Best of 2021

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2021. 175 posts.

Infrastructure & DevOps
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What’s in a package

There is no shortage of package managers. Each tool makes its own set of tradeoffs regarding speed, ease of use, customizability, and reproducibility. Guix occupies a sweet spot, providing reproducibility by design as pioneered by Nix , package customization à la Spack from the command line, the ability to create…