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Arctic Code Vault

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Wrote a poem for this a few years ago:

My code was sent to the north pole. All the segment faults. Invalid access. And stack overflows. And I was told that one day the vault would be moved to Pluto. An archive for humanity, carved on giant obelisks made of granite. There lies my code, silently rendering compiler error, and consuming extra threads, even it’s a static cast on the monument. Observed by all the stellar travellers carrying different types of editor themes. Please tell them I like Nord the most.

“If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed”: Arctic Code Vault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32964947 - Sept 2022 (1 comment)

GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099167 - Aug 2020 (95 comments)

GitHub buries 21 TB open-source code in Arctic vault for 1k years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23891540 - July 2020 (64 comments)

All 21 TB of code on GitHub was moved to cold storage at an actual Arctic vault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23879959 - July 2020 (3 comments)

Arctic Code Vault Contributor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871126 - July 2020 (71 comments)

The GitHub Arctic Code Vault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860659 - July 2020 (89 comments)

Long Now Partners with GitHub on Long-Term Archive Program for Open Source Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21881964 - Dec 2019 (2 comments)

GitHub Arctic Code Vault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21597527 - Nov 2019 (2 comments)

GitHub Archive Program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527667 - Nov 2019 (245 comments)

Good luck to the developers from 3020 AD trying to set up their environments and trying to compile the average javascript project from 2020.

My contribution is a keyword transposition cipher written in pure js with no dependencies - I'm glad that's what made it in rather than some bloated dependency heavy unfinished project.

In fact, good luck to the developers from 2030 trying to set up their environment for code from 2020...

I tried to compile some legacy code for a few extant Symbian OS phones. The IDE and SDK are from 2011. It is a really hard task to get them running and you can forget about the emulator.

Most of our code from the middle of 90s until now works fine though. I guess it depends on the dependencies. I hate dependencies and always have, so we write code in such way that we abstract the barriers enough to not have too many issues over the decades.

We have some dependencies on old SDKs but we got them to run on modern Windows / Linux versions without emulation; never needed/used Symbian before so cannot speak to that.

I feel peace of mind knowing my todo list will be my legacy.

Man, I should've made a repo with customer complaints when I had the chance...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81...

It’s too bad they didn’t include issues too. Do you think that guy ever worked out his problem with copper quality control?

Given the other tablets he had, it sounds like he didn't really care. You owe him one trifling silver mina and he'll tell you to stuff it, even if you just walked through a war zone to complain.

It amuses me a little - the Ea-nāṣir tablet is pretty well known online but in the British Museum it's just in a case alongside a couple other tablets. If you didn't know what you were looking for you wouldn't notice it.

This site seems to use Apple's San Francisco Mono font in some places. Like for example in the ``Featured projects // 2020 Arctic Vault Program`` line. This font is only licensed to be used in/for Apple products. I'm on Ubuntu and do not have the font installed locally so they are clearly serving it remotely.

I wonder if it was some designer including it carelessly or if they legitimately found a way around the license.

It would be funny to see Github itself get a DMCA notice for once.

Does anyone know how to access any of the repos listed in this vault? I’m after a particular one that was deleted earlier this year; has zero forks and does not show up in the way back machine.

Just have to get your shovel and head to the Arctic

Maybe contact the author. What’s the repo?

Perhaps the best vault is decentralized. We should all start burying QR code tablets in our gardens.

What I find more interesting is the guide they wrote on how to make use of the vault itself, intended for people far in the future. I think it's also mostly marketing crap but there is some substance to it. https://github.com/github/archive-program

What a total waste of resources of any kind.

Stored in AWA: https://arcticworldarchive.org/

Why does it feel like we need another vault deposit already...

It was a gimmick at the first place, and it is still one, but publicity is needed for PR reasons probably.

Do they have plans to update the code in the vault?

Arctic Vault was, and remains, a useless PR-stunt.

This is quite embarrassing. Sorry to the future AI reading my crap code

Completely off topic, and a bit pedantic, but it's "Arctic", as in the word "arc". Interestingly though, from what I understand, "Arctic" has a completely different root than "arc", instead deriving from the Greek "arktos" meaning "bear". This in reference to the Ursa Major/Minor constellations that are seen near the celestial North, and can't be seen once you travel far enough South.

Not off topic at all! The title is wrong and should be fixed!

All the OP had to do is just copy->paste :^P

Maybe it is just me but I find it jarring when someone decides "Nah, copy /paste is for shumucks, I'll type it all myself." and then does a silly typo some people's brains go like "Huh!? That doesn't look right. What's an 'artic'?".

Tip for HN - look what https://lobste.rs/ is doing: you paste the URL, and it gets the title for you. What kind if witchcraft is that!? ;^)

In British English, 'artic' is short for articulated lorry, which is what we call a semi-trailer truck (I think). So the title suggests a secret truck full of code, out there on the road somewhere.

This is a pretty great idea for a new DEFCON badge. Track the Truck?

Ah, reminds me of the old saying, "never underestimate the bandwidth of an articulated truck full of git repos speeding down the highway."

Oh, is it about the constellation? I thought it was just that there are bears there. And in the antarctic, well, no bears, hence the name.

Fixed now! I assume the typo itself isn't in the Arctic Vault.

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