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SponsorLink

SponsorLink: an attempt at OSS sustainability

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What it is

SponsorLink: an attempt at OSS sustainability

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-08-08 16:52:12 UTC to 2023-08-09 20:06:14 UTC.

012023-08-08 16:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-08 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 8, 16:002023-08-08 17:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-08 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-08 18:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-08 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-08 19:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-08 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-08 20:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-08 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-08 21:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-08 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-08 22:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-08 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-08 23:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 01:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 02:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 03:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 04:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 05:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 06:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 9, 06:002023-08-09 07:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 08:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 09:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 10:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 11:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-08-09 12:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 13:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 14:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 15:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 16:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 17:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 18:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 19:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-09 20:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-09 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 9, 20:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 8, 16:002023-08-08 16:00:00 UTC2023-08-08 17:00:00 UTC101
Aug 8, 17:002023-08-08 17:00:00 UTC2023-08-08 18:00:00 UTC000
Aug 8, 18:002023-08-08 18:00:00 UTC2023-08-08 19:00:00 UTC000
Aug 8, 19:002023-08-08 19:00:00 UTC2023-08-08 20:00:00 UTC000
Aug 8, 20:002023-08-08 20:00:00 UTC2023-08-08 21:00:00 UTC000
Aug 8, 21:002023-08-08 21:00:00 UTC2023-08-08 22:00:00 UTC000
Aug 8, 22:002023-08-08 22:00:00 UTC2023-08-08 23:00:00 UTC000
Aug 8, 23:002023-08-08 23:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 00:002023-08-09 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 01:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 01:002023-08-09 01:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 02:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 02:002023-08-09 02:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 03:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 03:002023-08-09 03:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 04:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 04:002023-08-09 04:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 05:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 05:002023-08-09 05:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 06:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 06:002023-08-09 06:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 07:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 07:002023-08-09 07:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 08:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 08:002023-08-09 08:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 09:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 09:002023-08-09 09:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 10:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 10:002023-08-09 10:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 11:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 11:002023-08-09 11:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 12:00:00 UTC101
Aug 9, 12:002023-08-09 12:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 13:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 13:002023-08-09 13:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 14:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 14:002023-08-09 14:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 15:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 15:002023-08-09 15:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 16:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 16:002023-08-09 16:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 17:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 17:002023-08-09 17:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 18:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 18:002023-08-09 18:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 19:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 19:002023-08-09 19:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 20:00:00 UTC000
Aug 9, 20:002023-08-09 20:00:00 UTC2023-08-09 21:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
theshrike79·Aug 9, 2023
https://www.cazzulino.com/sponsorlink.html Sponsorlink reads your local git configuration, grabs the email address from there and does an online check whether your email address is a sponsor of the project... Never mind the GDPR shitstorm, but what about projects with multiple developers, does everyone have to sponsor or suffer a build delay? Oh, and the cloud end of SponsorLink is closed source, by design: https://github.com/devlooped/SponsorLink/issues/13
In Does Moq extract and send my email to the cloud via SponsorLink?
Jenk·Aug 8, 2023
@ksu added the proprietary, closed source, SponsorLink to Moq. SponsorLink will harvest email addresses from your git log(s)[0], injects code into your build[0], and is completely proprietary and closed-source. The request to share the source was denied, with the reason given that it would be trivial to bypass otherwise[1] I hope ksu comes to their sense soon enough at just what an unfathomably huge security risk this presents to anyone using Moq. GDPR violations are just the start. [0]: https://www.cazzulino.com/sponsorlink.html [1]: https://github.com/devlooped/SponsorLink/issues/13
In Since v4.20, Moq is harvesting email addresses

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