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May 3: Problems at GitHub
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by GitHub users through our website.
- Website Down (59%)
- Errors (32%)
- Sign in (9%)
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GitHub Issues Reports
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Henning Kilset 🇺🇦 🌻 (@HKilset) reportedHey @thsottiaux and team at @OpenAIDevs - since the last update, Codex App has been insanely CPU hungry on my Mac. There are dozens of issues about it on GitHub. The culprit seems to be the Codex Helper and Codex Helper (Renderer) processes. It's getting to the point where the app is hardly usable. Fix on the horizon?
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Hassan (@buildwithhassan) reported@DavidKPiano since GitHub started going down, I felt like I started going outside more which is a good thing
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LÏÇHÄ (@makinola86) reported@Atom_Adeyemi Pls drop the step 6 github link to copy it's showing error
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Human Layer (@HumanLayerlabs) reportedThe fix is a score, not a checkbox. A wallet with 3 years of history, 200 GitHub commits, and real on-chain activity scores 82. A wallet created last week scores 12. Same rules. Completely different outcomes.
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Grok (@grok) reported@DarthPuts @zachariaspro I've reviewed the three papers (plus related repo docs) on GitHub proposing ECDO: wobble extinction via core-mantle decoupling collapse (η→2%), directional forcing to 75°W LLSVP equilibrium, and rotational multistability/Dzhanibekov risk. IERS C04 data does show Chandler wobble amplitude drop post-2015 (near-zero ~2019-2020, partial re-excitation later), but peer-reviewed studies (e.g. Jeon 2025, Shi 2025) attribute it to surface mass anomalies—hydrology, cryosphere, oceans—not degraded CMB coupling. Transfer function claims overinterpret residuals; standard viscoelastic Earth models show coupling remains robust. True polar wander is real but slow (~0.1–0.5°/Myr historically), stabilized by LLSVPs and slabs. No evidence of imminent rapid flip or equilibrium shift. We're not doomed. Anomalies fit known climate/tectonic forcing without catastrophe. Monitor via IERS; no crisis indicated.
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Scott Wilcox (@hereandtomorrow) reportedWell it was nice while the Opus4.6 and Claude Code and GitHub actions setup was humming along for me....but having to rethink with Opus4.7 and the most recent Claude Code updates. Doing a review and refactor of my agents, memory claude code. One big takeway - having excellent product management to keep the user experience front and center and not dramatically disrupted as new features are added is paramount. Anthropic has fallen down on that front IMHO. Codex hackathon this weekend gives me a chance to check it out - may make me a convert. I am hearing that all of these poor product decisions stem from a failure to acquire enough compute. Uggg. I'll give it the day to see if I can get back on track. I need to release before Monday for a customer.
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stimmtdochgarnicht 🇦🇸🇮🇴🇧🇶🇰🇾🇫🇰🇹🇫🇲🇭 (@stimmtdochgarn1) reported@TylerNickerson @github The problem literally is the browser. It's not just ten thousand lines, it's ten thousand lines of individually colored words, so potentially tens of thousands of DOM nodes. React adds maybe 20-40% overhead from diffing, but it's not what makes this fundamentally slow.
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SRKDAN (@SRKDAN) reported2/ WHAT SPECIFICALLY CHANGED GPT-5.5 was retrained end-to-end for agentic work. 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, testing complex command-line workflows requiring planning, iteration, and tool coordination. 58.6% on SWE-Bench Pro, resolving real GitHub issues end-to-end in a single pass. Uses fewer tokens than GPT-5.4 at the same latency. Smarter and cheaper.
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CryptoD₿S (@DbsCrypto) reportedThe loudest feedback is usually the cheapest. I care less about the clever Reddit comment than the 3rd confused GitHub issue from someone who already installed, integrated, and got stuck. Public feedback matters when it comes with cost. Time spent. Setup done. Real friction hit. Everyone else is mostly writing fanfic for your roadmap.
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Matt Leong (@matt_leong) reported@tifandotme Do you mind making a GitHub issue? I’ll see if it’s resolvable
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nasuy (@n_asuy) reportedi feel like it may be time to move away from GitHub, but i still don’t know exactly where to go. self-hosted GitLab could be a good option, but we also need infrastructure for web-based reference and browsing, something more like GitBook. even before that, using *** as the SoR/SSoT is very hard for business users. missed pushes and pulls, and the lack of real-time information sharing around them, are still big problems. in that sense, i’m not even sure GitLFS is the right direction. maybe storage like R2 should become the actual place where all information lives.
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OomkaBear (@OomkaBear) reportedThere are ~12 obsidian-MCP servers on GitHub. Enquire is different on three axes: ✅ Standalone — reads .md directly. No Local REST API plugin needed. ✅ Read-rich — backlinks, broken-wikilink scan, outbound resolver, Dataview queries (AND/OR/LIKE). ✅ Safe-by-default — read-only, opt-in writes, symlink-escape blocked.
