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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. …be unrealistic. Has anyone successfully packaged it for NixOS? I see this aborted attempt here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/250777 (linked from https://github.com/lem-project/lem/issues/890 ). If not, I guess I might just try…
    comment by mplanchard · 2024-08-30 · in Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
  2. …upstreaming a feature that allows out of band secrets to be interpolated into config files easily https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/328472 I make extensive use of this is Self Host Blocks already. Finally, I’m using this project for my…
    comment by ibizaman · 2024-08-25 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
  3. I've opened a PR to nixpkgs for this, includes full instructions to get it running. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/337069
    comment by anotherhue · 2024-08-24 · in SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99
  4. Really cool but so far noone was able to package it for NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/327982
    comment by pshirshov · 2024-08-21 · in Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
  5. …. Nix - Split by themselves, packaged Netdata Cloud separately - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/c3aa7b8938b17aebd2deec... Alpine, OpenSUSE, Red Hat, Fedora etc. have been made aware of the issue and are working on a
    comment by arun-mani-j · 2024-08-16 · in Tell HN: Netdata is shipping their new dashboard as closed source blobs
  6. I usually keep myself out of HN discussions but some clients's issues are listed at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/334638 from Nix's side, which includes Cinny, Fluffychat, nheko, which are the 3 non-Element "Featured clients"…
    comment by regalialong · 2024-08-14 · in Security Issues in Matrix's Olm Library
  7. …[0]. Note someone wants aider bad enough they put a bounty on it getting packaged in nixpkgs. - [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/330726
    comment by muixoozie · 2024-08-02 · in Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture
  8. …that side of things; mostly I just interact as a happy user. I think the relevant sources are https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specifi... and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specifi... , with the…
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-07-25 · in Switching from Arch to NixOS
  9. …the PR tracker is dead... But the last nixos-unstable bump was two days ago, so it’s there.) [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/4e15c4a8ad30c02d6c26...
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2024-07-17 · in NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
  10. …nixos provides are based on the files in this repo https://github.com/aaronp24/nvidia-versions See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9355fa86e6f27422963132... You could also opt to use the latest driver instead of stable:…
    comment by SushiHippie · 2024-07-17 · in NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
  11. Am I missing something? NixOS has had it since April https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/nixos-unstable/pkgs...
    comment by anotherhue · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  12. …builds. For example most distros ship a PGO optimized build of Python while nixos does not. [0] https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs [1] https://cache.nixos.org/
    comment by SushiHippie · 2024-06-28 · in Meta LLM Compiler: neural optimizer and disassembler
  13. …done a lot of the work. [2] [1] https://elephly.net/posts/2017-01-09-bootstrapping-haskell-p... [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/227914
    comment by rssoconnor · 2024-06-21 · in The Pre-Scheme Restoration
  14. …for Nix/NixOS. The package set is continuously built by a CI system and made publicly available: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs#continuous-integration-and-...
    comment by c0balt · 2024-06-16 · in I've compared nearly all Rust crates.io crates to contents of their Git repos
  15. I love nix on macOS. But one word of caution: nix uses a very outdated, EOL’d, macOS SDK ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101229 ).
    comment by madmax96 · 2024-06-14 · in Brew-Nix: a flake automatically packaging all homebrew casks
  16. …fast and supports rendering EPUBs too. EDIT: there's also this https://sioyek.info/ found thanks to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9d13dbb1ef2d0a6a6788d5...
    comment by SSLy · 2024-06-08 · in LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producer
  17. …benefit from some rearchitecture. [1] Which happened yesterday with an ethernet card configuration: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/nixos/modu...
