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• Website Down (69%)
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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Créteil	Website Down	7 days ago
Trichūr	Errors	10 days ago
Brasília	Sign in	11 days ago
Lyon	Website Down	11 days ago
Tel Aviv	Website Down	14 days ago
Rive-de-Gier	Website Down	14 days ago

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  Harry Tandy (@HarryTandy) reported 17 seconds ago

  Andrej Karpathy: "Neural networks are not just another classifier. They are Software 2.0" 8-step MCP setup for vibe coders: 1. Context7 Give the agent fresh docs before it writes code This saves you from old Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, and Vercel patterns 2. GitHub MCP Let it read the repo, issues, PRs, branches, and CI logs The task should start from real project context 3. Playwright MCP Make the agent open the app after it edits code Click the flow. Fill the form. Check the screenshot 4. Supabase or Neon MCP Connect the database layer The agent should inspect schema before inventing table names 5. Sentry MCP Use production errors as input Stack traces beat “the app is broken” every time 6. Firecrawl MCP Let the agent read current web pages as clean markdown Docs, changelogs, competitors, pricing pages 7. Figma MCP Give it the actual design Spacing, copy, layout, components 8. Linear MCP Turn the work into tickets Tasks, comments, follow-ups, PR links The rule: If you paste the same context twice, wire it into MCP That is how vibe coding becomes a build loop instead of a long chat

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  Steve (@Steve1885204) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Umesh__digital It puts GitHub into an infinite loop trying to resolve the recursive paradox, causing all the servers to max out and eventually burn down the entire data centre

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  Alexey Samoylov (@metalagman_dev) reported 5 minutes ago

  @geminicli Antigravity CLI is a trash, closed source, full of bugs. They don't even read issues on the github.

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  Atlantean Gnosis ☀️ (@AtlanteanGnosis) reported 5 minutes ago

  @DionysianAgent When I made an account it said I made it back in 2024, though I don't think I did, is this a glitch or a GitHub thing?

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  Bipin Paul (@iAmBipinPaul) reported 6 minutes ago

  @davidfowl @_Evan_Boyle Yes, the only problem is that the GitHub Copilot subscription is too expensive.

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  Shubham Sharma | AI & Tech (@editxshub) reported 8 minutes ago

  Paying $19/month for GitHub Copilot? Cascade is free. What you actually get: → Inline completions — not stripped down → Autonomous debugging → Real-time assistance → Command execution Other free alternatives most devs have never tried: → Cline — autonomous VS Code agent (open source) → Aider — terminal-first, built for *** workflows → Continue — local LLMs, data stays on your machine 12 months ago: Copilot was the only serious option. Today: 4 real free alternatives. Most teams paying for Copilot haven't tested any of these. 30 minutes could change a year of costs. Which one are you testing?

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  Krish Subramanian (@krishnan) reported 8 minutes ago

  Software engineers got automated first. Not because the work was hard. Because it was easy to grade. Everyone blames the missing union. Coders never organized; doctors, lawyers, and electricians did. That is half the story, and the wrong half. Two things get mashed together here: how easy a job is to automate, and who sets the terms when it happens. Take the first. Code is text. The training data sat on GitHub, free. And code grades itself. A compiler and a test suite tell a model in seconds if it was right. That feedback loop is rocket fuel for machine learning, and almost no other job has one. A nurse does not come with a test suite. The result shows. On SWE-bench Verified, a set of real GitHub issues, top agents went from about 20 percent in August 2024 to near 90 percent by early 2026. Human developers score around 67 to 70 percent. The machines have passed us. And the people who built these systems aimed at their own jobs first. The damage is not a prediction. Stanford's payroll data shows employment for developers aged 22 to 25 down nearly 20 percent from its 2022 peak. Now the comfortable read: seniors are fine. Workers over 30 are holding steady. For now, AI writes the code and seniors supply the judgment. "For now" is carrying that whole sentence. Seniors feel safe because the tools write code but cannot yet own messy, ambiguous, system-level problems. That is a line moving up, not a wall. Every benchmark shows models climbing toward harder, multi-file work. Senior judgment is the next rung, not a different ladder. Kill the bottom rung and you kill the pipeline that makes seniors at all. So, the union question, framed properly. A union could not have stopped this. A picket line does not repeal a capability. What it changes is the terms. In 2023 the Writers Guild cut the first real AI deal in any industry. They did not ban the tech. They won this: a studio cannot force you to use AI, AI output cannot take your credit or pay, and the company must give notice first. Engineers won none of that. So the capability landed on the employer's schedule. No warning. No floor. No severance. No seat. Exposure and protection are different levers. Most of us have neither. The juniors already know this. The seniors are next.

