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A Night Without the Nerds – Claude Opus 4.6, Field-Tested

https://konfuzio.com/en/a-night-without-the-nerds-claude-opus-4-6-in-the-field-test/
1•konfuzio•2m ago•0 comments

Could ionospheric disturbances influence earthquakes?

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-02-06-0
1•geox•3m ago•0 comments

SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA is officially on for Feb. 11 as FAA clea

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-next-astronaut-launch-for-nas...
1•bookmtn•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

https://cloudbot-ai.com
1•fainir•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley – Search podcasts by who's speaking

https://poddley.com
1•onesandofgrain•8m ago•0 comments

Same Surface, Different Weight

https://www.robpanico.com/articles/display/?entry_short=same-surface-different-weight
1•retrocog•10m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/the-first-good-raspberry-pi-laptop/
3•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/greenland-sea-levels-fall
2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•18m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•righthand•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•22m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•22m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
3•vinhnx•23m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•27m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•36m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•38m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•39m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
5•okaywriting•45m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
2•todsacerdoti•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•48m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•49m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•51m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•51m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
4•pseudolus•51m ago•2 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•56m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•56m ago•1 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•57m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

A 'small' vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS

https://stephank.nl/p/2025-11-17-a-small-vanilla-kubernetes-install-on-nixos.html
52•todsacerdoti•2mo ago

Comments

darkwater•2mo ago
I run K3s on NixOS as the central piece of my homelab and it was actually even too much easy to setup (although now that I think about it there was some gotcha I had to manually tweak in K3s config). This "Kubernetes on NixOS the hard way" seems very interesting and I will have a look at it via the QEMU image at some point. Thanks for sharing!
anttiharju•2mo ago
Any resources you'd recommend for the k3s+NixOS setup? Been eyeing the same
darkwater•2mo ago
I followed the official NixOS documentation [1] which is... scarce, to say the least. But it also basically worked just like that.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

clvx•2mo ago
resetting k3s in NixOS is not that straightforward and requires manual input. It cannot be fully automated as removing the statement from your config afaik unless this has changed recently.
darkwater•2mo ago
Now I don't recall which issue I had, I think it was something related to CoreDNS config or passing through the /etc/hosts of the NixOS node, but I do remember having to touch the K3s YAML directly, and maybe having issues also persisting it. It's actually the only thing I fear would break if I had to reinstall NixOS from scratch...
junkaccount•2mo ago
why nixos gets to first page?
CuriouslyC•2mo ago
Nix is crazy powerful, it can have all my upvotes.
chickensong•2mo ago
Because it's a fundamental shift in design away from most other linux distributions, which is exciting and and perhaps a breath of fresh air for longtime linux users.
Bjartr•2mo ago
People here are interested in reading about it. Is there a reason you think it shouldn't?
stronglikedan•2mo ago
someone posts it and people upvote it
sshine•2mo ago
First off, amazing post. I learned a lot about networking, Linux and Kubernetes.

As a learning project, this is absolutely awesome.

I run Kubernetes via Kind on Docker on NixOS.

There's a ton of other ways to get a development environment on your NixOS developer PC.

I don't pretend this one is very good, I just copy what my colleagues have come up with (+ NixOS).

For production workloads, I wouldn't run the kubelet using this much custom wiring.

I'd run Talos. It's vastly simpler, you can run them in NixOS VMs, it's declarative and lowers the surface area of things that need interaction, no SSH'ing in.

It seems like the author is torn between where to put control: In NixOS, or in Kubernetes?

You can move stuff, e.g. CoreDNS, out of Kubernetes for a "simpler" setup.

But the point of running workloads inside Kubernetes is that you get redundancy between nodes.

So if a single node dies, your services don't die.

Embracing Kubernetes, I certainly haven't let go of NixOS. My personal servers still just run NixOS.

It's much simpler, much cheaper, and resilient in its own way.

Selling Kubernetes and Cloud Native users on using NixOS, I'd probably go another way, e.g. via dev environments.

kosinus•2mo ago
Author here.

You're right, it's very much a trade-off and preference where you put control, NixOS or Kubernetes. I'm not so much torn, but more believe you always have to weigh pros and cons.

For CoreDNS specifically, this setup adds CoreDNS to every node, and every node does DNS locally, so there's no redundancy benefit to using a Kubernetes deployment for CoreDNS. It does become a benefit as soon as you can't have a CoreDNS per node. I guess the obvious downsides to CoreDNS per node are that cache becomes very spread out in larger setups, and you may end up hammering your API server and upstream DNS servers more.

teeray•2mo ago
I wonder what the author’s development process for all this is like. It’s fascinating seeing the end result, and I certainly learned a ton. However, I’d love to see some of the trial and error process. My own process is starting from a configuration.nix on a node and iterate with `nixos-rebuild switch`, but it still feels like there’s better methodologies out there.
kosinus•2mo ago
Author here. Yeah, unfortunately, that's kinda it: just rebuild a lot. At work we have a custom setup with a build server and agents for provisioning, which is nice for multiple nodes, but also even slower. The QEMU setup in the attached repo was added later and also handy for testing multiple nodes. QEMU is also nice because you can just trash the disk images to get a clean start.