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Tables and Image Maps actually predate Latin

Why isn't this .gov

"IC work" seems to have evolved at Coinbase to mean "supervise AI changes". Then the question becomes how will managers actually review these changes and not just press accept at 3:50.

I'm surprised at how little the perception of GitHub changed post-acquisition. Coupled with WSL, it almost balanced things for a lot of people and put Microsoft back in the "benefit of the doubt" column. This is undoing a lot of that, on top of the operational costs. Suddenly the bad press is more noticeable and harder to ignore.

As far as I'm concerned, any benefit of the doubt I might have had for Microsoft is gone after this debaucle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883

You must've been fuming at email clients for the last 20 years hijacking people's signatures eh?

I don't use any email clients that mess with signatures, so I think I'm fairly consistent here, yes.

It isn't. Lots of unacceptable things going on these days and everyone seems to be accepting them just fine.

I think it's like some kind of collective inferiority complex. Nobody really understands things anymore but everyone is afraid to point out mistakes of others because they are scared to come under scrutiny themselves then.

I don't think it's an inferiority complex, negativity sells more and carefully understanding things doesn't sell as much

I think the default position people like to take generally is to just go with the status quo. GitHub has reached status quo level. As in "nobody ever got fired for choosing GitHub". It's the only forge I've seen advertisements for in the meatspace, and even non-technical people know about it. On job applications, companies ask for my GitHub URL. I think it'll be awhile now before they get abandoned. That said, I recently started moving my stuff over to Codeberg. The change needs to start with us, the people writing software.

We should make an alternative git site, but how to acquire users?

Make it nerdy enough to scare of agentic coders only. Also, blackjack and hookers are said to be helpful in such circumstances.

> Also, blackjack and hookers are said to be helpful in such circumstances.

Actually, forget about the site...


sourcehut is pretty close

> We should make an alternative git site, but how to acquire users?

Buy ad space on Github's outage page?


What do you need users for?

GH is not a social network


I don't know. Everyone seems to be using GitHub only because everyone else is using GitHub. Apparently that's important somehow. Me, I use "git init"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

It's a lot easier to get bug reports and fixes when everyone is on the same auth system.

That's why there is also a call for federated forges


Why is it easier to submit a bug report if my bug reporting system is run by the same company as your code repository? Why are those things even slightly related?

Because users and community contributors most likely already have an account, are familiar with the UI.

There is also the "gamification" aspect that GitHub have. Doesn't motivate me personally, but could have effect on some others.

Projects on GitHub gets a lot more visibility. To the point that many projects that do not use GitHub as their main forge are still often mirroring their repository there, and have to deal with double source of bug reports or pr.


If it's just about the account, this can be solved by using their existing account (log in with Google/Apple/GitHub/email) or no account at all.

> same auth system

I'm confused with auth has to do with it?

We've had OAuth 2.0 since 2012


Forgejo is a thing. But the headlines lately make it sound like it’s not in great shape either.

Could you expand? I couldn't find anything relevant after a few search attempts.

Yeah, look for HN headlines with forgejo and carrot (iirc). It made a lot of noise in the last couple weeks.

codeberg is doing fine

If measured the same way, ie combined status across all products, then codeberg is also at a whopping 0 9s.

https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg


Guarantee enterprises with SLAs aren't accepting them

The thing about an SLA is that once you’ve broken it you’ve lost the trust. It doesn’t _really_ matter what the cost is for breaking it, nobody chooses their platform based on the refund they’ll get if they’re down. But they absolutely do choose based on reliability and uptime. The enterprise SLA refund credit will show as a (big) metering blip, but the problem is the people who signed the contracts are going to be speaking to Gitlab now

I, for one, am not paying them enough money to expect any better.

My thinking is that if there would be more money in releasing Mythos and Cyber than there is in just scary unverifiable (or verified using very favorable context - Mythos) propaganda, they would. These aren't people that go for second best or care about the state of the world.

Make it sound "scary good", tell everyone and their mom, charge gullible companies $$$$$ for its premium access and then move on.

> charge gullible companies $$$$$

The following companies are participating in Project Glasswing (to get out in front what vulnerabilities Mythos is able to find and exploit at scale):

AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks.

Do you think they are all in that gullible category?

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing


And government contracts.

I've never seen this explicitly stated, but I assume they also want to show due diligence in case their models are used to write successful exploits that lead to major cyberattacks. Given the current WH's ire towards Anthropic, I could see the current DOJ trying to file criminal charges for aiding/abetting/export-violations/etc.

> These aren't people that go for second best or care about the state of the world

My suspicion is an adult in the room realised that simultaneously pissing off every major corporation, government and NGO, and giving them an incentive to bottle you up immediately, could backfire massively.

That an inference for Mythos is probably beyond what Anthropic can provide at scale right now.


I don't mean to get into politics but domination by alienation seems to be a trendy American strategy

> domination by alienation

What's this?


No idea, and it's too early to tell, but yes it sounds super dumb and it is.

they are already getting paid for opus 4.7, why would they release mythos?

assuming mythos is a paper tiger: great marketing, keep going

assuming mythos is for real: err, does this have to be explained?


AI has always been around. America has always been at war with Eurasia.

I don't know why anyone is still using this - much less defending them..

In the last MONTH, I've asked how you can defend implementing (or even choose implementing) AI when:

the AI you have implemented throughout your company changes the results you've come to trust? https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/claude_outage_quality...

or won't let you log in?: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/44257

or makes stuff up?: https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and...

or when it's down?: https://status.claude.com/incidents/6jd2m42f8mld

or when you get banned?: https://bannedbyanthropic.com/

or installs spyware: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

or takes the features you use out of the plan you subscribe to without notice? https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anthropic_removes_cla...

or renders your IP legally unenforceable? https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-w...

or stealthily changes pricing terms based on... file names you have? https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262

or invoices you for usage you did not perform, and won't answer support requests until you raise hell on social media? https://nickvecchioni.github.io/thoughts/2026/04/08/anthropi...

i mean seriously, why on earth would you use this? i thought we were professionals


The problem in most of those cases is not specifically AI. Many of the issues you cited are related to Anthropic specifically and many could have been avoided with better testing.

Yes, I am assuming the AI/LLM of choice you've implemented in your software engineering org is Claude because as far as I can tell there aren't really alternatives that come close to its quality in software.

We have some very heavy users of Codex in my org and we're very happy with the quality (politics aside).

So your thinking in light of this information is just "don't use Claude"?

I don't think it's that simple, but I do think a lot of the problems mentioned are not inherent to the use of AI.

If you've worked with Azure you don't need to be explained what the problem is. I'll believe that workloads are different now than they were some years ago but... they literally are the cause for it so no sympathy from me there.

- "Ok guys first thing is move off Azure and ditch Copilot to get back to the level of stability we had before all that mess"

- "Uuh, no"

Be a pretty quick story


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