GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by arresin » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:30 PM UTC

Damn. I remember being heavily downvoted and flamed when I said this would be the inevitable outcome on Reddit when they were bought.

Always assume anyone carrying water for a mega corp is a shill or a bot or some combo.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by icepat » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:31 PM UTC

I made the decision a few months back to go all in on self-hosting, and my own infrastructure. At least once a week I run into something that makes me realize I made the right decision. It's that time of the week again.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by icy » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

Yeah, GitHub is cooked. Now's a good time to consider migrating to alternative forges like Tangled (https://tangled.sh; bit of a shameless plug, I'll admit. I'm the co-founder). We've got a more advanced PR flow, jujutsu change-id support and we just launched our in-house CI! https://blog.tangled.sh/ci

Long-term, we aim to be the new social coding platform, collectively built in the open.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by arresin » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

beefnugs wrote: post #9

buyucu wrote: post #2

Expect Github to get worse. Much worse.

What more damage can they do besides train AI on all code without consent? Oh wait i guess fisting ads into other peoples code somehow...

It’s Microsoft. Look how much they’ve mismanaged their current assets.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by nlawalker » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

I think many of the concerns are valid, but I'm not sure I'd read too much into the name of the absorbing org. Org names at Microsoft end up being misaligned and unintuitive all the time.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by mixdup » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

Surprised it took this long. I am working with Github sales team on straightening out our Github organization at my new job and it was weird to get a Zoom meeting invite from a company that has been part of Microsoft for nearly 10 years

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by reversengineer » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

beefnugs wrote: post #9

buyucu wrote: post #2

Expect Github to get worse. Much worse.

What more damage can they do besides train AI on all code without consent? Oh wait i guess fisting ads into other peoples code somehow...

> What more damage can they do besides train AI on all code

That's GitHub code -> AI.

The damage will be AI code -> GitHub

CoPilot already gives (bad) code reviews on GitHub PRs.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by akomtu » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:33 PM UTC

icy wrote: post #13

Yeah, GitHub is cooked. Now's a good time to consider migrating to alternative forges like Tangled ( https://tangled.sh ; bit of a shameless plug, I'll admit. I'm the co-founder). We've got a more advanced PR flow, jujutsu change-id support and we just launched our in-house CI! https://blog.tangled.sh/ci Long-term, we aim to be the new social coding platform, collectively built in the open.

Github Pages is a must too.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by dang » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 4:34 PM UTC

Related ongoing thread:

Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864929 - Aug 2025 (66 comments)