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Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
- carlsborg 3y ago"Calyx has been used as a part of four research projects and an industrial toolchain to compile PyTorch programs to customized hardware accelerators" Incredible project.
- low_tech_punk 3y agoSomeone should claim the username "mention". It's gonna be wildly successful.
- OakNinja 3y agoUnfortunately, it seems to be reserved.
- sixthDot 3y agoThere's a similar issue on gitlab : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/255108 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/255108.
- gcau 3y agoI have a 2 letter github username and get tagged often, I sometimes "approve the PR".
- Tomte 3y agoGitHub even sends me a notification mail when my two letters appear in some large base64-encoded string.
- voyagerfan5761 3y agoOK, that sounds like a bug unless those two letters happen to be directly preceded by `@`.
- justsomehnguy 3y agobase64 encoding does not include spaces and short strings are padded (and there is no '@' in RFC4648), so I wonder how this works too.
- taneliv 3y agoCould be one of the sibling encodings, like base85 or uuencoded, perhaps? From afar they could look sufficiently similar to base64 that OP got them mixed up?
- justsomehnguy 3y agoThere are some encodings with @, but the problem is why it would trigger notification in aslkdjfhkj@tanelivasdklfjhasdfasdfasd or in, the best case: faskjdhgfkajshdgfasldfhaksdjf@taneliv In both cases there are something before @ and it's not \s or ^
- mkl 3y agoI got tagged by accident like this once, and it took me ages to figure out why I was getting emailed about an obscure issue on something I'd never heard of. I think the UX for both parties could be improved quite a bit.
- bunga-bunga 3y agoGitHub does say the reason why you’re being notified, both via email and in the Notifications page. In your case it should say “mention”
- ukd1 3y agoI've got a three letter twitter (/x?) handle it happens all the time. It's not quite annoying enough to change my username though.
- TylerE 3y agoI have my HN username at gmail, and the novelty... wears off. So many recipts, confirmations, random bccs... Where it gets really ugly is gmail's (incredibly dumb, imo) feature where dots don't matter. I've had mulitple people get quite insistent that they own the email tyler.e <at> gmail, which of course routes to...
- rootsu 3y agoYep, I have an incredibly common firstname@gmail.com email address and I get hundreds of emails daily with random bills, reservations, bank statements and so on.
- luag 3y agoI'm not alone The number of people who just didn't understand the implications of not using their own email for banks, etc is too many. The fault is partially on the banks too IMO. Why don't they verify the emails first before sending sensitive information.
- hinkley 3y agoIt took me forever to get Mint to stop sending me someone’s PII. Send a fucking confirmation email to set up a financial account, Jesus. There should really be a law.
- kstrauser 3y agoI registered this username at one of the early big name webmail services. Not unimaginably rare, sure, but neither is it jsmith or the like. You’d be shocked how many different people have signed up for stuff with that email address that I’ve had for like 20 years (and only ever log into so I can check on the mayhem). I’ve had bank notices, home sale records, 2 people creating Facebook accounts, and plenty of other stuff. If my name were as common as yours, I think I’d be ready to choke someone.
- jrockway 3y agoThat's funny. Sometimes people experiencing a bug @ me because I've recently contributed to the repository. I just reply "LGTM Approved" and then they get mad. I'm like, I don't care what you check into this project. It's not mine!
- muzani 3y agoI try to register @null wherever I go. Most places don't allow it, and the one place that did force changed the name at one point.
- qup 3y agoWhat did they change it to?
- Jagerbizzle 3y agoHopefully "nullptr".
- hinkley 3y ago[flagged]
- l0b0 3y agoThe empty string, right? That'd only be appropriate.
- irrational 3y agoSpoken like an Oracle developer (Oracle considers NULL and empty string to be equivalent).
- muzani 3y agoThe First Name I registered on that account
- oneshtein 3y agoTo lol code? llOlllO_lllOlOl_llOllOOl_llOllOO
- kitd 3y agoOptional?
- slowmotiony 3y ago
- raverbashing 3y agoYour username should pass the "search engine" test as well That is, calling yourself a too short or generic name might have been a brag 20 years ago, but now it's just an annoyance
- qup 3y agoFailing the search engine test is a feature, not a bug.
- szundi 3y agoParent commenter probably would use the word antifeature for it
- kristopolous 3y agoI like how their usernames reflect their positions on usernames
- v64 3y agoHear hear!
