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nix-doc
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We want to make Nix better
I love nix, I've been using it for the last 2 years, I have a very stable setup from these 2 years of effort [0], and I just can't recommend Nix for Linux beginners, why?
It's not because of the nix language, It's not because of the CLI, it's because everything is scattered, you have to consult many places to find out how to do things with Nix, here is an example:
Usually, when I need a new complex program, like Steam, I first check the system-wide configuration [1], the wiki [2] and the package list [3], if I just want it on my user, I need to check if Home Manager has an option [4], if it doesn't, I can try using the "home.packages" option. Now, if I need to override something on the package, I need to remember how to do it with [5] [6] (while checking the source code for the package in parallel to find the options).
And then sometimes, on very rare occasions, I need to fine tune something with the nix language, so I need to check the builtins/lib docs [7], but some builtins are not there, so I need to either use nix-doc [8] or find the docs inside the code-bases [9] [10] (they are split between both repos)
For me, this is one of the main pain points of using Nix / NixOS that needs to be solved.
[0] - https://github.com/shiryel/nixos-dotfiles
[1] - https://search.nixos.org/options
[2] - https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Steam
[3] - https://search.nixos.org/packages
[4] - https://mipmip.github.io/home-manager-option-search/
[5] - https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-customising-packa...
[6] - https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/nixpkgs-overriding-packag...
[7] - https://teu5us.github.io/nix-lib.html
[8] - https://github.com/lf-/nix-doc
[9] - https://github.com/NixOS/nix
[10] - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
- Our Roadmap for Nix
- nix-doc v0.5 released, adding ctags generation for Nix scripts
anarki
- Gerbil Scheme – A Lisp for the 21st Century
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Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?
It still is a single single-core server, dang references it frequently when there's unusually high traffic [0]. And the language you're referring to is Arc [1]. They do have caching for not-logged-in users, historically done through nginx [2]. From other comments in this thread, it sounds like they just temporarily put Cloudflare in front of that single server to block a DDoS.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310213
[1] https://arclanguage.github.io/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473226
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Ask HN: Why isn't HN libre/FOSS?
Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
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Ask HN: What would it take for HN to become ActivityPub compatible?
>Where is the HN source code right now? Free and Open?
Yes and no.
HN itself is running a proprietary fork of Arc Lisp, which you can find here[0]. The Arc maintainters don't take public PRs or feature requests, and HN itself has numerous changes to the codebase which aren't public for business reasons.
There is a public fork of Arc called Anarki[1] which has no direct connection to HN or Arc Lisp, and for which the community and development is... well... anarchic.
And given the general culture here around minimalism and stasis (not wanting to introduce new features for fear of entropy that would negatively affect the signal to noise ratio and push the site towards Eternal September) chances are it's not likely to happen.
But dang's email is at the bottom of the page if you want to ask him.
[0]http://arclanguage.org/
[1]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
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Ask HN: Dang, could the login page get a title?
The original version was open sourced (Perl artistic License) http://arclanguage.org/ There is an active fork in https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki but it's totally independent and the current conde in HN can be (very) different.
My guess is that it's very difficult to keep all the details of the secret sauce hidden. They change the details very often. For example the front page is ordered by points/time^1.6, but the 1.6 changes from time to time without notice (I think it was 1.8 for some time, perhaps it's 1.8 or something else now. Some people have analyzed the front page and got compatible results, but I don't remember the exponent they found and I'm too lazy to try).
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Ask HN: Is there an open-source HN forum clone?
You might find something useful here:
https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news
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Show HN: Hacker News Without News
It was published in the public version of 2009 https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/9f2e1dd53b5b66bb4... Look for "contro-factor" (i.e. controversial-factor).
This is old code, and the mods make tweaks here and there without warning, so the details may have changed. (I'm not sure if gravity changed from 1.8 to 1.6 (???).)
I didn't test it personally, but it feels like HN is using something very similar. And there are a few black box analysis of the sorting of the front page that got similar results. Also, minimaxir is the kind of person that is probably running an script to use the HN API to verify the claims.
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Racket v. Anarki for greenfield web project?
Absolutely. It's basically the "community version" of Paul Graham's Arc.
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RacketCon 2022
Not to mention arc/anarki (hn is/was written in arc - anarki comes with a "news" example app/forum):
https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/HEAD#readme
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Ask HN: Any tool to look C++ interpretation template form syntax to substitution
arc [1] / racket implimentation of demystifycpp might be able to provide something 'usable' at the command line / straight up web browser html file.
[1] : https://arclanguage.github.io/
What are some alternatives?
nickel - Better configuration for less
perfect-arrows - Draw perfect arrows between points and shapes.
nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius]
hackernews - Hacker News web site source code mirror.
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
renegade-way - Option Trading Application
colmena - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool
arc - Arc is an opinionated framework for defining data pipelines which are predictable, repeatable and manageable.
nix-portable - Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
hnrss - Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News