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ghrandom

GitHub's downtime as a FreeBSD entropy source.

Details

External ID
1381801579
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
ghrandom
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 22, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
13
Upvotes percentile
0.4260184473481937
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
systems tools and desktop utilities
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
entropy source for freebsd based on github downtime
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial While querying GitHub's status API is trivial, integrating it properly as an entropy source into the FreeBSD operating system kernel requires low-level C and OS kernel development knowledge.

What it would actually take: The system requires writing a FreeBSD kernel module or userspace daemon interacting with `/dev/random` via `ioctl` or kernel entropy harvesting hooks (`random_harvest_fast`/`random_harvest_direct`). It needs a reliable network stack to query GitHub status/downtime events, transform timing jitters into high-entropy seeds, and pass cryptographic entropy health tests (NIST SP 800-90B).

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 1437 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #767 of 1438 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.

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