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The GitHub Blog
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The GitHub Blog is the company blog at github.blog, writing about programming, web and productivity. Since 2019, 1,725 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3,633 times, most often “No Cookie for You”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link GitHub's blog as a dated source for its own announcements, changelogs and policy statements, such as free private repos, Atom's sunsetting, Dependabot and Copilot features.
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- One commenter says a post on how GitHub handled US export rules for Iranian developers is worth a look as interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Most-linked posts?
- No Cookie for You32 people · 40 mentions · first linked 2020-12-17
- GitHub is fully available in Iran18 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2021-01-05
- An Update on GitHub Availability15 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2026-04-28
- Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2025-10-28
- Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2022-02-14
- The technology behind GitHub’s new code search11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2023-02-06
- YouTube-dl's repository has been restored11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2020-11-16
- Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2022-04-15
- Spec-Driven Development with A11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2025-09-02
- GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2021-08-11
What Hacker News says?
Yes. Also, GitHub recently made some upgrades that forced checksum changes on the autogenerated archives: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-01-30-git-archive-checksu...
Comment linking /changelog/2023-01-30-git-archive-checksums-may-change/
on “Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise”Submitted No Cookie for You as a story · 2941 points
HN discussionHas Github stated a reason? I read the announcement from Oct. 1 [1] and it doesn't have any explanation outside of a link to a Software Freedom Conservancy [2] (the folks now maintaining Git) A lot of people here are assuming virtue signaling, but it could just as easily be "a majority number of our staff was behind this change". Unless GitHub has stated the why somewhere (I spent ~5m googling to no avail) we simply…
Comment linking /changelog/2020-10-01-the-default-branch-for-newly-created-repositories-is-now-main/
on “GitHub, fuck your name change”Submitted YouTube-dl's repository has been restored as a story · 2636 points
HN discussionOk, we changed the URL to that from https://github.blog/2021-06-29-introducing-github-copilot-ai... .
Comment linking /2021-06-29-introducing-github-copilot-ai-pair-programmer/
on “GitHub Copilot”Submitted GitHub is now free for teams as a story · 2589 points
HN discussionThey don't need to remove the cipher circumvention code, because there is no cipher circumvention code https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-yo...
Comment linking /2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/
on “YouTube-dl's repository has been restored”Submitted NPM Is Joining GitHub as a story · 1829 points
HN discussionI agree that’s a potential concern, but you’re worrying about it a year too late. Individual developers have been able to make repos private on the free plan since January 2019: https://github.blog/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/ . This announcement only affects the cost of private repos for teams of collaborators.
Comment linking /2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/
on “GitHub is now free for teams”Submitted GitHub is fully available in Iran as a story · 1727 points
HN discussionI understand the point of asking the question to raise visibility, but regardless of agreement/disagreement on the issue Nat has written a response here: https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-deve...
Comment linking /2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-developers/
on “GitHub is now free for teams”Submitted Sunsetting Atom as a story · 1320 points
HN discussion> We’re happy to announce we’re making private repositories with unlimited collaborators available to all GitHub accounts. Huh, I thought github made private repos available to free github accounts a while ago? Looking for historical announcement, aha, it was not with "unlimited collaborators" before. From Jan 2019: > GitHub Free now includes unlimited private repositories. For the first time, developers can use Git…
Comment linking /2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/
on “GitHub is now free for teams”Submitted Standing up for developers: YouTube-dl is back as a story · 1275 points
HN discussionAs of early last year Github has offered this as well: https://github.blog/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/
Comment linking /2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/
on “GitHub is now free for teams”Submitted Thank you, GitHub as a story · 1044 points
HN discussiontptacek is using Zed, which I've not tried myself. I actually do most of my "agentic coding" (not a fan of the term, but whatever) in ChatGPT Code Interpreter, which hasn't changed much in two years other than massive upgrades to the model it uses - I run that mainly via o4-mini-high or o3 these days. OpenAI's Codex is a leading new thing, but only if you pay $200/month for it. Google's equivalent https://jules.goog…
Comment linking /changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-coding-agent-in-public-preview/
on “My AI skeptic friends are all nuts”Submitted Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid as a story · 903 points
HN discussionMicrosoft bought GitHub years ago and announced the "sunsetting" of the Atom editor (a GitHub-company project) and its official ecosystem a few months ago. The archiving of Atom and all related projects will occur on Dec. 15th, 2022: https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/ .
Comment linking /2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/
on “Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B”Submitted GitHub Copilot is generally available as a story · 863 points
HN discussionThe GitHub Copilot CLI tool is brand new, they only launched that in September: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-25-github-copilot-cli-... Prior to that GitHub Copilot was either the VS Code IDE integration or the various AI features that popped up around the GitHub.com site itself.
Comment linking /changelog/2025-09-25-github-copilot-cli-is-now-in-public-preview/
on “Anthropic acquires Bun”Submitted GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces as a story · 861 points
HN discussionTypeScript is the most popular programming language on the most popular software hosting platform though, owning the best runtime for that seems like it would fit Pareto's rule well enough: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...
Comment linking /news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-developer-joins-github-every-second-as-ai-leads-typescript-to-1/
on “Anthropic acquires Bun”Submitted Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 as a story · 703 points
HN discussion> It would be cool if GitHub integrated with existing platforms and helped that to happen They did that as well today today with support for a .github/FUNDING.yml. This file lets people provide links to Open Collective, Patreon, Community Bridge, Tidelift, Ko-Fi, a custom link and they show up as alternative sponsoring options for a repo: https://github.blog/2019-05-23-announcing-github-sponsors-a-... .
Comment linking /2019-05-23-announcing-github-sponsors-a-new-way-to-contribute-to-open-source/
on “GitHub Sponsors”Submitted GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories as a story · 680 points
HN discussion>If Github can start automatically recognizing dependencies I think that they already do this for JavaScript, Ruby, and Python dependencies[0]. However I don't think doing it automatically is the way to go, one dependency may be "worth" way more than another, and some dependencies may go undetected (e.g. if I conditionally sneak -lfoo into my LDLIBS somewhere) [0]: https://github.blog/2017-11-16-introducing-security…
Comment linking /2017-11-16-introducing-security-alerts-on-github/
on “GitHub Sponsors”Submitted GitHub CLI is now in beta as a story · 669 points
HN discussionI'm not sure what OP is complaining about. From GitHub's announcement it's clear that there's also a new functionality to make it easy for projects to link to whatever funding platform they use. Open Collective is mentioned specifically: > Open source projects can also express their funding models directly from their repositories. When .github/FUNDING.yml is added to a project’s master branch, a new “Sponsor” button…
Comment linking /2019-05-23-announcing-github-sponsors-a-new-way-to-contribute-to-open-source/
on “GitHub Sponsors”Submitted Security issue related to the NPM registry as a story · 667 points
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