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The only sane way to use Linux

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/sane-nix
4•amitprasad•1h ago

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replooda•1h ago
I really liked your design; not only were the colors to my taste, but, along with the contrast, they were gentle on my eyes; the pixelated font was a nice touch for the code samples as well. On the other hand, while still on accessory matters, I think "Nix: The only sane way to use Linux" would serve you better as a title.

Which brings me to: why Nix, specifically? Wouldn't Guix provide the same benefits — a declarative, reproducible, pinnable system – along with a potentially more pleasant language to code in, namely Scheme?

amitprasad•1h ago
I’m being a little reductive and ignored Guix purely based on adoption; but you’re completely right. I believe the core argument is that there is a (relatively small) category of these tools of which Nix is the most well-known representative.

Heard on everything else, thank you!

Scientists Create Novel Organism with Primitive Nervous System

https://now.tufts.edu/2026/03/16/scientists-create-novel-organism-primitive-nervous-system
1•geox•30s ago•0 comments

AI agents planned and built a system to monitor AI agents

https://ren.phytertek.com/blog/building-the-panopticon-from-inside/
1•ren_dispatches•2m ago•0 comments

Generative AI Can Harm Learning (2024)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4895486
1•throw0101c•6m ago•0 comments

Astronaut's Condition That Led to Space Station Evacuation Remains a Mystery

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/science/space/nasa-astronaut-medical-evaluation.html
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•1 comments

Aussie Awesomeness

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/03/29/aussie-awesomeness/
1•jjgreen•10m ago•1 comments

Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt

https://github.com/rwc9u/emacs-libgterm
1•signa11•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?

3•richardstahl•17m ago•2 comments

Fetch metadata request header – MDN

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Fetch_metadata_request_header
1•theandrewbailey•17m ago•0 comments

The world of AI contributions in Open Source

https://robertjwebb.substack.com/p/the-absurd-world-of-ai-contributions
1•haburka•18m ago•0 comments

When prime numbers emerge from motion

https://nkode.gr/EN/articles/278/when-prime-numbers-emerge-from-motion
1•nomemory•19m ago•0 comments

Future of SWE: Efficiency, Learning Velocity, Small Teams, Reasoning

https://blog.rastrian.dev/post/the-future-of-software-engineering-efficiency-learning-velocity-sm...
1•simonpure•20m ago•0 comments

Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition
10•ourmandave•22m ago•3 comments

One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4g44zv37qo
1•ranit•23m ago•0 comments

The Marvelous Misunderstanding of Miss Mustard Oil (2022)

https://sites.bu.edu/gastronomyblog/2022/05/18/the-marvelous-misunderstanding-of-miss-mustard-oil/
1•indigodaddy•24m ago•0 comments

Reflections on the State of the Software and AI Market

https://x.com/loganbartlett/article/2037638091671035994
1•born2web•24m ago•0 comments

Twelve Dimensional Chess is Stupid (2018)

https://www.gilgamath.com/twelve_dimensional_chess.html
3•Tomte•24m ago•0 comments

Initweave – build your Emacs init.el

https://www.initweave.com/
1•signa11•25m ago•0 comments

Moving Towards Determinism with LLMs

https://evgeniipendragon.com/posts/moving-towards-determinism-with-llms/
2•EPendragon•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges

https://mcpaas.live/globe
13•wolfejam•28m ago•6 comments

Probability two skaters are equal, to 3rd decimal places, after 4 distances?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19300
1•johnbarron•28m ago•0 comments

gRPC wrapper service for Pi4J 4.x.x

https://github.com/bsautner/krill-oss/tree/main/pi4j-ktx-service
1•bsautner•29m ago•1 comments

The literacy you need for AI literacy

https://paulgraham.com/read.html
3•kurren•30m ago•1 comments

Security Analysis of the Official White House iOS App

https://www.atomic.computer/blog/white-house-app-security-analysis/
1•be_erik•31m ago•0 comments

Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructi...
1•croes•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ACP – Like MCP, but for controlling existing application UIs

https://github.com/agent-control-protocol/acp
1•cezarvil•34m ago•0 comments

Why India's best engineering talent ends up in its worst software roles

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNJMC7SN
1•neocortex666•36m ago•0 comments

A Secret History of Psychosis

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/science/a-secret-history-of-psychosis.html
1•Brajeshwar•38m ago•0 comments

FOSS – Tracking delayed open-source releases

https://captnemo.in/finally-foss/
2•captn3m0•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a physical device because productivity apps failed me

https://lumium.netlify.app/
1•EruditeCoder108•40m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Log in issues after macOS Tahoe update?

1•franze•42m ago•0 comments