- rootw0rm 3y agohowever, taking your name from an Atari Teenage Riot song is forever braggable
- raverbashing 3y ago;) Glad someone noticed it (or googled it, which to be fair is becoming even more commendable with time)
- rootw0rm 3y agoan ATR demo CD was the very first CD of mine ever stolen, my punk rock friends were blown away
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- parentheses 3y agoTagged a coworker when making a git commit message just for traceability. I didn't even know until he said something.
- snthpy 3y agoWho's going to post the link to the Bobby Tables xkcd?
- randmeerkat 3y agoObligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
- qup 3y agoAnd in case you never saw the above xkcd, here's one for you: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- petesergeant 3y agoI used to have an email similar to ps@qs.com, and would get a fair amount of email suggesting people would use that as their made up email. In a similar vein I’d like to apologise to knobs@bobs.com for the amount of captive portal spam you receive on my behalf
- bnprks 3y agoMy new made-up email approach is using admin@$COMPANY in the hopes that they'll send the spam to themselves
- layer8 3y agoYou should use info@ instead.
- szundi 3y agoMine is x@x.com, Elon gets those now
- pimlottc 3y agoI’d also like to personally apologize to no@thanks.com
- lgeorget 3y agoI usually use arthur@example.com, guaranteed to be a permanently valid domain name and also not to spam anyone.
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- est 3y agoI sometimes get tagged on Github as a timezone.
- QuiDortDine 3y agoHow did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!
- labster 3y agoThere are 17576 three-letter combinations in the English alphabet.
- hawaiianbrah 3y agoNot to mention all the one- and two-letter combinations!
- hinkley 3y agoWell there’s about 1/26th as many of those.
- 6510 3y agoI have a file by each of those names inwhich each bit represents one article that either has the string or not (1 or 0) I'm sure someone wanted to know that.
- w-m 3y agoThere are some more three-character user names if you count dashes and digits, which are also allowed in GitHub usernames. Although I think the first one has to be a letter of the alphabet.
- jer0me 3y agoLooks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png https://github.com/est.png redirects to)
- holoway 3y agoReset is a fabulous human.
- quickthrower2 3y agoMakes me think: Interesting spam vector: create a PR advertising whatever and then @ a bunch of people you scraped. Also interesting attack vector: get a easily mistaken @ name and then see what you become reviewer on. Add malicious code to that PR and merge. Edit: also what is stupid is at work when setting up your organisation security access you can add anyone globally in the combo search. No org-only filter is even available! And of course most people use weird handles for their work or personal githubs. So using their UI you need to be an excellent human string comparator or make sure you copy and paste each persons handle which you meed to figure out for each person. Attack 3: create a bunch of accounts with a similar name to people who work at target company and hope you get added to an org’s repo by mistake.
- dpedu 3y agoSome people have done it by accident: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users [2022] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061
- quickthrower2 3y agoOh that made my day (the file changes that is…!)
- renewiltord 3y agoThis guy is a legend lmao Totally shite PR. "Fixes" things with even more typos. Bumps it all asking to "approve and merge asap"! Lmao!
- avgcorrection 3y agoI don’t know who should be embarrassed here. That org for having 400K members or Github for apparently having no limits on how many emails can be sent out with a simple `@`. In any case an honorable mention goes to the useless “lock this now” pile-on comments.
- fukawi2 3y agoWe had a bug recently where one of our internal bots didn't correctly parse usernames with hyphens in them, so instead of tagging @tom-jones, it would tag @tom Sorry everyone randomly pinged by our bot.
- happymellon 3y agoTalking about failing to parse names, I remember a co-worker once was working on a form and had added a special character validation field to the name field. The only problem was that it blocked apostrophes, and he was Irish so his form wouldn't actually accept his own name.
- hinkley 3y agoHe’s not the king of bedside manor He’s not the Tom Jones who lives next door He’s not the king of bedside manor He hardly even lives there anymore.
- nikcub 3y agoreset is in this useful list of reserved usernames: https://github.com/shouldbee/reserved-usernames https://github.com/shouldbee/reserved-usernames
- Hamuko 3y agoI wonder if they'd appreciate me sending a PR to replace "twitter" with "x".
- slau 3y agoI used to work at Realm (the mobile database company). In order to keep an eye on what was going on, there was a Slack integration that reposted any mention of @realm on Twitter. One morning, we woke up to a #twitter channel full of very nearly porn. Young men, scantily dressed, flexing their abs and flashing smiles at the camera. Turns out someone added a bot on Twitter that would repost things from Instagram to Twitter, except that Instagram allows dots in usernames and Twitter didn’t. I think the IG account was @realm.of.beauty, which was promptly understood by Twitter as @realm.
