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Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
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#153DDS: an amazing peer to peer data centric pub-sub midddleware.
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#154- crunch: https://github.com/ryao/crunch
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#155My picks would be Zulip for messaging, and Adguard Home instead of pihole. And self host your email - if only to keep that skill alive. The openSUSE build system is also great for building packages for a lot distros. It's not just for openSUSE.
What advantages are there for AdGuard Home over Pi-hole?
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#156Nix package manager's `nix-shell` is something I wish more people knew about. Nix is gaining some popularity, but people often think of using it has to be a really big commitment, like changing your Linux distro to NixOS or replacing your dotfiles with a Nix-based one (using the Nix package manager). What I wish more people knew was that you don't need to do those things to get value from Nix. Create project specific…
Have you tried compiling software with a nix shell? It gets linked to the Nix store. Needless to say it was a frustrating revelation.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not simple. The nix programming language is like untyped ML. Most people aren't used to it and even if you are familiar with it it gets hella hard to read. Learning curve is huge. One docker file and a poetry file works just as well. And is simpler. It's literally the same thing but using os primitives to manage the environment rather then shell tricks. Makes more sense to me to use a dedicated os primitive for…
>It's not simple. Neither is using virtualenvs for Python packages with native extensions.
Yeah I know. I'm saying the nix language is not simple. With docker you don't need virtual envs.
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#158For some reason, the best note-taking tool ever made (Verbatim) was built rather quietly by a member of the American Competitive Debate Community. I literally made people in college jealous and upset when they saw how easy it was for me to take well structured notes using Verbatim: https://paperlessdebate.com/verbatim/ (but then I showed them how to install it and they were happy)
A whole lot of innovation from the competitive debate community has quietly existed for decades now. Hopefully one day SV discovers all the cool shit debaters have been building for themselves.
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#159Unpopular, at least compared to cars: e-bikes. - costs next to nothing to charge - fast and fun to get around - never pay for parking - cheap maintenance - hauls groceries easily - good exercise
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Sorry, but many localities make it illegal for bicycle on the sidewalk (where they should be doing it). That's why many folks do it.
Laws making that illegal are extra stupid since it's relatively hard to kill a pedestrian with a bicycle but downright easy to kill a cyclist with a car.
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#160When I was at school (a long time ago), they tried to explain computers to us by making an adder using beads and matchboxes. We didn't have classroom computers back then. I'd like to know how that worked. I've always wanted to build a digital clock entirely running on fluids. It would use fluid gates, and present a digital display by pushing blobs of coloured immiscible liquids back and forth through glass tubes (per…
I have to recommend ComPressure for an accurate taste of the challenges in designing those kind of systems, on top of being my favorite Zachtronics-style puzzle.
Try the demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1528120/ComPressure/