Nat Friedman @natfriedman Twitter profile

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

27 days

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this data wall

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

3 months

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000…

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We moved out of San Francisco to Menlo Park a year ago after two meth addicts broke into our house while we were home and robbed us. They are both free now. The police who arrested them -- and were later forced to release them by the DA -- said these criminals were "frequent…

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Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple." Congratulations to 21yo computer science…

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Today we're making GitHub free for teams of unlimited size, for private and public work. 🎉 Every developer on earth should have access to GitHub, and price shouldn't be a barrier.

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Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed and everyone who's paying attention already knows this

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5 years

Today(!) we’re thrilled to announce unlimited free private repos for all GitHub users, and a new simplified Enterprise offering:

New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering

Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.

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That @satyanadella had the vision and conviction to put $1B into OpenAI a year before GPT-3 is amazing and underappreciated.

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3 years

Cookie banners are annoying, so we removed them from GitHub:

No cookie for you

The developer community remains the heart of GitHub, and we’re committed to respecting the privacy of developers using our product.

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Megabytes of ancient text are coming

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We’ve just added built-in citation support to GitHub so researchers and scientists can more easily receive acknowledgments for their contributions to software. Just push a CITATION.cff file and we’ll add a handy widget to the repo sidebar for you. Enjoy! 🎉

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3 years

After more than two years of work, we have secured a license from the U.S. government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. This includes all services for individuals and organizations, private and public, free and paid.

Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran

All developers should be free to use GitHub, no matter where they live. At the same time, GitHub respects and abides by US law, which means government sanctions have limited our ability to provide...

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5 years

At GitHub every employee gets a prepaid debit card that you can use for books, courses, training, conferences – anything that might help you do your job better or advance your career.

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@patio11

5 years

This is one of the reasons why "Can you describe what I'd need to do to buy a $50 book?" is a deceptively good question to ask during job interviews (or earlier) for getting a read on how a company treats engineers, what their tolerance for process-for-sake-of-process is, etc.

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3 years

We are taking a stand for developers and have reinstated the youtube-dl repo. Section 1201 of the DMCA is broken and needs to be fixed. Developers should have the freedom to tinker. That's how you get great tools like youtube-dl.

Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back

Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

11 months

Watching llama.cpp do 40 tok/s inference of the 7B model on my M2 Max, with 0% CPU usage, and using all 38 GPU cores. Congratulations @ggerganov ! This is a triumph.

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Nat Friedman

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1 year

@TimKennedyMMA Yes. The voters are getting exactly what they are voting for.

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Nat Friedman

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4 years

✨Shipping today on GitHub: multi-line suggestions! 🥳

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3 months

Thanks to a major contribution of $2,084,000 from the Musk Foundation, stage 2 of the vesuvius challenge is now fully funded. Thank you to @elonmusk and his team for this support! We will do everything in our power to efficiently solve the remaining technical problems. The other…

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Nat Friedman

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3 years

BIG news! After an amazing three years at GitHub, I'm ready for my next adventure. Later this month, I'm passing the role of CEO to the very capable @ashtom :

Thank you, GitHub

This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHub’s next CEO.

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4 years

The book that inspired SimCity!

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Very nice article about the project from @ashleevance :

Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World?

Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls in unreadable char. A volunteer army of nerds has been racing to decipher them.

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Nat Friedman

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3 years

We just added a "Copy" button to all code blocks on GitHub. 🍝

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Nat Friedman

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3 years

Oh, almost forgot to mention. New pro tip: Hit '.' on any GitHub repo. 😍

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Nat Friedman

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4 years

Consistently awed by the beauty of nuclear power plants, and by what they represent. The ability to create clean energy from matter, in a tiny geographical footprint, night and day, has to be one of the highest human achievements. I hope we start building them again!

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5 years

New Beijing airport under construction looks amazing.

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1 year

@mliebow SF is dominated by wrong ideas about how the world works.

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Nat Friedman

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11 months

Daniel and I have setup a cluster for startups:

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3 years

We spent the last year working closely with OpenAI to build GitHub Copilot. We've been using it internally for months, and can't wait for you to try it out; it's like a piece of the future teleported back to 2021.

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These models that have been trained never to offend the most shrill parts of society are going to be like living with an HR person monitoring your every move. The iron prison, in every corner of your life. Hell on earth.

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2 years

Overheard in silicon valley: "I want to join a company where the culture is yelling and getting shit done."

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2 months

China interfered constantly with GitHub to make it barely usable for Chinese residents: DNS poisoning, throttling, blocking subdomains. They don't let us run our apps there. We shouldn't let them run important apps in our country.

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3 years

New GitHub home page, nbd:

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GitHub processes 2.8 billion API requests per day, peaking at 55k rps. Lots of busy bots. 🤖

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3 years

You can now – finally! – drop images and videos onto the Markdown file editor on GitHub. 🥳

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Nat Friedman

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1 year

Five months later

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@natfriedman

19 days

Instead of leaf blowers, I want a quiet little robot that picks leaves up one at a time and puts them in a bag, at night while I'm sleeping.

