Ok, I get it, this is a Satire. But it is not very good made Satire, because it leads to the point that source code in private repositories also can be stolen, which kind of threatens the reputation of GitHub organization. Hope that GitHub will contact this joker and explain how to make good satires.

This article is totally confusing. Source is missing? So there's no local fork? Work is disappeared? Or someone just downloaded it and has a copy? How does missing have anything to do with the "someone else in the world is running my code" comment?? Copying would allow others to run the code without it going missing…

EDIT: This is satire? It was poorly done.

The words you want are "dumb" and "not that funny". At least, according to the last paragraph in the article.

This article is mistaken. The fire icon next to the header of Trending Repos on their Explore page [1] clearly shows that those repos are "hot".

[1] https://github.com/explore

Has someone clicked on "Publish" 2 weeks too late for April's fool?

I think the satire value is somewhat diminished by the fact that private repos are possible. If github only hosted open-source projects, then it would be funnier

Had me until:

"My code could be running on anyone's computer right now, anywhere in the world," said open source developer Andrew Benton. "Frankly, that is terrifying."

How dumb is GitHub! Not even running on a non-obvious port as the most elementary security measure.

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb ...

That is cause port 22 is ssh used to push git stuff.

So not dumb at all. If something is dumb, it is the article.

You do realise this is satire, right?

You do realize his comment is a continuation of that same satire, right?

You do realise that RoG's comment was also a continuation of that satire, right?

You do realize that I realized that RoG's comment was a continuation of that satire, right?

You do realise that we all realise that these comments are a continuation of the satire, yes?

Er, with the possible exception of callesgg ...

Or perhaps theirs is the most satirical of all...

Is this a joke or a real problem?

Its amazing how often on HN people are interested enough to ask questions about an article, but not interested enough to actually click on the link and read it.

14 days too late.