| 1 | Feb 5, '24 | 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 Vesuv | 379× | 26.4M | 63k | 14k | 10k |
| 2 | Dec 27, '24 | We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises. Top 5 findings in our test results: 1. Our tests found plastic chemicals in 86% | 141× | 9.8M | 15k | 2.7k | 9.8k |
| 3 | Apr 8, '23 | 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 | 100× | 7M | 21k | 2.5k | 614 |
| 4 | Oct 12, '23 | 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 | 63.1× | 4.4M | 15k | 2.4k | 1.8k |
| 5 | May 10, '24 | Horrible, depressing chart of phthalate content in common foods. | 41.4× | 2.9M | 3.5k | 564 | 2.6k |
| 6 | Jun 13, '23 | Daniel and I have setup a cluster for startups: | 31.1× | 2.2M | 3.6k | 368 | 1k |
| 7 | Feb 3, '25 | Federal spending in 2024 was ~$7T. In 2019 it was ~$4.5T. 🤔 | 25.6× | 1.8M | 7.9k | 1.3k | 460 |
| 8 | Jun 4, '23 | 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. | 25.4× | 1.8M | 5.1k | 691 | 2k |
| 9 | Aug 29, '24 | Looking for an intern to spend a month or two testing a theory about the Shroud of Turin. Ideally you can start in the next few weeks, and can work full-time. Pay is $2k/week, requ | 23.9× | 1.7M | 2k | 99 | 478 |
| 10 | Jul 3, '25 | Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use. It won't happen overnight, but a few days in, I'm feeling confident that | 21× | 1.5M | 6.5k | 137 | 600 |
| 11 | Oct 11, '23 | False | 20.5× | 1.4M | 2.9k | 143 | 162 |
| 12 | Jan 6, '23 | View post on X | 20.3× | 1.4M | 13k | 1.1k | 517 |
| 13 | Dec 23, '23 | Megabytes of ancient text are coming | 19.4× | 1.4M | 6.6k | 693 | 1.4k |
| 14 | Apr 19, '24 | 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. | 19.2× | 1.3M | 3.7k | 179 | 289 |
| 15 | Jan 7, '23 | That @satyanadella had the vision and conviction to put $1B into OpenAI a year before GPT-3 is amazing and underappreciated. | 19.1× | 1.3M | 7.5k | 522 | 341 |
| 16 | Feb 3, '25 | Luke Farritor is a national treasure. | 19× | 1.3M | 7.3k | 324 | 160 |
| 17 | Jan 25, '25 | The deepseek team is obviously really good. China is full of talented engineers. Every other take is cope. Sorry. | 17.5× | 1.2M | 22k | 1.3k | 1.5k |
| 18 | Mar 15, '23 | 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 | 15.5× | 1.1M | 2.5k | 517 | 426 |
| 19 | Jan 2, '25 | Advice for Food Companies Since we launched PlasticList, we’ve been heartened to have quite a few food companies reach out and ask for help interpreting their results and tracking | 13.6× | 944k | 3.7k | 367 | 1.4k |
| 20 | Dec 6, '24 | Please share the most impressive o1 outputs you've generated | 12.5× | 867k | 2k | 60 | 1.4k |
| 21 | Apr 14, '20 | 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. | 11.3× | 0 | 14k | 5.1k | 197 |
| 22 | Feb 5, '24 | Very nice article about the project from @ashleevance: | 11.2× | 779k | 3.8k | 605 | 714 |
| 23 | Aug 18, '24 | View post on X | 11.1× | 773k | 3.9k | 171 | 391 |
| 24 | Sep 30, '23 | 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 goo | 10.7× | 744k | 2.1k | 66 | 338 |
| 25 | Mar 25, '23 | Five months later | 10× | 696k | 3.1k | 244 | 265 |
| 26 | May 5, '25 | We found the title of a scroll for the first time! This cylinder of charcoal turns out to be "On Vices, Book 1" by Philodemus | 9.9× | 687k | 7.4k | 579 | 773 |
| 27 | Jan 25, '25 | I'm hiring full time engineers and geometry processing and computer vision researchers to help us read hundreds of ancient scrolls buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2000 yea | 9.4× | 657k | 3.9k | 457 | 786 |
| 28 | Dec 6, '24 | Best hack I learned this week is creating a claude project for all your blood tests / health results, so you can get relevant health advice. | 9.0× | 628k | 2.8k | 101 | 1.9k |
| 29 | Oct 12, '23 | Megabytes of ancient text are coming | 8.5× | 593k | 2.8k | 237 | 152 |
| 30 | Feb 6, '24 | View post on X | 8.2× | 570k | 6.6k | 468 | 187 |
| 31 | Jan 7, '19 | Today(!) we’re thrilled to announce unlimited free private repos for all GitHub users, and a new simplified Enterprise offering: | 8.2× | 0 | 9k | 4k | 88 |
| 32 | Jan 21, '23 | A conversational UI for image editing is coming: | 8.0× | 556k | 2.8k | 339 | 620 |
| 33 | Feb 15, '24 | 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 adv | 7.7× | 536k | 2.1k | 179 | 1.1k |
| 34 | Mar 1, '24 | This is going to be an insane year for AIs writing code | 7.6× | 526k | 1.7k | 120 | 248 |
| 35 | Jan 29, '25 | TIL: in the 1990s Clinton offered federal workers a $25,000 buyout, and ~150,000 took the deal. He cut federal government spending from 22% to 18% of the economy, the lowest level | 7.4× | 516k | 8.4k | 579 | 940 |
| 36 | May 11, '24 | RIP Jim Simons | 7.1× | 493k | 3k | 405 | 906 |
| 37 | Dec 29, '24 | Interesting theory as to how the plastic gets into beef | 6.7× | 468k | 3.6k | 242 | 642 |
| 38 | Feb 16, '24 | 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! | 6.6× | 457k | 4.1k | 261 | 244 |
| 39 | Apr 17, '25 | Anyone have a mexico government connection? A project I’m supporting to LIDAR the jungle there just got rejected by some bureaucrat. Please DM if you can help. Thanks! | 6.3× | 440k | 1.8k | 52 | 194 |
| 40 | Oct 26, '22 | Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed and everyone who's paying attention already knows this | 6.1× | 0 | 11k | 718 | 593 |
| 41 | Feb 7, '24 | 🔥 Incredible! Thank you Elon!! | 6.0× | 420k | 2.1k | 58 | 57 |
| 42 | Feb 5, '24 | @JanPaul123 Couldn't have done it without you, JP! Awesome work!!! | 5.9× | 412k | 1.5k | 14 | 13 |
| 43 | Mar 17, '23 | 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 beh | 5.9× | 411k | 2k | 181 | 239 |
| 44 | Dec 27, '24 | Full results and write-up: We also have instructions for running your own tests! | 5.6× | 390k | 2.7k | 376 | 2.5k |
| 45 | Mar 12, '25 | Exciting PlasticList update: We were honored to work with @bobaguys to identify and eliminate the sources of BPA contamination, and their teas are now BPA-free! They have fully tra | 5.3× | 366k | 2.5k | 111 | 427 |
| 46 | Apr 8, '23 | @TimKennedyMMA Yes. The voters are getting exactly what they are voting for. | 5.2× | 363k | 4.5k | 112 | 6 |
| 47 | Mar 24, '23 | Major missed opportunity, not putting a particle accelerator under the apple park building | 5.2× | 360k | 2.7k | 111 | 47 |
| 48 | Jan 31, '25 | Need volunteers to come to my office in Palo Alto today to construct a 5000 piece Lego set. Will provide pizza. Have to sign NDA. Please DM | 5.1× | 355k | 2.5k | 58 | 191 |