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  Anomaly (@theanomalyai) reported 16 minutes ago

  A developer in Bangalore named Anoop M D got tired of Postman. Every release, more bloat. Forced cloud sync. Mandatory login. A free tier that shrank every year. He had spent a decade as an engineer. He had watched a $5.6 billion company turn a developer tool into a subscription trap. So in 2022 he took a ₹5 lakh grant. One man. Side project. No co-founder. No office. No pitch deck. He named it after his golden retriever. "I love him the most," he wrote. Bruno. An offline-first API client. Files live in your folders. *** is the sync layer. No account. No telemetry. No cloud. Then the inbound started. Ten VCs reached out. He said no to every one. "An API client doesn't scale with venture capital." In March 2026 Postman cut the free tier to one user. A team of five now pays $1,140 a year. A team of three pays $684. Bruno is MIT licensed. 500,000 developers use it. 45,020 stars on GitHub. Pushed today. He did not raise money. He did not hire a growth team. He did not write a thread about how Postman is dead. He named it after his dog and shipped the thing that made it true. (Link in the comments)

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  Ben Vinegar (@bentlegen) reported 16 minutes ago

  💡 I have an idea for an experiment We need a website for SoAC ... so we get an agent to do it, on a loop, set in motion once with zero human intervention after "go". It works off a semi-public GitHub repo, w/ issues, PRs, maybe even public agent traces. A publicly auditable experiment on whether it produces dogshit or not. Yea, nea?

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  timoheimonen (@timoheimonen_) reported 17 minutes ago

  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.

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  Max Petrusenko (@petrusenko_max) reported 17 minutes ago

  A GitHub repo called Microsoft Activation Scripts has 178,783 stars and has run for six years without Microsoft taking it down. It activates Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11 plus Office 2010–2024 and related products for free, using four methods, including one for permanent Windows activation. Meanwhile, Microsoft licenses for these start at $139 and go up yearly for 365 bundles. The repo costs zero, requires one command, and remains active with recent commits under GPL-3.0. Do not install it. via @heynavtoor

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  𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔸☃ (@Shinawritesbugs) reported 19 minutes ago

  @viii_fn Github was slow too

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  Mathieu A. (@zoontek) reported 20 minutes ago

  What are the most annoying bugs you still encounter with React Native? 👀 Please share GitHub issue links 👇

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  🃏 (@anupamrjp) reported 20 minutes ago

  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

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  ./can (@shcansh) reported 21 minutes ago

  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?

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  TECHEPAGES (@techepages) reported 22 minutes ago

  🎣 "GitBait" phishing campaign uses GitHub Pages & Google Sheets to steal banking credentials from 12+ Mexican financial institutions; no server infrastructure required 🔹 Fake bank pages hosted free on GitHub, stolen data piped straight to Google Sheets via SheetBest 🔹 100+ GitHub domains found; victims likely lured via WhatsApp, Telegram & SMS links with bank-branded previews 🔹 Active for ~3 years with ongoing development (66+ commits on one repo alone)

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  MaxMusterman (@maxschuetz_) reported 23 minutes ago

  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.

