UNIX v4: Run the 1973 Fourth Edition of UNIX in Your Web Browser
TL;DR A web-based emulation exposes the 1973 Fourth Edition of UNIX (UNIX v4) running on a simulated PDP-11/45. The service…
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? — January 2026 edition featuring developer profiles
TL;DR Two Ask HN job-seekers posted detailed profiles in January 2026. One is a Lyon-based developer with a math master's…
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (January 2026) — University and Remote Roles
TL;DR This Ask HN thread highlights a Faculty of Practice opening in Data Science at John Carroll University (onsite, Cleveland)…
IPv6 turns 30: hasn’t dominated the internet but isn’t a failure
TL;DR IPv6, first specified in December 1995 to replace IPv4, marks three decades without supplanting its predecessor. Adoption remains below…
Inside Netflix’s Simian Army: Automated chaos tests for cloud resilience
TL;DR In 2011 Netflix described a suite of tools — the "Simian Army" — that intentionally injects or detects failures…
FracturedJson: a compact, human-friendly JSON formatter for developers
TL;DR FracturedJson is a suite of formatting utilities that produces compact, human-readable JSON by keeping simple arrays and objects on…
Going immutable on macOS with Nix-Darwin — reproducible, versioned configs
TL;DR The author migrated a macOS development environment from imperative Homebrew workflows to a declarative, immutable setup using Nix and…