| 49 | Apr 8, '23 | @mliebow SF is dominated by wrong ideas about how the world works. | 4.7× | 328k | 3.4k | 154 | 31 |
| 50 | Dec 17, '20 | Cookie banners are annoying, so we removed them from GitHub: | 4.6× | 0 | 7.1k | 1.2k | 178 |
| 51 | Oct 12, '23 | 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 clarit | 4.4× | 309k | 1.9k | 159 | 112 |
| 52 | Jul 27, '21 | 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 | 4.2× | 0 | 5.8k | 1.5k | 303 |
| 53 | Nov 16, '20 | 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 | 3.7× | 0 | 5.2k | 1.1k | 162 |
| 54 | Jan 5, '21 | 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 organiza | 3.6× | 0 | 5.6k | 870 | 73 |
| 55 | Mar 10, '19 | 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 care | 3.3× | 0 | 5.3k | 914 | 134 |
| 56 | Feb 2, '25 | The White House should require that federal vendors put the United States at the top of all country selector dropdowns. | 3.0× | 210k | 3.9k | 113 | 72 |
| 57 | Aug 11, '21 | Oh, almost forgot to mention. New pro tip: Hit '.' on any GitHub repo. 😍 | 2.9× | 0 | 3.7k | 866 | 289 |
| 58 | Feb 26, '20 | ✨Shipping today on GitHub: multi-line suggestions! 🥳 | 2.9× | 0 | 4.5k | 978 | 43 |
| 59 | Jan 13, '25 | We're planning to scan 100 ancient Roman scrolls this year and we urgently need to hire a contractor to help us design the cases that hold the scrolls while they are in the particl | 2.9× | 201k | 1.7k | 218 | 294 |
| 60 | Aug 14, '20 | The book that inspired SimCity! | 2.7× | 0 | 4k | 513 | 609 |
| 61 | Jan 19, '25 | Recently learned that the Starlink facility in Bastrop, TX is on track to be the largest PCB factory in the country. | 2.6× | 180k | 2.5k | 94 | 109 |
| 62 | Mar 6, '25 | Preparing to transport scrolls to the scanner | 2.5× | 174k | 1.9k | 79 | 85 |
| 63 | Oct 18, '24 | Tried the latest Tesla FSD today in rush hour traffic and I am very impressed. It handled congested high-speed merges better than I would have handled them. No mistakes the whole d | 2.5× | 173k | 1.9k | 59 | 54 |
| 64 | Feb 5, '25 | We found some words in Scroll 5, which is from the Bodleian Library collection of Herculaneum papyri. Still work to do to prevent our segmentation algorithm from jumping between ad | 2.4× | 168k | 2.1k | 133 | 173 |
| 65 | Mar 4, '25 | Ugh we're still working on the scrolls | 2.4× | 167k | 3.9k | 74 | 290 |
| 66 | May 11, '24 | I'm going to re-run all these tests on food we eat in California. Also going to test for other plastic chemicals. Let me know what foods we should test and suggestions for methodol | ⚡ 2.3× | 3.5M | 2.7k | 184 | 960 |
| 67 | Nov 3, '21 | 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: | 2.3× | 0 | 4.1k | 347 | 119 |
| 68 | Jun 29, '21 | 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 th | 2.2× | 0 | 3.5k | 560 | 216 |
| 69 | May 11, '19 | New Beijing airport under construction looks amazing. | 2.2× | 0 | 3.5k | 609 | 45 |
| 70 | May 10, '21 | We just added a "Copy" button to all code blocks on GitHub. 🍝 | 2.1× | 0 | 3.9k | 396 | 47 |
| 71 | Oct 4, '20 | 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 | 2.1× | 0 | 3.7k | 453 | 82 |