    comment by tombert · 2024-06-03 · in Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager
  18. …run podman as root (1) [0]. What is very scary and defeat the purpose of rootless containers. - [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/259770
    comment by sunshine-o · 2024-05-28 · in Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
  19. …search "bevy" on the Nixpkgs GitHub repo and see what comes up. I found a derivation that does: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/games/jump... 3. If you use flakes, you should keep the flake "schema" handy. There are a lot…
    comment by jchw · 2024-05-21 · in Enlightenmentware
  20. …SSH key to Zimbabwe's government's website (don't run this!): let pkgs = import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/0ef56bec7281e2372338f2dfe7c13327ce96f6bb.tar.gz") {}; in builtins.fetchurl…
    comment by CyberShadow · 2024-05-16 · in Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
  21. …nix-shell -p tracexec This will drop you into a shell where `tracexec` is installed. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/310158
    comment by nh2 · 2024-05-08 · in Show HN: Tracexec – TUI for tracing execve and pre-exec behavior
  22. …situation has been addressed. But the memory of my experience remains, and then I see things like https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 which make it look like that same rejection of the larger ecosystem dynamic is still alive and…
    comment by mindslight · 2024-05-06 · in Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
  23. …about the bazillion git branches and GitHub PRs. I started this GitHub issue about 4 years ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327 The more time goes by, the more convinced I am that all of the problems I have with Nix stem from…
    comment by thomastjeffery · 2024-05-06 · in Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager
  24. …down that Docker path in the first place. Here's the same dynamic on an associated project in 2021: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326 If anyone chimes in and says they've been running Home Assistant from nixpkgs (where I am now)…
    comment by mindslight · 2024-05-05 · in Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
  25. …it certainly looks like something is going on as more than 20 Nixpkg maintainers left in a week: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%228.has%3... It's fine to ask if someone can explain what is going on, it's a waste of…
    comment by depr · 2024-04-29 · in Nix: The Breaking Point
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    Maintainers Leaving
    story by aendruk · 2024-04-27 · 3 comments
  27. …For 1gbit: Ubiquiti Edgerouter ER-4 and ER-6; both have SFP cages for fiber optic transcievers https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/194153 https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/er-4
    comment by karma_pharmer · 2024-04-25 · in Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching
  28. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits?author=neon-sunset
    comment by colinsane · 2024-04-25 · in Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
  29. I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
    comment by progval · 2024-04-23 · in Open letter to the NixOS foundation
  30. …asked the PR author if they can make the maintainer name the same as their GitHub username. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/120729#discussion_r621... And this exploded. Way out of proportion. Some were pouncing on the member who made…
    comment by soraminazuki · 2024-04-22 · in Open letter to the NixOS foundation
  31. For a single file script, you can avoid managing environments by using a nix shebang: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-f...
    comment by e44858 · 2024-04-19 · in 3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
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    NixOS/nixpkgs: There isn't a clear canonical way to refer to a specific package
    story by todsacerdoti · 2024-04-09 · 0 comments
  33. …In fact it works just fine if they aren't. There are packages in nixpkgs that aren't reproducible: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
    comment by oessessnex · 2024-04-07 · in NixOS Is Not Reproducible
  34. …vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
    comment by threePointFive · 2024-04-02 · in The xz attack shell script
  35. …(as they never used the release tarball directly from upstream but built from GitHub sources). See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300055 and: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/300028 It's also worth noting that Guix is…
    comment by pxc · 2024-04-02 · in From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
  36. …the specified revision[1]. Arch seems to just download the tarball from the releases page[2]. [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/3c2fdd0a4e6396fc310a6e... [2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ib...
    comment by 1una · 2024-04-02 · in From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
  37. …often requires changes synchronized across many packages, so it really makes things simpler. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs I think it's important to add that they both have the biggest number of packaged software and the most up-to-date…
    comment by paulgdp · 2024-04-02 · in Debian Git Monorepo
  38. Here is the discussion https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300055
    comment by kreetx · 2024-04-01 · in Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
  39. …do depend on xz, which, if built, requires pulling the source from GitHub (see the default.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/to... ) It's not the vulnerability that's a problem right now (NixOS was protected by…
    comment by 1attice · 2024-03-30 · in GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo
  40. …does not show a direct dependency. 0: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/tools/netw...
    comment by anotherhue · 2024-03-30 · in GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo
  41. …right? I'm currently trying to package for nixpkgs[0] and am using Firefox for the checkPhase. [0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/283878
    comment by n8henrie · 2024-03-25 · in Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
  42. I think whateveracct was referring to is this link: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen... What that file is doing, is building a package, and it essentially is a combination of what Makefile and what RPM spec file…
    comment by takeda · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
  43. …that fail to reproduce for much more trivial reasons. There aren't many of them, but they exist: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
    comment by orbital-decay · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
  44. …you will need to use override and disable all that unnecessary shit. Look at zulu for example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen... you add alsa, fontconfig (probably comes with entire X11), freetype, xorg (oh,…
    comment by takeda · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
  45. Systemd service PR posted to nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/292873
    comment by ghthor · 2024-03-02 · in Ask HN: What AI assistants are already bundled for Linux?
  46. …tabbyml release which supports rocm in addition to cuda [1] https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/291744
    comment by ghthor · 2024-03-02 · in Ask HN: What AI assistants are already bundled for Linux?
  47. …adding a new package, some of which have been just sitting there without review comments for years. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22... At least they're meticulously labeled so it's easy to find them.
    comment by yorwba · 2024-02-24 · in Contributing Scrutiny to Nixpkgs
  48. …at least Python 2.6, and I think I remember seeing it before then: $ LC_ALL=C NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/release-13.10.tar.gz nix-shell -p python26 --run 'python -c "from __future__ import braces"' File…
    comment by endgame · 2024-02-16 · in Uv: Python packaging in Rust
  49. …more difficult. Related threads: https://www.mail-archive.com/tramp-devel@gnu.org/msg05953.ht... https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/220187
    comment by ParetoOptimal · 2024-01-31 · in I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
  50. I recently ported this to Nix if anyone is itching to try it. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/237151
    comment by anotherhue · 2024-01-18 · in DJGPP