{"slug": "yay", "name": "yay", "category": "dev-libs", "category_name": "Libraries and frameworks", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 2.591, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-12-12", "latest": "2026-08-02", "why": "the latest version of yay (v13+) supports being able to skip recently added packages through its new Lua extension system", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "the latest version of yay (v13+) supports being able to skip recently added packages through its new Lua extension system", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://github.com/Jguer/yay", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["yay"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 777681264, "item_id": 48605079, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605079", "by": "nickjj", "date": "2026-06-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the latest version of yay (v13+) supports being able to skip recently added packages through its new Lua extension system", "excerpt": "In case anyone missed it, the latest version of yay (v13+) supports being able to skip recently added packages through its new Lua extension system https://jguer.github.io/yay/lua.html#upgrade-selection-hooks. You can control the threshold since it's just user configuration now. A bunch of common yay commands also return back the last updated time of a package thanks to https://github.com/Jguer/yay/pull/2846.", "context": "", "use_case": "AUR helper", "switched_from": "", "story": "AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks"}, {"id": 748743953, "item_id": 46796497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796497", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2026-01-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if you just use \"yay\" you don't run into Pacman woes", "excerpt": "This was me in 2022 or 2023. I have posted on HN about my shift a few times. I gave up with Windows 10 because you needed Windows Pro in order to make an \"offline\" account, I spent $2000+ for a gaming rig, and I couldn't add new users, one program told me to use the other program which brought me back to the original program... I had to go out of my way, buy a license just to make it work. I just went and installed L", "context": "gamer", "use_case": "AUR package management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"}, {"id": 739875264, "item_id": 46242204, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242204", "by": "LargoLasskhyfv", "date": "2025-12-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ho-hum, so I gave this yay-thing a try, as a binary, out of CachyOS repos, and let it run an outstanding update of 77 packages", "excerpt": "Ho-hum, so I gave this yay-thing a try, as a binary, out of CachyOS repos, and let it run an outstanding update of 77 packages, mostly new Plasma/KDE to 6.5.4 from 6.5.3. It even discovered some things which I must have installed manually via makepkg from the AUR, mainly i7z(probably during discovery, when the system(s) were 'new' to me), some microsoft fonts, and even Hexchat, which I've forgotten about, because I s", "context": "", "use_case": "Arch AUR package updates", "switched_from": "", "story": "Wayland Nvidia"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "darkwi11ow", "context": "Arch dev VM user who reviews PKGBUILDs", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505759", "date": "2026-06-12"}, {"by": "giancarlostoro", "context": "gamer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796497", "date": "2026-01-28"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["aur helper", "installing aur packages", "aur package management", "arch aur package updates"], "compared": [{"slug": "arch-linux", "name": "Arch Linux", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "cachyos", "name": "CachyOS", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123208", "title": "Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600593", "title": "AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516379", "title": "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500447", "title": "AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795864", "title": "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145790", "title": "Wayland Nvidia", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 786290544, "item_id": 49143159, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143159", "by": "LargoLasskhyfv", "date": "2026-08-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the full tray is just one yay away, which also speaks git.", "excerpt": "There is much stuff which isn't in the AUR at all, or if so in versions similar to debian default, and/or orphaned. Nonetheless, the full tray is just one yay away, which also speaks git. How you use such tools is totally up to you. So far I've been unaffected by the AUR hickups, running Cachy for about 2 years now. But I've been always wary about the AUR, trying to minimize its use. Even in the phase where I used pu", "context": "", "use_case": "AUR helper", "switched_from": "", "story": "Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption"}, {"id": 777681264, "item_id": 48605079, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605079", "by": "nickjj", "date": "2026-06-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the latest version of yay (v13+) supports being able to skip recently added packages through its new Lua extension system", "excerpt": "In case anyone missed it, the latest version of yay (v13+) supports being able to skip recently added packages through its new Lua extension system https://jguer.github.io/yay/lua.html#upgrade-selection-hooks. You can control the threshold since it's just user configuration now. A bunch of common yay commands also return back the last updated time of a package thanks to https://github.com/Jguer/yay/pull/2846.", "context": "", "use_case": "AUR helper", "switched_from": "", "story": "AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks"}, {"id": 776792464, "item_id": 48549529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549529", "by": "landdate", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Whenever I have installed a package from aur with yay it requires user being part of sudoers.", "excerpt": "Maybe I used imprecise wording. Not root, but must be part of sudoers. Or am I misunderstanding how the process works? Don'tWhenever I have installed a package from aur with yay it requires user being part of sudoers.", "context": "", "use_case": "installing AUR packages", "switched_from": "", "story": "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"}, {"id": 776092144, "item_id": 48505759, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505759", "by": "darkwi11ow", "date": "2026-06-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "find ~/.cache/yay -maxdepth 1 -type d", "excerpt": "I use Arch on my dev qemu VM and actually review all changes all the time. It is not that hard with small amount of pkgbuilds: find ~/.cache/yay -maxdepth 1 -type d /home/virt/.cache/yay /home/virt/.cache/yay/google-chrome /home/virt/.cache/yay/ngrok /home/virt/.cache/yay/rancher-k3d-bin /home/virt/.cache/yay/simplescreenrecorder /home/virt/.cache/yay/ttf-comfortaa /home/virt/.cache/yay/cursor-bin /home/virt/.cache/y", "context": "Arch dev VM user who reviews PKGBUILDs", "use_case": "AUR helper", "switched_from": "", "story": "AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"}, {"id": 748743953, "item_id": 46796497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796497", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2026-01-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if you just use \"yay\" you don't run into Pacman woes", "excerpt": "This was me in 2022 or 2023. I have posted on HN about my shift a few times. I gave up with Windows 10 because you needed Windows Pro in order to make an \"offline\" account, I spent $2000+ for a gaming rig, and I couldn't add new users, one program told me to use the other program which brought me back to the original program... I had to go out of my way, buy a license just to make it work. I just went and installed L", "context": "gamer", "use_case": "AUR package management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"}, {"id": 739875264, "item_id": 46242204, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242204", "by": "LargoLasskhyfv", "date": "2025-12-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ho-hum, so I gave this yay-thing a try, as a binary, out of CachyOS repos, and let it run an outstanding update of 77 packages", "excerpt": "Ho-hum, so I gave this yay-thing a try, as a binary, out of CachyOS repos, and let it run an outstanding update of 77 packages, mostly new Plasma/KDE to 6.5.4 from 6.5.3. It even discovered some things which I must have installed manually via makepkg from the AUR, mainly i7z(probably during discovery, when the system(s) were 'new' to me), some microsoft fonts, and even Hexchat, which I've forgotten about, because I s", "context": "", "use_case": "Arch AUR package updates", "switched_from": "", "story": "Wayland Nvidia"}]}