[timsally]

Github's site for this has much more detail on the technical aspects of this: https://archiveprogram.github.com/. Their data archival goals are even more ambitious than burying it in the Arctic. The GitHub Archive Program is partnering with Microsoft’s Project Silica to ultimately archive all active public repositories for over 10,000 years, by writing them into quartz glass platters using a femtosecond laser.

Worth considering swapping the submitted link out for the original source, per the HN guidelines. I would suggest the original blog post: https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-jo....

[detaro]

That blog post you suggest already had a HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860659 , making this submission a duplicate.

[dang]

Related also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527667 from last November.

[dang]

OK, we've changed to that from https://gizmeek.com/github-the-world-s-largest-open-source-s....

[modinfo]

Without an archived stack overflow, nobody's gonna get over it anyway.

[seesawtron]

how does one swap the link in HN? one can only edit the title text.

[timsally]

The moderators will do it when they see the post. I haven't submitted a link in a really long time, but I don't think the submitter can change it. Makes sense to reserve it for the mods, given the implications of a regular user swapping out the link of a highly visible post.

[jagged-chisel]

Admins (dang, for example) will occasionally notice a request like this and make the change.

[seesawtron]

great. thanks for sharing.

[detaro]

one e-mails the moderators (contact link in the footer) and asks them to do it.