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141 mentions on Hacker News by 117 people: 25 stories, 116 comments · first 2016-04-26 · latest 2026-10-28

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  1. Version 2.56.0_2 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pkgs/container/cor...
    comment by ungawatkt · 2026-10-28 · in Homebrew Git updated away from macOS's system cURL
  2. …patched just because our own CA bundle was. My apologies. There's a fix incoming here[1]. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/321878
    comment by woodruffw · 2026-10-28 · in Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
  3. …not the system/XCode CLT one. If you see `/usr/bin/git`, you're not using the Homebrewed Git. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/321878
    comment by woodruffw · 2026-10-28 · in Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
  4. …HEAD Swiss-army knife of markup format conversion https://pandoc.org/ Installed (on request) From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/... License: GPL-2.0-or-later ==> Installed Kegs and Versions pandoc 3.9.0.2 (11…
    comment by applicative · 2026-05-24 · in Markdown Is Not LaTeX
  5. …[1]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=679937b... [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/273280 [3]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/varnish/c/59f403810b746e0... [4]: https://repology.org/project/v
    comment by captn3m0 · 2026-04-11 · in Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache
  6. …formulae are written in Ruby [0]. Do they use some kind of Ruby parser to parse formulae? [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/26-tahoe/Form...
    comment by maxloh · 2026-03-24 · in Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
  7. …files, 8.4MB) \* Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2025-12-23 at 15:32:41 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/s/snitch.rb License: MIT ==> Dependencies Build: go ==> Options --HEAD Install…
    comment by hwj · 2025-12-24 · in Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat
  8. …pre-built binary packages for many formulae. These are referred to as bottles and are available at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/packages . The link shows close to 300 pages of precompiled packages available, and that section…
    comment by saghm · 2025-11-12 · in Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
  9. …my .plan files. The simple TUI interface is oddly calming [0] https://github.com/microsoft/edit [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/225837
    comment by h4ch1 · 2025-10-25 · in TextEdit and the relief of simple software
  10. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/229423 or brew install git --HEAD
    comment by leipert · 2025-07-08 · in Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
  11. …files, 7.8MB) \* Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2025-02-03 at 09:30:23 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/m/midnight-commander.rb License: GPL-3.0-or-later ==> Dependencies Build:…
    comment by giamma · 2025-07-08 · in Applite – A macOS native GUI for homebrew
  12. …the 3(?) different kinds of "check for updates" built into the Formulae: - GitHub release sniffing https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/b331b99b9f24f... - page scraping https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/b331b99b9f24f.…
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-04-23 · in Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
  13. If you use Homebrew it’s not available there yet, but it’s being added. See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/209124 .
    comment by robin_reala · 2025-02-27 · in Fish 4
  14. …that I did notice how Homebrew sets env GEM_HOME=<Cellar>/libexec GEM_PATH=<Cellar>/libexec (e.g. < https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/9f056db169d5f... >) but, similar to my node experience, since I am a ruby outsider I don't…
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-01-12 · in Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
  15. I'm in the camp of "if I can't build it, then it's not open source" so https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/d314f3ebba9e7... is a good start, but there is no .../f/flutter.rb although there is…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-10-29 · in We're forking Flutter
  16. Does `brew install mit-scheme` work? The homebrew formula says : https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/8c0bb91eea9c8... : # Does not build: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64611 deprecate! date: "2023-11-20", because:…
    comment by westurner · 2024-07-01 · in Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)
  17. …Though we do not appear to be affected, this revert was done out of an abundance of caution. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/167512
    comment by tomputer · 2024-03-30 · in Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
  18. …disables one because a malicious commit was merged then you've taken down an entire ecosystem. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
    comment by hgs3 · 2024-03-30 · in GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo
  19. It's been reverted now: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/9a0603b474804...
    comment by neodypsis · 2024-03-29 · in Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
  20. …became aware. The current understanding is that macOS is not affected, but that's not certain. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/167512
    comment by woodruffw · 2024-03-29 · in Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
  21. …a binary though. And with homebrew, you can't follow patches or flags used or if they change. - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad... - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c964ad7fa53ad... -…
    comment by rovr138 · 2024-03-28 · in Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
  22. …optional stuff that wasn't included in the formula and is extremely non-obvious to a new user. [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/12a0f6bbbeda8... [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/12a0f6bbbeda8...
    comment by godelski · 2024-03-26 · in Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
  23. …Python and using `make altinstall`, but if there's a better way, I'd love to hear about it. [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/20e744191e74d... [1]: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances
    comment by sgarland · 2024-03-25 · in Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
  24. …the bug report was using Homebrew, which does not build curl with the system version of OpenSSL: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/547d6bb9b289c...
    comment by throwitaway1123 · 2024-03-09 · in Apple curl security incident 12604
  25. …falling back to OpenSSL CAs when --cacert is specified. Homebrew Curl on Mac also sets this flag: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/9cccce7a6dff7...
