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Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
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Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
#92Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…
I would take what C-level execs say with a grain of salt. Remember these folks hire people with plenty of system design experience. They likely also have the money for hardware resources. If load was an issue these things would have been solved already. Or they are purposely causing millions of dollars of productivity loss daily by not solving this. Something more serious is at play. And I want to hear from the actua…
> They likely also have the money for hardware resources.
Amazing you can say this with a straight face in these DC building times.
Have you tried getting Azure east instances anytime lately?
Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
#93Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…
I would take what C-level execs say with a grain of salt. Remember these folks hire people with plenty of system design experience. They likely also have the money for hardware resources. If load was an issue these things would have been solved already. Or they are purposely causing millions of dollars of productivity loss daily by not solving this. Something more serious is at play. And I want to hear from the actua…
>They likely also have the money for hardware resources.
Hey man, in case you hadn't heard, the hardware industry is having a lot of trouble keeping up. "Expand our capacity" isn't as easy as it was 2 years ago.
Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
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I think GitHub leans on this free repos thing a lot for getting new users though. Like I could see people just moving to GitLab
Free private repos on github is relatively new, only introduced after a rise in popularity of gitlab (which has free private repos). Seems like github is too popular for itself.
I know you said "relatively", but it's been seven and a half years: https://github.blog/changelog/2019-01-08-pricing-changes/
Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
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Are they? https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status doesn't support this afaict.
How sure are we that their status page is accurate? AWS's status page often lags actual issues.
AWS's status page would be green after a microsingularity swallowed the solar system. Azure's status page is very similar.
Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
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Frankly yes. Do it in a way that doesn’t violate outright or cover your tracks. Customers deserve to know the truth of the type of company they are dealing with.
So someone should potentially get fired and face legal action to satisfy your curiosity which you'll get sated anyway when you read the postmortem in a few days?
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Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Frankly yes. Do it in a way that doesn’t violate outright or cover your tracks. Customers deserve to know the truth of the type of company they are dealing with.
So someone should potentially get fired and face legal action to satisfy your curiosity which you'll get sated anyway when you read the postmortem in a few days?
We can only ask.
Don't act shocked.
Also, gritty insider information is never the same as the official word.
Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
#98Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…
I'm curios what is the bottleneck then? Because github(ms) has enough resources to hire competent people and provision needed hw to solve scaling the issues.
Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
#99Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…
I'm curios what is the bottleneck then? Because github(ms) has enough resources to hire competent people and provision needed hw to solve scaling the issues.
need competent people to hire competent people first - it seems like their only directive is to raise $MSFT not make good tech
(talking about leadership, not my lovely msft engineers reading this)
Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to that graph, performance drops widely after Microsoft's acquisition before AI enters the scene. If not Microsoft, how else do you explain it, or is the graph somehow misleading?
You're the one making the argument! You need to show causality instead of correlation.
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