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riff
Rust2022–2023
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riff

Riff automatically provides external dependencies for Rust projects, with support for other languages coming soon.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
485GitHub stars
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What to know before exploring

What it is

Riff automatically provides external dependencies for Rust projects, with support for other languages coming soon.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 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 week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-09-06 20:53:18 UTC to 2023-01-28 19:54:31 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 52022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 142022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 23

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

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 52022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 122022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 192022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 262022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 32022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 102022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 172022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 242022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 312022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 72022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 142022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 212022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 282022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 52022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 122022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 192022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 262022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 22023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 92023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 162023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 232023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
https://asciinema.org/a/555367 - Hash prefetching powered by [nurl] - Dependency inference for Rust packages using the [Riff](https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/riff) registry and python projects - Interactive prompts with fuzzy tab completions - License detection - Supported builders - `stdenv.mkDerivation` - `buildRustPackage` - `buildPythonApplication` and `buildPythonPackage` - `buildGoModule` - Supported fetchers - `fetchCrate` - `fetchFromGitHub` - `fetchFromGitLab` - `fetchFromGitea` - `fetchPypi` - All other fetchers supported by [nurl] are also supported, you just have to specify the tags manually ``` Usage: nix-init [OPTIONS] <OUTPUT> Arguments: <OUTPUT> The path to output the generated file to Options: -u, --url <URL> Specify the URL -c, --config <CONFIG> Specify the config file
Read the rest
-h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version ``` [nurl]: https://github.com/nix-community/nurl
In Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching and dependency inference

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