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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. 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
  2. …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
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. …(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
  6. 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
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    Brew install not working due to ghcr.io 401 issue
    story by teraku · 2022-06-22 · 0 comments
  8. …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)
  9. …(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
  10. 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
  11. …d.docs.nlnetlabs.nl/en/latest/manpages/unbound... [2] https://github.com/nodesource/distributions [3] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/c2579d98415bd...
    comment by mhio · 2022-01-17 · in Some ways DNS can break
  12. …updating everything. The homebrew formula contains no reference to xcode version, for example: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by Groxx · 2021-11-30 · in Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
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    Python Is Deprecating Distutils.cfg
    story by Matthias1 · 2021-11-16 · 0 comments
  14. …those two projects are mature enough that they've hammered out the problematic cases by now. — https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by pxc · 2021-11-02 · in Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
  15. …the kind of logic you'd want for printing dependency trees with Homebrew as it exists.[2] — 1: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... 2: https://github.com/martido/homebrew-graph/blob/master/cmd/br...
    comment by pxc · 2021-11-02 · in Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
  16. …tap. But now that 1.0.0 has been released, it has just (3 hours ago!) been added to homebrew-core: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/84805
    comment by str4d · 2021-09-07 · in Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption
  17. …going to verify that or verify it using keys downloaded from the same https host. [1] Homebrew - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/... [2] Arch - https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/rust/ [3] Ubuntu -…
    comment by Macha · 2021-09-06 · in Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
  18. …be installed via Homebrew. However, there is an open pull request for it from just a few hours ago https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/84049 So here's to hoping it'll be available there soon :D
    comment by codetrotter · 2021-08-27 · in Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
  19. …work as well as it does, so I can't really blame them for potentially taking a shortcut here. [0] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/...
    comment by vkoskiv · 2021-06-17 · in GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell
  20. What does this version have over https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... ?
    comment by saagarjha · 2021-06-17 · in PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey
  21. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/74812#issueco...
    comment by ggm · 2021-05-16 · in Homebrew purges FUSE packages
  22. …ext4fuse, and encfs. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021211533/https://formulae.... [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/64491
    comment by soraminazuki · 2021-05-16 · in Homebrew purges FUSE packages
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    Homebrew purges FUSE packages
    story by soraminazuki · 2021-05-15 · 11 comments
  24. …get block/warnings from Gatekeeper if un-notarized, which is the part you have to pay for. This https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/47129 suggests there is yet another factor to consider - the "quarantine" flag. Presumably…
    comment by anentropic · 2021-05-02 · in The Gates to Hell: Apple’s Notarizing
  25. Its not merged into homebrew yet: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/74849
    comment by jonnybarnes · 2021-04-09 · in FFmpeg 4.4
  26. …you said, the formula came back a week and a half later when they returned to tagging releases. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/82a45025682...
    comment by ihuman · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0
  27. …their repo[1] for a “formula” whenever I need something macports or pkgsrc can’t supply me. [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by brigandish · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0
  28. …Why not just use that and not have to deal with any third party Python installation managers? [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/68193
    comment by tzs · 2021-02-03 · in Changes to Homebrew adversely affect Python development
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    Homebrew: AVX instructions in Big Sur bottles crash when run in Rosetta 2
    story by thibautg · 2020-12-26 · 52 comments
  30. …trying to download https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/2020-08-27/rust-std-1.46.0... It looks like https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/65286 may fix things. Haven't spent a ton of time investigating though. Obviously if you have…
    comment by JulianWasTaken · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
  31. I was curious and found the package install scripts nicely organized by name here-- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul...
    comment by CapriciousCptl · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
  32. …the applications now needing to be compiled in the ARM architecture. here are some examples: aom: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/57976 boost: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/59257 ... if you notice the code…
    comment by westoque · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
  33. ▲ 1
    Homebrew deprecates FUSE-dependent packages
    story by fjarlq · 2020-11-13 · 0 comments
  34. ▲ 2
    Homebrew deprecates all FUSE formulae
    story by gaul · 2020-11-11 · 0 comments
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    Brew Update Failing
    story by trymas · 2020-09-30 · 0 comments
  36. …you've been using the system Python all along, not the Homebrew one. Install-time warning message: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/087008a4c8cfb... Documentation referenced in the message:…
    comment by soraminazuki · 2020-08-13 · in Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks
  37. …after running NixOS for two days. This is the same software that I also contributed to Homebrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/1268459f761... Again, a simple declarative-ish package description (written in Ruby, which is…
    comment by Athas · 2020-06-02 · in Building binary deb packages: a practical guide
  38. …only provides a limited feature set[2][3]. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925 [2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/31510 [3]: https://github.com/caldwell/build-emacs/search?q=support+is%...
    comment by soraminazuki · 2020-05-22 · in MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
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    Homebrew Clojure package switched to OpenJDK
    story by tosh · 2020-02-23 · 0 comments
  40. …be adding it in the coming months It's been part of homebrew/core for something like two weeks: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by Spiritus · 2020-02-12 · in GitHub CLI is now in beta
  41. Same. What has changed to make it "support" Catalina? Edit: Found it. I didn't see I could click it. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/44988
    comment by pvinis · 2019-11-27 · in Homebrew 2.2
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    Homebrew removes MongoDB from core formulas
    story by codyogden · 2019-09-02 · 283 comments
  43. For us Macheads it looks like there's a brew formula in the works: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/43459 I do a fair bit of viz work, this tool could come in handy for generating color schemes I think.
    comment by mstade · 2019-08-29 · in Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
  44. That seems to be a legacy thing: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
    comment by saagarjha · 2019-05-25 · in More Productive Git
  45. It does, at least Zork runs, see http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/all-of-infocoms-game-source... and https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/38990
    comment by chkuendig · 2019-04-16 · in Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
  46. …/usr/local/Cellar/grep/3.3 (21 files, 885.3KB) * Poured from bottle on 2019-01-03 at 12:23:37 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/grep.rb ... This is a very arbitrary example, but I've got 1.5Gb application…
    comment by Twirrim · 2019-03-29 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
  47. This started be a problem when I could not compile curl anymore with --with-http2 option. See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/7f9bfa67922...
    comment by ChrisCinelli · 2019-03-04 · in Brew stopped accepting custom options for packages and installing from source
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    Brew stopped accepting custom options for packages and installing from source
    story by ChrisCinelli · 2019-03-04 · 2 comments
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    Remove all options from Homebrew/homebrew-core formulae
    story by ismiseted · 2019-02-25 · 0 comments
  50. …to break any existing compiled binaries. Frustrating that my PR to create readline@7 was rejected. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/36782 I would at least like to see some mechanism to exclude a Formula from automatic gc of…
    comment by ab · 2019-02-08 · in Homebrew 2.0.0 released