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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
20261,315 stories
GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension↗ bleepingcomputer.com · HN · 460 comments · 1054 points · May 20, 2026
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage↗ github.com · HN · 850 comments · 1513 points · May 02, 2026
Ghostty is leaving GitHub↗ mitchellh.com · HN · 1051 comments · 3521 points · Apr 28, 2026
GitHub's fake star economy↗ awesomeagents.ai · HN · 377 comments · 810 points · Apr 20, 2026
GitHub Stacked PRs↗ github.github.com · HN · 528 comments · 900 points · Apr 13, 2026
20251,099 stories
Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions↗ resources.github.com · HN · 819 comments · 802 points · Dec 16, 2025
Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub↗ github.com · HN · 137 comments · 625 points · Jun 11, 2025
IRS Direct File on GitHub↗ chrisgiven.com · HN · 318 comments · 744 points · Jun 04, 2025
The Pain That Is GitHub Actions↗ feldera.com · HN · 562 comments · 704 points · Mar 20, 2025
Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow↗ substack.evancarroll.com · HN · 810 comments · 990 points · Jan 09, 2025
2024921 stories
Map of GitHub↗ github.com · HN · 102 comments · 717 points · Dec 15, 2024
Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub↗ github.com · HN · 419 comments · 473 points · Oct 01, 2024
Why GitHub won↗ blog.gitbutler.com · HN · 504 comments · 652 points · Sep 09, 2024
GitHub was down↗ github.com · HN · 256 comments · 525 points · Aug 14, 2024
Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub↗ trufflesecurity.com · HN · 374 comments · 1983 points · Jul 24, 2024
20231,180 stories
GitHub 404 errors↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 65 comments · 164 points · Nov 03, 2023
Ask HN: Is GitHub down?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 143 comments · 252 points · Jun 29, 2023
Github.com is down↗ github.com · HN · 49 comments · 134 points · Jun 29, 2023
Incident with Issues and Pull Requests↗ githubstatus.com · HN · 103 comments · 170 points · May 11, 2023
GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations↗ githubstatus.com · HN · 49 comments · 118 points · May 09, 2023
20221,154 stories
We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot↗ githubcopilotlitigation.com · HN · 781 comments · 724 points · Nov 03, 2022
GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion↗ githubcopilotinvestigation.com · HN · 1219 comments · 1847 points · Oct 17, 2022
GitHub Copilot is generally available↗ github.blog · HN · 761 comments · 863 points · Jun 21, 2022
We lost 54k GitHub stars↗ httpie.io · HN · 665 comments · 1883 points · Apr 14, 2022
I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues↗ aschmelyun.com · HN · 169 comments · 811 points · Mar 25, 2022
20211,033 stories
Thank you, GitHub↗ github.blog · HN · 439 comments · 1044 points · Nov 03, 2021
GitHub Copilot↗ copilot.github.com · HN · 1272 comments · 2905 points · Jun 29, 2021
GitHub, fuck your name change↗ mooseyanon.medium.com · HN · 2007 comments · 3353 points · Mar 17, 2021
Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code↗ github.com · HN · 214 comments · 1692 points · Feb 09, 2021
GitHub is fully available in Iran↗ github.blog · HN · 483 comments · 1727 points · Jan 05, 2021
20201,298 stories
Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub↗ radicle.xyz · HN · 255 comments · 864 points · Dec 05, 2020
GitHub Source Code Leak↗ resynth1943.net · HN · 403 comments · 1013 points · Nov 05, 2020
I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors↗ calebporzio.com · HN · 493 comments · 1469 points · Jun 23, 2020
GitHub Codespaces↗ github.com · HN · 601 comments · 1769 points · May 06, 2020
GitHub is now free for teams↗ github.blog · HN · 622 comments · 2589 points · Apr 14, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub↗ strix.ai · HN · 188 comments · 330 points · Sep 15, 2026
Git hosting that never leaves Europe↗ pushin.eu · HN · 172 comments · 375 points · Sep 05, 2026
Incident with Github.com↗ githubstatus.com · HN · 2 comments · 719 points · Aug 17, 2026
GitHub is having trouble counting things↗ chuckgreenman.com · HN · 59 comments · 77 points · Sep 16, 2026
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 437 comments · 649 points · Aug 17, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Git hosting that never leaves Europe↗ pushin.eu · HN · 172 comments · 375 points · Sep 05, 2026
We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub↗ strix.ai · HN · 188 comments · 330 points · Sep 15, 2026
GitHub is having trouble counting things↗ chuckgreenman.com · HN · 59 comments · 77 points · Sep 16, 2026
Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box↗ github.com · HN · 18 comments · 30 points · Sep 08, 2026
A list of 1,325 AI assisted repositories, mined from GitHub↗ github.com · HN · 14 comments · 11 points · Sep 14, 2026
OpenAI changed Navier-Stokes press release and Lean4 code on GH↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 2 comments · 9 points · Sep 11, 2026
We wanted to use Baseten for inference, we got admin access to their GitHub↗ strix.ai · HN · 0 comments · 9 points · Sep 10, 2026
The Efficiency-Throughput Gap with GitHub Copilot↗ cacm.acm.org · HN · 10 comments · 7 points · Sep 25, 2026
GitHub has taken down Bend's repository↗ twitter.com · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 21, 2026
A repo gained 3,278 stars while GitHub showed Andrej Karpathy as a contributor↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 3 comments · 6 points · Sep 14, 2026

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