I have to say I'm not a huge fan of making secret theft more convenient. I don't see many positive uses for this website...
Seeing an obscured version doesn’t have quite the same effect as the raw plain text.
Nothing quite like seeing a failed login attempt for username ‘yourpassword’ emailed to the entire IT team to make you think about changing your password from your ex’s name to something distinctly less personally identifiable.
If I was going to be watching other peoples' secrets for fun and profit (and not just for fun), I wouldn't be using the human-friendly version.
It has done a lot of good though even though I prefer something like project zero where vendors a given some limited time before the information gets disclosed.
As for this, I'm afraid one of the first results will be that the repo services shuts down the firehose access, which I think is bad. (I think I can see a number of other ways to improve the security that would work better than that.)
The cat is already out and information is contagious / wants to be free.
Or really anything other than decreasing the barrier between would-be attackers and exposed secrets and then publicizing them on a website with very high viewership.
The HN community is better than many online communities, but it's still very large and this post is almost guaranteed to lead to someone using credentials found on this website.