Hacker News: mehackernewsacc

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