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adnissen / homebrew

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The missing package manager for OS X.

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What it is

The missing package manager for OS X.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-01-22 04:52:20 UTC to 2014-02-21 16:22:51 UTC.

012014-01-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 222014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 62014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 21

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jan 222014-01-22 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 232014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 242014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 252014-01-25 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 262014-01-26 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 272014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 282014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 292014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 302014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 312014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 12014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 22014-02-02 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 32014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 42014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 52014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 62014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 72014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 82014-02-08 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 92014-02-09 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 102014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 112014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 122014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 132014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 142014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 152014-02-15 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 162014-02-16 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 172014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 182014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 192014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 202014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 212014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-22 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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damncabbage·Jan 22, 2014
There's a pull request open here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/26075 If you absolutely can't wait, you can run this to install it: $ brew install https://github.com/adnissen/homebrew/raw/110c278d3a6ce6edae6208f4033bd3508530f29d/… Voilà. ############################################## 100.0% ==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/rig/rig/1.11/rig-1.11.tar.gz ############################################## 100.0% ==> make 🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/rig/1.11: 10 files, 96K, built in 5 seconds $ rig Jewell Harrison 984 Lowel Rd Galveston, TX 77553 (409) xxx-xxxx
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