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Dismiss GitHub fake notifications

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For the last few weeks I had a persistent notification on GitHub that won't clear or dismiss no matter what I do. So I started searching about it, and turns out a lot of other people also received the same/similar notifications as I found in this discussion thread.

The proposed solution in the thread is:

  1. install GitHub on your device via terminal (for example, brew install gh for macOS)
  2. run gh auth login, choose HTTPS, and login via the browser, and
  3. run gh api -X PUT /notifications to remove the persistent notifications

I did exactly this and the notification was gone, but I am still seeing the fake repository ycombinatorrr/ycombinator-notification, in my case. I'll keep looking about it and update this note if I find anything.

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