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A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

slashdev wrote: post #244
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What laws are being broken? In this specific case? Unclear. Will wait for the lawsuits. In the last weeks, the DOGE bros have broken the Privacy Act of 1974 [1] and numerous court orders [2]. [1] https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/EPIC-v-OPM-25-cv... [2] https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/19-state-ags-file-suit-a...

Given they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances, I’m not sure these will succeed. At least to my mind it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s breaking the law. The devil is in the specific details.

> they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances

We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury. Courts are granting restraining orders because the DOGE bros acted so incompetently. (It’s generally incredibly hard to restrain government employees.)

> it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s breaking the law

Same way a park ranger can’t walk onto a military base and start rummaging through documents. Or start tweeting them. (Or hell, the President himself tweet your tax return.)

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by layer8 »

amarcheschi wrote: post #247
layer8 wrote: post #198

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HN’s policy is that one should submit the original link, hence providing a more accessible but not original link as a comment is the correct thing to do.

I may be wrong, but I feel that the gist of posting the direct source is to avoid websites reporting a news regarding that source. Such as, amd announcing new graphics card and a blog making a post about it. And it is understandable that it would be better to post amd own's page. I would be curious about dang opinion on posting non og link that only contain the og source repackaged in a more accessible way

It’s also to automatically deduplicate submissions of the same source.

And HN does for example block archive.is for submissions, to which your argument wouldn’t apply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130177

You can email hn@ycombinator.com to ask about the policy.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by kyrra »

ludicrousdispla wrote: post #242
Jtsummers wrote: post #218

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This depends on their role. That more applies to people involved in contract decisions and execution (the legal/financial parts, not the doing the technical work part). For programmers, they can move back and forth relatively freely, but should go through their agency's legal office to be certain.

Right, well ... the DOGE staffers (which assumes they are actually employed) seem to be primarily focused on contract decisions and execution.

If they are just data analysis and gathering, that's not exactly contract negotiation.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by amarcheschi »

fallingknife wrote: post #185
chris_wot wrote: post #140

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The problem is, compiling the list like he has, and being on the DOGE team, makes it all very, very suspicious. And it is sensitive data - even if it is open. Those are important infrastructure locations.

This is nonsense. If infrastructure locations are not classified then every potential malicious actor already knows them.

He is saying the malicious actor is doge itself, if I understood what is being said by the previous comment. Which is the idea behind which I posted the news here on hn

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by marxisttemp »

anonym29 wrote: post #229
jonahbenton wrote: post #119

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Implying that DOGE bozo is law-compliant while breaking laws and destroying trust is...humor too soon?

What functional, diplomatic purpose exists for calling him a "bozo"? What problems does this solve? Which tensions does this ease? Which conflicts does this stop? What sensitive government data does this un-leak? Which broken laws does this adjudicate? What usurped power is being brought back under control with this? Or is it just contributing to a one-way ratchet that only ever increases partisan polarization and ho…

How dare we call the vindictive, spiteful, name calling president currently destroying our country names!

> weaponization of government against conservatives

The government is clearly being weaponized against anyone who has ever opposed Trump in any way. You are in a reality tunnel.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by WD-42 »

pr337h4m wrote: post #214

This is literally nothing - visualizing an org chart using D3 (a JS dataviz library), playing around with open source geospatial datasets, and a Twitter DM downloader for personal use. Look at the screenshots, not the description by this "politics reporter" who seems to be indulging in evidence-free witch hunts.

Exactly, these look like baby’s first JavaScript projects. Surprising considering these doge employees are supposed to be genius coder whiz kids, and yet this looks like the work of someone following a tutorial to write their first tweet downloader.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by TrapLord_Rhodo »

This is messed up... The guy took his github down now... This witch hunt against doge is just so incredibly unnerving... all public information, obviously using cursor to write basic scripts(i.g. //insert your script here, and inline comments describing basic code) and posting it on his github for future use, sharing, and boosting his 'hireability'. He seems to be rapid fire coding and sharing what he can... he had 35 repo's last time i checked.

He also wasn't the only doge team member who seems to be doing it, hopefully they don't all stop posting their code because of this...

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by gchamonlive »

tomcam wrote: post #207
jonahbenton wrote: post #119

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Implying that DOGE bozo is law-compliant while breaking laws and destroying trust is...humor too soon?

What laws are being broken?

https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/Resources/Analyzing+Potentia...

Self-assessed conflict of interest is conflict of interest.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by tomcam »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #232
tomcam wrote: post #226

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I feel they are actively shoring up the country’s foundations. For decades, since the Church committee in the 1970s and under Vice President Gore’s Reinventing Government initiative (which IIRC resulted in the removal of 100,000 government employees), disclosure of questionable or hidden programs was a core progressive value.

> disclosure of questionable or hidden programs We’re seeing more “claims” than “disclosures”. Can you point me any examples of the latter?

Feed here:

https://doge.gov/

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