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64 mentions on Hacker News by 39 people: 3 stories, 61 comments · first 2018-11-03 · latest 2026-08-08

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  1. …divisiveness happened around 2021 and crept into the community. You're still seeing the fallout of https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/98
    comment by jonringer117 · 2026-08-08 · in The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
  2. …implies that key is not tied to specific hardware and therefore could be leaked/exfiltrated/copied: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/149/files#diff-ac4cc42774...
    comment by craftkiller · 2026-06-26 · in I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?
  3. …associated implementation[2] or is it its 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
  4. I’m working on introducing this kind of protocol in NixOS. I called it contracts. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/189 The idea is a contract is defined saying which options exist and what they mean. For backups, you’d get the Unix user…
    comment by ibizaman · 2026-01-12 · in CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
  5. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0097-no-read-... is relevant.
    comment by kevincox · 2025-10-31 · in Nix Derivation Madness
  6. My RFC was much earlier in 2018 https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/34 Lack of supply chain integrity controls as a means to reduce contribution friction to maximize the number of packages contributed is a perfectly valid strategy for a…
    comment by lrvick · 2025-10-16 · in Pwning the Nix ecosystem
  7. …and Stagex use. I also assume that the RFC you're talking about is RFC 0100, "Sign Commits"(ref: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/100 ) As mentioned in the RFC discussion, the major blocker with this is the lack of an ability for…
    comment by pyrox · 2025-10-15 · in Pwning the Nix ecosystem
  8. Yeah, nah. Watch how an open discussion here: https://github.com/nixos/rfcs/pull/98 ... devolves into a massive outcry because a bunch of folks not behaving in good faith didn't like "we don't support fascism or bigotry". It reached the…
    comment by florkbork · 2025-09-30 · in Heavy codes of conduct are unnecessary for open source projects
  9. …before the SC or constitution existed. The initial moderators were appointed from RFC 102 ( https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0102-moderati... ), with the mandate to self-select successors. Over the years the team has changed…
    comment by TheFreim · 2025-09-27 · in NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference
  10. …was an entire chapter in the Nix thesis paper (chapter 6) and has been worked on recently (see https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/62 and https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/17 for current progress).
    comment by IHLayman · 2025-02-12 · in Is NixOS truly reproducible?
  11. Austin I think some of these distinctions are not necessary for the theory. In https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0092-plan-dyn... there is only an action graph but it is dynamic. Dynamic craft would depend on an entire…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2024-09-20 · in Zb: An Early-Stage Build System
  12. Interesting! Thanks, hadn't seen that yet. (For anyone else curious, the RFC is here: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0092-plan-dyn... )
    comment by zombiezen · 2024-09-19 · in Zb: An Early-Stage Build System
  13. …ld.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cfv8vo/moderation_n... --- Finally, the RFC to improve the situation: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175
    comment by srid · 2024-05-07 · in Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager
  14. I'm afraid the letter spread some misinformation: The meson RFC has in fact not been approved: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/132 For a discussion on this, see https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained/issues/1
    comment by infinisil · 2024-05-06 · in Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager
  15. …ld.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cfv8vo/moderation_n... --- Finally, the RFC to improve the situation: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175
    comment by srid · 2024-05-01 · in NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community
  16. …ld.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cfv8vo/moderation_n... --- Finally, the RFC to improve the situation: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175
    comment by srid · 2024-04-29 · in A leadership crisis in the Nix community
  17. …contributors are men. * November 2023: The moderation team tries to institute a Code of Conduct https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/114 ... and they get their way * November 2023: Some are not happy about it:…
    comment by amiga386 · 2024-04-29 · in Nix: The Breaking Point
  18. …ld.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1ceiz36/thoughts_on_... --- Finally, the RFC to improve the situation: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175
    comment by srid · 2024-04-28 · in What Nix Will Have Been
  19. …months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166912 To address this, a RFC was opened yesterday: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175 (Ironically, the authors got banned right after opening the PR)
    comment by srid · 2024-04-26 · in On Community in Nix
  20. …moderation team in the last few months, and is linked from NixOS RFC 175 as supporting evidence: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175 The two authors of this RFC, shortly after they opened the PR, got banned by the NixOS moderators. You…
    comment by srid · 2024-04-26 · in The dire state of NixOS's moderation culture
  21. It appears the bulk of the actual requested changes are here: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175 When there's stuff like this going on, I don't think it's helpful to try and do a full review of who did what wrong, or what the…
    comment by traverseda · 2024-04-26 · in The dire state of NixOS's moderation culture
  22. …completed working implementation of the change doesn't appear to have been done until 2023-01-18 ( https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/132#issuecomment-13874661... ). Again this is much less than 5 years old. 3) On 2023-03-20, the author of…
    comment by tpmoney · 2024-04-23 · in Open letter to the NixOS foundation
  23. …has been the theme of these activists since 2021. See the downvotes in this sensible comment: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/98#issuecomment-902913333
    comment by srid · 2024-04-23 · in Open letter to the NixOS foundation
  24. …and initiatives linked here. What really caught my eye was this discussion thread on the RFC98 PR ( https://github.com/nixos/rfcs/pull/98#discussion_r683938993 ) where one of the signatories of this open letter kept arguing for why fascism…
    comment by YuukiRey · 2024-04-22 · in Open letter to the NixOS foundation
  25. Nix with dynamic derivations (RFC92) could potentially beat this curse. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0092-plan-dyn...
