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dotfriedrice
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nickjj / dotfriedrice

dotfriedrice

Set up a developer friendly niri / Arch Linux system in minutes. Also supports WSL 2, Debian, Ubuntu and macOS for CLI tools!

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What it is

Set up a developer friendly niri / Arch Linux system in minutes. Also supports WSL 2, Debian, Ubuntu and macOS for CLI tools!

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year45 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-12-29 18:54:02 UTC to 2026-08-21 17:02:02 UTC.

051015202018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 20 mentions; 1 submissions, 19 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC20119

What Hacker News says

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nickjj·Nov 30, 2023
> How do you scroll the preview window with keyboard ? alias pf="fzf --preview='less {}' --bind shift-up:preview-page-up,shift-down:preview-page-down" That will let you run `pf` to preview files in less and lets you use shift + arrow keys to scroll the preview window. No dependencies are needed except for fzf. If you want to use ripgrep with fzf you can set FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND to run rg such as `export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND="rg ..."` where ... are your preferred rg flags. This full setup is in my dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles. I've made a video and blog post about it here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/customize-fzf-ctrl-t-binding-... I also made https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-fzf-to-preview-text-fil... which covers how to modify fzf's built in CTRL+t shortcut to allow for previews too. CTRL+t is a hotkey driven
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way to fuzzy match a list of files.
In Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

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