interpreter and the example programs are open-source software. There is also an open-source Seed7 compiler. The compiler translates Seed7 programs to C programs which are subsequently compiled to machine code. In Seed7 new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters

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If You're Remote, Ramble

news.ycombinator.com Steph Ango 2025-12-15 00:32:51

A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think of them as personal journals or microblogs inside your team’s chat app, a lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion. People typically post short updates 1-3 times per week. Common topics include: ideas related to current projects musings about blog posts, artic

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The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 18:31:58

The Challenge I was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side. Here’s one way to do it: But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble. No matter how many different moves I made, I couldn’t do it. Every time I separated two squares with the same color, two other squares of the same color would touch somewhere else. Looking for an easy answer, I went to puzzling.stackexchange.com an

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Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 22:58:51

TraceRoot is an open-source debugging platform that helps engineers fix production issues 10x faster by combining structured traces, logs, and source code context with AI-powered analysis. Contributing | TraceRoot.AI | Community | SDK | Documentation Join us (Discord) in pushing the boundaries of debugging with AI agents. Please 🌟 Star TraceRoot on GitHub and be instantly notified of new releases. TraceRoot Framework Design Principles 🤖 Intelligence The framework enables multi-agent systems

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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2025-12-16 20:24:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out,” as reported earlier by Bloomberg

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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-17 00:30:47

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out,” as reported earlier by Bloomberg

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In Rare Spasm of Sanity, Pentagon Backtracks on Plan to Scuttle Storm Tracking

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-18 10:40:49

In a stunning reversal, the Pentagon said it will uphold a longstanding program that supplies critical hurricane data to federal forecasters—just days before it was set to end. The move follows outcry from meteorologists and public officials blindsided by the planned cancellation at the start of hurricane season. In June, the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) announced it was shutting down the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program by Thursday, July 31. DMSP w

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DJI won’t sell you an Osmo 360 in the US — but these retailers will

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-12-18 10:24:54

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We knew DJI had a hard time importing its drones into the United States to the point that many shelves have gone bare, but it’s not just drones anymore. Today marks the first time it’s formally skipping the US with a non-drone product, its 8K Osmo 360 c

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When to Stream 'South Park' Season 27, Episode 2

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 14:06:00

Comedy Central South Park is skipping a week. The hit satirical show has unveiled its first episode, but fans will have to wait a few extra days for the follow-up, according to a trailer announcing the next season 27 episode date. After a hectic rollout that included a premiere-date push, South Park's new season is underway and its streaming home is now clear. Per a report from Deadline, five upcoming seasons and the show's back catalog will be on Comedy Central and Paramount Plus with the sig

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Microsoft now pays up to $40,000 for some .NET vulnerabilities

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:23:39

Microsoft has expanded its .NET bug bounty program and increased rewards to $40,000 for some .NET and ASP.NET Core vulnerabilities. Madeline Eckert, a senior program manager for Researcher Incentives and Bounty at Microsoft, stated that these changes aim to more accurately reflect the complexity involved in discovering and exploiting .NET vulnerabilities. "We're excited to announce significant updates to the Microsoft .NET Bounty Program. These changes expand the program's scope, simplify the

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Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 20:06:16

Hi Hacker News community, I'm excited to share Nova, a new web framework built for Erlang, designed to make web development in Erlang simpler, faster, and more approachable. Nova leverages Erlang's concurrency, reliability, and scalability to create a robust yet lightweight framework for building modern web applications. Key features: * Lightweight and modular: Easy to integrate with existing Erlang projects. * Built for concurrency: Harnesses Erlang's actor model for high-performance web ap

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How to Watch Arsenal vs. Tottenham From Anywhere: Stream Preseason Friendly Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 09:01:07

New Tottenham boss Thomas Frank will get his first taste of north London's eternal footballing rivalry as his Spurs team takes on Arsenal in this intriguing preseason friendly in Hong Kong on Thursday. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch this friendly match as it happens, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Spurs, who have boosted their forward line with the addition of Ghanaian internation

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SafePay ransomware threatens to leak 3.5TB of Ingram Micro data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-21 15:00:07

The SafePay ransomware gang is threatening to leak 3.5TB of data belonging to IT giant Ingram Micro, allegedly stolen from the company's compromised systems earlier this month. Ingram Micro is one of the world's largest business-to-business service providers and technology distributors, offering a wide range of solutions to resellers and managed service providers worldwide, including hardware, software, cloud services, logistics, and training. While BleepingComputer first reported on July 5 th

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Emacs: The macOS Bug

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 15:15:35

Emacs: The MacOS Bug The Context I have been recently roaming. Doing some Zig, doing some Go, some Janet. Some C integration. Should have focused on my project but life threw more at me than I could handle, so I sought… happy distractions. My experience with those technologies taught me new tricks and one day, when I needed some more distraction, I decided to debug something that had made me furious for years: Emacs jank. Whatever build I tried, whatever configuration I used, Emacs always r

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Ramp hits $22.5B valuation just 45 days after reaching $16B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-22 00:19:02

