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Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data
515•toomuchtodo•5h ago•92 comments

An American Privacy Emergency

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902
154•flowercalled•2h ago•45 comments

crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

https://github.com/FractalFir/crustc
140•Philpax•3h ago•28 comments

GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR6G-c11n8yFDlQmk4B-Q...
72•throwaway2027•2h ago•48 comments

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

https://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
144•vinhnx•5d ago•51 comments

Exapunks (2018)

https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/
221•yu3zhou4•7h ago•81 comments

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438
406•IngoBlechschmid•11h ago•190 comments

Right to Local Intelligence

https://righttointelligence.org/
36•thoughtpeddler•2h ago•13 comments

Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15943905/Mystery-identity-Green-Boots-climber-macabre-land...
57•FireBeyond•3h ago•24 comments

Podman v6.0.0

https://blog.podman.io/2026/07/introducing-podman-v6-0-0/
401•soheilpro•12h ago•159 comments

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
521•doener•15h ago•236 comments

EFF letter to FTC on X consent order (2 July 2026) [pdf]

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EFF-letter-to-FTC-on-X-consent-order-7-2-2...
110•Terretta•6h ago•32 comments

How to ask for help from people who don't know you

https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-ask-for-help/
400•FigurativeVoid•13h ago•63 comments

FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/flow.html
34•sourdecor•11h ago•6 comments

Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/co-locating-workflow-state-with-your-data
115•KraftyOne•7h ago•56 comments

Show HN: zkGolf – Competitive optimization of formally verified circuits

https://zk.golf/
40•rot256•10h ago•4 comments

This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD

https://github.com/segaboy/vulkan-netbsd
83•segaboy81•7h ago•18 comments

Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0

http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/
62•radiator•6h ago•37 comments

Superpowers 6

https://blog.fsck.com/2026/06/15/Superpowers-6/
75•seahorseemoji•2d ago•37 comments

Show HN: Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations

https://gitstock.org/
10•dares2573•2d ago•1 comments

Immich 3.0

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/29439
206•hashier•12h ago•96 comments

Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

https://github.com/HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video
85•cortexosmain•7h ago•28 comments

Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow

https://growtheflowutah.org/laketracker/
62•cfowles•6h ago•23 comments

The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable

https://blog.okturtles.org/2026/07/short-leash-ai-method/
65•Riseed•7h ago•66 comments

Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices

https://kendal.codeberg.page/inkwell/
27•imkendal•10h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people

https://try.piecesof.me/
30•domo__knows•1d ago•20 comments

Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand

https://dfarq.homeip.net/apricot-computers-an-underrated-british-brand/
22•giuliomagnifico•1d ago•7 comments

JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview

https://openjdk.org/jeps/539
57•za3faran•7h ago•17 comments

A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time

https://petapixel.com/2026/06/24/a-special-wireless-free-nikon-camera-is-publicly-available-for-t...
19•HardwareLust•1w ago•12 comments

Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

https://manufact.com
101•pzullo•11h ago•62 comments
Open in hackernews

GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR6G-c11n8yFDlQmk4B-QjDxUQkdTTjZLU0EyTFFRV1E3NVRTVTRTWjRHMy4u&route=shorturl
71•throwaway2027•2h ago

Comments

tobinfekkes•2h ago
Is this just a guise to get people to hand over their contact information? So it can be linked and associated with a GitHub profile?

It's presented as an official Microsoft product (the link), but it's just a random public-facing form hosted on Microsoft Forms from Joe Schmoe.

KomoD•1h ago
I was suspicious too, but it does seem legitimate. They're making fun of the PlayStation going digital-only for games thing. https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-produc...

hartator•1h ago
This is a wrong move on so many levels.
devmor•1h ago
Elaborate? It seems like a fun joke making light of Sony’s announcement this week.
codetiger•1h ago
For a min, I thought "Github is going to be dead soon, so get your backup"
fishgoesblub•1h ago
Correct, HD DVD is the more obvious, and correct choice.
Bender•30m ago
For small repos external USB floppy drives are only $16. IBM Formatted floppy disks are $25-$30 for 10.

Insert floppy #25

I would do it just for fun.

infinite_spin•1h ago
This feels like a tongue-in-cheek joke about playstation going diskless
jedberg•1h ago
For those that missed it, Sony announced that Playstation will no longer support physical media. This is Microsoft ribbing them.
jedbrooke•1h ago
> Supplies are limited, and the first 1,000 eligible submissions will receive one. Limit one per person. Availability may be limited by country or region.

This seems quite limited to be a real product, but also quite a lot for seemingly what’s just a joke to mock Sony for ceasing blu-ray production.

