Incident with Github.com [resolved] • Hacker News Board

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#91

Post by ndriscoll » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

tempaccount420 wrote: post #48

Why haven't we all moved off GitHub yet? Or let me ask a more useful question: if we were to move, then to where? Ideally somewhere new (not Gitlab)

Ideally something like IPNS to have a mutable ref based on (repo, pubkey, branch) to resolve a commit hash, a DHT for who has what commit hashes, and then just p2p transfers. You could still have a github or gitlab for issues and CI, but code (and maybe issues) could all be p2p like git is already designed for. Your forge could also act as a peer for code cloning, of course.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#92

Post by Macha » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

elric wrote: post #30

beardedetim wrote: post #15

We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?" No idea if/when we decide to pull that bandaid but I think once we can't merge a hot fix into main because of GH being down, it'll be a big org push to replace it. What's everyone else using? Self hosted Gitlab? Gitea?

> We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?" Did you have the conversation "do we need to move from $whatever CI/CD to GitHub Actions?" beforehand? What were the arguments in favour?

Not the same company but similar discussions here:

- It was believed that GitHub would be more reliable than our self hosted Gitlab CI runners. This has proven to be very false.

- It was believed it would be easier to write tooling. I’m not on the dev tooling team, so can’t confirm if they found it true or not, but from the outside I see a lot more “Github can’t do that” than I did “Gitlab can’t do it”

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#93

Post by knorker » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

mikert89 wrote: post #72

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> Their employee base in Washington has almost no american born engineers.

Was that a sharp turn, or was it related in some way?

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

ozarkerD wrote: post #84

gottagocode wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20%, do we just make numbers up?

Depends if this is coming from engineering or management

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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#95

Post by melezhik » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

If someone needs lightweight self hosted git server with ci pipelines via general programming languages - consider DSCI - http://deadsimpleci.sparrowhub.io

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by rvz » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

stingraycharles wrote: post #52

khvn26 wrote: post #29

I had a lot of goodwill for GitHub but I think today is the tipping point. Looking at a unicorn page, I feel this lingering hope that it's transient (like it usually was in the old days) but my mind reassures me it's probably going to be a long full outage again. The hope is dead.

I’m willing to give them a break as I’m assuming they have a lot of scaling problems due to the influx of LLM assisted coding. But maybe I’m wrong?

Well, it has been 8 years since the acquisition and they have had access to Azure infrastructure to keep up with the scale and yet, it is still struggling due to free compute thanks to Actions.

They need to start getting rid of the free tiers for GitHub Actions and actually charge appropriately or increase prices for it.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#97

Post by monkey_monkey » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

mikert89 wrote: post #72

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Your comment history is full of barely-hidden racism. Get some help.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by mikert89 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

knorker wrote: post #93

mikert89 wrote: post #72

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> Their employee base in Washington has almost no american born engineers. Was that a sharp turn, or was it related in some way?

the whole software lifecycle is an outsourced cost center

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by Arubis » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

This is starting to feel like Twitter. For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of persuasions could connect, and this had outsize benefits for the community as a whole. That place is becoming untenable, and with the loss of goodwill and stability, the community’s started to dissipate. But there isn’t one obvious transition candidate, so the diaspora is finding itself spread across a bunch of disparate places and services. The stated need they satisfy (source control with a web interface and some technical features, like pull requests with reviews) will be fulfilled. But those emergent features like a core community and default expectation of where you can find someone will fade. And that is a very real loss for all of us.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#100

Post by ieie3366 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code

Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside.

If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health