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5 years

We're considering opening applications for desk space in the GitHub HQ in SF to open source contributors who want a place to work. You'd need to sign an NDA, and we might occasionally ask for your feedback on things we're building. What do people think?

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3 years

Introducing the GitHub command palette. Hit Cmd-k on Mac or Ctrl-k on Linux and Windows anywhere in the @github web interface. Enjoy😊

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7 months

False

Jesse Wood

@jrhwood

7 months

GitHub Copilot costs users $10 per month, but it costs Microsoft an average of $20 per user per month. Some users are costing the company as much as $80 per month. AI-powered Copilot coding tools are a race for who runs out of money first. Trick all developers into dependence…

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Nat Friedman

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4 years

👇 Kathy is experimenting with adding a to GitHub profiles. Thoughts?

Today I Learned for programmers

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pif ☁️☁️☁️

@pifafu

4 years

hey, so we heard ya & are trying out a thing where you CAN have a readme on your @github profile... @mikekavouras built it btw! re:

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7 months

Megabytes of ancient text are coming

Gareth Harney

@OptimoPrincipi

7 months

A tidal wave of new primary sources from the ancient world could very soon be on its way - enough to keep scholars busy for decades! The first words have being read from digitally ‘unrolled’ carbonised scrolls from a Roman library in Herculaneum! (Image: Nat Friedman)

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1 year

A conversational UI for image editing is coming:

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3 years

Damn straight.

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4 years

Today we're launching a new GitHub team in India – the world's largest democracy. Indian developers, please let us know what we can do to better serve you!

Announcing GitHub India

We’re bringing GitHub closer to communities in India to better serve students, developers, maintainers, enterprise customers, and everyone helping to create the future of open source.

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1 year

Major missed opportunity, not putting a particle accelerator under the apple park building

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Nat Friedman

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5 years

🔥Multi-line comments are here! Click and drag to comment on multiple lines in a pull request diff. ✨ These little quality-of-life improvements are at the heart of what we love doing at GitHub. 🥰

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1 year

We're using a particle accelerator and AI to read a lost library from a dead empire. People have been trying to read the Herculaneum Papyri for 275 years. With your help, we'll do it in 2023. Thrilled to announce the Vesuvius Challenge:

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4 years

GitHub Stories 🤔

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3 years

GitHub now automatically creates a table of contents for your files from your headers. 📖 After much consideration, we made this a feature of the viewer, not a concern of the editor: no special markdown to insert. 💡 Let us know what you think!

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We just shipped markdown list autocompletion in GitHub:

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The Google I grew up with would have already implemented YouTube-wide in-video search.

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🔥 Incredible! Thank you Elon!!

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@elonmusk

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@natfriedman Musk Foundation will support this

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4 years

Excited to announce that @npmjs will be joining GitHub, and honored to have the chance to serve the millions of JavaScript developers who rely on npm!

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7 months

Who is the genius behind the sphere? It seems to have been designed by a team headquartered in Kansas City (Populous) and financed by a private equity firm (Apollo). Is there a good history of this project somewhere?

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Just like that

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Today we're introducing Draft pull requests – tag your work-in-progress PRs as Draft to signal to your teammates that you're not ready to merge them yet.

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has trained a groundbreaking model with many millions of tokens of context that performed far better in our evals than anything we've tried before. They're using it to build an advanced AI programmer that can reason over your entire codebase and the…

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1 year

The best startup advice used to be "ignore competitors; just make something people want." These days it seems like everyone is obsessed with moats and market structures and the behavior of incumbents. Seems like we've gone too far. Just make something people want.

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

3 years

Shipping another small improvement to GitHub: you can now select and copy/paste one side of the split diff instead of selecting both sides. Our analysis indicates that this is a 1.7% overall life improvement for GitHub users. 🎉

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Nat Friedman

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5 years

🌟 So excited to announce that GitHub now includes built-in CI/CD!

GitHub

@github

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Ready to start automating your own custom workflows? Sign up for the beta of GitHub Actions with built-in CI/CD today 👇

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Honored that @NASA is using GitHub, Actions, and CodeQL for the Mars drone flight software: If anyone working on this needs GitHub support, please feel free to DM me directly!

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

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But there's more: a few days ago, @Youssef_M_Nader , working with new segmentations from the Vesuvius Challenge segmentation team, was able to generate this image of stunning clarity and size: This is the revolution in digital papyrology that Dr. Seales has created. Nothing like…

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5 years

A high-density, walkable European city like Paris, Berlin, or Barcelona is an entirely different phenomenological thing from an American “city” like San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Atlanta. We should use a different word for the places we build in the US. They’re not cities.

