Hacker News: mehackernewsacc

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Terpstra Keyboard"

mehackernewsacc — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:22:30 +0000

Just be aware that Polyend's modus operandi is to constantly churn out new hardware and not properly support and fix bugs in the software of things already released. Always on to the next thing.

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy"

mehackernewsacc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:07:56 +0000

Do you feel that something like https://secretspec.dev/ addresses these points?

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Introduction to nixidy – Kubernetes GitOps with Nix"

mehackernewsacc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:16:46 +0000

Wow, nixidy really seems to tie up a lot of loose ends around working with Kubernetes in consistent, holistic way.

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

mehackernewsacc — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:09:50 +0000

Naming is hard, sure, but doing some due diligence up front to see what's already being used isn't very difficult. Very neat tool.

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Garnix, the Nix CI, is shutting down"

mehackernewsacc — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:28:57 +0000

Any plans to natively support projects using devenv instead of flakes?

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

mehackernewsacc — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:36:07 +0000

Is your company hiring?

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Devenv 2.1: Nix with native support for zsh, fish, and nushell via libghostty"

mehackernewsacc — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:38:10 +0000

Being able to drop direnv as a dependency for environment auto-activation has been very nice.

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

mehackernewsacc — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:12:09 +0000

Shared up the chain, but bringing your attention to it as well: https://nixidy.dev/ solves all of these issues.

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

mehackernewsacc — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:08:50 +0000

You should take a look at https://nixidy.dev/.

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "GitHub Actions is the weakest link"

mehackernewsacc — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:58:52 +0000

Are you hiring? This sounds like a really cool space and product to work on.

I Turned the Game Boy Color into a Watch

mehackernewsacc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:18:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTUg_NePXy8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892260

Points: 3

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New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Show HN: TypeNix – full typing for Nix language by mapping to the TS AST"

mehackernewsacc — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:36:13 +0000

Whoa. This is very, very cool. I love TypeScript and its type system, and started using Nix in the past few years and wished it could have something similar.

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Ask HN: Can hash verification replace EV code-signing on Windows?"

mehackernewsacc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:31:18 +0000

Who watches the watcher? i.e. verify.ps1 is a separate program that needs to be verified somehow.

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Nixtamal: Fulfilling, Pure Input Pinning for Nix"

mehackernewsacc — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:55:23 +0000

I’m genuinely not trying to be combative here — I’m just noticing that a lot of your choices seem pretty unconventional, and I’m trying to understand the reasoning behind them, because they are making it hard to interact with you and your project.

- You’re using Nix (which I am familiar with, and why I am here).

- Instead of Git, you’re using “darcs,” which I haven’t encountered before.

- Instead of Flakes, you built Nixtamal.

- For communication, you’re using an XMPP chatroom, which I’m also not familiar with. (Same with MUC — that’s new to me as well.)

Which leaves me with the one experience I'm able to have, in the one place I'm able to share it with you (here):

  % nix run "github:toastal/nixpkgs?ref=nixtamal-init#nixtamal" -- nixtamal set-up
  error: Cannot build '/nix/store/6s9ich4n35c8dna24vvz44ynxwdiyvy8-ocaml5.3.0-nixtamal-0.1.1-beta.drv'.
        Reason: builder failed with exit code 1.
        Output paths:
          /nix/store/x1qgdd1p9q3y2bsr79cgic51m5cgbc5f-ocaml5.3.0-nixtamal-0.1.1-beta
        Last 25 log lines:
        >   [OK]          Input             3   Manifest frozen Pijul of KDL.
        >   [OK]          Input             4   Manifest frozen Pijul sameshape.
        >   [OK]          Input             5   Patch is_local_path detection.
        >   [OK]          Input             6   Patch strip_file_prefix.
        >   [OK]          Input             7   Manifest input codec sameshape.
        >   [OK]          Input             8   Patch source detection.
        >   [OK]          Silo              0   Generation sameshape.
        >   [OK]          Silo              1   GC Cutoff Math/cap=2, gen=5.
        >   [OK]          Silo              2   GC Cutoff Math/cap=10, gen=2 (underflow).
        >   [OK]          Silo              3   GC Cutoff Math/cap=0 (keep all).
        >   [OK]          Silo              4   GC Cutoff Math/cap=2, gen=14 (e hex).
        >   [OK]          Silo              5   GC Cutoff Math/cap=1, gen=1.
        >   [OK]          Lockfile          0   0 inputs & 0 patches.
        >   [OK]          Lockfile          1   2 inputs & 2 patches.
        >   [OK]          Lockfile          2   Local patches in default.nix.
        >
        > Full test results in `/nix/var/nix/builds/nix-build-ocaml5.3.0-nixtamal-0.1.1-beta.drv-6016-3976314062/fetchdarcs/_build/default/test/_build/_tests/Nixtamal'.
        > Test Successful in 21.472s. 18 tests run.
        > Running phase: installPhase
        > Warning: Cache directories could not be created: Read-only file system;
        > disabling cache
        > Hint: Make sure the directory /homeless-shelter/.cache/dune/db/temp can be
        > created
        > Error: Program codesign not found in the tree or in PATH
        > Hint: codesign should be part of the macOS installation
        For full logs, run:
          nix log /nix/store/6s9ich4n35c8dna24vvz44ynxwdiyvy8-ocaml5.3.0-nixtamal-0.1.1-beta.drv

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "OpenCode with superpowers. It can do everything in a container with Docker / Nix"

mehackernewsacc — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:10:56 +0000

Odd thing to proclaim, as Nix and Dagger-orchestrated containers are not 1:1?

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Show HN: Nix – open-source, zero-knowledge secret sharing"

mehackernewsacc — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:08:29 +0000

First-glance feedback is that Nix (https://nixos.org/) is _way_ too established a technology to use its name in another software project, if only for SEO reasons, and I'd recommend coming up with a new moniker.

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997"

mehackernewsacc — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:30:16 +0000

NixOS is what you are describing: https://nixos.org

New comment by mehackernewsacc in "Fidget"

mehackernewsacc — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:08:18 +0000

Just in case you are unaware, these build issues are entirely solvable by defining a Nix flake for your project, resulting in a repeatable, reproducible build every time:

https://nixos.org/ https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Flakes