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Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by MattIPv4 » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

bakje wrote: post #14

Perhaps the gemini-cli bot arguing with itself is taking its toll https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16723 is even worse, GitHub shows `5195 remaining items` in the collapsed timeline.

Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by ctxc » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:02 PM UTC

postexitus wrote: post #4

I believe it is an Azure outage or some type of MS service - everything on Azure is down.

My az services seem to be up.

Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by dgxyz » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

pdimitar wrote: post #27

bakje wrote: post #14

Perhaps the gemini-cli bot arguing with itself is taking its toll https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

I could not resist to put my sarcastic comment about RAM price increases serving a good cause in there.

Having just had to buy 4TB of RAM, I appreciate this.

Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by VirusNewbie » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

nottimbo wrote: post #3

Microsoft, it's time to hire some SREs.

Microsoft doesn't pay well enough to attract good SRE talent.

Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by dgxyz » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #24

Good thing git is a distributed system

Virtually no one knows how to do anything with it outside of github.

Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by ares623 » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC

phtrivier wrote: post #26

Fixed in about 30m to an hour. Definitely annoying, but I'll try the hot take that, contrary to popular belief, GH is not critical infrastructure - or so I hope. Please tell me no part of the Ukrainian air defense system depends on a gh action hook.

When millions of man-hours are lost waiting for your service to be back up, I think that deserves a bit of resiliency.

Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC

someguyiguess wrote: post #9

nullfish wrote: post #2

I suspect the migration to Azure is continuing to go well

I did not come to hacker news expecting comedy gold but you have done it my friend!

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Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by philipallstar » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:11 PM UTC

eddd-ddde wrote: post #30

phtrivier wrote: post #26

Fixed in about 30m to an hour. Definitely annoying, but I'll try the hot take that, contrary to popular belief, GH is not critical infrastructure - or so I hope. Please tell me no part of the Ukrainian air defense system depends on a gh action hook.

You've heard of infrastructure as code, now presenting air strikes as code! Need a new secret offensive operation? Create a new JSON file with the coordinates, make a merge request and get Commander approval, merge it, and our new proprietary GitHub action runner will deploy a drone in seconds!

This is far too simple. The correct way is to generate an NFT that's a screenshot from Google Maps of where you'd like to hit, and a blockchain-watching AI will spot it, figure out where you probably mean and send the coordinates to the fire control system.

Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by nine_k » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:11 PM UTC

corvad wrote: post #23

ferguess_k wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless some major customers are moving away, I don't think they are going to seriously care about it.

I suspect some companies may already be considering it. Especially with the wealth of alternatives today.

What kind of alternatives do you see as viable for large(ish) commercial users?

Re: GitHub Incident

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Post by nine_k » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 6:13 PM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #24

Good thing git is a distributed system

Git is!

PRs and code review are not. CI/CD is not.

I mean, there are solutions, but none of them seems to have a large enough mindshare and efficiency. (Even though Github's code review tools are pretty spartan.)