Hacker News with Generative AI: GitHub

If you work at GitHub security, you are bad at your job (ycombinator.com)
This is getting to be embarrassing. It’s been almost a week of trying to alert GitHub to multiple spoofed repositories serving malware.

Security, GitHub, Malware

13 points by joshdotsmith 3 days ago | 0 comments

GitHub flooded with malware repos spoofing real projects–no response from GitHub (ycombinator.com)
GitHub is being overrun with repositories impersonating legitimate open-source projects to spread malware. One of them is spoofing my own app. I reported it through GitHub’s official channels days ago, reached out on social media, and even contacted individual GitHub employees. No response.

Cybersecurity, Open Source, GitHub, Malware

15 points by joshdotsmith 6 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Generate instant docs, tutorials and code reviews for any GitHub repo (entelligence.ai)

GitHub, Code Review, Documentation, Software Development, AI

14 points by aiswaryasbuilds 6 days ago | 11 comments

Classic Data science pipelines built with LLMs (github.com/Pravko-Solutions)
Below you’ll find an overview of each file, what it showcases, and links to the actual code. You can run these examples (assuming you’ve installed FlashLearn and set your “OPENAI_API_KEY”) simply by using:

Data Science, Generative AI, Programming, GitHub

196 points by galgia 11 days ago | 86 comments

Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing (github.com/c0stya)

Show HN, Regular Expressions, Text Editing, Software, GitHub

263 points by c0nstantine 13 days ago | 102 comments

Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub (2023) (github.com/orgs)
Copilot purposely stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from Github, such as gender or sex.

AI, Code Generation, GitHub, Censorship, Programming

226 points by lknik 13 days ago | 99 comments

MicrosoftDocs GitHub Issues Hidden (microsoft.com)
At Microsoft Learn, we are committed to empowering you with the tools and resources you need to build technical skills and achieve your goals.

GitHub, Microsoft, Documentation

4 points by myroon5 14 days ago | 2 comments

GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens (github.blog)
When we introduced GitHub Copilot back in 2021, we had a clear goal: to make developers’ lives easier with an AI pair programmer that helps them write better code.

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Programming, GitHub, AI

209 points by meetpateltech 14 days ago | 255 comments

Implementation of a RingBuffer in Java with optional FIFO like semantics (github.com/evolvedbinary)
Some extra Collection classes targetting Java 8.

Java, Data Structures, Programming, Software, GitHub

23 points by todsacerdoti 15 days ago | 14 comments

Open Deep Research (github.com/huggingface)

Open Source, Machine Learning, Research, GitHub

395 points by transpute 16 days ago | 77 comments

Show HN: CodeCapy – A PR bot that tests your code (github.com/Scrapybara)
CodeCapy automatically detects new PRs, generates natural language end-to-end UI tests based on code changes, executes tests in isolated Scrapybara instances, posts test results to PR comments, and more.

Software, Testing, Automation, GitHub

11 points by lordspline 17 days ago | 5 comments

Microsoft/WSL pull requests taken over by malicious GH action (github.com/microsoft)
It looks like all repository pull requests have been subject to vandalism.

Security, GitHub, Open Source, Microsoft

8 points by Vogtinator 17 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Marksmith – a GitHub-style Markdown editor for Ruby on Rails (avohq.io)
Developers love GitHub's markdown editor and there's a reason for that. It effortlessly enables us to write simple text and have it transform to rich media. It feels that it has all the right features without in-your-way bells and whistles.

Markdown Editors, Web Development, GitHub, Software

161 points by adrianthedev 17 days ago | 28 comments

1M Lazygit downloads, one embarrassment at a time (jesseduffield.com)
Lazygit has cracked one million downloads (as far as the badge on github reports) and so I figured I’d use this opportunity to pontificate about software engineering and… embarrassment.

Software, Open Source, GitHub, Programming, Software Development

67 points by jesseduffield 18 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Small LLM with Large Power (github.com/KarthikDevalla)
A transformer-based language model inspired by GPT architecture, incorporating RoPE (Rotary Position Embeddings) and GeGLU (Gated Exponential Linear Unit) activations for enhanced performance.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, GitHub, Open Source

14 points by inHUMAN 20 days ago | 9 comments

Github Incident with Pull Requests and Issues (githubstatus.com)
Users may experience timeouts in various GitHub services. We have identified an issue with our caching infrastructure and are working to mitigate the issue

GitHub, Downtime, Software, Infrastructure

8 points by furkansahin 21 days ago | 3 comments

GitHub Is Down (githubstatus.com)
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Issues and Pull Requests

GitHub, Downtime, Software

113 points by floriangosse 21 days ago | 64 comments

DeepSeek-R1 Is Now Available in GitHub Models (Public Preview) (github.blog)
The latest trending AI model DeepSeek-R1 is now available in GitHub Models.

Generative AI, Machine Learning, Open Source, GitHub, Public Preview

34 points by oliverchan2024 22 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI Platform, for Local Models (github.com/transformerlab)
Transformer Lab is an app that allows anyone to experiment with Large Language Models.

Open Source, AI, Software, GitHub

93 points by aliasaria 22 days ago | 19 comments

File Explorer is merged to Helix editor (github.com/helix-editor)
Add file explorer #11285

Software, Editors, GitHub

238 points by manusachi 27 days ago | 34 comments

The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub (hawksley.org)
Slides from my 2025 talk, as presented at Boulder Ruby. I also presented a variant of this talk at Vancouver Ruby.

GitHub, Software Development, Conferences

119 points by mooreds 27 days ago | 96 comments

GitHub-Kudos (github.com/manuelarte)
Template to use github-kudos

GitHub, Open Source, Software Development, Automation, Community

7 points by manuelarte 28 days ago | 5 comments

I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again (ninkovic.dev)
Considering all the problems listed, with the lack of motivation from GitHub I'd think twice before using GitHub Actions again.

Software, GitHub, DevOps

336 points by nemwiz 32 days ago | 277 comments

Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM (github.com/bodo-run)
A fast Rust based tool to read text-based files in a repository or directory, chunk them, and serialize them for LLM consumption.

Rust, Code, Serialization, GitHub

205 points by mohsen1 33 days ago | 74 comments

GitHub stars are not an invitation to send me spam (randomerrata.com)
Starring your repo on GitHub doesn’t mean that I ever want to receive your spammy emails.

GitHub, Spam, Open Source, Communication

6 points by k33l0r 34 days ago | 0 comments

GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories (github.blog)
Now in public preview, Linux arm64 hosted runners are available for free in public repositories.

GitHub, Linux, ARM64, Software, Open Source

181 points by Aissen 35 days ago | 51 comments

GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search (github.blog)
Following our opt-in preview last year, we are excited to release sub-issues, issue types and advanced search for issues to everyone! 🎉

Software, GitHub, Project Management, Search

368 points by julius-fx 35 days ago | 206 comments

Show HN: LLMpeg (github.com/jjcm)

Show HN, GitHub, Open Source

169 points by jjcm 37 days ago | 79 comments

Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub (marimo.io)
Our online playground lets you create and share marimo notebooks for free, without creating an account.

WebAssembly, Python, Notebooks, GitHub, Cloud Computing

204 points by mscolnick 37 days ago | 27 comments

GitHub Git Operations Are Down (githubstatus.com)
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Git Operations

GitHub, Downtime, Service Disruptions

328 points by hunkins 38 days ago | 260 comments