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~/git/blog
Personal blog · blog.thalheim.ioprogrammingsystems
~/git/blog is a personal blog at blog.thalheim.io about programming and systems. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Nix-ld: A clean solution for pre-compiled executables on NixOS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on terminal setup and Nix packaging, from a thread titled "How I use my terminal". The one comment discusses options for running non-Nix binaries on Nix.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Nix-ld: A clean solution for pre-compiled executables on NixOS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-31
What Hacker News says?
Ah I misunderstood. Yes that's a bit more complex. Your options boil down to a) using pkgs.autoPatchelfHook [0], b) learning some nix and writing a derivation yourself, c) using nix-ld [1]. There's also pkgs.steam-run which provides a typical environment expected for games. A great deal of things are already packaged, but for the most part I find it pretty fast to package something. Once you write a derivation [2] o…
Comment linking /2022/12/31/nix-ld-a-clean-solution-for-issues-with-pre-compiled-executables-on-nixos/
on “How I use my terminal”Submitted Nix-ld: A clean solution for pre-compiled executables on NixOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussion