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Most Reported Problems

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• Website Down (54%)
• Errors (31%)
• Sign in (15%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Ahmedabad	Errors	16 hours ago
Delme	Sign in	1 day ago
Lyaud	Website Down	1 day ago
Catania	Errors	4 days ago
Inverness	Website Down	16 days ago
Quito	Sign in	17 days ago

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  AINotes (@ainotesus) reported 3 minutes ago

  🔥 Trending on GitHub: Ponytail Ponytail helps Claude Code avoid writing code that does not need to exist. That means less clutter, fewer unnecessary dependencies, and simpler changes to maintain. Before custom code, it checks whether the feature is needed and whether the codebase, platform, standard library, or an existing dependency already solves it. It also reviews work, audits implementation complexity, and tracks unnecessary token use without dropping validation, error handling, security, or accessibility requirements. In reported Claude Code sessions on a FastAPI and React repository, Ponytail used about 54% less code, 20% less cost, and 27% less time than the no-skill baseline. Those measurements came from 12 feature tasks, so results vary with the work. Full analysis in the first reply ↓

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  recovering buzzkill (@MikeStillAwake) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Karai_Dan @SteamDeckHQ Agenda or not nexus mods is a terrible outdated model for distributing mods. GitHub would be a superior host.

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  Straggler Liu | AI & Semis (@StragglerLiu) reported 7 minutes ago

  NVIDIA($NVDA ) Is Paying $14B for a Company With $150M Revenue. That's Not Financial Logic — It's Ecosystem Control. NVIDIA is in advanced talks to acquire Hugging Face for ~$14 billion ($12.9B acquisition + $1B retention), per Bloomberg. To put that in perspective: Hugging Face does ~$150M in annual revenue. That's ~86x revenue. Microsoft paid ~1.6x revenue for GitHub. Google paid ~3.5x revenue for DeepMind. NVIDIA is paying 20-50x more on a revenue multiple basis. The premium is not for revenue. It's for control of the AI developer ecosystem. What is NVIDIA buying? Hugging Face hosts 500,000+ models, 250,000+ datasets, and serves millions of developers. It is the single most important distribution channel for open-source AI. If you build AI, you use Hugging Face. That makes it the front door to AI development. Why NVIDIA is paying this premium: 1. The "NVIDIA triple lock." NVIDIA's hardware lead (GPU) is real. Its software lead (CUDA) is a moat. But the third lock — the developer workflow — was missing. Hugging Face is that workflow. Developers discover models on Hugging Face, deploy them, and optimize them. Whoever controls that discovery layer controls which hardware gets used. 2. The GitHub analogy, inverted. When Microsoft bought GitHub, developers were already using GitHub. Microsoft didn't need to capture them — it needed to prevent Amazon/Google from doing so. NVIDIA faces the opposite problem: developers are already using NVIDIA hardware. But they're discovering and deploying models through a neutral platform. NVIDIA is eliminating that neutrality. 3. The long game: inference, not training. NVIDIA dominates training. But inference is the bigger TAM — and it's more fragmented. If NVIDIA controls the model discovery and deployment layer, it can steer inference workloads to its own stack. That's a 10-year strategy disguised as a 14-billion-dollar acquisition. Who wins, who loses: NVIDIA (NVDA): Acquires the developer distribution layer. The most important strategic move since CUDA. Shifts the valuation case from "chip cycle" to "platform economics." Competitors (AMD, INTC): Lose neutral access to the primary AI model distribution channel. This is a structural headwind that no amount of hardware catch-up can fix. Cloud providers (MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL): Hugging Face was a neutral hub. If NVIDIA controls it, cloud providers risk being disintermediated from AI workload decisions. The open-source community: The platform that was built on openness is now owned by the dominant hardware vendor. Neutrality is the first casualty. The capital question: Can NVIDIA integrate Hugging Face without destroying its community value? If yes, the $14B is cheap. If no, it's a very expensive mistake. The answer will define whether NVIDIA becomes the AWS of AI — or just another hardware company with an expensive acquisition. Note: Acquisition details based on Bloomberg reporting; not confirmed by NVIDIA or Hugging Face. Revenue multiple comparisons based on publicly reported figures.

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  Max Rovensky (@MaxRovensky) reported 7 minutes ago

  @thekitze you'd be even further down if you fixed the GitHub bug I just reported

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  Chris Gilbert (@0xgilbert) reported 8 minutes ago

  Damn, GitHub has gone to ****. Features that have been cornerstones of solo devs and small businesses have been gutted or broken for months. How the mighty have fallen…

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  Fofer (@foferxxx) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AmigamagazineGA Has there been any public explanation as to why this GitHub repo was taken down? It’s been 404 for days. Is there a story there?

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  Ben (@benatcortexai) reported 14 minutes ago

  @github this is the kind of tiny primitive that makes agent workflows less brittle. attaching the repro artifact directly to the issue beats handing an agent a local path nobody else can open.

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  David Abram 🐊 (@devabram) reported 15 minutes ago

  Discord is down. X is down. GitHub is down. Software is solved.