In Brief Eric Glyman, co-founder and CEO of expense management startup Ramp, announced on Wednesday a fresh $500 million raise at a whopping $22.5 billion post-money valuation. This new round, led by Iconiq Growth with participation from Founders Fund and D1 Capital Partners, comes just 45 days after Ramp’s last round. In June, Ramp raised $200 million at a $16 billion valuation, and that was a leap over the $13 billion valuation Ramp announced in March. In his blog post, Glyman laid out his

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Ubuntu Linux lagging? Try my 10 go-to tricks to speed it up

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-22 05:44:09

Yuichiro Chino/Getty Unless you're using a computer from the '90s or early 2000s, typically speaking, Ubuntu runs very well on most machines. I've found it to be fairly predictable in that respect. However, nothing is perfect, and you might run into an instance where the open-source operating system doesn't perform up to your standards. So, what do you do? Do you hop to a different distribution? You certainly could, as there are plenty of Linux distributions that work perfectly on older hardwa

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How to Watch Yokohama FM vs. Liverpool From Anywhere: Stream Preseason Friendly Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-23 04:00:04

Premier League Champions Liverpool's preseason tour of Asia comes to a close on Wednesday as they head to Japan to take on J 1 League outfit Yokohama FM. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch this friendly match as it happens, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are, along with a full match list. Arne Slot's men will be looking to bounce back from their 4-2 defeat to Italian giants AC Milan in Hon

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Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-23 10:55:38

American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to ensure they have them. As part of that effort, the service established the Protected Tactical Satcom program to build out secure battlefield communications via satellites. The Space Force has already awarded contracts to defense primes Boeing and Northrop Grumman to develop prototype payloads for satellites heading to far-away geostationary orbit. Now, the program is entering a

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Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-23 10:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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Stanford’s Management Science and Engineering programs

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-23 22:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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The Secret Stanford Program No One's Heard About

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-24 04:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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Show HN: Monchromate – the best greyscale browser extension

news.ycombinator.com Monochromate Team 2025-12-24 10:32:42

Powerful tools designed to enhance your digital well-being, reduce doomscrolling, and boost productivity through smart greyscale filtering. Smart Scheduler Automatically enable greyscale mode during specific hours. Perfect for reducing evening screen time, maintaining focus during work hours, or preventing late-night doomscrolling. Customizable Intensity Fine-tune the greyscale intensity from 0-100% to find your perfect balance. Research shows greyscale mode reduces screen time by making websi

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KernelScript eBPF-centric programming language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 15:33:00

KernelScript ⚠️ Beta Version Notice KernelScript is currently in beta development. The language syntax, APIs, and features are subject to change at any time without backward compatibility guarantees. This software is intended for experimental use and early feedback. Production use is not recommended at this time. A Domain-Specific Programming Language for eBPF-Centric Development KernelScript is a modern, type-safe, domain-specific programming language that unifies eBPF, userspace, and kernel

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Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-26 15:26:31

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Sony is suing Tencent to attempt to stop the release of Light of Motiram, which Sony describes as a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series of games, as reported by Reuters. Light of Motiram was announced last year with a trailer featuring an aesthetic that’s quite similar to the Horizon franchise — including huge robot animals and even a title font that resembles the Horizon ga

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SK hynix confirms 3GB GDDR7 modules, paving way for RTX 50 Super VRAM boost

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-27 17:28:00

The big picture: Rumors about Nvidia's RTX 50 Super series graphics cards featuring more VRAM started circulating almost immediately after the standard variants launched with underwhelming memory capacities. Although the chipmaker has yet to comment, a recent announcement from SK hynix suggests that larger VRAM pools are indeed on the horizon. SK hynix has confirmed plans to develop GDDR7 memory modules with a maximum capacity of 24Gb (3GB), an upgrade from the long-standing 16Gb (2GB) standard

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Latest Tech News

Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year?

Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme

The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas

Schematra: A Sinatra love letter in Scheme

If you're remote, ramble

Seed7 – The Extensible Programming Language

If You're Remote, Ramble

The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services

IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’

In Rare Spasm of Sanity, Pentagon Backtracks on Plan to Scuttle Storm Tracking

DJI won’t sell you an Osmo 360 in the US — but these retailers will

When to Stream 'South Park' Season 27, Episode 2

Microsoft now pays up to $40,000 for some .NET vulnerabilities

Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang

How to Watch Arsenal vs. Tottenham From Anywhere: Stream Preseason Friendly Soccer

SafePay ransomware threatens to leak 3.5TB of Ingram Micro data

Emacs: The macOS Bug

Ramp hits $22.5B valuation just 45 days after reaching $16B

Ubuntu Linux lagging? Try my 10 go-to tricks to speed it up

How to Watch Yokohama FM vs. Liverpool From Anywhere: Stream Preseason Friendly Soccer

Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering

Stanford’s Management Science and Engineering programs

The Secret Stanford Program No One's Heard About

Show HN: Monchromate – the best greyscale browser extension

KernelScript eBPF-centric programming language

Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit

SK hynix confirms 3GB GDDR7 modules, paving way for RTX 50 Super VRAM boost

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