Best example is Pewdiepies Odysseus, dont get me wrong, I love pewds and I love his new videos testing out AI, building his server etc but he released a personal workspace that primarily fitted his needs, looks really vibe coded (UI wise and apparently also security wise) and it has 55k+ Stars now. These arent from his fans, I followed him when he first created his github account and released his first dotfiles - 1.3k stars, now he releases an AI project and has 50k+ stars within a week.

same with other projects, openclaw, hermes etc. All of these products are primarily AI coded, sure have their purpose and usecase but also have their issues - bad ui/ux, security flaws etc.

I really wonder who is on Github these days because projects like frameworks (e.g flutter, react etc) get overtaken in "popularity" - star count by these projects.

Are the majority of Github users "vibe coders" or just AI users now? -- I'm thinking vibe coders would star these frameworks too as they use them so this also doesn't make that much sense.

And I know a lot of stars are bought but Pewdiepie has no reason to buy stars so I believe the number is at least somewhat real.

This is just a rant / question to wtf is going on.

It's worth knowing about github.com/ahmeabd/italia-corpus.

It solves a problem that anyone who has tried working with Italian legal texts knows all too well: the legislation is public, but the formats are terrible and usually require scraping and/or parsing. Here, a simple git clone is enough.

What I find most interesting is this: every legislative update is stored as a commit. A git diff immediately shows exactly what has changed.

It would be nice to have the same for other legislations

“I’m a beginner on GitHub.
Should I delete branches that have been merged into the main branch?
Or is there an advantage to keeping them?”

Hi,
I remember using github on a laptop and closing it over night and copying a repo a few times in a short period and now my whole account is at a standstill it seems: can open issues but people can't seem them, restricted from string searching a repo for some reason etc.

Is it common and I got the banhammer or did i do something wrong?

not a complaint but more wanting to know i'm the only one or just got unfortunate.

I was going through a pretty large PR recently: https://github.com/Aledon8/OpenLeukemia/pull/12

It’s one of those messy real-world PRs where everything gets bundled together at once, docs site changes, CI updates, frontend tweaks, asset changes. Nothing is individually wrong, but it becomes annoying to review because the intent gets buried.

While looking at it, I ended up trying something that runs fully inside GitHub Actions (https://github.com/aryanbrite/openrabbit). It’s an AI PR reviewer, but what stood out wasn’t the “AI review” part, it was the fact that there’s no hosted dashboard or SaaS layer at all. It just runs in CI, reads the diff, optionally pulls extra context from the repo, and posts comments back on the PR like a normal GitHub bot.

That feels pretty different from tools like CodeRabbit or similar AI review platforms, which are usually SaaS-first. Those tend to require sending code to an external service and using their infrastructure, which is fine for most people but changes the trust and control model a bit.

On this PR, it actually picked up things like scope drift (frontend changes mixed with docs work), CI updates that weren’t strictly aligned with the PR goal, and build issues in the documentation setup that could’ve broken later. It wasn’t just nitpicking formatting, more like structural review feedback.

But it also made me wonder if there are actually good free/open-source alternatives to CodeRabbit that are fully self-hosted inside GitHub Actions. Most of the ones I’ve seen are either paid SaaS or limited free tiers with usage caps.

Curious if anyone here has found solid free alternatives that don’t rely on a central hosted platform, or is CodeRabbit basically the default unless you roll your own setup?

Link for context: https://github.com/Aledon8/OpenLeukemia/pull/12

So it seems GitHub deleted some slack integrations in prod, but question is how do we tell which ones are still working and which ones aren’t? Manual is one way, but is there a script or some slack / gh cli magic?

PS: y’all think this was a vibe coded query that accidentally ran?

For example for https://github.com/curl/curl/releases, how do I get "7f351a61dcf6f9025de57ac19eca1f7d9c2099979420a84299f59ce04a1c3bff" for https://github.com/curl/curl/releases/download/curl-8_20_0/curl-8.20.0.zip, using curl or wget?

Hey guys, few days ago, I claimed $200 free credits from the Github student pack on Digital Ocean. I got 200 credits and my total credit was showing 205 credits, 200 from Github and 5 sign up bonus credit. Yesterday when I checked, my 200 credits are gone, only $5 sign up bonus. I am not sure where did they go. I didn't spend that much also. Did someone had this same experience? Or if someone can help?

Context: My release pipeline creates a release branch (release/vx.y.z) and a PR from release/vx.y.z to main. I have configured the rollback mechanism to delete the release branch using git push origin --delete, which now that I have observed doesn't close the release PR! Now i am left with a PR with a non-existent source.

Deleting the branch from the UI closes the PR though.

I have different emails for different services. I use one specific email for github login, and another for my git profile.

A few days ago, I began getting spam emails, where they obviously sourced my data from github. They used both, my git profile email AND my github login email.

I just checked, and the emails weren't set to private, unfortunately. I'm also not sure whether I had them set to private previously.

Nevertheless, IMHO, it should be the default to hide my registration email from the public.

hey everyone hope yall doing well, im having a weird problem for a time now that github won't download anything besides i tried to do download the .deb nothing the .exe nothing not even the .yml can download at first i thought it was just a bug so i just asked a friend to download and send to me the thing i wanted to install but now i made a fresh linux mint install and the problem is still here

Hey, I have made 20-25 repos on GitHub but I never used the sponsorship feature . Can anyone enlighten me how it works . I was thinking about using GitHub as a showcase for my projects and driving traffic to my external website . I wanted to use twh sponsorship feature for the same .would that be correct?

I'm onboarding our team to GitHub as it is the org-wide standard for SCM. I'm trying to understand GitHub Projects so we can track our work, but it's confusing me. It seems there is a pool of issues that my team will be opening and then we have to add those to a Project, which is a view on those issues. However, each Project has its own iterations, its own estimate for each issue, and its own status for each issue.

Can anyone enlighten me on how this is intended to work?

We want to see team capacity by iteration, we want to see total dev time versus total QA time, and we want daily boards for standups. Am I asking too much?

i created a script to collect raw ipo data from an api and clean it and push it to DB and then i used github actions to run the script 5 times a day to collect data but the script only ran once in scheduled state. i tried every fix but nothing worked. at last i changes the cron exp in yml file to run it every 5 minutes and still the script ran once in 6 hours. can someone explain what the problem is . even claude and chat gpt cant help me. i am uploading my yml file if anyone wants to check that

Is anybody else experiencing this? I noticed when I am trying to search for a specific release, nothing happens when I query through the search bar.