- hinkley 3y ago[flagged]
- lambdas 3y agoWe had something similar. Public board that went by an acronym that was also used in gay paddling fetish. You’d be scrolling through hashtags/mentions of us and occasionally be greeted by some young actor being coquettishly tapped on the bare bum with a cricket bat or something.
- varispeed 3y ago> tapped on the bare bum That's a kind of public board too...
- cmg 3y agoI'm also @cmg on Twitter, which used to get plenty of Instagram mentions of this type, as well as people thinking I'm CheckMate Gaming, Canadian Media Guild, Cocaine Muzik Group, Chipotle Mexican Grill and all sorts of wild stuff.
- mrtranscendence 3y agoI have @CommonFirstNameCommonLastName on Twitter, and I occasionally get mentioned or DMed by people thinking of an entirely different person. It’s not often enough to be too annoying, though.
- qingcharles 3y agoI once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.
- nerdponx 3y agoWild that people actually call those numbers.
- peterpost2 3y agoProbably just curious whats up.
- HPsquared 3y agoIt's a reminder that there are a lot of people out there.
- BoxOfRain 3y agoMight be students, I vaguely remember freshers being challenged to call these numbers pretending to be from our rival university.
- hinkley 3y agoJenny? Don’t change your number.
- BizarroLand 3y agoIt's been 41 years since the song came out. Assuming that Jenny was 21 when the song was written, (since there is a chance the number was written on a bar's bathroom wall) she would be at least 62 years old now. Statistically, there's at least a 1 in 4 chance that Jenny is dead now, and there is no chance that she didn't change her number after receiving 800 million horny crank calls.
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- ricardo81 3y agoThere's a vaguely similar situation on Youtube live chat if your display name is 2 chars, anyone mentioning those 2 chars gets highlighted in red. Can make the chat unreadable.
- rounakdatta 3y agoLol, we also end up tagging Mr Bean (https://github.com/bean https://github.com/bean) occasionally when discussing Spring @Bean annotations on a pull request, and forgetting to backtick it.
- petabytes 3y agoI always try to get the username 'petabyte' or some variation of it, but I was able to get the letter p as a username on codeberg.
- quectophoton 3y agoAs a fellow user with an SI-prefixed username, I hope "hellabyte" is one of the options that you try.
- tooriel 3y agoPete and repeat were in a boat, pete fell out, who was left
- Retr0id 3y agoI accidentally pasted a backtrace into a github issue outside of a code block. It was a deep stack, with each line prefixed by "#0" "#1", "#2", etc. GitHub decided to turn these into links to the corresponding numbered issues, for every issue, (including back-reference notifications in each of those issues) and there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action.
- dwaltrip 3y agoOof. There should definitely be an undo button for that, which displays right afterwards.
- pm215 3y agoFor QEMU's gitlab issue tracker we deliberately started our issue numbering from a higher number (I think 100 or thereabouts) to avoid that. (We ran into it very early on during the migration from launchpad so it wasn't a big deal to re-number the two or three issues that had already been created with low numbers.)
- veave 3y ago>there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action. Well thank God there isn't a button to undo sent mails.
- jkaplowitz 3y agoIn many email systems there is an undo send feature. Outside of those closed contexts where yanking a message out of the recipient’s inbox is possible, it is generally implemented by waiting a few seconds between when the UI says the message has been sent and when the message is actually sent. During that interval, an undo send option is offered which simply cancels the upcoming send action.
- onionisafruit 3y agoNothing calls attention to an email better than those messages saying that the sender wishes to retract a message you have already downloaded.
- baz00 3y agoGithub has some very dangerous features when it comes to tagging and mentions. For example, when you add someone to an organisation, it autocompletes the username. We had someone with a fairly common name and accidentally added someone else to the org with a close but not identical name. Fortunately they didn't accept the invitation before we removed them again and added the correct person.
- Washuu 3y agoI had that happen to me before. I accepted the invitation, looked at their stuff, and then submitted an issue/PR to remove myself. They panicked, I laughed a bit.
- TheHappyOddish 3y agoYep, I got added to someones internal company trello board oncr. I commented a few times asking to be removed, and when it didn't happen, I started adding suggestions to their product designs. I got removed fairly quickly.
