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How Nixos trended on Hacker News

Nixos was mentioned 13,654 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Jun 2021 with 298 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Nixos appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about Nixos

1. 1.Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS 1,012 points · 581 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible 778 points · 225 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.The Curse of NixOS 583 points · 353 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS 387 points · 394 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
5. 5.NixOS on Framework Laptop 358 points · 245 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.NixOS 21.05 310 points · 232 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution 292 points · 135 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
8. 8.My experience with NixOS 289 points · 92 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.My NixOS Desktop Flow 280 points · 243 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
10. 10.NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor 280 points · 128 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment with NixOS 248 points · 66 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Is NixOS truly reproducible? 248 points · 122 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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