Is this AI gone awry, someone having fun, an easter egg, or something else?
Discussion Highlights (10 comments)
xdestino
haha literally why is it a pancake
jakswa
my guess: their new-ish "PR stacks" feature? edit: yes i bet it's https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-reques...
JenBarb
I would also love to know
meetpateltech
Looks like an easter egg for Stacked Pull Requests. https://gh.io/stacks
ROllerozxa
Apparently it is meant as an easter egg/announcement of the new stacked pull requests feature ( https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/how-tos/stacked-pul... ), but with GitHub's gradual quality degradation and nothing denoting that in the tooltip it just looks like their icon font is malfunctioning.
Oh man. I just assumed this was unchecked Microslop. It's funny when a brand doesn't realize how the public has started perceiving them and makes quite ironic choices that should have been caught well before they went to the public eye. My train of thought was: - LLMs way over-use emojis - Replacing a standard icon with a look-alike emoji was probably an LLM mistake - From a company that has been pushing sloppy AI hard. - Must be Microslop! They should have either used a custom picture that wouldn't be mistaken for slop, or they should have more clearly called out why they changed it. For me, even now that I know it is supposed to be an easter-egg, it just feel like slop.
ChrisArchitect
Discussion: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232
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Discussion Highlights (10 comments)
xdestino
haha literally why is it a pancake
jakswa
my guess: their new-ish "PR stacks" feature? edit: yes i bet it's https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-reques...
JenBarb
I would also love to know
meetpateltech
Looks like an easter egg for Stacked Pull Requests. https://gh.io/stacks
ROllerozxa
Apparently it is meant as an easter egg/announcement of the new stacked pull requests feature ( https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/how-tos/stacked-pul... ), but with GitHub's gradual quality degradation and nothing denoting that in the tooltip it just looks like their icon font is malfunctioning.
crazylad
hungry for pancakes now
masenf
Relevant discussion https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/203497
BajajScooter
I always thought it was a hamburger
mmh0000
Oh man. I just assumed this was unchecked Microslop. It's funny when a brand doesn't realize how the public has started perceiving them and makes quite ironic choices that should have been caught well before they went to the public eye. My train of thought was: - LLMs way over-use emojis - Replacing a standard icon with a look-alike emoji was probably an LLM mistake - From a company that has been pushing sloppy AI hard. - Must be Microslop! They should have either used a custom picture that wouldn't be mistaken for slop, or they should have more clearly called out why they changed it. For me, even now that I know it is supposed to be an easter-egg, it just feel like slop.
ChrisArchitect
Discussion: Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232