| 72 | Oct 27, '21 | Introducing the GitHub command palette. Hit Cmd-k on Mac or Ctrl-k on Linux and Windows anywhere in the @github web interface. Enjoy😊 | 2.0× | 0 | 3k | 611 | 142 |
| 73 | Feb 12, '20 | 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! | 2.0× | 0 | 2.8k | 755 | 32 |
| 74 | Dec 8, '20 | New GitHub home page, nbd: | 2.0× | 0 | 3.4k | 305 | 50 |
| 75 | Jun 15, '21 | GitHub processes 2.8 billion API requests per day, peaking at 55k rps. Lots of busy bots. 🤖 | 1.9× | 0 | 3.3k | 387 | 109 |
| 76 | Dec 2, '22 | 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 e | 1.9× | 0 | 3.2k | 299 | 205 |
| 77 | Feb 26, '21 | You can now – finally! – drop images and videos onto the Markdown file editor on GitHub. 🥳 | 1.9× | 0 | 3.1k | 431 | 74 |
| 78 | Jan 12, '25 | For everyone else, enjoy the usual onslaught of obstruction and red tape. | 1.8× | 126k | 1.9k | 65 | 50 |
| 79 | Oct 13, '24 | We live in a time of miracles. | 1.8× | 126k | 2.7k | 135 | 54 |
| 80 | Mar 16, '20 | 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! | 1.7× | 0 | 2.1k | 712 | 22 |
| 81 | May 10, '22 | Overheard in silicon valley: "I want to join a company where the culture is yelling and getting shit done." | 1.7× | 0 | 3.2k | 135 | 125 |
| 82 | Mar 8, '19 | 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 occasiona | 1.7× | 0 | 3k | 350 | 13 |
| 83 | Oct 1, '19 | 🔥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 doi | 1.7× | 0 | 2.5k | 559 | 25 |
| 84 | May 27, '20 | 👇 Kathy is experimenting with adding a to GitHub profiles. Thoughts? | 1.6× | 0 | 2.9k | 214 | 117 |
| 85 | Feb 14, '19 | 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. | 1.5× | 0 | 2k | 560 | 13 |
| 86 | Mar 26, '21 | 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 edito | 1.5× | 0 | 2.4k | 397 | 42 |
| 87 | Sep 8, '22 | 👀 | 1.5× | 0 | 2.3k | 174 | 259 |
| 88 | Sep 24, '20 | GitHub Stories 🤔 | 1.4× | 0 | 2.5k | 134 | 40 |
| 89 | Dec 17, '20 | Damn straight. | 1.3× | 0 | 2.8k | 122 | 23 |
| 90 | Aug 8, '19 | 🌟 So excited to announce that GitHub now includes built-in CI/CD! | 1.3× | 0 | 1.9k | 422 | 21 |
| 91 | Mar 10, '20 | 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. | 1.2× | 0 | 1.8k | 391 | 20 |
| 92 | Apr 19, '21 | 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 | 1.1× | 0 | 1.8k | 267 | 46 |
| 93 | Dec 18, '20 | We just shipped markdown list autocompletion in GitHub: | 1.1× | 0 | 2.2k | 154 | 26 |
| 94 | Oct 12, '22 | The Google I grew up with would have already implemented YouTube-wide in-video search. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.1k | 93 | 97 |
| 95 | Feb 19, '21 | 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! | 1.1× | 0 | 1.9k | 251 | 67 |
| 96 | May 18, '19 | 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 | 1.1× | 0 | 1.8k | 182 | 42 |
| 97 | Mar 4, '21 | 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. | 1.1× | 0 | 2k | 172 | 16 |
| 98 | Sep 14, '24 | I really like my Tesla Model X. | ⚡ 1.0× | 38.8M | 1.9k | 55 | 44 |
| 99 | May 10, '19 | 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 | 0.9× | 0 | 1.7k | 191 | 21 |
| 100 | Dec 8, '21 | 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! | 0.9× | 0 | 1.6k | 166 | 104 |
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