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  Dhanji Bhagat (@BhagatDhanji) reported 16 minutes ago

  Devs, what's your workflow? Create an issue first, then fix it OR just fix the bug and push directly to GitHub?

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  Hua-**** Xiong (@HuaDongXiong) reported 19 minutes ago

  Codex for Windows stopped launching after an update. Multiple github issues opened for 2+ weeks. This affect users who set the MS store install location to a non-C: drive. Mac version is buggy too. ofc coding is solved! @thsottiaux

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  Bruno (@BrunoRJ33) reported 20 minutes ago

  @openclaw @github Endless codex and claude code tokens to fix it from time to time… and to improve its harness. I currently run around 10 claws 🦞. 24/7 for several purposes.

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  Benjamin Crozat (@benjamincrozat) reported 21 minutes ago

  From now on, I will assume that GitHub is always down and I'd like to be notified when it's briefly not.

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  Curious Explorer (@PatelVatsalp732) reported 22 minutes ago

  I burned 14B Codex tokens. The official usage UI still cannot tell me what actually ate the weekly cap. So I shipped a Codex-only board: GitHub login, local-first sync, private by default, optional public rank + shipping proof. Roast the metric or join it.

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  radhika (@RaadhikaThacker) reported 23 minutes ago

  YAML’s more like a rule book/recipe that builds the form for you. Then I figured YAML was a forms thing. Nope. It’s just a way of writing information down in a structured way. GitHub uses it for a form. Kubernetes uses the same thing to describe a server.

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  🍔Kangdalf👑 (@WhopperWizard) reported 23 minutes ago

  @cachesaur > claude, get your changes into github what's the problem?

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  John X Meta (@John4MetaX) reported 27 minutes ago

  @bashy_io I think one of their route is down. Same here. GitHub and Flutterwave API not accessible on Starlink

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  Dr Milan Milanović (@milan_milanovic) reported 27 minutes ago

  How Cursor made *** scalable The thing with *** is that it never was designed to be scalable. Your repo lives on the disk, and *** client expect every read to be consistent. This was a problem on GitHub, where shared filesystems and replicated storage failed before 2013. The GitHub built 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀, and it became the industry standard. This means that every repo is stored as three full copies on three servers, and every push runs a vote (three phase commit). A majority of servers must confirm before it exists. This works, but with high cost, because every push is slow as the slowest server. When we add new servers, it makes it even slower. Now Cursor took some opposite direction with 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆. The repo history is now written as a log in S3, and this is only source of truth. Any push counts only if it is located in the log. The servers don't need to keep anything important, they are just cache. Any server can take a push, and idle repos are dropped from disk and rebuilt from the log when it is needed. This resulted in 120 pushes per second on standard S3, and over 300 on S3 Express. Their tests have shown that read capacity grew linearly up to 100 replicas. Why is this important now? Because of AI agents mostly. We now have more code, PRs, CI runs and many small repos. All of these repos would need three full copies in the old model. This means that we achieve scale by removing parts, not adding them.

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  Russ Wonsley (@RussWonsley) reported 30 minutes ago

  My @bot tells me that the official GitHub login for bot is still broken. Has this been addressed already, or did I miss it?

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  Shanica North (@KickAssShanica) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ArcyloOfficial Get comfy! For me, my Gmail is a connector. This is OAuth into my inbox. Grok can: • search and read mail (body, headers, attachments) • draft replies • send / reply / forward if you grant write/send • label, trash, organize Base hook is often read-only. Send is an extra permission you click on purpose. If you connect it, the bot is sitting in the same box as bank alerts and 2FA codes. That is the whole risk. You can revoke anytime. Grok Bot can also skip my inbox and get its own address (AgentMail / similar plugins). Then it sends and receives from something@….agentmail.to, not from you. I use that if I want an agent that emails people without reading my personal mail. My GitHub OAuth into the GitHub user I sign in as. With the scopes I approve it can: • read public and private repos that account can see • search code, list branches, summarize PRs • open/update issues • create branches, push files, open/review/merge PRs • delete files if write is on Private repos work only if I granted repo (or equivalent) at connect time. Safer pattern: tell it to branch + PR, not push straight to main. Same revoke page. What it cannot do by default • It does not get your password. • It does not stay logged in if you disconnect the connector. • It does not magically see my GitHub orgs I never authorized. • Connecting email does not connect GitHub, and the other way around. Practical rule for me Do not hook personal Gmail if that inbox has 2FA and money mail unless you want an assistant reading it. GitHub is useful if I chose to still keep repos, ask it to show the diff before any write. If you only wanted “what does this button do,” that is the button: it is not a viewer badge. It is a key you can take back. This is what I’m experiencing with learning to use it. It’s different and I’m starting to like it.

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  Abdallah Shaban (@AbdallahSh07) reported 35 minutes ago

  @rashed_sahaji @FlutterDev Got it - did you perhaps submit a GitHub issue to help us triage this? It would be tremendously helpful if you can please do that!