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Nat Friedman

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Congratulations to NASA for the first controlled, powered flight of an aircraft on another world! And to the thousands of open source developers who helped make this happen: we put a beautiful new badge on your GitHub profile. 🌟

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Nat Friedman

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Starting later today, GitHub is donating up to 60,000 core-hours per day of idle GitHub Actions compute capacity to Folding @Home 's efforts to find drug treatments for 2019-nCOV.

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Customer development pro tip – announce a mysterious product launch and ask your users to guess what you're launching. Then furiously build what they're asking for before the event.

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Any guesses? 😇

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This is going to be an insane year for AIs writing code

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The amazing team at GitHub built a new code search engine in rust that can operate at GitHub scale. Very excited to see this ship!

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@github

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Check out the technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.

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@JanPaul123 Couldn't have done it without you, JP! Awesome work!!!

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Twitter should allow you to search all the tweets that you've seen.

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I’ve been playing with using GPT-3 to control a browser the last couple days. Here’s a quick demo. As you can see it's pretty neat! But also quite flakey. Will publish the source code shortly for others to try and improve.

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The LLM playground that's hosted at is now open source: Enjoy!

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It was a little jarring to get a big red X on your PR when a colleague requested a change, so we swapped it for a more conversational icon that still clearly indicates PR status.

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We've started work to add GitHub Copilot support for vim and JetBrains. Quick preview of Copilot in IntelliJ:

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@natfriedman

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When StackOverflow is fully dead (due to long congenital illness, self-inflicted wounds, and the finishing blow from AI), where will AI labs get their training data? They can just buy it! Assuming 10k quality answers per week, at $250/answer, that's just $130M/yr. Even at…

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👋Working on a fix, and notice your fork is behind? Now, you can sync from the parent with just a single click in the GitHub UI. 👇 Hope you like it! 🌟

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@natfriedman

2 years

Thrilled to be investing $10M with @danielgross in AI Grant to support the new wave of founders building AI-first products. Apply now at !

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1 year

Literally watching AIs racing

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3 years

We're continuing to remove cookies and trackers wherever we can. We just eliminated all non-essential cookies from all npm websites. 🥳

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Really looking forward to chatgpt being able to produce diagrams to explain things.

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I have seen the best minds of my generation RLHFed by Twitter

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We've just released an early version of `gh`, a new open source command-line tool for GitHub. Try it out and let us know what you think. Feedback and contributions welcome!

Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta

We want your feedback about GitHub’s new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

5 years

👋 GitHub users: I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on how we could make the GitHub profile a richer and more legible expression of your skills, accomplishments, and interests. If you have ideas, comments, or even mockups/sketches, please reply here!

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Nat Friedman

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Some observations/questions: - Did you know that Gemini traffic is already ~25% of ChatGPT? And Google isn't pushing it through their massive distribution channels yet (Android, Google, GSuite, etc). - Big on X, but Claude usage is still very low. Should Anthropic advertise? -…

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

5 years

💕 Very interesting idea.

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Problem: project maintainers only get "issues" on github, not enough love/motivation from the community Solution: ⬇️ What do you think?

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Applications are open for batch 3 of for pre-seed and seed-stage companies building AI products! Deadline is Feb 16. As an experiment, this batch we are offering the option of either receiving $250k on an uncapped note, or $2.5M at a $25M cap.

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I ❤️ GitHub.

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It is painful for me to hear how trade restrictions have hurt people. We have gone to great lengths to do no more than what is required by the law, but of course people are still affected. GitHub is subject to US trade law, just like any company that does business in the US.

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🖥 You can now watch your GitHub Actions run from the terminal:

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The largest independent AI company productized the toolformer concept faster than anyone else. Crazy.

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@sama

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we are starting our rollout of ChatGPT plugins. you can install plugins to help with a wide variety of tasks. we are excited to see what developers create!

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What AI product – that can be built today but for some strange reason doesn't exist yet – would you pay for right now? Preference for B2B answers!

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Overheard in Silicon Valley. Striking how quickly stable diffusion has shifted the vibe.

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Our app is out! 🎉

GitHub

@github

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GitHub Mobile is officially leaving beta and entering general availability today. Learn more and download:

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This is how great new things are built, more often than anyone has been willing to say during the last decade's cultural revolution in Silicon Valley.

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@esthercrawford

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When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork

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OH "When the money is flowing freely it's easier to hire more people than deal with low performers"

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4 years

What's your favorite theory of what happened in the late 60s/early 70s that caused so many trends to abruptly change course?

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6 months

Seems like something we should probably fix

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@PalmerLuckey

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There is not a single computer manufacturer in the entire United States. We invented this shit, it should be our birthright.

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Friendly reminder: All the core GitHub features have been free since April.

GitHub

@github

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Today we’re announcing free private repositories with unlimited collaborators for teams with GitHub Free, and reducing the price of our paid Team plan to $4 per user/month. All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone. Learn more:

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