Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo
throwaway2027 · 6 days ago
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throwaway2027 · 6 days ago
47 comments
tobinfekkes · 6 days 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 · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
This is a wrong move on so many levels.
devmor · 6 days ago
Elaborate? It seems like a fun joke making light of Sony’s announcement this week.
codetiger · 6 days ago
For a min, I thought "Github is going to be dead soon, so get your backup"
ranger_danger · 6 days ago
Probably because a lot of people here think it's some kind of conspiracy-level private information stealing scheme.
fishgoesblub · 6 days ago
Correct, HD DVD is the more obvious, and correct choice.
Bender · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
This feels like a tongue-in-cheek joke about playstation going diskless
jedberg · 6 days ago
For those that missed it, Sony announced that Playstation will no longer support physical media. This is Microsoft ribbing them.
jedbrooke · 6 days 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
calvinmorrison · 6 days 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.
jedbrooke · 5 days ago
oh I had thought it was opt-in, but it wasn’t. Yeah ignoring licenses is significantly less cool
StilesCrisis · 6 days ago
Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a Redmond office building...
paxys · 6 days ago
Github is in San Francisco
killingtime74 · 6 days ago
Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a San Francisco office building...
recursivegirth · 6 days ago
Some poor roofer is working 14 hour days in this ungodly heatwave. Burning CD's sounds like a pretty sweet gig.
boca_honey · 6 days ago
Some poor underage girl has been trafficked in the Philippines since she can remember, and it is the only life she will ever know. Roofing 14 hours a day sounds like a pretty sweet gig.
(See? Suffering is not a competition).
recursivegirth · 5 days ago
No but your little flame war is trying to be without adding anything new to the argument.
HN Guidelines: *Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.*
fluoridation · 5 days ago
But the Internet is everywhere.
numpad0 · 5 days ago
There are fully automated disc burner bots. EPSON models take 100 discs at once and burn up to 30 discs per hour, so 1000 discs is just 10 magazine load/unloads or <1.5 days in machine time.
1: https://epson.com/Support/Other-Products/Discproducers/Epson...
StilesCrisis · 5 days ago
That isn't a burner at all. It prints labels onto CDs.
numpad0 · 4 days ago
...no? It does both.
Load fresh discs from magazine, put onto an internal disc drive, let a connected PC burn it, take out, print on it, and move it to a burned disc holder. All in one box. The networked model does it over LAN like a laser printer.
StilesCrisis · 4 days ago
Such models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely.
https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1...
"Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does not duplicate disc)"
numpad0 · 3 days ago
oof. looks like I linked to a special printing only variant out of dozen or so models. My apologies...
StilesCrisis · 3 days ago
All the same, they don't need a thousand copies of one GitHub repo. They need a thousand different copies of various unrelated repos. Maybe some disc duplicators can handle that without constant user involvement, but all the ones I've worked with are designed around mass replication of one individual ISO.
numpad0 · 3 days ago
Looks like target market of this type of duplicators is hospitals using it for exchanging medical images, where optical discs are still very common as disposable storage medium. I'm sure they don't print hundreds of identical chest X-ray images... This one really isn't bunch of DVD drives wired in parallel to a no-name ASIC, it's one drive stuffed in a microwave enclosure along with a robot to change out discs for it.
serious_angel · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage
penr0se · 6 days ago
Excellent choice, sir
Klonoar · 6 days ago
Finally, I can get Ubuntu on a CD.
whalesalad · 6 days ago
Back in the day I ordered the free disks by the hundreds
ronjakoi · 5 days ago
Disks are magnetic. The optical kind are discs.
gnabgib · 5 days ago
What? Disks are a 2D shape. Some computer discs are magnetic, many involve etchings, or apparent etchings perceived by a laser.
catlifeonmars · 6 days ago
Is this the one with a hash collision?
razighter777 · 5 days ago
Excellent choice, the "Merge tag 'net-7.2-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net".
skinfaxi · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
> Offer valid from July 2, 2026 to July 6, 2026.
Microsoft discontinuing physical copies in one week
cadamsdotcom · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
This looks like some very finely crafted phishing.
nixosbestos · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
In fairness, GitHub is under a corporate umbrella with Office 365
semilin · 6 days 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 · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
This seems like a wonderful way to get folk's private info. What's next, a Google Form offering to download your Gmail?
dnlosx · 6 days 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 · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
Compared the form ID in original submission and after redirect and it looks ok…
xena · 6 days ago
I requested the code for Anubis, I'll keep you all updated on what I get!
px1999 · 6 days 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 · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
I want OpenBSD on blu-ray
vlovich123 · 6 days 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.
From literally the first few sentences:
> If we can make you a CD, it may take a few weeks to reach you.
