Hacker News with Generative AI: GitHub

Accessing private GitHub repositories via MCP (invariantlabs.ai)
Invariant has discovered a critical vulnerability affecting the widely-used GitHub MCP integration (14k stars on GitHub). The vulnerability allows an attacker to hijack a user's agent via a malicious GitHub Issue, and coerce it into leaking data from private repositories.

Security, GitHub, Software, Vulnerability

110 points by gokhan 32 days ago | 1 comments

Claude 4 and GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Security, GitHub, AI

248 points by amrrs 32 days ago | 3 comments

GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (invariantlabs.ai)
Invariant has discovered a critical vulnerability affecting the widely-used GitHub MCP integration (14k stars on GitHub). The vulnerability allows an attacker to hijack a user's agent via a malicious GitHub Issue, and coerce it into leaking data from private repositories.

Security, GitHub, Software, Vulnerability

508 points by andy99 32 days ago | 297 comments

Show HN: We built an AI to review your pull requests (infinitcode.ai)
Watch how our AI reviews code in real-time, providing instant feedback and actionable suggestions through intuitive visualizations.

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Code Review, GitHub, Pull Requests

53 points by gentios 32 days ago | 5 comments

GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world (simonwillison.net)
GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world.

GitHub, Software Development, Tools, Productivity

314 points by ingve 32 days ago | 195 comments

U.S. Dept of Defense GitHub marked as archived, with it projects like ATAK-CIV (github.com/deptofdefense)

U.S. Government, Open Source, Military, Software, GitHub

18 points by the-anarchist 33 days ago | 2 comments

MinIO Guts Management Dashboard (github.com/minio)
harshavardhana merged 1 commit into minio:master from bexsoft:simplify

Open Source, Software, Cloud Storage, DevOps, GitHub

36 points by sigmonsays 33 days ago | 13 comments

Job Hunting Scripts (github.com/CajuM)
These scripts are used to scrap GitHub for info on organizations. In the end you will be left with a TSV file that contains the name of the organization, it's URL, it's declared location and the number of stars of its select repositories.

Software, Job Hunting, Data Scraping, GitHub

15 points by CajuM 34 days ago | 15 comments

Please don't upload my code to GitHub (codeberg.page)
This is a call to open source developers to not upload the work of others to GitHub.

Open Source, Software Development, Copyright, GitHub, Codeberg

33 points by max_ 34 days ago | 21 comments

Ask HN: Can you give tips on writing a README for project? (ycombinator.com)
I'm currently finishing up the initial version of my experimental embeddable library designed for creating web applications without a build step.

Open Source, Software Development, Programming, GitHub, Documentation

6 points by vseplet 34 days ago | 7 comments

Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats (contextch.at)
Easily set up multiple projects with web, file, and GitHub context. Start a new chat, and leverage your saved context to get instant answers and insights

Productivity, AI, Chatbots, Software, GitHub

162 points by tapeo 35 days ago | 61 comments

ESP32 MCP Server (ycombinator.com)
Hello!<p>https://github.com/horw/esp-mcp<p>This MCP server has already been published on https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers .

ESP32, MCP, Servers, Software, GitHub

13 points by horw 35 days ago | 9 comments

Show HN: GetStack.dev – Track GitHub open-source trends (getstack.dev)

GitHub, Open Source, Trends, Software, Development

50 points by h1fra 35 days ago | 15 comments

Show HN: High-resolution surface analysis with Lidar data (github.com/r-follador)
High-resolution surface analysis with LiDAR data

Data Analysis, LiDAR, GitHub, 3D Modeling

66 points by folli 37 days ago | 10 comments

Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane (reddit.com)
Jokes aside, GitHub/Microsoft recently announced the public preview for their GitHub Copilot agent.

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Microsoft, GitHub

1088 points by laiysb 37 days ago | 552 comments

Open Source Maintainers Demand Ability to Block Copilot-Generated Issues and PRs (socket.dev)
Open source maintainers are urging GitHub to let them block Copilot from submitting AI-generated issues and pull requests to their repositories.

Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub, Software Development, Copyright

14 points by gpi 38 days ago | 0 comments

Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories (github.com/orgs)

GitHub, Software Development, Open Source, AI Tools, Code Review

69 points by pera 39 days ago | 4 comments

Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search (github.com/antirez)
Kilo is a small text editor in less than 1K lines of code (counted with cloc).

Text Editors, Programming, Open Source, GitHub

222 points by klaussilveira 39 days ago | 82 comments

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent (github.blog)
Backlog getting you down? Drowning in technical debt? Delegate issues to Copilot so you can focus on the creative, complex, and high-impact work that matters most. Copilot coding agent makes this possible.

Software, AI, Programming, Productivity, GitHub

564 points by net01 39 days ago | 357 comments

GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent (github.blog)
We are excited to introduce a new coding agent for GitHub Copilot. Embedded directly into GitHub, the agent starts its work when you assign a GitHub issue to Copilot or prompt it in VS Code. The agent spins up a secure and fully customizable development environment powered by GitHub Actions.

GitHub, Coding, AI, Tools, Software

9 points by meetpateltech 39 days ago | 0 comments

RepoRoulette: Randomly sample repositories from GitHub (github.com/gojiplus)
Spin the wheel and see which GitHub repositories you get!

GitHub, Software, Programming, Tools, Randomness

22 points by deontology 41 days ago | 3 comments

Catalog of Novel Operating Systems (github.com/prathyvsh)
Catalogue of novel operating systems

Operating Systems, Software, GitHub

187 points by prathyvsh 42 days ago | 63 comments

GitHub Models API now available (github.blog)
You can now use the GitHub Models REST API to programmatically explore and run inference with models hosted on GitHub.

GitHub, API, Software, Machine Learning

14 points by msolujic 42 days ago | 1 comments

New open source AI projects on GitHub (github.blog)
Every day, new public and open source repositories appear on GitHub, and navigating the sheer amount of activity can be a challenge for the best of us. Luckily, we’ve done the heavy lifting for you.

Open Source, AI, GitHub, Software

3 points by weinzierl 42 days ago | 0 comments

Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and grok bot on X (github.com/xai-org)
Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and @grok bot on X.

Chatbots, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub

39 points by taubek 42 days ago | 23 comments

Catalogue of Novel Operating Systems (github.com/prathyvsh)
Catalogue of novel operating systems

Operating Systems, Software, GitHub

3 points by lioeters 43 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting (github.com/axbycc)
LiveSplat is an algorithm for realtime Gaussian splatting using RGBD camera streams.

Real-Time Rendering, Computer Vision, 3D Graphics, Algorithm, GitHub

144 points by markisus 43 days ago | 53 comments

GitHub AI protection denies access to users without account (infosec.exchange)

GitHub, Security, AI, Access Control

5 points by rapnie 44 days ago | 0 comments

Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests (github.blog)
To provide a secure and dependable experience on GitHub, we’re rolling out updates to rate limits for requests made without authentication.

GitHub, Security, API, Rate Limits

13 points by nolist_policy 44 days ago | 1 comments

You can no longer browse open source code on GitHub without logging in first (github.com/orgs)
"I'm experiencing an issue when trying to access files from a GitHub repository without logging in. After 3 attempts, I receive an Error 429 (Too Many Requests) and the page fails to load. I've tried accessing different repositories and files, but the issue persists."

Software, Open Source, GitHub, Security, Access Control

57 points by confusing3478 45 days ago | 10 comments