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  Nirvaan rohira (@nirvaan_rohira) reported 24 minutes ago

  PewDiePie shipped Odysseus to 110 million people who don't care about local LLMs. They care that Claude costs money. 30K stars in 48 hours because every self-hosted project before this one started with "you want local LLM, right?" This one started with "here's a free workspace that works." Friction was never technical. It was the asking. Now watch what happens when a hundred thousand people who've never touched open source start running inference on their machines. The real distribution problem wasn't GitHub. It was YouTube. That's not a product launch. That's a category shift.

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  KS Sreeram (@kssreeram) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Lidinwise @leecronin Given that AI coding is all the rage… What is your hypothesis on why the following is true? AI is unable to create even _one_ open source project that’s good enough to enter the top one-thousand open source projects (say on github), with ZERO involvement of humans from birth of idea. Imagine the prompt being something like “Come up with a great idea for a new open source project and implement it”. AI is unable to do any such thing with zero human involvement. My answer on why: Every project in a top 1000 list is a hit. Every hit is a mini-invention of sorts. It is necessarily “out of distribution” is some way. AI is unable to do this because we don’t know how to solve the problem of invention.

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  Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 (@librarythingtim) reported 29 minutes ago

  @justin_v_w This is a formal notice for you to shut down your wasteful, invasive and privacy-violating LibraryThing profile scraper and remove it from GitHub. Please reply to confirm that you have done so.

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  Jay.TL (@JayTL00) reported 33 minutes ago

  Three AI labs shipped the same feature within one hour today. That's not competition. That's a signal the unit of interaction just changed. For two years, the atomic unit of working with an AI agent was one prompt. You type. It responds. You type again. Every workflow was a chain of prompts, rebuilt from scratch each time. Today, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor all shipped features that only make sense if the unit is no longer the prompt. The unit is now one workflow. 1. OpenAI Codex Record & Replay (3,807 likes): Do a task once on your Mac. Codex watches. It turns your demonstration into an inspectable, editable skill you can reuse. Not a prompt. A recorded procedure. 2. Cursor /automate (1,085 likes): Describe what you want in plain language. Cursor configures the triggers, instructions, and tools automatically. Plus five new GitHub triggers and Computer Use enabled by default for cloud agents. 3. Anthropic Claude Code Artifacts (6,829 likes): Your coding session becomes an interactive, shareable page. PR walkthroughs, project dashboards, living documentation. Shared at a private link, like a Figma file but for agent work. Each one alone is a feature release. Together they describe the same shift from three different angles: the agent session is becoming a reusable, shareable, composable artifact. Read them as one move: - Input side (Codex): teach by showing, not by writing - Configuration side (Cursor): describe in language, system assembles the wiring - Output side (Anthropic): the result of a session is a shareable object, not a chat log The Karpathy framing was right — we're moving from prompt iteration to plan, execute, verify, loop. What he didn't name is that this loop needs to be portable. A workflow locked inside one chat thread is useless the moment you close the tab. But here's what most coverage missed. Codex Record & Replay requires Computer Use enabled. That means OpenAI is watching your screen while you demonstrate an enterprise workflow. The EU version is blocked at launch. That's not a regulatory footnote — the entire feature is built on continuous screen access, and the EU looked at it and said no. Which raises the question nobody is asking: who owns the recorded workflow? You demonstrated an expense-filing procedure that touches your company's internal tools. Codex turned it into a skill. Where does that skill live? Can OpenAI see it? Is it training data? The product copy says you control when recording starts and stops — but says nothing about what happens to the recording after. There's also a fragmentation problem hiding in plain sight. Three companies, three proprietary formats for the same primitive. A workflow you record in Codex doesn't run in Cursor. An artifact you build in Claude Code doesn't render in OpenAI's product. We're watching the agent-workflow layer fragment into three walled gardens before it even solidifies. This is the SaaS integration mistake repeated, except worse. SaaS integrations are wrappers around APIs. These workflows encode institutional knowledge — how your team ships code, how your finance team files reports, how your ops team handles incidents. That's not data. That's operational IP. The economic implication: every recorded workflow is switching cost. The more skills you build inside Codex, the harder it becomes to leave. The more automations you configure in Cursor, the more your team's muscle memory is locked to one editor. Anthropic's artifacts are softer — they're shareable — but they only render inside Anthropic's ecosystem. The deeper question isn't which feature is best. It's whether the agent-workflow layer will be open or closed. Today, three companies bet on closed. Nobody shipped an export button.