- 9dev 3y agoRight? This bugs me like hell. They make you jump through all kinds of hoops to attestate your source code and use layers upon layers of encryption, but make it the simplest thing to grant someone completely unrelated write access to all of your company’s code. Like what??
- naikrovek 3y agoyou need one of those new fancy GitHub EMU enterprises instead of a normal one. it is driven solely by an identity provider like Okta or AzureAD. no one outside of your identity provider will ever know about you. your users have a read-only view of the greater github.com, but whatever access you give them within your enterprise. it's impossible to make anything public in a GitHub EMU enterprise, and your users won't even be able to star repos outside of the enterprise, because that would reveal your presence. if you can live without any public access to your stuff at all, have a look. you can convert your old enterprise org(s) to a Teams subscription and continue to publish open stuff there, but you'll need personal accounts there, like always.
- sparrowInHand 3y agoCause a freaking issue report card system has to become a social network first, code discussion second.
- resetexistence 3y ago@reset here. Always reply when I get @‘d because I love the laugh and also genuinely find the joy in looking at what people are building afterwards. Never stop, it’s a great part of my day
- smcl 3y agoYour reply to the linked PR is great! One could either be really annoyed or really entertained by this, I’m glad you’ve got a sense of humour about it.
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- iamthejuan 3y agoMine was @username and GitHub just suddenly changed it to usernamex.
- avgcorrection 3y agoI don’t get why people would make this mistake on a regular basis. Use backticks—you’re not really writing “plain text” so you can’t write codey goobledigook without something weird happening. Or if backticks are hard to type on your keyboard write `@ name`.
- __alexs 3y agoGitHub will notify you if your username appears in a commit message so its not always that obvious.
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- quic5 3y agoHappens a lot with Zig's builtin functions: See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues?q=is%3Aissue+mentions%3AintCast https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues?q=is%3Aissue+mentions%... for example
- ctz 3y agoI am @ctz and I'm forever being pinged by zig people lol
- AndyKelley 3y agoI do apologize. The core contributors are all in the habit of using backticks (`@ctz`) but an endless stream of new contributors come in and understandably aren't aware of GitHub-flavored markdown.
- __alexs 3y agoMy GitHub username is @public. I get quite a lot of email about JavaDoc strings.
- inopinatus 3y agoTony Finch's email address is still my favourite. https://dotat.at/email.html https://dotat.at/email.html
- JimDabell 3y agoThat reminds me of Slashdot (http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org = “aitch-tee-tee-pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org”).
- yodon 3y agoThank you. I've been puzzled by that name for literally decades. I always assumed it was a *nix pathname joke about ./ and couldn't figure out why the order was reversed.
- JimDabell 3y agoFrom the horse’s mouth: > What does the name "Slashdot" mean? > "Slashdot" is an intentionally obnoxious URL. When Rob registered the domain http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org, he wanted a URL that was confusing when read aloud. (Try it!) — https://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml https://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml
- TonyTrapp 3y agoSee also: E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-it-would-be-really-annoying-to-give-out-over-the-phone https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-it-woul...)
- COMMENT___ 3y agoI think it’s fun to use names or captions of UI elements as a display name / username. Look at mine.
- wink 3y agoI have someone in an irc channel whose client always autocompletes `wink:` to `[0]:` - become untargettable. [0]: https://emojipedia.org/winking-face/ https://emojipedia.org/winking-face/ Apparently HN strips emojis from comments.
- nic547 3y agoI've been quite embarrassed to discover that linking to a github issue in another repo will create a back link in the linked issue. Removing the link doesn't undo it either, you need to delete the issue completely. I wish I could turn this feature off.
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoIf you really, really want to avoid it I'm pretty sure you could use a link shortener (bit.ly etc) behind markdown, and it would mask it (haven't tested) But please only do this for personal repos where you're the only contributor because otherwise this looks incredibly sus for anyone to click on
- nic547 3y agoI think I stumbled on togithub.com, which simply does a 302 redirect to github.com, which keeps the url understandable and doesn't create the backlink. But I have no idea who actually runs the servers, so I instead went back to a text file. It's only personal repos, that's why I don't want to create the irrelevant noise for lots of other people.
- throwawaymobule 3y agoReminds me of enwp.org for Wikipedia redirects/shortening. I assume a German owns it, since dewp.org does the same thing. Seems dangerous to use, if you come to rely on it, but sometimes handy.
