A Secret Bet Against China Saved a University Millions During Covid (juandavidcampolargo.substack.com)

Hey, author here, the blog post takes you through my journey with nix so far: reviving an old Pixelbook with NixOS, wrangling my MacBook with nix-darwin, and super-charging Nix with AI to solve a problem I thought was unsolvable.

Happy to answer any questions!

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Show HN: Conformal – Type-safe FormData parsing and canonical submission flow (github.com)

A Comprehensive Survey on Trustworthiness in Reasoning with LLMs (arxiv.org)

Browser Fingerprint Detector (fingerprint.goldenowl.ai)

The Last Programmers (xipu.li)

Clankers Die on Christmas (remyhax.xyz)

France fines Google, Shein record sums over cookie law violations (france24.com)

Finding Wisdom Online (bensterne.substack.com)

Qwen3 ASR: Hear clearly, transcribe smartly (qwen.ai)

"I need to borrow your boat" [video] (youtube.com)

The Imitation Game: Defending Against AI's Dark Side (aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)

A Guide to Home Row Mods (precondition.github.io)

Managing soil fertilization levels for more efficient and productive crops (theconversation.com)

Kerminal: Modern Terminal with SSH, Tunneling and Cross-Device Sync (klpod221.com)

Spec-Driven Development with AI (github.blog)

Learning lessons from the loss of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad (navylookout.com)

Why is even mentioning the great reset getting you flagged/banned everywhere?

Is AI Moving the Economic Needle? (economics.bmo.com)

Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as a protective factor of myopia (bjo.bmj.com)

A Secret Bet Against China Saved a University Millions During Covid (juandavidcampolargo.substack.com)

Stop chatting Constrained VS Unconstrained LLM use cases (medium.com)

Ingo Swann (en.wikipedia.org)

The Margins of Cybernetics (1963) (blog.outlandish.claims)

Ask HN: Which used MacBook Silicon to buy?

The Spectacular Comeback Tour of Ross Ulbricht (nytimes.com)

The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) (vitavonni.de)

4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK over Extraterritorial Censorship (techdirt.com)

We built an Artificial Brain that sleeps, dreams, and forms memories (github.com)

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS (blog.6nok.org)

Gotosocial: We will not accept changes created with the aid of "AI" (codeberg.org)

CandyFab: A DIY 3D sugar printer (candyfab.org)

Car Brand Loyalty Is Falling Fast: Why More Americans Are Switching Sides (autoblog.com)

Frac5 JavaScript: Animated Frac5 generation using browser JavaScript (keithfrost.github.io)

'We can do it for under $100M': Startup joins race to build local ChatGPT (afr.com)

They're Hacking Your Packets (and How to Stop Them) [video] (youtube.com)

AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage over x86 (techpowerup.com)

Show HN: OpenAPI to MCP (github.com)

Show HN: DevSwarm, run multiple AI coding assistants in parallel (devswarm.ai)

Americans' Most Valuable Asset Isn't Stocks or a Home. It's Social Security (nytimes.com)

FCC Unveils Plan for Allowing Prisons to Jam Contraband Cellphones (docs.fcc.gov)

Online Mario-Kart-Style Battle in the Browser: SmashKarts (smashkarts.space)

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug (theguardian.com)

Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age (arstechnica.com)

A look at a P2P camera (LookCam app) (palant.info)

JPMorgan's Long Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (nytimes.com)

Materials Modeling of Superconducting Qubits in Quantum Computers (semiengineering.com)

Computer Networking Fundamentals for Developers, DevOps, and Platform Engineers (labs.iximiuz.com)

Nova Launcher is shutting down (androidauthority.com)

Chartbook 407: Polycrisis Revisited (adamtooze.substack.com)

Men and Women and Apps = Bad Romance (nytimes.com)

Beyond package management: How Nix refactored my digital life

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