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Show HN: MyNixOS – Create and share Nix and NixOS configurations
Hello HN!<p>I want to show you MyNixOS.com - a website I've been working on this year to make it easy to create and share Nix and NixOS configurations. Nix is a powerful tool to deploy software in a reproducible way, and with NixOS you can control your whole operating system through a declarative configuration.<p>Starting out with Nix was exciting, but it definitely had a challenging learning curve. This made me start building a website focused on making it easier to create and share Nix flakes, which are the core unit of software deployment in Nix.<p>Using the website, you can create flakes without knowing the Nix configuration language, as the necessary Nix files are generated for you. A few examples of what you can do right now:<p>1: Create and build a Docker image with Redis and OpenSSH running NixOS: <a href="https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-docker" rel="nofollow">https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-docker</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuCGXHw7qM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuCGXHw7qM</a><p>2: Create a Nix development shell with Neovim and Zig and run it on Windows 11: <a href="https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-windows-devshell" rel="nofollow">https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-windows-devshell</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4q72mGjYXA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4q72mGjYXA</a><p>3: Create a reproducible macOS environment using nix-darwin and Home Manager: <a href="https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-macos" rel="nofollow">https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-macos</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Y7s1sRSUY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Y7s1sRSUY</a><p>4: Create a Linode server image using NixOS running Nginx with Let's Encrypt: <a href="https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-linode-nginx" rel="nofollow">https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-linode-nginx</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy4X0fjD0-Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy4X0fjD0-Y</a><p>5: Create a Raspberry Pi NixOS image running Transmission and OpenSSH: <a href="https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-raspberry-transmission" rel="nofollow">https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-raspberry-transmission</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L0H92-JdHA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L0H92-JdHA</a><p>The site works directly with the Nix command line tool, and generates pure Nix flakes without any custom formats. The website is currently in alpha and is developed as a closed source project. Some interesting upcoming features include support for language environments such as Python, and the ability to install arbitrary versions of packages.<p>By posting on HN, I'm especially looking to get in contact with early commercial users of Nix to learn more about the most important use-cases to solve. Hoping that you will find the site useful, and I'll happily try to answer any questions you might have!
Show HN: WinkNLP delivers 600k tokens/second speed on browsers (MBP M1)
Show HN: Open Source Bot That Summarizes Top Hacker News Stories Using GPT-3
HN Summary is an open source bot which sumarizes top stories on Hacker News and publishes the summaries to a Telegram channel.<p>Whenever a new story appears on the Hacker News API /topstories.json endpoint, this bot summarizes it (currently using OpenAI GPT-3 text-davinci-002) and sends the story title, summary, and url to the hn_summary channel on Telegram.<p>The purpose of this project is to help build intuition on the capabilities of the current generation of large language models while making a broader swath of top Hacker News content more easily accessible. It could also serve as a platform for experimentation with other language model capabilites such as semantic search.<p>Join the HN Summary channel on Telegram to see the bot in action and enjoy the story summaries.<p><a href="https://t.me/hn_summary" rel="nofollow">https://t.me/hn_summary</a><p>There are a number of potential directions I am interested in exploring here, such as making the bot interactive to allow features like bookmarking urls, semantic search, and semantic filtering.<p>I am also thinking about interfaces other than telegram. I started with telegram since I had recently used it on another project and it seemed like the easiest way to start playing with it. What other interfaces would make sense here?
Show HN: Open Source Bot That Summarizes Top Hacker News Stories Using GPT-3
HN Summary is an open source bot which sumarizes top stories on Hacker News and publishes the summaries to a Telegram channel.<p>Whenever a new story appears on the Hacker News API /topstories.json endpoint, this bot summarizes it (currently using OpenAI GPT-3 text-davinci-002) and sends the story title, summary, and url to the hn_summary channel on Telegram.<p>The purpose of this project is to help build intuition on the capabilities of the current generation of large language models while making a broader swath of top Hacker News content more easily accessible. It could also serve as a platform for experimentation with other language model capabilites such as semantic search.<p>Join the HN Summary channel on Telegram to see the bot in action and enjoy the story summaries.<p><a href="https://t.me/hn_summary" rel="nofollow">https://t.me/hn_summary</a><p>There are a number of potential directions I am interested in exploring here, such as making the bot interactive to allow features like bookmarking urls, semantic search, and semantic filtering.<p>I am also thinking about interfaces other than telegram. I started with telegram since I had recently used it on another project and it seemed like the easiest way to start playing with it. What other interfaces would make sense here?
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do.<p>Here's Paul Graham:<p><a href="https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg" rel="nofollow">https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg</a><p>Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do.<p>Here's Paul Graham:<p><a href="https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg" rel="nofollow">https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg</a><p>Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do.<p>Here's Paul Graham:<p><a href="https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg" rel="nofollow">https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg</a><p>Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
Show HN: A new way to do footnotes
Show HN: A new way to do footnotes
Show HN: A new way to do footnotes
Show HN: AI generated puzzles from Wikipedia articles
Show HN: AI generated puzzles from Wikipedia articles
Show HN: Stable Diffusion v2 web interface
Show HN: Open-Source Page Block Builder with Remix and Tailwind CSS
Show HN: Open-Source Page Block Builder with Remix and Tailwind CSS
Show HN: Open-Source Page Block Builder with Remix and Tailwind CSS
Show HN: Open-Source Page Block Builder with Remix and Tailwind CSS
Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub
Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity.<p>This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.
Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub
Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity.<p>This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.
Show HN: FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup)