balena-io/etcher
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Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2016-10-03 · latest 2025-10-30
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Unlike Balena Etcher, Ventoy is not a bloated Electron app that sends telemetry from your computer: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3784
comment by evanjrowley · 2025-10-30 · in Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files -
…this is coming from somebody that worked a LOT with Electron, as the original author of Etcher ( https://github.com/balena-io/etcher ), plus I led the Desktop Team at Postman ( https://www.postman.com , which is arguable one of the worst…
comment by jviotti · 2024-11-08 · in Show HN: GitQuill – free cross-platform GUI for Git, inspired by GitKraken -
…a simple utility to flash an SD card[1] is a 150MB behemoth... I'm dying inside at this point. [1]: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.19.21
comment by DaiPlusPlus · 2024-10-08 · in The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade -
Balena Etcher is spyware. https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2977
comment by 34679 · 2021-08-12 · in Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB disks at once -
…OS in use by the user (Ubuntu) already ships with more situable alternative like gnome-disks or dd. https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2977 I find disgusting how the FOSS and Linux comunity is getting sold to companies and tech…
comment by Phoenix_voice · 2021-02-11 · in Discord Linux channel ops suggest to install “questionable” software -
…are the people who built spyware into a SD card flashing tool: essentially a GUI for running dd. https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2497
comment by sneak · 2020-07-07 · in Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood -
As others have indicated, this is just an auto-update check. https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/master/lib/gui/etch... This makes me very curious as to the motivation behind such an inflammatory issue report. Does this individual…
comment by mdtusz · 2019-11-27 · in Etcher tracks user data without consent -
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Etcher tracks user data without consentstory by aggressman · 2019-11-27 · 6 comments
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Apparently it uses some native code to get the necessary permissions on Windows: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/master/src/os/win32...
comment by jrockway · 2019-11-22 · in Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet -
This performance-related bug report looks pretty damning: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2740
comment by blub · 2019-06-25 · in Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps -
The dev's justification: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2365#issuecomment...
comment by nexuist · 2019-06-25 · in Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps -
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Etcher 1.4.4 Ignores Privacy Settingstory by kevcampb · 2019-04-28 · 0 comments
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…about how to write to a device on different platforms inside an electron app. Described here https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/tree/master/lib/src/child...
comment by eb0la · 2017-01-04 · in Etcher: burn images to SD cards and USB drives, safe and easy -
…open. If the above sounds exciting, drop us an email at join@resin.io [1]: https://etcher.io [2]: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher
comment by alexandros · 2016-10-03 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) -
…for hundreds of thousands of users, all while working in the open. [1]: https://etcher.io , [2]: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher
comment by alexandros · 2016-10-03 · in Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)