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200 mentions on Hacker News by 157 people: 22 stories, 178 comments · first 2016-04-04 · latest 2026-09-13

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  1. …sandbox mechanism - looks like it's built around their own sandbox-exec wrapper, at least on macOS: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/d79ef822ab8136e393ed5f...
    comment by simonw · 2026-09-13 · in Homebrew 7.0.0
  2. They experimented with it but ultimately decided to focus on perf with their existing ruby codebase. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7755#issuecomment-51...
    comment by reaperhulk · 2026-09-13 · in Homebrew 7.0.0
  3. …away with shallow clones [0] [1]. They basically used the same reasoning as your comment did. [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9383 [1]: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...
    comment by Hackbraten · 2026-08-30 · in Creepy Crawlies
  4. …//mise.jdx.dev/configuration/settings.html#install_bef... And homebrew has discussed it, kinda sorta: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/21129
    comment by robrain · 2026-03-31 · in Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
  5. …age' setting, but `brew` aren't planning on implementing that, with arguably valid reasoning: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/21421
    comment by menno-sh · 2026-03-25 · in Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
  6. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tree/main/Library/Homebrew/... for reference
    comment by orf · 2026-03-24 · in Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
  7. …the extent that Github asked them not to recommend/default-enable shallow clones for their users: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/15497#issuecomment-1... This is likely to be lower traffic, and the history should (?) scale only…
    comment by btown · 2026-03-18 · in Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
  8. …for it. Maintaining an extra fork just for that is also out of the question for most people. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/14217
    comment by trinix912 · 2026-02-09 · in More Mac malware from Google search
  9. …it was the only way to install Homebrew, but it is not. You can install it via a .pkg here: [0] [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases/tag/5.0.13
    comment by rvz · 2026-02-09 · in More Mac malware from Google search
  10. …[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256079635?sortBy=rank [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/20755 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907259
    comment by yndoendo · 2025-11-12 · in Steam Machine
  11. …before. Every time, it broke. And from what I can see, migrations are still causing issues. [0] [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/19951
    comment by shakna · 2025-07-20 · in I Used Arch, BTW: macOS, Day 1
  12. …here? Does it do recursive cloning? At least a cursory glance at the repo suggests it might: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/700d67a85e0129ab8a893f...
    comment by deanc · 2025-07-08 · in Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
  13. - Homebrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#donations - Free Software Foundation (FSF): https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate - LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/
    comment by geospeck · 2025-05-27 · in Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
  14. …with everything. The "update tons of stuff you never asked for": we're working on this: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/19202 Performance in general: we're doing what we can to improve it wherever possible. Ruby makes this harder…
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2025-04-29 · in Homebrew 4.5.0
  15. …yet, where I imagine the question of concurrent traffic volume will become more pressing.) [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/18278
    comment by woodruffw · 2025-04-22 · in Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
  16. …https://docs.projectbluefin.io/lts#differenceserrata Here's the issue for homebrew on linux/arm: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/19208 And here's the FOSDEM talk: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6373-home...
    comment by jcastro · 2025-03-31 · in Aurora: Maintenance-free, reliable and fast OS, stable like a Chromebook
  17. …every project’s throat and promptly gave up when maintainers questioned their motives and approach. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745#issuecomment-5543... https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/6158#issuecommen...
    comment by latexr · 2025-01-05 · in Stats macOS app phones home to developer's personal server
  18. …get bent out of shape about people running --build-from-source; it seems they've changed their mind https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/4.4.6/docs/FAQ.md#can-...
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-11-24 · in Homebrew Is Great on Linux
  19. Homebrew has a healthy amount of maintainers. Some people leave as priorities change but others join. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#who-we-are
    comment by latexr · 2024-09-09 · in Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?
  20. …metaphors that contributors and maintainers need to know, like Rack, Tab, and Formulary. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10798
    comment by hunter2_ · 2024-08-20 · in Toasts are bad UX
  21. …nefarious reasoning behind it. Edit: a thread with a bit of the history can be found here[1]. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177
    comment by woodruffw · 2024-08-01 · in Our audit of Homebrew
  22. …README [1]: > Homebrew's maintainers are […long list of names…] William Woodruff […] [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew Is there any reason this is not mentioned in the blog post? I don’t think it would make a difference, but just to…
    comment by hk__2 · 2024-07-31 · in Our audit of Homebrew
  23. I peeked at the sandbox escape bug and its associated fix: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/17700/commits/f4e5e0c7... . Is this…correct? Like, this is to prevent it from being interpolated into a sandbox profile and messing things up.…
    comment by saagarjha · 2024-07-31 · in Our audit of Homebrew
  24. IIRC he stepped away from Homebrew years ago. See https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/graphs/contributors
    comment by saghul · 2024-02-26 · in The Disappointing Tea.xyz
  25. And by supercookie, do you mean this UUID? https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/57844530a94d5686029c...
    comment by inyourtenement · 2024-02-25 · in I'm confused: what's with the project descriptions at HTTPS://pkgx.dev/pkgs/?
