[evv]

I'm amazed that a trivial feature addition like this can make the front page of HN.

GitHub may not be perfect, but they are clearly doing something right to win (or re-win?) the affection of the community.

[viraptor]

I'm not sure if this is really a good thing. Possibly people are happy that some really annoying problem finally got fixed, rather than celebrate the feature itself. "GitHub stopped killing puppies" would also likely make a front page.