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Nix Derivations, Without Guessing
I went on a little low-level Nix adventure yesterday and early this morning because of this excellent blog post. In it, Farid builds up the simplest possible Nix derivation—making a file that has the contents “hello world”. Here’s what I like about it:
- Points
- 136
- HN comments
- 64
- Submissions
- 1
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Infrastructure & DevOpsSoftware Engineering2025
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2025 | Nix Derivations, Without Guessing by surprisetalk | 136 | 64 |