- mcv 3y agoWe just discovered this today. We were rather alarmed to find, under an issue for a public repo, a link to a PR in our private repo. Fortunately, in incognito mode it disappeared, and also when logged in under a different account. So it's not visible to everybody. But for a moment it was a very unpleasant surprise.
- dzaima 3y ago"https://github.com./a/b https://github.com./a/b" or "https://www.github.com/a/b https://www.github.com/a/b" also work as "workarounds". But it is incredibly stupid & annoying that it doesn't even go away after editing it out or even deleting the comment that contained the link.
- doniphon 3y agofrom the same thread ... "@adrian that reminds me of the story where a sec researcher bought license plate NULL. And got all the traffic violation tickets which could not be assigned to a license plate." Priceless.
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoAt my previous job, I decided to make a Slack channel named after one of the C preprocessor directives (#define I think, or maybe #endif). A handful of people found it and appreciated the joke. But then, a few months later, one of the admins contacted me to ask if it would be okay to delete the channel. You see, in large organisations, Slack knows which channels are not meant to be visible to other parts of the org, and it was causing mentions of the C preprocessor directive to be censored for people outside my group ^^;
- OJFord 3y agoThat'll teach 'em to put it in a code block!
- JuanPosadas 3y agoOne of my biggest pet peeves is people dumping whitespace-sensitive plain text without any kind of code blocks, rendering it completely unreadable.
- onionisafruit 3y agoFunny that slack’s attempt to keep it from being mentioned revealed the existence of a private channel.
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoSlack's search actually had a bug where it would return results with matches inside hidden channel names, highlighting the censored section :)
- kubanczyk 3y agoI don't think it works for private channels. Since, as OP says, non-members occasionally could find the channel, it was probably a public channel. The people who complained were probably "multi-channel guests". They'd see masked-out channel names except where they are explicitly allowed.
- iamthejuan 3y agoMine was @username, GitHub just suddenly changed it to usernamex.
- href 3y agoI am the owner of @href, which seems to be used in web scraping contexts. I get pinged about once a week.
- Closi 3y agoI've got the username 'admin' on imgur. I constantly get password reset requests from people trying to get admin access to imgur.
- beckler 3y agoIt's probably bots that request it most of the time.
- elif 3y agoI love this kind of system design humor. My GitHub name @elif gets quoted commonly and has even been swept up and added as a collaborator sometimes. In college, I happen to be online the day they implemented email aliasing, so I snatched up noreply@gatech.edu
- khalilravanna 3y agoI’m @trash on GitHub and you’d be surprised how many PRs I get added to. IIRC someone gave me the keys to their repo inadvertently because they thought github.com/trash was a delete function or something.
- eithed 3y agoI'm always conscious of not tagging `@todo`
- bdn_ 3y agoI'm `@3x` on GitHub and I get multiple notifications every day from people mentioning graphics scale factors [1] in issues and PRs. It is a lot of fun to add a "" reaction to everything mentioning me! [1]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/images#Resolution https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
- prepend 3y agoI like this kind of serendipity. And it still seems to not be abused. I have @prepend on github and get attend a few times and it’s kind of fun and random as it’s always coding related stuff and random code is still interesting to me. Sadly, my common gmail gets accidentally emailed a few times a week and is now boring.
- bachmeier 3y agoThere's someone on Twitter with the handle covid, and he was on there long before the pandemic. At the peak of the pandemic, loads of people would tweet stuff and add @covid every day. I always wondered what kind of response they were expecting. (I speculated that they were confused with tagging, but some of them had tags in their tweets.)
- Keyframe 3y agoas @Keyframe i hear ya. Github did something to address it though. I got spammed in large volume once CSS got @Keyframe. Twitter is amusing occasionally though.
- swyx 3y agothere's a poor guy on twitter with the @apply handle and its just a constant stream of Tailwind CSS users telling each other not to use him and he sometimes agrees
- pugworthy 3y agoI used to work at a university where everyone’s Unix was their last name. Mr Root did not get this.
- nayuki 3y agoI had a heart attack because I talked about Java's @Override annotation in my Git commit comments, but GitHub displays them as the user @OverRide. e.g. https://github.com/nayuki/DEFLATE-library-Java/commit/ee01de610ccb0dcaa12a38aaed7e218b7ad303db https://github.com/nayuki/DEFLATE-library-Java/commit/ee01de... , https://github.com/OverRide https://github.com/OverRide
- davelondon 3y ago@dave here. The struggle is real! Actually I only get a couple of random mentions per week, no not exactly soul crushing to unsubscribe.