The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS(blog.kammel.dev)
43 points by datosh | 1 comments
A blog post on using VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) documents to manage vulnerability reports in NixOS.
#nix on Hacker News
8 stories tagged nix, newest first.
Nix wrote half of my debugger(fzakaria.com)
226 points by ingve | 54 comments
Blog post by Farid Zakaria describing how Nix helped build a debugger on top of Rewind VM, a deterministic VM for Nix builds.
Executable Is a SQLite Database(fzakaria.com)
479 points by setheron | 90 comments
Blog post by Farid Zakaria on replacing the ELF executable format with SQLite databases, and how the idea pairs with Nix.
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded(discourse.nixos.org)
358 points by Meleagris | 182 comments
NixOS Discourse announcement that the Nixpkgs core team has disbanded, reviewing its achievements and citing unsustainability and maintainer health.
Why I love NixOS(birkey.co)
411 points by birkey | 277 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author loves NixOS, focusing on the deterministic, reproducible Nix package manager rather than the Linux distro itself.
Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder(xeiaso.net)
395 points by tosh | 235 comments
Talk page by Xe Iaso arguing Nix builds better Docker images than Docker's builder, with slides, script, demo app source, and Fly.io coupon.
Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix(github.com)
353 points by ronef | 167 comments
GitHub repository for Flox, an open-source CLI built on Nix for creating portable, reproducible developer environments, announced at version 1.0.
NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt(discourse.nixos.org)
515 points by CathalMullan | 159 comments
NixOS Discourse announcement that the nixos-minimal installation ISO built by Hydra was independently rebuilt bit-for-bit identically, verifying reproducibility.