Ask HN: Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji?

haha literally why is it a pancake

my guess: their new-ish "PR stacks" feature?

edit: yes i bet it's https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-reques...

Looks like an easter egg for Stacked Pull Requests.

https://gh.io/stacks

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.

Relevant discussion https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/203497