    comment by threeseed · 2024-03-09 · in Apple curl security incident 12604
  26. …popped up during an internal company tech talk. Kudos to brew for keeping unsuspecting people safe https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/3fb3c4c3e55...
    comment by gregors · 2024-03-03 · in Cowsay
  27. If you already use homebrew, that works too: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/3ef7d3e13549b...
    comment by mook · 2024-01-16 · in Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
  28. Reproducible… but unsupported. Nice. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/108964#issu...
    comment by inferiorhuman · 2023-12-11 · in Adding Build Provenance to Homebrew
  29. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitwarden/cli -> https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/tree/cli-v2023.10.0
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-11-18 · in Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse
  30. …going to catch on and thus haven't sharded the directory list as homebrew-core recently had to do: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul... There are already SO MANY build-from-source specifications it is insaneo to…
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-11-13 · in Show HN: An experimental, modern package manager for operating systems
  31. …it's pretty common. Just look at the `Formula.rb` for any standalone app in Python or Lua. Example: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/66c42fbd814b3... I think using per-project venv is still the sensible thing to do, not just…
    comment by nerdponx · 2023-11-06 · in Debian discusses vendoring again (2021)
  32. …of Python you have from Homebrew? It looks like that package is correctly listed in the formula: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/a0048881ba9a2...
    comment by simonw · 2023-10-26 · in Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding
  33. This won't impact infracost, Alistair just responded to it: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/139538#issuec...
    comment by hkh · 2023-10-08 · in Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
  34. Note for whatever it is worth that the Homebrew-owned version rebuilds these from source -- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/139538/files#... . This is also typical in the Linux packaging ecosystem, but typically involving…
    comment by cipherboy · 2023-10-08 · in Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
  35. …for a while. The bigger impact is on other tools that have terraform as a dependency, as seen here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/139538#pullre... Tools like atlantis and infracost are also getting removed since they…
    comment by jacurtis · 2023-10-08 · in Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
  36. …my looking around, Homebrew's Python 3.11 has specific binaries for each macOS and CPU architecture https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c1321e2629203... A comment in Homebrew's formula says that Homebrew adds the…
    comment by shpx · 2023-10-02 · in Python 3.12
  37. …- Nixpkgs (3 days ago): https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=238031 - Homebrew (3 days ago): https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/133968 Your link refers to the 23.05 stable release channel, so it'd likely stay at 2.11. Package…
    comment by soraminazuki · 2023-06-19 · in My First Impressions of Nix
  38. Thanks! Homebrew formula in review https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/132580
    comment by mattme · 2023-06-01 · in Show HN: Git credential helper using OAuth in browser
  39. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/103881
    comment by a-b · 2023-05-18 · in FASD Tool Getting Deprecated
  40. Well that's unfortunate, `brew update` does not show any 2.40.1: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/... even though the tag was cut last week: https://github.com/git/git/releases/tag/v2.40.1 Thank goodness `brew…
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-04-25 · in Git Security Vulnerabilities Announced
  41. Subscribe to the commits with an RSS reader: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commits/master.ato...
    comment by latexr · 2023-02-16 · in Homebrew 4.0.0
  42. For those of us who use Homebrew, the patched Git 2.39.1 should be available after this PR is merged: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/120818
    comment by divbzero · 2023-01-17 · in Git security vulnerabilities announced
  43. …developers are used to, and that's why the brew formula moves it into the old style GOPATH setup: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/...
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-11-13 · in Show HN: Xq – command-line XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor
  44. …as some kind of secret reveal. Note that he has _never_ attempted 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…
    comment by acdha · 2022-09-03 · in Brew Is a Bad Neighbor
  45. …The homebrew build of .NET is the only non-Microsoft build of .NET that seems to keep it enabled ( https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/... ).
    comment by omajid · 2022-08-16 · in .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
  46. …(6 files, 23.0MB) * Poured from bottle on 2022-08-12 at 08:54:53 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/tflint.rb License: MPL-2.0 ==> Dependencies Build: go ==> Options --HEAD Install HEAD version ==>
    comment by nikolay · 2022-08-13 · in Asdf Performance
  47. How would I check that? I installed it through homebrew via https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/... which doesn't seem to mention debug mode anywhere?
    comment by zimpenfish · 2022-06-30 · in Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon
  48. …other package managers. I definitely want jless available through the most standard avenues. [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by CodeIsTheEnd · 2022-02-25 · in Jless – a command-line JSON viewer (written in Rust)
  49. …(1,513 files, 42.7MB) * Poured from bottle on 2021-11-30 at 14:52:55 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/git.rb License: GPL-2.0-only ... [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul
    comment by dcchambers · 2022-01-25 · in Highlights from Git 2.35
  50. brew edit git That should open this in your editor: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/... Change the url and sha256, then brew install git (This is from memory; I'm not in front of a shell, but I think it's…
    comment by js2 · 2022-01-25 · in Highlights from Git 2.35