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One Nix flake to rule them all

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/28/one-flake-to-rule-them-all
26•ingve•2h ago

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digdugdirk•48m ago
This is awesome and highlights the entertaining awesome/awful experience with using NixOS.

Also, this author has been on a roll lately! So many interesting articles, I have no idea how they manage to balance their technical writing alongside hosting a regular politics show on CNN.

sivakon•45m ago
> I'm a software engineer, father and wishful amateur surfer. If you've come seeking my political views, you've found the wrong Fareed.

this is on their about page

mcmcmc•45m ago
This is not the plagiarist political commentator. From the author’s about page:

> I'm a software engineer, father and wishful amateur surfer. If you've come seeking my political views, you've found the wrong Fareed.

AyanamiKaine•25m ago
Wow, it looks really cool!

I will definitely try it! If there is one think that breaks me is always chasing that one shared library for example when developing something using SDl3 and its GPU API.

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
52•greenlightning•2h ago•16 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
106•vntok•5h ago•44 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
132•joebig•5h ago•34 comments

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
93•surprisetalk•3d ago•15 comments

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/
23•askmike•6d ago•0 comments

Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/30/turns-out-brits-would-quite-like-their-private-me...
209•defrost•4h ago•128 comments

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/windows.html
16•Bluestein•2h ago•1 comments

monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter

https://github.com/fugue-labs/monty-go
18•networked•1h ago•1 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/
232•lumpa•5d ago•41 comments

Automating Immersive Reading

https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/
16•smoores•2h ago•6 comments

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504
67•sparsesignal•1h ago•68 comments

JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupytergis-0-16-new-visualization-capabilities-collaborative-story-maps-...
57•arjxn-py•5d ago•5 comments

Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-xcena-and-samsungs
36•klelatti•6h ago•2 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
352•shenli3514•18h ago•210 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption...
447•shscs911•10h ago•203 comments

The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/einstein-szilard-refrigerator
66•EndXA•3d ago•23 comments

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

https://freecore.org/
135•sashk•12h ago•72 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
490•zackb•6d ago•193 comments

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
316•davidmckenna•13h ago•192 comments

Orbs

https://ampcode.com/notes/orbs-explained
36•tosh•4d ago•15 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
236•JumpCrisscross•22h ago•85 comments

Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html
64•Bluestein•5d ago•15 comments

Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference

https://artificialanalysis.ai/hardware-inference-stack/mobile-phones
66•sys42590•2d ago•7 comments

Spark: Sparklines in your shell

https://git.zx2c4.com/spark/about/
44•hskimse•3h ago•10 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
225•lioeters•5d ago•54 comments

Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/fair-work-commission-condemns-ai-legal-advice/107089766
37•martyvis•3h ago•12 comments

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/
344•DeepLogin•14h ago•217 comments

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830438.3830958
107•matt_d•18h ago•37 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
317•ostacke•5d ago•64 comments

Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discover...
84•cisc•12h ago•44 comments