PKpkaeding·Mar 30, 2026Submission
DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems
57 points · Open discussionBryanLunduke
DoesItAgeVerify
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BryanLunduke / DoesItAgeVerify
DoesItAgeVerify
The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems
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What it is
The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems
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Where it is used
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by day5 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2026-03-19 16:45:56 UTC to 2026-03-30 00:52:06 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 19 | 2026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 20 | 2026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Mar 21 | 2026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 22 | 2026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 23 | 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24 | 2026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25 | 2026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26 | 2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27 | 2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28 | 2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 29 | 2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 30 | 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesThat's a defeatist attitude. It's NEVER too late! We have all of these crazy social justice warriors in all of open source, screaming like banshees if a developer mis-genders someone or willing to rip apart the Nix foundation because they have a defense department sponsor?
Where the hell are the people who made up insane shit about Vaxry, or tried to cancel Ladybird? Where are they when there's a real insane Orwellian legal issue and not some trivial bullshit?
There are already several distro who have said no to age verification:
https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify
In Userdb: Add birthDate field to JSON user recordsAge Verification Status of Open Source Operating Systems
2 points · Open discussionThe age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems
4 points · Open discussion