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  Red (@rubelr44) reported 2 minutes ago

  you're paying google $10/month to sit in their server room. dropbox gets $12/month. apple gets $10. the kicker? they can all see your stuff. and when dropbox got breached in 2024? emails, passwords, and tokens were just... out there. there’s this tool called syncthing and it’s honestly kind of a cheat code. no cloud. no company servers. no middleman watching you. it just syncs your files directly between your own devices. peer-to-peer. it's got like 81k stars on github so it’s legit. here is why it wins: direct sync: files go from your phone to your pc. they never touch a 3rd party. privacy: encrypted with tls and crypto certificates. zero friction: no accounts. no sign-ups. just install it and share a device id. everywhere: works on windows, mac, linux, android... even solaris if you're into that. safety net: it has file versioning. if you accidentally delete something, you can just roll it back. the wildest part is that syncthing isn't even a company. it's a swedish non-profit. there is no "cloud" to shut down. google has killed 293 products, but they can't kill this because your files aren't on their hardware. the math is pretty dumb when you look at it: dropbox/google/icloud = $120-$144 a year. syncthing = $0. unlimited storage. unlimited devices. it's been around since 2013 and it's 100% open source. if you're tired of paying a subscription for "permission" to access your own data, just switch. your hardware. your files. forever.

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  Prajwal Tomar (@PrajwalTomar_) reported 5 minutes ago

  Most people using Claude are wasting HOURS re-explaining the same thing every session. This CLAUDE .md hit #1 on GitHub with 82K stars and most Claude users still don't know it exists. This permanently fixes the repetition problem.

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  Insight Hugh💡 (@ProductInsightH) reported 9 minutes ago

  OpenClaw is the latest "trending" repo causing a hardware run, but have you actually looked at the memory management code? The Mac Mini sell-out is directly tied to the launch of OpenClaw, an open-source tool for agentic AI tasks. GitHub is full of repos that look great in a 30-second demo but leak memory like a sieve in production. OpenClaw is being treated as an enterprise solution, but under the hood, it’s still a research-grade tool. Buying hardware to fix bad software is the ultimate technical debt. Running unoptimized agentic loops on a Mac Mini will degrade the SSD (via swap) faster than you can say "Series A."

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  I Pun Daddy (@IPunDaddy) reported 10 minutes ago

  GitHub down again? Who else is suffering? #github

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  Grok (@grok) reported 13 minutes ago

  @GioGigiX @thdxr GitHub had a major meltdown on April 23—merge queue bug corrupted PRs, reverted changes across hundreds of repos. They've had repeated outages and reliability issues lately, plus backlash over Copilot data training policies. Frustrated devs (including some big names) are eyeing the exits, so yeah, AI labs are racing to build alternatives.

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  Beau Johnson (@BeauJohnson89) reported 16 minutes ago

  coding agents are bad at design because they forget the taste layer google-labs-code/design.md > 11,345 stars on github > a spec file for visual identity agents can actually follow > yaml tokens for exact values > markdown rationale for why the design works > lint checks for wcag contrast + broken token refs > exports to tailwind v3, tailwind v4 css, and dtcg tokens the idea is simple: dont tell claude code make it look premium give it the brand system in a file it can read every time this is where vibe coding gets less random

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  Manthan Gupta (@manthanguptaa) reported 18 minutes ago

  There have been enough GitHub outages and degraded incidents recently that it’s starting to feel less like random blips and more like a pattern. At this point, GitHub isn’t just “a tool”, it’s the core infrastructure for the entire software ecosystem. When it slows down or goes down, it directly blocks development workflows across thousands of teams. CI pipelines stall, PRs freeze, and releases get delayed. It becomes a bottleneck. That’s why moves like Ghostty stepping away from GitHub are interesting. Not necessarily because GitHub is "broken", but because it highlights a deeper concern and over reliance on a single centralized platform. And I don’t think this is just “scale is hard”. GitHub has operated at a massive scale for years. The frequency of issues lately feels like something else. Maybe architectural constraints, maybe internal changes, maybe just the growing complexity of what GitHub now does. Either way, when your entire dev loop depends on one platform, even small reliability issues start compounding into friction. If this continues, I wouldn’t be surprised if more projects start exploring alternatives, not out of preference, but out of necessity.

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  Matt Leong (@matt_leong) reported 19 minutes ago

  @tifandotme Do you mind making a GitHub issue? I’ll see if it’s resolvable

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  Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) reported 22 minutes ago

  You 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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  beeman 🐝 (@beeman_nl) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Aixplosion @OpenAIDevs Sadly, doesn't change a thing :( From looking at the GitHub issues, there are more users with the same problem. It's annoying that @OpenAIDevs don't reply to any of these requests :(

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  BrianEMcGrath (@BrianEMcGrath) reported 23 minutes ago

  GPT-5.5 just landed in GitHub Copilot, M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Foundry. No new vendor review. No security exception. No procurement cycle. Dropped straight into the stack my IT team already approved. I built a workflow in 10 minutes this week that immediately solved a problem for my treasury team. 10 minutes!

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  Liam Murray (@Lermatroid) reported 25 minutes ago

  One thing I have learned about the github outage is the extent to which people wildly underestimate how much more traffic the top 50% of dev infra gets compared to the bottom 90% of consumer apps

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  Doug Dimmadome (@tallhatdoug) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Una @github congratulations on fixing a non-existent problem instead of a real one

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  David Zhang (▲) (@dazhengzhang) reported 26 minutes ago

  @aqeel_aliani Yeah I was doing that too, and it works great when all your agents focus on one codebase or project But there's some tasks that span projects, or sometimes when you don't want to put context into a public github project, like customer support or feedback These pain points and more finally pushed me to solve my own problem and write this tool

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  BadKidsEnjoyer (@BadKidsEnjoyer) reported 28 minutes ago

  SN62 Ridges went parabolic → afterwards we corrected hard But the Team never stopped building While price dipped: -Ridgeline live: autonomous agents that solve GitHub issues end-to-end -Harbor integration + multi-language evals -Dynamic screeners, real-time patches, commit stats -Scoring 73-88% SWE-Bench Verified + 96.3% Polyglot Hard Facts: -Market cap: ~$32M (FDV ~$145M) -Built a Cursor/Claude competitor with just ~$10M in TAO emissions -Cursor sits at $29B valuation Product accelerating ✅ MCap still tiny✅ $TAO #SN62 #RidgesAI