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Filligreetoday at 11:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

Run “nix flake update”. Commit the lockfile. Build a docker image from that; the software you need is almost certainly there, and there’s a handy docker helper.


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klodolphtoday at 12:02 PM

Recently I’ve been noticing that Nix software has been falling behind. So “the software you need is almost certainly there” is less true these days. Recently = April 2026.

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PunchyHamstertoday at 12:08 PM

oh, great, adding more dependency, and one that just had serious security problem

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