They just won’t send it to you. Also keep in mind that they say it has to be your repo - not sure how they’re verifying that but you probably won’t get it for that reason too.
ninjin · 6 days ago
Riddle me this, what was the cost to me in terms of trying? If I feel like treating this like the fun we used to have online, what is the point in sucking all the fun out of it by "going lawyer" on the conditions? If I get a CD (or even DVD), it will be a fun story to tell (like when I asked Schneier to write a true Schneier Fact as opposed to his signature when I ordered a signed copy of one of his books). If I get nothing, well, I guess my life is simply over at that point.
vlovich123 · 5 days ago
You speculated wondering how they’ll manage it, I gave you an answer. If that ruined the fun for you, you may want to rethink how you say things on message boards.
jfoks · 5 days ago
So many ways for splitting across multiple discs... git bundle, split tar files, etc.
Now if it came with a userfs layer that lets users disc jockey and use the repo without copying it first, with some smart mapping making disc swaps seldomly needed, then serious respect would be in order.
icase · 5 days ago
you’re one of those people that actually needs /s tags, aren’t you?
brador · 5 days ago
This attitude is why we don’t have these things.
Increased risk profile, now they need to pass legal and finance, meetings are booked and cancelled, never seen again.
Only way to slip them past is if you’re the primary shareholder or line item on the marketing budget.
ninjin · 5 days ago
Really? A cause of our societal decline is requesting a CD for a repository that is too big to fit on it? Call me a naive optimist, but I would like to believe that whoever is reading the form results on GitHub's end is more than capable to make the call within a few seconds as to whether they also would find some joy in the challenge the size poses or just ignore it and move on with their day.
esalman · 5 days ago
I went to our pediatric ophthalmologist's office yesterday. There was another young person in the room, and our doctor asked if we mind if she's scribing.
When leaving I commented that I like that the doctor is using a human scribe and not an AI. Both of them were beaming.
Few weeks ago at a casual office gathering we were discussing given the choice do we hire an intern or get more AI credits. It was clear that hiring an intern is the right move for the industry, even if it results in an abandoned repo or two at the end of Summer. Especially now that AI shovel sellers have realized small teams are willing to spend on AI credits instead of $5000 a month on an intern, and are adjusting the prices accordingly.
All of these are more humane experiences we should not lose out on.
zapkyeskrill · 6 days ago
I'll take Windows95 on 3.5" floppy discs please. Thank you.
dfe · 6 days ago
paxys · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
This is the worst part. They could actually capitalize on announcing Xbox wont drop physical media, but obviously that's not happening.
clhodapp · 6 days ago
The backfiring is baked in, if you think about it: This program is going to die in just a few days, while Sony is going to continue selling physical games for years.
lynndotpy · 6 days ago
It reminds me of Google proudly boasting their headphone jack when Apple removed theirs, then OnePlus proudly boasting their headphone jack when Google removed theirs.
adithyassekhar · 6 days ago
Samsung too (headphone jack, charger in the box). Apt username btw :)
SpecialistK · 6 days ago
"No one buys phones with a headphone jack!"
Yeah, cause you all stop offering them within one upgrade cycle! I just checked my carrier, and the only phones they offer with jacks are the lowest end Motos and TCLs.
SpecialistK · 5 days ago
And if waterproofing or size are issues, how about a second USB-C port?
NetOpWibby · 6 days ago
Same stunt Samsung pulls when Apple does something like remove the headphone jack.
recursive · 6 days ago
Headphone jack mentioned. I'm not going to stop buying phones based on them until there are no such options remaining, God forbid.
wwind123 · 6 days ago
I used to hate phones without the headphone jacket too, even though my headphone lines always needed some detangling out of my pocket when I needed them. But then I tried a pair of Bluetooth earbuds (two earbuds connected with a plastic band to hang on your neck), and actually fell in love. No need to detangle lines, and when I don't listen to things I could just take down the earbuds but leave the plastic band on my neck. Not easy to lose, compared to the completely wireless earbuds. Batteries are in one or both ends of the plastic band, so one charge could last a long time. The only downside is it takes up more space than both wired headphones and wireless earbuds when you put it in a bag, because the plastic band is not that flexible. But that's a cost I am willing to pay.
recursive · 5 days ago
I use Bluetooth also. But for some purposes the jack works better. Reliable audio output for the purpose of recording for instance.
SteveNuts · 6 days ago
Remember when Microsoft held a mock funeral for the iPhone? They’re all bark no bite.
codezero · 6 days ago
The next Xbox already dropped physical media. The rog x ally Xbox portable is the last xbox branded gaming device.
protocolture · 5 days ago
I think they did. Honestly the 2 announcements seemed timed, like a mutual stand down.
altmanaltman · 5 days ago
There might not be a next xbox since Microsoft has been slowly moving away from the console idea to the platform idea with xbox.
usr1106 · 5 days ago
It won't backfire because there is no relevant competition. A couple of complains on social media, but no drop in sales.
smgpie · 5 days ago
Dont know about other places, but in my place, almost every xbox user I know already play all digitally now. Literally xbox is the first console platform to drop physical disc long before sony, though not officially stated.
lIl-IIIl · 5 days ago
I remember this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
recursive4 · 6 days ago
I'd settle for one day without a SEV.
charcircuit · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
Why not on floppy disks.
grishka · 6 days ago
Afaik they aren't manufactured any more
MBCook · 6 days ago
1/2” open reel magnetic tape please or GTFO.
defrost · 6 days 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 · 6 days ago
It’s like when I bought HTMX 2.0 release on floppy
d--b · 6 days ago
Can we get a windows 11 DVD that works without an internet connection instead?
usr1106 · 5 days ago
I am happy to download it. I just want to install it offline.
whalesalad · 6 days ago
dionian · 6 days ago
on what?
sn0n · 6 days ago
But then you have to ask yourself… Is this an op… Sony and ms in cahoots to get a list of problem children?