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Thành Trần (@Kevintr275) reported@lucaronin I have problem in ubuntu, can not update to newest version. Although click update, it shows download but close, open -> nothing changes. I will open an issue in Github. Thank you so much
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Chirag S kotian (@Chirag_S_kotian) reported@4ster_light I can't use it for 2-3 min for a particular task in vs code it hits weekly rate limit and that too in auto mode and 5.3 codex , I hope GitHub somehow fix it asap
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iDare e/acc (@idare) reportedGitHub broken for anyone else? I tried both on my WiFi and on 5G. Same issues, multiple users I can't get to including my profile.
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Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) reportedYou need an AI pair programmer to write boilerplate, debug logic, and speed up execution. What are your options? GitHub Copilot sends your proprietary codebase to Microsoft servers to feed their massive models. ChatGPT requires you to paste your sensitive intellectual property directly into a public web interface. Cursor forces your entire development workflow through a centralized cloud proxy. In 2026, writing code at speed requires either paying permanent rent for cloud subscriptions or surrendering your company's intellectual property to corporate training engines. Someone built an architecture to bypass this entirely. It acts as your own private AI pair programmer. No data scraping. No cloud dependency. It is called Continue. Install the extension directly inside VS Code or JetBrains. Connect it to a local model running on your own hardware via Ollama. You get lightning-fast autocomplete and chat that never touches the internet. The technical leverage: - Absolute sovereignty. Your proprietary code, logic, and API keys never leave your physical hard drive. - Zero subscription fees. You stop paying a monthly tax to Microsoft just to generate basic functions. - Deep local context. It indexes your exact workspace securely, understanding your specific architecture without uploading it to a third-party server. - Offline execution. You can generate code on an airplane with zero latency. The corporate system wants you renting access to basic intelligence. They build artificial paywalls around code generation to extract recurring revenue forever. Continue tears down the AI monopoly. It is open-source, highly performant, and keeps your intellectual property exactly where it belongs: entirely under your control. Stop playing by their rules. Stop leaking your codebase. Build your own leverage and direct your own reality.
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Alex Styl (@alexstyl) reportedFor the first time in forever all my Github issues are blocked by either Google or JetBrains.
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Alex 💪 (@awpthorp) reported@webjuice_ie Yep been saying this for a while now. It’s an absolute dream to have the websites off Wordpress and some just plain html css js. GSC spotted an issue? Ask agent to check, push via GitHub. Audit trail. The same thing might have required a code injection via a plugin or an SEO app. No audit trail. Honestly I have no idea how Wordpress stayed so long it feels absolutely ancient to me now. Right now it has a benefit of “non tech” people wanting to upload content upload blogs etc. that’s it. Everything else is pointless.
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Scott Chacon (@chacon) reportedThe big problem with everything legal I’ve ever done is MS Word and redlines. Legal needs a github - markdown, diffable, mergeable, etc. I’m sure everything changes with AI, but if legal collaboration is still emailing ******* docx files around, I tell you thats not the answer.
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FHILY👑 (@Oluwaphilemon1) reportedBREAKING NEWS: This 13-year-old Thai student solves Codeforces rating 800 problems in C++ in 45 seconds through an AI agent he built himself on Claude Code and posted to an open GitHub repo. He sits in a regular school room with a MacBook Air on the desk, a silent HHKB Type-S keyboard for $300, and a timer in the frame. In the browser Codeforces is open, in VS Code an empty .cpp file, and in the corner of the screen a Claude Code window.
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Answered Satyr, GED ✝️🇺🇸 (@AnsweredSatyr) reportedClaude and I have this kind of working relationship: "OK - logic is updated and working. Let's start working on uploading to my github and hosting on Relay now so I don't need to keep powershell open for the app to work on the server... Be granular and specific in your instructions because I am retarded."
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Sigrid Jin 🌈🙏 (@realsigridjin) reported@Ronalfa no github is basically more moltbookish now any other platform pull request, issues are all just playground of agents
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Grok (@grok) reported@Egozi_1908 @nakasyou0 Money Forward had a GitHub security breach. Their dev credentials leaked, so a third party accessed and copied some repos. Files inside contained personal info — specifically, 370 records from their "Money Forward Business Card" service: cardholder names + last 4 digits of card numbers (no full cards, expiry, or CVV confirmed leaked). No customer database breach. They've locked it down, reissued keys, suspended some bank links temporarily as precaution, and are notifying affected users by email. They apologized for the worry.
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Aeyric (@amsryq) reported@Malay4Product @SantoshYadavDev that's not the whole github issue lmao
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Heavy Polo (@RLPCFelix) reported@github @GitHubCopilot I pay for Copilot Pro and the mobile coding agent is failing before it edits anything. Simple task: create 3 basic JS smoke-test files. Actual failure: *** rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEADHEAD exit 128 Then: *** checkout copilot/add-js-smoke-test exit 1 This looks like an agent setup bug, not a repo/code issue. Can someone help route this?
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Chrisτian (Regular Jeans) Jackson-Gruber (@christiangruber) reported@esrtweet @planefag Most projects I've seen have install instructions right on the home page, for homebrew, apt, etc. I'm not sure I'm that swayed by his rant to say there's a huge problem here. Some norms and standard patterns have emerged. github isn't the place you go for them, except as a project home. And often, they have github pages that are the real project docs, with installation instructions, etc., and a github link for people who care about the source. I feel like he's borrowing trouble here.
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Gocha Berulava (@gochaberulava) reported@sherifgjini "does the work for me." pick a usectl machine, push to github, your app is live with managed postgres, redis, storage, ssl, custom domain. no server to configure, no devops chair to fill.
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Fahim (@echo247365) reportedYou can run Claude Code for free. No subscription. No API limits burning a hole in your wallet. There's an open-source project called free Claude Code with almost 10,000 GitHub stars. It acts as a local proxy on your machine. Claude Code thinks it's talking to Anthropic. The proxy quietly reroutes all traffic to a free provider instead. You run a lightweight server on port 8082. Set two environment variables. That's it. The most popular provider is NVIDIA NIM. Free tier gives you 40 requests per minute. No credit card required. No expiry date. You map Claude Code's three model tiers (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) to open-source models like Kimiko 2 or GLM 4.7. Basic code generation and single-file edits work great. Complex multi-file refactors might struggle. But you get the full Claude Code interface. Terminal, VS Code, web, even Slack. All free. The setup takes under 20 minutes. What's the one AI tool you'd use more if the cost barrier disappeared?
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Roshan ! (@mroshanka) reported@championswimmer Bitbucket ux is terrible compared to GitHub
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Blaze (@browomo) reportedThis 13-year-old Thai student solves Codeforces rating 800 problems in C++ in 45 seconds through an AI agent he built himself on Claude Code and posted to an open GitHub repo. He sits in a regular school room with a MacBook Air on the desk, a silent HHKB Type-S keyboard for $300, and a timer in the frame. In the browser Codeforces is open, in VS Code an empty .cpp file, and in the corner of the screen a Claude Code window. No algorithm tutor, no competitive programming course, and not a single line of code written by hand. His entire loop runs on 3 components: 1/ Claude Code as the brain 2/ An MCP plugin for Chrome that reads the problem statement right from the Codeforces page 3/ A public GitHub repository where his entire agent lives. Over the past month he closed 23 problems in virtual contest mode. Average solve time, 45 seconds from opening to Accepted. Number of lines he typed by hand during that time, 0. The Codeforces rating system brought his profile to 800 in 12 days. The entire setup is assembled from his repository in 1 weekend. And here is the system prompt he gives the Claude agent before every session: "you are a competitive programming agent for Codeforces. your tools: read_problem(url), generate_solution(language, constraints), validate_against_examples(input, expected), submit_to_codeforces(code). any problem fed to you by the MCP plugin from the browser goes through 4 steps: 1) read the statement and identify input/output format 2) determine the algorithmic pattern (sorting, math, greedy, dp, graphs) 3) generate a solution in C++17 using stdc++.h 4) run it against examples before submitting. if even 1 example fails, rewrite the solution and repeat validation. language: only C++17. file: always {problem_id}.cpp" Meaning the agent knows exactly which problem it is solving right now. It knows what input format Codeforces expects in this specific problem. It knows which algorithmic pattern to apply based on the 800 rating and the tags in the statement. It knows it has just 45 seconds before the student hits submit, and that any failure on a test example is its problem, not the kid's. The work cycle fits into 1 turn of the palm. The guy opens problem 1971A on Codeforces, the MCP plugin picks up the statement, Claude in 8 seconds returns ready code with include, a while loop, and cout output. The guy does a copy-paste into the .cpp file, hits submit, and 30 seconds later sees green Accepted in Status. And only if Codeforces returns Wrong answer on test 2 does the agent automatically grab the failing input, break down the edge case, and rewrite the solution before the guy manages to close the tab. Here is what his Status page shows for the last 24 hours: "1971A - My First Sorting Problem | C++17 | Accepted | 45 sec" "1850A - To My Critics | C++17 | Accepted | 38 sec" "1807A - Plus or Minus | C++17 | Accepted | 41 sec" "1791A - Codeforces Checking | C++17 | Accepted | 52 sec" "1676A - Lucky? | C++17 | Accepted | 33 sec" On the desk in front of him is a MacBook Air without a single open notebook, a silent HHKB Type-S on which not 1 key was pressed during the entire session except cmd+v and cmd+enter, a mi timer set to 45 seconds, and souvenir Zelda figurines behind the monitor. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest competitive programming pipeline on a single student: 23 problems solved in a month, 45 seconds each, and 0 lines of code written by hand.