Hacker News with Generative AI: Nix

Determinate Nix 3.5: introducing lazy trees (determinate.systems)
Lazy trees have been one of the most hotly requested Nix features for quite some time. They make Nix much more efficient in larger repositories, particularly in massive monorepos. And so we’re excited to announce that lazy trees have landed in Determinate Nix version 3.5.2, based on version 2.28.3 of upstream Nix.

Software, New Releases, Nix, Programming, Optimization

18 points by biggestlou 8 days ago | 1 comments

Demonstrably Secure Software Supply Chains with Nix (nixcademy.com)
Maintaining secure software development environments, especially those that require high levels of integrity guarantees, often comes with significant overhead.

Software Security, Nix, DevOps

118 points by todsacerdoti 11 days ago | 76 comments

Flakes Have Failed (bytesize.xyz)
Despite continued efforts to the contrary, Nix Flakes have systematically failed within the Nix ecosystem.

Software, Nix, Failure

13 points by todsacerdoti 11 days ago | 0 comments

Nix Derivations, Without Guessing (bernsteinbear.com)
I went on a little low-level Nix adventure yesterday and early this morning because of this excellent blog post. In it, Farid builds up the simplest possible Nix derivation—making a file that has the contents “hello world”. Here’s what I like about it:

Nix, Programming, Linux

136 points by surprisetalk 46 days ago | 64 comments

Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix (github.com/pdtpartners)
Ninja-compatible incremental build system for Nix

Open Source, Build Systems, Nix, Software

33 points by hinshun 50 days ago | 15 comments

Ekapkgs, a poly-repo fork of Nixpkgs (nixcademy.com)
Nixpkgs is a technical marvel.

Nix, Package Management, Open Source, Software

4 points by todsacerdoti 53 days ago | 0 comments

Nix and Containers: Why Not Both? (flox.dev)
Some people say they don’t use Nix because containers already address the same problems.

Nix, Containers, Software Development, Operating Systems

13 points by Areibman 85 days ago | 4 comments

Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths (determinate.systems)
Building things with Nix is pretty amazing. You point Nix at a flake reference for a derivation and say “build!” It then spins up a sandbox and reproducibly creates real bytes on disk. Those bytes on disk could be a single hello.txt file or a hefty Docker image or a fully functional NixOS system—or much else besides.

Nix, Software Development, Build Systems

41 points by biggestlou 100 days ago | 45 comments

Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix (chrastecky.dev)
The Steam Deck (and SteamOS) delivers a fantastic console-like experience on a Linux system. However, its immutable filesystem means that installing packages that persist across system upgrades isn’t straightforward. Fortunately, with a little Nix magic, you can work around that limitation.

Steam Deck, Linux, Nix, Gaming, Operating Systems

147 points by Rikudou 103 days ago | 109 comments

The Nix NGI Team: Advancing Open Source with Nix (nixos.org)

Open Source, Nix, Operating Systems

78 points by idabzo 119 days ago | 29 comments

Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts (dgt.is)
This is my perspective on using Nix (the OS, the package manager, and the language) as a main driver for the past 2 years. I have gone to conferences, engaged the community, donated, submitted bug reports, converted my home servers, and probably spent hundreds of hours in Nix configs. I consider myself well versed, but certainly no expert.

Operating Systems, Package Management, Nix, Software

348 points by jonotime 132 days ago | 326 comments

Home Manager: Dotfiles Management (gvolpe.com)
This project provides a basic system for managing a user environment using the Nix package manager together with the Nix libraries found in Nixpkgs. It allows declarative configuration of user specific (non-global) packages and dotfiles.

Configuration Management, Nix, Dotfiles

24 points by todsacerdoti 156 days ago | 12 comments

The future of software is Nix (determinate.systems)
The future of software is Nix and we at Determinate Systems want to have a role in building that future.

Software Development, Nix

42 points by biggestlou 210 days ago | 61 comments

Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes (determinate.systems)
Today, we’re delighted to announce a new chapter for FlakeHub with the general availability of two new features: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes.

Nix, Software, Cloud Computing, Caching

34 points by grhmc 212 days ago | 29 comments

Determinate Nix (nixos.org)

Operating Systems, Linux, Package Management, Nix

6 points by aendruk 213 days ago | 0 comments

How to Learn Nix (ianthehenry.com)
I tried to learn Nix, and it was pretty hard. I kept a diary of every command I tried, every wrong assumption that I made, and every realization that I had along the way.

Nix, Learning, Operating Systems, Tutorials, Programming

25 points by dp-hackernews 239 days ago | 7 comments

Nix in 100 Seconds [video] (youtube.com)

Nix, Video Tutorials, Operating Systems

41 points by jkarni 274 days ago | 16 comments

Nix Alternatives and Spinoffs (lwn.net)

Nix, Operating Systems, Linux, Software, Alternatives

4 points by jzb 316 days ago | 0 comments

Parallel Nix Evaluation (determinate.systems)

Parallel Computing, Nix, System Administration, Software Development

7 points by tripdout 329 days ago | 0 comments

Flox 1.1: Time Travel Across 100k+ Nix Packages (flox.dev)