  26. …dedicated enough build infrastructure to make sure this does regress so we end up with issues like https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/16012 To be clear, though, some Homebrew packages are already fully reproducible across OSs, some on…
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2023-12-03 · in Adding Build Provenance to Homebrew
  27. …on Intel Macs if you prefer. https://docs.brew.sh/Installation Further discussion on the decision: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177
    comment by jez · 2023-08-08 · in Homebrew Is Awesome
  28. It looks to me like they stopped using a "supercookie" five months ago: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/57844530a94d5686029c...
    comment by simonw · 2023-07-07 · in Homebrew's analytics have moved to the EU and away from Google
  29. …to list software by name.[2] [1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/github-statistics [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Acceptable...
    comment by andrewmcwatters · 2023-03-18 · in Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
  30. Maybe the self-hosted is planned but I was just going on this line which uses the managed service: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre...
    comment by lucideer · 2023-02-17 · in Homebrew 4.0.0
  31. Here's the explanation: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/11693
    comment by KORraN · 2023-02-17 · in Homebrew 4.0.0
  32. Prior discussions on package signing: - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/5852 - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/4120
    comment by Hackbraten · 2023-02-16 · in Homebrew 4.0.0
  33. …of the information collected here[2]. No identifiable information is collected or retained. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre... [2]: https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/
    comment by woodruffw · 2023-02-16 · in Homebrew 4.0.0
  34. This discussion on GitHub reveals the mindset of the Homebrew people: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745
    comment by mo_42 · 2023-02-16 · in Homebrew 4.0.0
  35. …yes, but I don’t see the difference with any other computer I connect with over the internet. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
    comment by derstander · 2023-02-16 · in Homebrew 4.0.0
  36. …obtaining informed consent from users) violates the law have been classified as abuse and hidden! https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745
    comment by yrro · 2023-02-16 · in Homebrew 4.0.0
  37. > people don't pay for things like Homebrew (can they even?) They can and should! https://github.com/homebrew/brew#donations
    comment by modernerd · 2023-02-16 · in Homebrew 4.0.0
  38. …show where it goes, how to view the data yourself, how to opt out, and why the collect the data: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/68e895ad4d374b4a002261... https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics
    comment by akerl_ · 2022-09-21 · in Entitlement in Open Source
  39. …off the author's interactions with users. Homebrew does indeed have both sponsors and donations... https://github.com/homebrew/brew#donations And I find it beyond credibility to believe that the primary contributor is not taking any money…
    comment by falcolas · 2022-09-21 · in Entitlement in Open Source
  40. …to contribute to either project: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues?q=author%3A... https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues?q=author%3Apudquick It's perfectly fine not to contribute to projects you use, or to have strong…
    comment by acdha · 2022-09-03 · in Brew Is a Bad Neighbor
  41. …I expected a mention of brew's telemetry (which can be opted out of, but are broadcast by default): https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....
    comment by RodgerTheGreat · 2022-09-03 · in Brew Is a Bad Neighbor
  42. They are referring to https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....
    comment by styluss · 2022-07-31 · in Using Nix on macOS
  43. …a solution for key verification.[2] [1] https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/29 [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/4120#issuecomment-4068...
    comment by JackC · 2022-05-10 · in NPM Vulnerability Discussion on Twitter
  44. …codesigning is hell. [1]: https://github.com/search?q=org%3AHomebrew+codesign&type=iss... [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-71...
    comment by Hackbraten · 2022-04-18 · in Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
  45. https://github.com/homebrew/brew#donations
    comment by johnnypangs · 2022-02-11 · in Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
  46. I've opened https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/12413 to improve the discoverability and documentation for all this stuff.
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2021-11-10 · in Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
  47. It seems this is the issue in question: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9186 The maintainer did close they issue but they didn't lock the thread. If there was a very valid reason the request got shot down, it went unstated afaict.…
    comment by pxc · 2021-11-03 · in Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
  48. Homebrew staff have rejected the concept of automatic upgrades for security, stability, and semver: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/3428
    comment by jph · 2021-11-02 · in Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
  49. …they don't put named anchors on their <li> for some reason) updated with an actual hyperlink : https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/3.3.2/docs/Manpage.md?...
    comment by mdaniel · 2021-11-02 · in Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
  50. You can disable autoupdate by setting HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE env https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/7d31a70373edae4d8e78d9...
    comment by nrjais · 2021-11-02 · in Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?