H501 · 6 days ago
I hope Linus orders a CD of the Linux kernel.
usr1106 · 5 days ago
It does not fit on a CD.
bigfishrunning · 5 days ago
A kernel tarball is 266 megabytes, it fits on a CD
usr1106 · 5 days ago
A terball does not contain git history.
g-b-r · 6 days ago
> I confirm I own this repository and grant GitHub permission to press it to a CD
They're concerned about copyright for burning a public repo to a CD, but sucking up everything for AI training was ok?
chazeon · 6 days ago
I remember years ago, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc., could all be obtained via CD for free; years later, everything become a limited print. https://web.archive.org/web/20090219122023/https://shipit.ub...
usr1106 · 5 days ago
Yeah, 2010 CDs were still pretty visible. Not sure how many people still ordered them, but at least they were always distributed at events. Don't remember when it started to no longer fit on a CD.
ButlerianJihad · 6 days ago
I went shopping at Target today, and their remodeling underway has dedicated an entire display to vinyl 12" records. I know there is a popular retro thing, but this click-and-mortar dichotomy has gotten bonkers!
system2 · 6 days ago
I want my repo on floppy disks, please.
TacticalCoder · 6 days ago
So a funny thing happened to me a while ago... I built my current PC, about 3 years ago (an AMD 7700X but whatever). At some point I wanted to check some old data DVDs I burned, maybe one year after I built the PC or something: basically to make sure everything on the data DVDs was safely backed up in other places...
So I dug out an old internal DVD reader/burner (still have a few of those) only to notice that: my PC tower didn't physically allow to insert an internal CD/DVD reader. I hadn't realized until then. At first I tried to push on the front panel, thinking maybe it was going to open entirely. So I went on IRC, in a good old famous channel, to vent a bit. And they told me it was a thing: new PC towers with a slot of a CD/DVD reader are really uncommon now.
I literally didn't notice until I actually tried, after a year or so, to put a reader in the PC.
Now of course I had plenty other options: using another tower, my server (a Xeon workstation) has got a CD/DVD reader, I could ghetto-mount the internal reader temporarily while letting the tower opened, etc.
But that's not the point: internal CD/DVD readers/burners kinda went away, silently, with some of us not even noticing that PC towers suddenly didn't even offer the physical possibility to install them.
ctippett · 6 days ago
Given the hour this is making headlines, they'll be posting a lot of CDs to the antipodes.
donatj · 6 days ago
Ever time I see one of these public forms hosted on a generic form platform, I wonder whether it’s legitimate or just a phishing attempt to collect personal information.
ChrisArchitect · 6 days ago
Similar: Domino's pizza social media
OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
In response to trends in the gaming industry, as of 1st April 2027 Domino's UK will cease production of physical pizzas and shift to production of digital pizzas only.
Consumers will be able to download our full range of delicious pizza codes and, using the power of the imagination, enjoy them in an entirely virtual sense.
https://twitter.com/Dominos_UK/status/2072602429959340517 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768873)
tonymet · 5 days ago
It won’t boot, but someone please upload Slackware to your repo and have Microsoft burn it
endgame · 5 days ago
How do we know this is real? Most online form providers will host all forms on their own domain, so it could just be a great way to get some data harvesting going on the .microsoft gTLD.
GaProgMan · 5 days ago
While it's not full on 100% proof, one of the Senior Dev Advocates posted about it on Bluesky
oliwarner · 5 days ago
I hate how Office 365 forms have no simple way to verify where your data is going.
Through companies and schools using them for essential functions, they've normalised posting sensitive data without checking.
vimredo · 5 days ago
At the bottom: 'This content is created by the owner of the form. The data you submit will be sent to the form owner. Never give out your password.' It's very clearly just a Microsoft 365 form, and most likely it's just going to take your info and not send you a CD.
Panzerschrek · 5 days ago
Is it some silly attempt to gather personal data like physical address/phone number?
meszmate · 5 days ago
Just placed an order for mine
thebiblelover7 · 5 days ago
Seems like GitHub posted this on their official Bluesky account for those wondering if it's official:
lloydatkinson · 5 days ago
But most repos are over ~700MB. Surely a DVD and if not, why not?
Also seems to be a lot of paranoia in here, GitHub posted it: https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476
devld · 5 days ago
Can you order chromium source if you contributed a few commits?
prmoustache · 5 days ago
Is that a move to obtain physical address of some people without the bad press of requiring it in their github account?
butz · 5 days ago
Nice try, Microsoft. You ain't getting any of my personal data.
ksec · 4 days ago
Unfortunately they don't last very long. Most DVDs are unreadable after 10 to 20 years.
hrtk · 2 days ago
How do I know this is real from GitHub ? Isn't it just a microsoft form that anyone can create ?