It’s worth mentioning that github does (did?) do some cool stuff with physical media archiving of code like the arctic project [1], but these CDs are burned, not pressed so they’ll only last around 10 years

[1]: https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault

calvinmorrison•1h ago
Not really cool. They ignored licenses and just stole people (my) code, and gave it to a 3rd party to reproduce for their own commercial uses.
StilesCrisis•45m ago
Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a Redmond office building...
paxys•39m ago
Github is in San Francisco
killingtime74•22m ago
Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a San Francisco office building...
serious_angel•1h ago
Awesome! It is indeed a marvelous merchandize concept! An effortful work of ingenious ideas and great history... sealed in a iridescent CD and signed by a supportive holder of it on public...

Thank you, for an awesome, relatively ingenious idea to preserve the history and highlight its significance in a human history, the love for discoveries and cooperation...

I love it...

mikrl•1h ago
One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage
penr0se•1h ago
Excellent choice, sir
Klonoar•1h ago
Finally, I can get Ubuntu on a CD.
skinfaxi•1h ago
Bold of them to call out another company when they haven't been doing well in the court of public opinion themselves lately.
yieldcrv•1h ago
> Offer valid from July 2, 2026 to July 6, 2026.

Microsoft discontinuing physical copies in one week

cadamsdotcom•1h ago
Good time to still have a CD burner sitting around, business opportunities everywhere!

Want your 200gb game shipped on 300-400 CDs? Just pay postage & handling ;)

joshawash•1h ago
This looks like some very finely crafted phishing.
nixosbestos•1h ago
Rather concerned that there's exactly two comments noticing this. I immediately was like "um, it's an Office 365 form, are people this gullible". EDIT: Fortunately a few more people getting it now.

Maybe I'm the dingus but, just not good vibes. Apparently it's probably "fine": https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476

Shout-out to the downvoters, may you continue filling randomly linked, MS Forms blindly from nameless accounts, eat your hearts out.

krrishd•58m ago
In fairness, GitHub is under a corporate umbrella with Office 365
semilin•16m ago
This is entirely irrelevant. The problem is that anybody can make a Microsoft Form and there's no obvious indication that it's a form from Github without digging around.
memermeme•6m ago
The alternative is that someone managed to hijack the official GitHub social media accounts on X, TikTok, Instagram, and Threads to post this, and four hours later, no one from the official leadership has come out to call it out. I find that hard to believe. It's probably legit.

I also heavily doubt its a joke. Shipping a thousand CDs is a drop in the bucket for a company like this. The free marketing they get from this promotion more than makes up for any cost associated with doing so.

schappim•1h ago
This seems like a wonderful way to get folk's private info. What's next, a Google Form offering to download your Gmail?
guessmyname•54m ago
URL looks sketchy but it’s real → https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476

OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd

dnlosx•1h ago
Is this a real Microsoft site, or just a form created by anyone trying to collect e-mail addresses and phone numbers to steal accounts?
guessmyname•58m ago
It’s real → https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476

OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd

aetherspawn•54m ago
Compared the form ID in original submission and after redirect and it looks ok…
xena•58m ago
I requested the code for Anubis, I'll keep you all updated on what I get!
px1999•41m ago
Initially I thought this was a useless/dumb idea.

On reflection, I like it - it's weird. Old internet weird. Like someone with a couple hundred bucks and some time on their hands wants to do something they think is fun or funny... it feels human. I think we need more of this. Extra points for using a sketchy o365 form that looks like a scam.

ninjin•21m ago
Felt the same way initially, but you are very much right that this feels like a throwback to a more playful time about twenty years ago. Put in a request for the OpenBSD src repository, which is too big to fit on a CD these days and I am looking forward to see if/how they square that circle. OpenBSD used to ship their code on CDs up until about ten years ago, so it is a bit of a fun throwback in that way as well.
evanmarshall•15m ago
I want OpenBSD on blu-ray
zapkyeskrill•38m ago
I'll take Windows95 on 3.5" floppy discs please. Thank you.
dfe•31m ago
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-95_202404
paxys•36m ago
Fun joke at Sony's expense but it's going to spectacularly backfire when Microsoft inevitably announces that the next Xbox won't support physical discs.
SXX•26m ago
This is the worst part. They could actually capitalize on announcing Xbox wont drop physical media, but obviously that's not happening.
clhodapp•10m ago
[delayed]
lynndotpy•8m ago
[delayed]
recursive4•36m ago
I'd settle for one day without a SEV.
charcircuit•33m ago
So they are only going to "sell" 1000 physical discs before throwing in the towel and going back to all digital? Honestly this is worse than Sony. They should charge a fair price and continue to offer the service for people who don't have strong enough internet to checkout large repos.
shmerl•29m ago
Why not on floppy disks.
grishka•25m ago
Afaik they aren't manufactured any more
MBCook•17m ago
1/2” open reel magnetic tape please or GTFO.
defrost•5m ago
If you've got the $$'s for the media and a reader there are plenty of SEG geophysics data storage bunkers that can expedite that request.
geophph•14m ago
It’s like when I bought HTMX 2.0 release on floppy
d--b•13m ago
Can we get a windows 11 DVD that works without an internet connection instead?
guessmyname•55m ago
I agree, but it’s real → https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476

OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd