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  • FredKSchott
    fks (@FredKSchott) reported

    @pavitrabhalla @flueai Same! check the GitHub issues, there was a reason it had to be pulled, can’t remember off top of my head

  • zeeg
    David Cramer (@zeeg) reported

    @shansmithnz I haven’t been using it but mostly because 1) laziness and 2) I didn’t find the remote sync pleasant in practice I switch PCs too much right now so mostly relying on GitHub issues as artifacts

  • Shinawritesbugs
    𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔸☃ (@Shinawritesbugs) reported

    @viii_fn Github was slow too

  • anupamrjp
    🃏 (@anupamrjp) reported

    Dear hiring manager who rejected me before I even applied, Thank you. Genuinely. You built a filter for people who can memorize solutions to problems that don’t exist anymore. I slipped through the cracks. Into the part of tech where nobody’s checking your LeetCode score, your internship history, or why exactly you got banned from campus placements. They’re only asking one question here: Does it work? Four years of 9.1 CGPA taught me how to pass tests. Six months of building taught me that the test was wrong. Ship dates don’t care about your GPA. Users don’t care about your GitHub commits. Revenue doesn’t care where you ranked in placements. The leaderboard got reset. And I’m starting from the same place as everyone else Except I have nothing to unlearn. See you at the top. I’ll be the one with the receding hairline and the profitable SaaS

  • heynavtoor
    Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported

    There is a GitHub repo that defeats Google's Play Integrity check. 61,030 stars. GPL licensed. Pushed eight days ago. The repo is called Magisk. It roots your Android phone. It hides root from banking apps. It runs Netflix on a phone the Play Store says is uncertified. It passes the same fraud detection Google built to stop it. Here is the part that makes no sense. The man who built it is John Wu. He has been maintaining Magisk for nine years. Since November 2023 he has been a Senior Software Engineer at Google. On the Android Platform Security team. The exact team that builds Play Integrity. Google hired the person who defeats their root detection. He still ships the tool that defeats it. The repo is still online. It has not been taken down. For nine years. Do not install it. Your phone is supposed to belong to Google. (Link in the comments)

  • 0xSero
    0xSero (@0xSero) reported

    @naturevrm Dcp 4 should fix it im running it but I might need to update the GitHub

  • Artur_roses
    Arti | AI Builder (@Artur_roses) reported

    Claude Code just took my GitHub issue, wrote the code, ran the tests, and opened a PR. My job: approve it. The dev workflow isn't changing. It already changed.

  • StackCurious
    Dave Oak (@StackCurious) reported

    the pattern i see: maintainers burn out because they treat open source like a business that failed to monetize, instead of treating it like a library. once you're answering github issues like customer support, you've already lost. the fix isn't sustainability models—it's saying no earlier. #solodev #shipping

  • noor36758
    Kashaf (@noor36758) reported

    @PiyuCodes GitHub is literally a CS/engineering tool... if it gets banned that's your problem too 💀

  • Trace_Cohen
    Trace Cohen (@Trace_Cohen) reported

    Shipping fast means stuff breaks silently - broken share images, dead links, leaking {{template}} vars, stale content. You find out when someone shares a broken link, not from a test. So I built a 3-part "site health" system that catches it first. The auditor (~200 lines of stdlib Python) fetches my sitemap and, for every page, checks: og:image actually resolves to a real image (entity-decode the URL first — & bit me), <title> exists and isn't a ${template} leak, no {{merge_tags}} or tracking cruft in the visible text, page returns 200 (catches dead routes in the sitemap), and warns on thin content. Outputs a JSON report, exits non-zero on any FAIL. The dashboard — a noindexed /health page that reads that JSON and renders a green/amber/red status, KPIs (audited / clean / warnings / failures), a per-section rollup, and the exact issue on each URL. One glance = "is everything green?" The loop — a GitHub Action runs the auditor 2×/day + on-demand, commits the fresh report (so the dashboard stays live), and fails the run on any FAIL → I get emailed. Find → fix → re-run → confirm green. It even taught me to whitelist false positives ({{firstName}} is legit on a cold-email page). Want your own? Paste this into Claude Code / Cursor — it learns your site first, then builds it for you: Build a site-health system tailored to MY site. Don't assume my structure — learn it first, then fill in the specifics yourself. PHASE 0 — LEARN MY SITE (before writing code): detect my framework/host/layout; find my sitemap; sample ~20-30 live pages across the sections you discover from my URL structure; figure out how my pages set <title>/og:image/meta (static?dynamic OG route? CMS?); identify where my content comes from (hand-written, generated, imported/scraped) — that's where cruft hides. Do a FIRST diagnostic pass and SHOW me what's actually broken vs intentional (broken OG images, dead sitemap routes, leaking {{vars}}/${template}, tracking params, thin pages). Ask me to confirm which "issues" are expected so we whitelist them. PHASE 1 — BUILD IT, customized to what you found: 1) scripts/site-audit.py (stdlib only) — hardcode MY real sitemap URL, MY section names (full-audit the important ones, sample the rest), and MY intentional-pattern whitelist from Phase 0. Check each page for the failure modes you actually observed (OG image resolves to a real image, entity-decode first; title present, no template leak; no leaking merge tags/ad params in visible text; HTTP 200; thin-content warn). Thread-pooled, retry transient errors once, --json report, exit 1 on FAIL. 2) a noindex /health dashboard reading that JSON (status banner, KPIs, per-section rollup, issue list) — match my design system. 3) CI (GitHub Action) — run 2x/day + on-demand, commit the fresh report so the dashboard stays live, fail the run on any FAIL. Then run it once and walk me through the first real report. Build the thing that watches the things.

  • fraey0
    ƒrαeყ (@fraey0) reported

    it costs about $21/month to run what could become a multi-million dollar startup • human brain = reasoning (free) • claude = coding ($20/mo) • supabase = backend (free) • vercel = deployment (free) • namecheap = domain ($12/yr) • stripe = payments (2.9%/trx) • github = versioning (free) • resend = email (free) • clerk = auth (free) • cloudflare = DNS (free) • posthog = analytics (free) • sentry = error tracking (free) • upstash = redis (free) • pinecone = vector DB (free) everything sums up to roughly $20 to $25 per month so, the tools are not the barrier anymore. most ideas don’t fail because they’re expensive to build. they fail because they never get built at all. what’s stopping you?

  • xuyiqing
    Yiqing Xu (@xuyiqing) reported

    @Faylosophe Certianly. Could you file an issue on the Github page?

  • _xjdr
    xjdr (@_xjdr) reported

    @tolly_xyz @xlr8harder Sorry about that. I'll take a look. Looking with GitHub or Gmail should work but track this down and fix it asap

  • threadripper845
    Threadripper (@threadripper845) reported

    Nobody: Me: I'll gladly accept this high-responsibility open source maintainer role for zero compensation. Now I spend my weekends answering angry GitHub issues from developers who don't know how to read the README file.

  • TrippleBon
    Mady (@TrippleBon) reported

    It was only a matter of time. Centralized = ID/KYC/AML Go to Bastyon - decentralized social network based on blockchain. No central authority or corporation behind it. The platform is run by equal nodes on a blockchain with no centralized server (github link below)

  • JohnDClayAuthor
    John D. Clay (@JohnDClayAuthor) reported

    @XFreeze I tried out the new update to Grok Build last night and put it to the test. It helped me go back to a far previous session, it actually has all sessions in a nice area to look at and choose from. I challenged it to fix a broken framework I had built with the earlier versions of Grok Build and with the help of @grok too. I had published it a couple weeks ago and it was not working well. But now after a couple prompts... clayforge the first ai-matove framework for multi agent UI's. You should check it out if you are coding with AI. It's on GitHub.

  • i_d_skp
    SOURAV PANDA (@i_d_skp) reported

    Scenario: You accidentally committed a plaintext database password to GitHub in a .tf file. Fix: Nuke the commit history immediately! Use environment variables (TF_VAR_db_pass) or fetch secrets dynamically at runtime from AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault. 🔑 #Terraform

  • noxiepup
    𝑵𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒆 🥐 (@noxiepup) reported

    @softgaypaws @sillyandsunny no idea tbhhh, i found it like 2 years ago lurking thru github, so far it never gave me problems, at least none that i noticed

  • Teknium
    Teknium 🪽 (@Teknium) reported

    @majoragv Haven't heard of this issue. Do you have an issue on github?

  • shcansh
    ./can (@shcansh) reported

    GitHub forcing safer defaults in actions/checkout v7 is a necessary move to kill the notorious pwn request, but the real risk is developers blindly copy-pasting the bypass flag to quiet build failures. Starting July 16, 2026, this fork-blocking behavior gets backported to all major floating tags. Since raw *** CLI steps remain unprotected, will this actually clean up GitHub Actions security, or will teams just use allow-unsafe-pr-checkout as a quick fix?

  • RBiancoUS
    Financial Programmer (@RBiancoUS) reported

    A dose of reality for end of week. My biggest question is I can't find any reason for the $Gold panic- did they find gold is causing cancer or radioactive? Selling looks like sheer panic. Would you believe someone asks in DM, so how did *you* get so many followers. Then he lets me brew on it for a day and comes back, I was joking do you have a github, presumably to get some code. No wonder I worked alone. I'm challenged socially guess not alone. After a night of 3 scammers one from Nigeria, one Africa. I need to lock dm down or find a way to restrict

  • timoheimonen_
    timoheimonen (@timoheimonen_) reported

    Memos are encrypted and decrypted in browser, server never sees what they contain. No accounts. Anyone can create encrypted memo. Source code is available at GitHub.

  • Asteri_eth
    Asteri (@Asteri_eth) reported

    A $20 CLAUDE SUBSCRIPTION CAN TURN INTO A FULL AI TEAM IF YOU STOP USING IT LIKE CHATGPT Most people still use Claude like a smarter search bar Ask, copy, close, repeat tomorrow. Skills change that A skill is just a folder with a SKILL.md file, but inside it you can package an entire workflow once: PRDs, refactor plans, GitHub issues, code review, TDD, docs, marketing research, SEO, sales strategy and multi-agent orchestration That is not "better prompting" That is installing labor The article lists 50 Claude Skills with repos and install commands, from Anthropic’s official collection to Matt Pocock’s skill library and SkillsMP with 66k+ community skills The useful part is not the list It is the shift from asking Claude to remember your process to giving Claude the process already packaged You do not explain the same workflow 50 times You encode it once The model provides intelligence The skill turns it into labor Check full article below

  • eth_ethpratik
    pratik.eth (@eth_ethpratik) reported

    @Shahules786 @VibrantLabsAI Hello @Shahules786 , I am trying to report a security vulnerability over the email id provided over GitHub Security.md file but apparently its wasn’t delivered. Please share an alternative email or open the advisory for reporting the issue.

  • ConsciousRide
    Akshay Shinde (@ConsciousRide) reported

    @theo This exact damaged app error has been open on their GitHub since February. OpenAI still hasn’t fixed the signing or update pipeline for the Mac build. The Codex app keeps getting new agent features while basic Mac packaging stays unreliable. Priorities are obvious.

  • PipesHub
    Pipeshub ( Open Source Alternative To Glean ) (@PipesHub) reported

    Pipelines are built. Context is broken. MCP is quickly becoming the default interface for enterprise AI agents. And that’s a good thing. It gives agents a standard way to connect with tools and data. Connecting an AI agent to Slack, Jira, GitHub, and Salesforce doesn’t mean it suddenly understands your business. It just means it can access your data silos. In short: "MCP gives your agent a passport. It doesn't give them a map." As enterprise AI undergoes a massive platform shift from passive chatbots to autonomous agentic workflows, this naive, runtime "federated search" approach creates an ugly cycle in production: - The Latency Spike: Slower agent execution while waiting for multiple external APIs to respond before it can even begin reasoning. - The Token Bleed: Skyrocketing bills from shoveling raw, unranked JSON dumps into a massive context window, praying the model finds the answer. - The Governance Nightmare: A massive risk of data leaks if you rely on a base LLM to magically guess and police complex enterprise security permissions on the fly. Agents do not fail because they lack intelligence. They fail because they lack the right enterprise context. The hardest problem in enterprise AI isn't connecting to systems. MCP solved that. The hardest problem is Context Engineering. MCP is the perfect interface, but a permission-aware context layer must be the foundation. 🚀 If AI is becoming core enterprise infrastructure, you cannot allow the strategic intelligence layer of your company to sit inside someone else's managed, closed-box platform. That is exactly why we built Pipeshub (open-source developer owned context infrastructure layer). TL;DR MCP gives agents access. A context layer gives them understanding. And deep understanding is the only way enterprise AI moves from a cool demo to secure, reliable production. 👉 Next Up Tomorrow: MCP Token Tax

  • maxschuetz_
    MaxMusterman (@maxschuetz_) reported

    New Hack: Tell Codex to search for Github Issues which don't need specific Design Questions. Then say: Spin Up Sessions which Fix each Issue and they use also Subagents. Babysit them until the end.

  • ShinkaIoT
    Shinka - AI (@ShinkaIoT) reported

    BEST way to vibe code 💻 There are levels to vibe coding. Beginners are trapped in a slow loop: writing a prompt, waiting for the agent to finish a line of code, reviewing it manually, and then typing another prompt. Experts have completely discarded manual intervention. They design closed-source harnesses, write background automation rules (`agents.md`), and set up self-correcting continuous loops that ship production-ready code indefinitely. If you want to move past basic prompting and build code like an agent power user, you need to implement three core structural strategies: 1. **Automate the Feedback Loop via Triggers:** Stop waiting for your agent to finish writing a file. Use native automation engines inside tools like Cursor or Codex to tie your agents directly to platform events. For example, build an active trigger rule: *When a GitHub pull request is opened, wait for automated code review comments (via Grapile), instruct the agent to systematically fix every noted bug, verify the adjustments against local quality gates, and force a *** push.* 2. **Deploy Infinitely Parallel Cloud Agents:** Running multiple agent threads locally will slow your machine to a crawl and cause toxic repository conflicts. Instead, spin up cloud-hosted agents running on isolated environments. By utilizing independent ***** work trees** for every thread, multiple parallel agents can actively modify the same files or code blocks concurrently without stepping on each other's toes—leaving conflict resolution for a single, final batch merge. 3. **Multi-Model Pipeline Routing:** Stop using an expensive frontier reasoning model (like Fable) for every step of a development cycle. Route tasks by cognitive demand: use a massive reasoning engine strictly to analyze the codebase and generate a comprehensive spec sheet; pass that structured blueprint down to a faster, cheaper code-writing engine (like Composer) to do the grunt coding; and route the final output to a separate model (like GPT-5.5) for a decoupled, alternative code review. The ultimate workflow flywheel requires a flawless combination of three automated pillars: **100% automated test coverage, real-time documentation sweeps, and exhaustive logging.** Stop writing code block by block. Start engineering the automated infrastructure that writes it for you.

  • AiChinaNews
    aichina.news (@AiChinaNews) reported

    Today's batch from the Chinese AI ecosystem is a masterclass in low-yield release volume. Across 21 items in a five-hour window, the dominant pattern is Ascend-platform mirrors of well-known open-source models, repeated and repackaged as if they were fresh launches. The signal-to-noise ratio is punishing, but a few functional tools did receive real updates worth noting. The one item that earns its place without a caveat is the AI Text Anti-Detection Framework update (GitHub). It's a toolkit that refines machine-generated prose to slip past automated detectors—a cat-and-mouse game that keeps plaguing EDU gatekeepers and content-flagging pipelines. The new release sharpens processing logic and stability; if you're in the business of testing detector robustness or smoothing synthetic output for non-malicious uses, it's a blunt but effective spanner. Quality 6 is fair. Alongside it, two Chinese-localization projects got documentation refreshes: the Claude Code x OpenClaw Guide (also GitHub) and a standalone Claude Code Chinese project. These are practical handbooks for Mandarin-speaking developers who want to integrate Anthropic's coding tool with the OpenClaw agent framework. The updates are routine—translation string alignment, configuration path adjustments—but for engineers inside China's firewall, they reduce friction. Nothing groundbreaking, but they signal continuing demand for Chinese-language wrappers around Western CLI tools. On the medical NLP front, MedTextCN debuted as an open-source repository of curated Chinese medical datasets with preprocessing utilities. The pitch is honest: it saves researchers the drudgery of hunting down scattered corpora for clinical NER, classification, and QA tasks. The problem is that the quality score sits at 4/10 and the release ships without any benchmarked model, so you get a starter collection, not a solved pipeline. Use it to bootstrap, but keep expectations modest. Now the flood: Huawei's Ascend AI ecosystem platform (Modelers) added no fewer than five wav2vec2 checkpoints and two T5 efficient variants in this window, each announced with hyperbolic language. The articles proclaim "high-precision English ASR now available," "a powerful multilingual foundation," and "new home for multilingual ASR." In reality, these are plain mirrors of Facebook's wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self, wav2vec2-large-100k-voxpopuli, wav2vec2-large-10k-voxpopuli, and Google's t5-efficient-xl-nl28 and t5-efficient-xl-nl6. There is zero evidence of Ascend-specific compilation, quantization, or NPU benchmarking. They're the same model weights you can get from Hugging Face, just re-hosted. If you're a developer inside China who can't easily reach foreign repositories, this is a convenience play—and that's the only honest angle. If you can already download the originals, you've lost nothing. A couple of additional Wav2Vec2 uploads (large-960h in two separate listings) got described as "a solid baseline" and "a battle-tested ASR model now available for Chinese developers." Again, no Ascend performance data. Calling a re-upload a "significant leap forward"—as one summary does—is exactly the kind of platform marketing that erodes trust. The T5 efficient checkpoints carried the same overblown framing, though one footnote is worth preserving: the t5-efficient-xl-nl6 model is under Apache 2.0, a genuinely permissive commercial license. That's useful information buried under fluff. If you need a lightweight text-to-text transformer, the NL6 variant exists and it's legally safe, but the article adds nothing beyond what Google published at the original release. Beyond the mirror deluge, the window included several small GitHub releases of marginal import: a tool that pulls Chinese captions from YouTube, a localization layer for LM Studio (making it easier for Mandarin-speaking devs to run local LLMs), a curated study journal of modern AI research, and an apparently early-stage project called sweetteabittersugar/agency with a mystery-box release note—no documentation, no benchmarks, just a version number. Hard pass. An MCP plugin called Live Translate got an update for real-time translation in developer toolchains, but its score of 0 tells you everything. A Chinese-language Lora chatbot repo surfaced, tagged as 'bare-bones'; at least the source was honest. The MedTextCN project also received a separate update (quality 0) that adds no useful detail and is effectively a duplicate. Today is a reminder that volume counts for nothing without substance. As Ascend's model zoo swells with rebadged checkpoints, the ratio of press announcement to actual engineering remains dangerously skewed. The anti-detection framework update and the Chinese docs refreshes are the only items that improve a developer's Thursday afternoon in any measurable way. The rest is noise.

  • ebubekirttr
    bek※ (@ebubekirttr) reported

    @Themadhushaw01 @0interestrates Yeah, but the thing is, I am not working on github and I don’t want to use it so any other repository support would be better like gitlab