Hackernews posts about GitHub

GitHub is a web-based platform for version control and collaboration on software development projects.

1. GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
   1054 points by Timofeibu 19 days ago | 460 comments
2. 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug (blog.ammaraskar.com)
   659 points by ammar2 6 days ago | 101 comments
3. GitHub Actions was down (www.githubstatus.com)
   655 points by cebert 13 days ago | 1 comments
4. Leaving GitHub for Forgejo (jorijn.com)
   634 points by jorijn 26 days ago | 362 comments
5. GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com)
   634 points by splenditer 19 days ago | 339 comments
6. GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits (www.tomshardware.com)
   568 points by possibilistic 11 days ago | 256 comments
7. We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
   501 points by ildari 21 days ago | 237 comments
8. CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
   478 points by LelouBil 20 days ago | 182 comments
9. GitHub is sinking (dbushell.com)
   263 points by herbertl 29 days ago | 167 comments
10. GitHub Compromised (twitter.com)
    262 points by claaams 19 days ago | 6 comments
11. GitHub and the crime against software (eblog.fly.dev)
    249 points by pplanu 7 days ago | 117 comments
12. GitHub Copilot App (github.com)
    124 points by theanonymousone 6 days ago | 76 comments
13. U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub (gizmodo.com)
    114 points by neogodless 20 days ago | 28 comments
14. Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    94 points by doppp 11 days ago | 9 comments
15. Composer leaks contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens (github.com)
    70 points by damienwebdev 26 days ago | 27 comments
16. My domain got abused on GitHub Pages (meertens.dev)
    62 points by rmeertens 20 days ago | 18 comments
17. GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
    62 points by sbulaev 18 days ago | 13 comments
18. GitHub Is Down (www.githubstatus.com)
    56 points by cosuhi about 3 hours ago | 43 comments
19. Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold (www.theregister.com)
    56 points by jay_kyburz 6 days ago | 24 comments
20. New Attack "Megaladon" Compromises 5.5K+ GitHub Repos (www.theregister.com)
    53 points by theanonymousone 16 days ago | discuss
21. The latest X algorithm has been published to GitHub (twitter.com)
    52 points by guiambros 22 days ago | 23 comments
22. GitHub's take on age assurance for developers (github.blog)
    46 points by hanifbbz 19 days ago | 22 comments
23. Microsoft Compromised Again. Shuts Down Azure Function GitHub Actions (opensourcemalware.com)
    42 points by 6mile 3 days ago | 2 comments
24. Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub (github.com)
    37 points by notmarkeloff 6 days ago | 17 comments
25. Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub (www.jeremykun.com)
    33 points by surprisetalk 21 days ago | 3 comments
26. Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
    26 points by antihero 3 days ago | 13 comments
27. CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
    22 points by eyberg 21 days ago | discuss
28. Malicious Postinstall Hook Found in 700 GitHub Repos, Including Node Projects (socket.dev)
    18 points by 882542F3884314B 16 days ago | 4 comments
29. GitHub just suspended GitHub-actions[bot]
    17 points by jaakkonen 13 days ago | 2 comments
30. Megalodon: Mass GitHub Repo Backdooring via CI Workflows (safedep.io)
    17 points by Sudhanshu2310 18 days ago | discuss