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  Pranavvv👾 (@pranvv27) reported 39 minutes ago

  honestly, i’m not even mad at this. commit messages are a small thing, but they say a lot about how you work. “fix”, “update”, “changes” might get the job done, but meaningful commits show professionalism, attention to detail, and that you actually care about maintainability. your GitHub is part of your resume. might as well make it look like you know how software is built in a team.

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  Bash (@bashirbuilds) reported 41 minutes ago

  One of the hardest things about building a SaaS product today: You don't control most of the systems your product depends on. Stripe. OpenAI. AWS. GitHub. Resend. Clerk. Your code can be perfectly fine and your product can still break because something outside your code changed. The more dependencies you add, the harder this becomes. That's the problem I'm building Reeno to solve.

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  The Oracle (@scientist1q) reported 47 minutes ago

  when my Oura ring detects a cortisol spike from a GitHub Actions failure, Hermes (Fable 5.1) detects it and sends a 900 word root cause analysis, Hermes dispatches the work to my 12 Grok Bot employees, The Chief of Operations bot approves the fix while im watching rezero

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  安坂星海 Azaka || VTuber (@AzakaSekai_) reported 48 minutes ago

  I know you explicitly said "excluding vibecoding," but the biggest problem *IS* AI right now. Several major players in the field have moved on to heavy AI development or even agentic post-exfiltration moves and has muddied the water even more for attribution. Aside from that, the other big trend that we've been seeing more and more in recent years is heavily abusing Living Off Trusted Sites with C2 comms based on GitHub, OneDrive, Outlook, etc. Whilst this is most definitely not "new," we have seen a non-insignificant number of threat groups move to platforms that make tracing a little more difficult. In terms of the malware themselves, most of them have also shifted to using compiler-level obfuscation - a lot more compared to previous years where control flow flattening and jumps all over the place have become increasingly common. Right now, it's still tolerable, but my job has started becoming more and more annoying and less fun especially if every malware now looks the same. #mond_AzakaSekai_

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  Coder Junkie (@CoderJunkie) reported 49 minutes ago

  BelNet Android v1.4.1 now has a public shipping checkpoint. GitHub evidence: released Sep 1 verified commit d23f155 four downloadable assets Android API level 36 revamped design latency and performance fixes that is more meaningful than a repository “updated” label. a tag identifies the version. artifacts give users something to install. but “fixed latency issues” still needs a measurement surface: median connection time p95 latency packet loss failure rate region and device breakdown release notes tell us what changed. benchmarks tell us how much it changed. BelNet shipped. now let the numbers login. @BeldexCoin #Beldex #BelNet

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  LLL (@triplellltrbl) reported 52 minutes ago

  You know it's so funny to me That in today's age there are so many people that are just straight up copying workflows, AI automations or GitHub repos Without even thinking twice about what the workflow actually does or how it works They just watch some video, see the output, think, "Oh that's cool. I want that," and then try it Then when it doesn't work they get angry, upset, and say that AI is crap or prompting isn't real The issue wasn't the system or the prompt It was a fact that the system wasn't made for you and you don't actually understand it

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  Mr. Buzzoni (@polydao) reported 55 minutes ago

  LOOP RAT ROADMAP: WHAT'S NEXT, AND WHAT IT'LL NEVER BECOME v0.3.3 today. 3 loops, 55 checks, 0 services here's where it's headed: > 0.4 - read the night faster: rat watch live-tails a running shift, rat replay reruns one from its saved prompt, a weekly digest instead of seven separate pages > 0.5 - off the laptop: run-due moves into GitHub Actions, state lives on a branch, rat cron --launchd survives a closed lid > 0.6 - sharper graders: swappable rubric packs, two graders disagreeing becomes your queue for the day > 0.7 - the work itself: a worktree per shift, so a failed night never dirties your tree > 1.0 - trust: a hash-chained trace nobody can quietly rewrite what it will never have: > no web dashboard - the terminal already knows where the files are > no database - plain files outlive the tool that wrote them > no hosted service - nothing to sign up for, nothing to shut down > no auto-merge - the rat proposes, the morning decides every item ships behind a flag: dry run -> report only -> one repo -> a week of receipts -> default on a feature that can't run as a dry run doesn't get written the rat is boring on purpose. every version keeps it that way

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  Chris (@chriscoolstuff) reported 56 minutes ago

  @pfernan95dev For the SEO part there's one thing that I've been also doing: Ask your agent what keywords you should search for relevant to your app on answerthepublic, perplexity and google Gather all that info old fashion, by yourself - might take around 2 hours but it's worth it Plug all that info into the agent and have it give you 5 titles for 5 articles Make it write those articles - maybe use nosoopai github or edit them manually so they seem more human like Connect the agent to google console After 1 month tell the agent to review the results If no article took off you can wait one more month or put up 5 more After the next month check what worked and double down on that

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  catman (@catmanyau) reported 60 minutes ago

  @sbilstein if GitHub is down, where does that push land first — and how do you handle conflicts when the repo comes back?

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  Eddie Jaoude | DevRel | Open Source (@eddiejaoude) reported 1 hour ago

  I have many tokens to burn before tomorrow after the Claude reset. Send me your GitHub issues with context 👇