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The article opens with the following line:

> With more and more content being hosted on GitHub it's a shame that you can't get notified when a particular file has changed.

GitHub is a Microsoft website.



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Dude, that's just the article, not the source. Eg: Github as CMS.


> "a site hosted on github" encompasses a wide variety of content.

That doesn't help, you can easily fingerprint a page from secondary requests or incoming/outgoing links.


Text of image :

GitXiv no more! – Thursday, February 28th 2019

Today GitXiv has shut down.

The site was not maintained for 3 years, and was becoming increasinlgy unstable and slow.

While still serving around 5000 monthly users, we felt a much better and active service is being provided by https://paperswithcode.com. So for all your open science needs go there from now on.

Finally, please be an active participant in helping out uploading code and papers, as well as for the computer scientists out there: making your research available. If experiments are not replicable (this means "code" on GitHub) it isn't really science is it? =D

(this mailing list will seize to exist as well)

Best to you all! Roelof You can complain to me on twitter ;)



>We use Usage Information and Device Information to better understand how our Users use GitHub and to improve our Website and Service.

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...


The main thread seems better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989684

This lacks additional content or context. It is simply the author promoting some 2016 letter/article criticising GitHub, and then very loosely tying it to recent changes. It is self-promoting blogspam.


I fail to see how this has anything to do with GitHub, except using GitHub as a hosting platform. Can somebody please change the title?

It was posted in 2016. It's not in response to GitHub being bought.


Yeah I don't really know how github works. When I click the OP link I see a tiny bit of text and then three screenshots. Is there a whole article on this topic I'm missing?

> I imagine github could incorporate some of these tools too.

GitHub allows you to ignore whitespace in diffs by appending _?w=1_ to the URL [1]. They should make this more obvious with a button in the diff interface.

[1] https://github.com/blog/967-github-secrets


Oh dear. I pushed an addendum to the article: https://github.com/Xe/site/commit/05135edcbe5e474131c15c2476...

Thanks for pointing that out!


> The paper came from 1975

Did it? Then how come it has references to “diff --git”, “https://git.kernel.org ”, and “https://github.com/”?


I've replaced the submitted title ("GitHub Successors") with a phrase from the page that says what it's about.

It used to be more verbose:

> This is not the [distributed version control system hub](https://github.com/) that you're looking for.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110107153429/http://guthib.com...


Maybe it was the article's reprinting of that rant, in its entirety, with a link to the actual file in github.

The title of the submission is a bit misleading:

> GitHub: sysget – A front-end for every package manager (github.com)

Right now, it seems like it is GitHub's own project when it's just hosted on GitHub.

It should be:

> Show HN: sysget – A front-end for every package manager (github.com)


> See for yourselves: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1884 - some juicy posts have been deleted/edited since though

obviously can't tell about the edited ones, but there's not a single "juicy" comment by someone from Microsoft there IMHO? I mostly see external commenters misbehaving.

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