Ask HN: Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji?
Is this AI gone awry, someone having fun, an easter egg, or something else?
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.
Looks like an easter egg for Stacked Pull Requests.
Relevant discussion https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/203497
my guess: their new-ish "PR stacks" feature?
edit: yes i bet it's https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-reques...
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!
It changes per device cuz it is a emoji
I always thought it was a hamburger
I would also love to know
haha literally why is it a pancake
Yes
hungry for pancakes now
so cute