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597 mentions on Hacker News by 359 people: 26 stories, 571 comments · first 2013-12-15 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. …that embedded their own CA. As such, many systems will remain vulnerable for quite some times. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/576475 [2] https://github.com/zimbatm/nix-cacert-scan
    comment by xucheng · 2026-10-21 · in eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
  2. …setup. I declare systemd services and timers as Nix config to run a restic backup every night. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-26.05/nixos/modu...
    comment by cinaboniver · 2026-10-20 · in NixOS is making me less afraid
  3. The same dev doesn't even like others packaging his open source libs. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326
    comment by deadbunny · 2026-10-16 · in I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets
  4. Toxic developers turned me off Home Assistant. The same developer is the star of this issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277
    comment by janice1999 · 2026-10-16 · in I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets
  5. …x86_64-linux and i686-linux nixpkgs bootstrap seed is not 25 bundled binaries, but 181 bytes, since https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479322 . at publication date this article would apply to non-x86 platforms like aarch64-linux,…
    comment by colinsane · 2026-09-07 · in Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution
  6. …workarounds are not necessarily onerous, but they would be unnecessary if it didn't deviate. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/420513 [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/94228
    comment by the8472 · 2026-07-21 · in Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of
  7. …browser [1] with cage WM [2] on a Pi Zero 2 W for my clock build, and it worked quite well. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/by-na... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/appli...…
    comment by usagisushi · 2026-07-14 · in How to build a circular LCD clock
  8. I've just add a Nix package, but I don't know if/when it will be merged: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/539297
    comment by Munksgaard · 2026-07-07 · in The Sneakerweb
  9. …and enabled git-bisecting to isolate the specific kernel refactoring which introduced this bug: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/532499
    comment by IngoBlechschmid · 2026-07-02 · in Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
  10. Less than they used to be: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/267982 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/428908
    comment by krautsauer · 2026-06-25 · in I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?
  11. …and Jank lang ( https://github.com/jank-lang/jank ) in this PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/523741
    comment by arikrahman · 2026-06-08 · in Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
  12. rsync regression since 3.4.3 This link (edit: I link to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/522245#issuecomment-45... but probably the anchor is stripped automatically?) is the clearest that I can find to point out what's the problem in…
    comment by KolenCh · 2026-06-03 · in Rsync: 3.4.1 –> 3.4.3
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    Rsync: 3.4.1 –> 3.4.3
    story by KolenCh · 2026-06-03 · 1 comment
  14. …of transparency for contributions. [1] https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d18b8f3238abdb2cd878...
    comment by sestep · 2026-05-26 · in Stop Advertising in Your Commits
  15. sure. git clone https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL= https://openrouter.ai/api ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=<make_an_account_on_openrouter_and_get_this_from_the_settings_panel> claude --model qwen/qwen3.6-plus:free > This…
    comment by colinsane · 2026-04-05 · in Qwen-3.6-Plus is the first model to break 1T tokens processed in a day
  16. …you're curious, here's a Nix derivation to make Balatro for any other system playable on Linux: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/ba... I wrote half a blog post when I did the derivation. One day, I should finish it…
    comment by bsimpson · 2026-04-05 · in LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
  17. …tiling window managers and PaperWM/Niri over the years I've also settled on a traditional DE. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/126590
    comment by aquariusDue · 2026-03-28 · in Make macOS consistently bad unironically
  18. …it in the source for nixpkgs. This config block is applied whenever programs.sway.enable is true: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/0590cd39f728e129122770... It installs the sway package here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/0590c…
    comment by craftkiller · 2026-03-13 · in I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux
  19. …UI has got you covered. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1pdtc3v/kde_plasma_i... [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/126590
    comment by aquariusDue · 2026-03-07 · in Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
  20. …The Nix or Guix package managers are likely your easiest bet. See https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Lazarus https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...
    comment by Modified3019 · 2026-02-27 · in Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE
  21. …grep in my path, but it's trivial to prepend all of my dependencies when I bundle it up for nix. 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/no...
