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Garnix Blog
Company blog · garnix.io/blog · on HN as jkarniprogrammingsystems
Garnix Blog is the company blog at garnix.io, writing about programming and systems. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Fix Your FODs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Garnix's blog as the home of a Nix CI and hosting service. One linked post explains its approach to interdependencies between hosted apps. Comments mostly point to the product.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Simple, fast, and green CI and caching for nix projects
Most-linked posts?
- Fix Your FODs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-30
- Incremental builds in Nix and garnix (2024)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-16
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-13
- What Comes After GitHub Actions?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-21
- Stop Trusting Nix Caches2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-01
- Hands-On NixOS Servers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-22
- Hardware-Attested Nix Builds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-18
What Hacker News says?
Anyone use Garnix? https://garnix.io/
Comment linking /
on “Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue”Submitted Call by Hash as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThis is part of why we built https://garnix.io/
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on “Show HN: FlakeHub Cache: Fast, secure, configurable. A new take on Nix caching”Submitted Hands-On NixOS Servers as a story · 28 points
HN discussionWe also do something similar at garnix, but when enabling incremental builds. Instead of just skipping the build stage, we also “normalize” the eval into just the store path, and skipping it the second time around. Mentioned in passing in https://garnix.io/blog/incremental-builds . This is even more significant because in this case you might otherwise be eval-ing several layers of flakes.
Comment linking /blog/incremental-builds
on “Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths”Submitted Stop Trusting Nix Caches as a story · 22 points
HN discussionYeah, nix on macOS can be a pain… You might be too deeply scarred to come close to it, but we just wrote a blog post about deploying NixOS servers without installing nix locally or provisioning work here that feels relevant: https://garnix.io/blog/hosting-nixos
Comment linking /blog/hosting-nixos
on “Nix in 100 Seconds [video]”Submitted Garnix Is Joining Shopify as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI use https://garnix.io/ for all my Nix CI, works great.
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on “Why I love NixOS”Submitted What Comes After GitHub Actions? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNote that Garnix is more than a CI system. It also allows for hosting apps with a quite brilliant and AFAIK unique solution to interdependencies. https://garnix.io/blog/call-by-hash/
Comment linking /blog/call-by-hash/
on “Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down”Submitted Nix flakes, and how to convert to them as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cradle: A simpler Haskell process library as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking the Language Server Protocol one step further as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Garnix Blog: What Comes After GitHub Actions? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nix, Caching, and CIs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardware-Attested Nix Builds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fix Your FODs: A supply-chain attack on Nix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fix Your FODs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incremental builds in Nix and garnix (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Function Types in Nix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Garn, a TypeScript-based Nix front end as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forwardly-Evaluated Build Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardware-Attested Nix Builds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fix Your FODs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Trusting Nix Caches as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Garnix Modules as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incremental Builds in Nix and Garnix as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Garn v0.0.16 ships with vitejs and GitHub pages plugins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contextual CLIs as a story · 1 points
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