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rlttoday at 4:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

Nit: there’s nothing “cryptographic” about reproducible builds.

“Reproducible build” already usually implies bit-by-bit reproducibility.


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dempedempetoday at 5:56 PM

I meant with Nix you're comparing hashes. With Docker, you're using pinned versions

bt1atoday at 5:07 PM

i thought it mainly implied architectural/hardware compatibility and deterministic output