    comment by aidenn0 · 2026-02-07 · in Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
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    You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR
    story by midzer · 2026-02-07 · 2 comments
  23. …own freestanding work unrelated to upstream efforts? 1. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/189 2. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/485453
    comment by OneDeuxTriSeiGo · 2026-02-02 · in Contracts in Nix
  24. …and using a --sparse approach, i.e. `git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse --branch nixos-25.11 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git nixpkgs-dorion cd nixpkgs-dorion`
    comment by arikrahman · 2026-01-31 · in Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
  25. …why I think the maximally from source bootstrap that Guix did, and that Nixpkgs is about to do too https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479322 is so important. These bootstraps essentially speedrun software history, and so they tell us a…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2026-01-17 · in High-Level Is the Goal
  26. for the private networking problem, openziti (apache 2.0) is now integrated with Nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/453502
    comment by gz5 · 2025-12-23 · in Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan
  27. Sublime Text for example[0], the source is closed, so what else is there to do [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/76701a179d3a98b07653e2... (does a fetch URL against the pre built .tar.gz from https://download.sublimetext.com )
    comment by cobertos · 2025-12-23 · in Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan
  28. …the nixos LUKS options, they can click on a link from a related option definition and end up with https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-25.11/nixos/modu... which will describe much of how luks is configured. Often a small change…
    comment by aidenn0 · 2025-12-23 · in The Polyglot NixOS
  29. …the pkg with the patch [2]. [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/security/... [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d85ef06512a3afbd6f9082...
    comment by frantathefranta · 2025-12-16 · in High Performance SSH/SCP
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    Show HN: A lightweight Git history explorer written in Go
    story by kokada · 2025-12-11 · 0 comments
  31. Not sure I understand :) it's certainly available in nixos https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-25.11/pkgs/by-na...
    comment by hexasquid · 2025-12-01 · in Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
  32. …sure I just ran a nix flake update. Here are the links from my journal: This went into nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/376988 Which then changed the api between and broke this: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/master/m…
    comment by dayjah · 2025-12-01 · in NixOS 25.11 released
  33. …process only runs binaries that don't expose any sort of arbitrary code functionality? I agree with https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/267982#issuecomment-... that the MITRE attack vector link doesn't help understanding much. Is the…
    comment by foxheadman · 2025-12-01 · in NixOS 25.11 released
  34. …files to the system which stops almost all attack vectors. You can read about the project here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/428908
    comment by arianvanp · 2025-11-30 · in NixOS 25.11 released
  35. …but not at all required. 0: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=25.11&show=services... 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-25.11/nixos/modu...
    comment by evil-olive · 2025-11-30 · in NixOS 25.11 released
  36. …just now and it looks like Nixpkgs had the latest version 0.214.7 within 24 hours of its release: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/466449
    comment by sestep · 2025-11-30 · in NixOS 25.11 released
  37. …you can cross compile to MinGW and Cygwin. Native Cygwin builds are also currently in progress: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/447520 . I would expect this to be done very soon, there year even (holidays permitting). There is a…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2025-11-24 · in A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
  38. …[1] which is... scarce, to say the least. But it also basically worked just like that. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
    comment by darkwater · 2025-11-18 · in A 'small' vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS
  39. …it up for nixpkgs but it’s stuck in merge limbo… [1] https://github.com/Vitruves/nail-parquet [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/449066
    comment by nathanscully · 2025-11-18 · in Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files
  40. You can. For example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/fde16189feaa6eaa81bcf9... If something gets built it likely means the sources available in some way, just not opensource. There may be many reasons they're preferred over a binary.
    comment by viraptor · 2025-11-13 · in Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
  41. …https://github.com/fzakaria/nix-nar-kaitai-spec and contributed kaitai C++ STL runtime to nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/454243
    comment by setheron · 2025-10-23 · in Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
  42. ▲ 169
    You can't build tcc from Nixpkgs if you are in the UK
    story by RGBCube · 2025-10-10 · 67 comments
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    Cygwin cross-compilation support added to Nixpkgs
    story by siraben · 2025-09-30 · 0 comments
  44. …is steam-run [0], I also used a similar approach to package Xilinx ISE [1] in a flake. [0] - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/by... [1] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-fpga-tools
    comment by bpye · 2025-09-11 · in Beyond package management: How Nix refactored my digital life
  45. Some more patches at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/pi... . ./configure --enable-conduits && make && make install sudo export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib then it works like a charm. Thank you very much. My usb…
    comment by reacweb · 2025-08-24 · in My original Palm IIIx
  46. …if you pay for the permanently broken PDF export feature) until I can self-host Linkding[1]. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+l...
    comment by l0b0 · 2025-08-17 · in Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
  47. …... > https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/127343 > 300 comments on Github. > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/332176 Might worth noting that this change technically doesn't violate Rust's stability guarantees since type inference
    comment by aw1621107 · 2025-08-01 · in Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
  48. …https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/127343 300 comments on Github. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/332176 Rust has editions, but it's a feature that it will probably take years to really be able to evaluate. What kind o
    comment by justcuriousab · 2025-08-01 · in Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
  49. …make a package. There's also nix-ld [2], which allows you to directly run unpatched binaries. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/bi... [2] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=progr...
    comment by tombert · 2025-07-28 · in NixOS on a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 AMD Laptop
  50. Yup, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/41340
    comment by sdht0 · 2025-07-28 · in Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything