Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (August 13, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for August 13, 2023 :</p>
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NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
Summary: NixOS has merged a plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally. The RFC aims to end the current limbo and soothe longstanding tensions in the Nix community. It establishes general principles about Nix's architecture and evolution, allowing for breaking changes to experimental features until they are stable. The plan also outlines the order and priority for stabilizing these features, starting with the non-Flakes CLI and then moving on to Flakes and its CLI components.
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Reading Ancient Scrolls
Summary: In AD 79, Mt Vesuvius erupted, burying Roman towns and a villa containing ancient scrolls. The Vesuvius Challenge, a collaboration between private benefactors and academics, offers a $1 million prize for decoding the fragile, blackened scrolls. Using X-ray CT scans, researchers have made progress in digitally unrolling and analyzing the scrolls. The contents of the scrolls remain a mystery, but the project brings us closer to accessing lost knowledge from the ancient Roman world.