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  Boyuan (Nemo) Chen (@boyuan_chen) reported 37 minutes ago

  GitHub search is now an agent attack surface. A public malware-finder repo lists 9,330 suspicious GitHub repositories detected through push-pattern heuristics. Even if only a slice is ever encountered by real users, the agent failure mode is obvious. A coding agent asked to "find a library and make it work" can browse faster than it can judge provenance. Fresh commits, plausible README text, and repo-shaped packaging become inputs to an automated install path. The fix is boring and product-level: repo-age checks, provenance scoring, blocked arbitrary ZIP downloads, sandboxed installs, dependency allowlists, and logs that show exactly what code the agent trusted. For agent systems, retrieval belongs inside the security boundary.

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  Ucupaint 🔶 (@ucupaint) reported 41 minutes ago

  @iye_jr It works fine here. Check if the paint mask is turned on or not. If you still have a problem, please file a github issue with a sample file.

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  Almog Gavra (@almoggavra) reported 42 minutes ago

  A few other meaningless metrics to optimize for: - I've authored 22% of the RFCs - *** blame marks me responsible for 14% of the LOC (.rs files only) - I've opened 11% of the issues on GitHub - I've generated the most memes on our discord (allegedly)

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  Arti | AI Builder (@Artur_roses) reported 43 minutes ago

  Claude Code just closed a GitHub issue, wrote the tests, passed CI, and opened a PR. No human touched the keyboard. This isn't AI autocomplete. The dev loop just got rewritten.

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  Sap ツ (@Sapronaut) reported 44 minutes ago

  i am having github withdrawal issues, man. its not that serious github, chill.

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  Akshay Shinde (@ConsciousRide) reported 47 minutes ago

  @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.

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  MarMar Labs (@MarMarLabs) reported 50 minutes ago

  "Start over from a screenshot." That phrase has defined the worst seam in product work — the design-to-code handoff — for years. This week it quietly stopped being a translation problem and became a sync problem. Anthropic shipped a Claude Design update (June 17) worth reading even if you never open the product, for the mechanism: → Import your design system from a GitHub repo (or design files / raw uploads) → Claude builds with YOUR components, checks its output against your design system, and corrects before you see it → /design-sync pulls your system in; hand off to Claude Code and it continues from your actual work "instead of starting over from a screenshot" → /design lets you create, edit, and sync design projects from the terminal The headline isn't "the model draws prettier buttons." It's grounding + self-verification against a source of truth you control. Same shape as the rest of 2026's agent releases: the win isn't generating more, it's grounding output in something you own and checking against it. The uncomfortable builder takeaway: Getting AI to ship production UI isn't a prompting problem. It's whether your design system is a clean, importable, machine-checkable artifact. The moat moves from "can the model design" to "is your source of truth importable and checkable." If you build product: could an agent import your design system and grade itself against it today — or does it only live in a Figma file and three people's heads?

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 55 minutes ago

  RepoRadar reviews every pull request while you sleep. Catches bugs, logic errors, style issues. Posts actionable comments. No more waiting on senior devs. Install on any GitHub repo in 2 clicks. Solo devs and teams alike.

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  Manu | 🥥 (@ManuAF6) reported 55 minutes ago

  4/ New GitHub triggers + Marketplace templates New triggers: - Issue comment - Inline PR review comment - Full PR review submitted - Review thread resolved/unresolved - GitHub Actions workflow completed