    comment by max-privatevoid · 2024-03-19 · in Build System Schism: The Curse of Meta Build Systems
  26. See: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136
    comment by sdht0 · 2024-03-14 · in Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
  27. Types of feeds I subscribe to: * News/blogs * Commits, e.g https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/commits/master.atom * Discounts for games on my wishlist: https://isthereanydeal.com/ * LKML posts mentioning a device I use:…
    comment by maerst · 2023-11-20 · in RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information
  28. …introduced "problem" infrastructure to deal with such problems more gracefully and explicitly: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0127-issues-w...
    comment by VTimofeenko · 2023-11-05 · in I like gentoo's package deprecation process
  29. …buy-in for even -optional- expression integrity support back in 2018 and gave up on nix after that. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/34 I did prototype a git multisig solution in the years following that though:…
    comment by lrvick · 2023-10-30 · in NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
  30. …state. An RFC was recently accepted to commit to forming a plan towards stabilization of Flakes: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136 Personally, I don't believe there won't be any breaking changes, but I also believe that the…
    comment by Cu3PO42 · 2023-10-09 · in NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (free)
  31. …stop maintaining packages if they had to do the bare minimum like commit signing or hardware 2FA. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/34 All this is fine, but it means effectively a decision was made for NixOS to be a hobby distro not…
    comment by lrvick · 2023-06-10 · in Nix/NixOS S3 Update and Recap of Community Call
  32. …actually. Maybe this will help push that effort along, or direct more resources towards it. See: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/133
    comment by pxc · 2023-06-03 · in The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support
  33. …of Flakes will also require another RFC. That seems like Flakes are still quite a ways away. [1] - https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136
    comment by JamesSwift · 2023-05-27 · in Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
  34. …this didn't link to the Nix RFC that considers changing the default builder from Bash to Oil: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/99 Of course it does have a different goal (of replacing Bash with OSH instead of only offering an…
    comment by Arcuru · 2023-03-28 · in Nuenv: An experimental Nushell builder for Nix packages
  35. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136 soon, you shouldn't have to care what language it uses!
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2023-03-01 · in Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
  36. …have no signing at all than use the well supported tools every other distro uses with success. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/34 As a security engineer I lost all interest in NixOS after that. They want it to be a hobby distro run like…
    comment by lrvick · 2022-12-23 · in Nix on the Steam Deck
  37. …and ignores countless cases where exactly that has happened. See rejected RFC for more details: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/34
    comment by lrvick · 2022-12-23 · in Nix on the Steam Deck
  38. …not ensure the code that went into those builds was accurate. See rejected RFC for more details: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/34
    comment by lrvick · 2022-12-23 · in Nix on the Steam Deck
  39. …sound like you have something particular in mind. If I look at the Nix RFCs, flakes was as RFC 0049 https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49 Maybe Alyssa's comment here? https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136#discussion_r987278726
    comment by rgoulter · 2022-10-06 · in Nix Team Creation
  40. …(nearly ten years old). However, the RFC for adding support was finally merged: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/92 and so support will come soon enough. So basically: Given that most developers need to produce containers to ship to pro
    comment by solatic · 2022-04-25 · in How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect
  41. Please check out https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/109 ! I absolutely agree language-specific package managers need better support. Nix RFC 109 is a simple-stupid way to get some "important from derivation" in Nixpkgs, so we can…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2022-03-22 · in Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?
  42. …point. And I do in fact find myself refactoring individual packages and the infra at the same time. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/109/ I wrote to hopefully make the lang2nix packages work with Nixpkgs. I think this would achieve most…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come
  43. …distro package managers. I think once that is fixed, a lot of stuff will start improving. I wrote https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/109/ in hopes Nix can help lead the way here.
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come
  44. …winning over the hearts and minds of upstream developers is the final frontier. To that end I wrote https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/92 and https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/109 . As a side benefit, autogenerating more Nix means less…
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS
  45. I would very much like this for https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/92
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2022-01-10 · in Proposal to add build graph output to GNU Make (2020)
  46. …error. However, this "feature" turned out to be misfeature and may be removed in future. The RFC: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0045-deprecat...
    comment by danbst · 2021-07-23 · in Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code
  47. …actually changing so that the additional config can be merged/validated even if it can't be typed https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-o...
    comment by mason55 · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05
  48. …--------- 1: https://discourse.nixos.org/ 2: https://matrix.to/#/!MKvhXlSTLGJUXpYuWF:nixos.org 3: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/94 4: https://discourse.nixos.org/search?q=office%20hours 5: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-office-hours…
    comment by pxc · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05
  49. …a new RFC. At any rate, I would be surprised if the new CLI with flakes are close to release. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49
    comment by danieldk · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
  50. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/17 proposes lots and lots of symlinks in a way that reminds me of GoboLinux :).
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2021-02-02 · in GoboLinux