HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work' • Hacker News Board

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by ttrahan2 » Fri, May 01, 2026, 6:15 PM UTC

incomplete wrote: post #218

WestCoader wrote: post #6

Nothing is pissing me off more than GitHub's stability going down the tubes RIGHT as work is migrating everything, and I mean everything, from CircleCI to GH. The wildest thing is that Azure Repos/Pipelines was better than this. Their one caveat is also that they are still migrating it to Azure infra, so it's possible that's still in a one foot in one foot out kinda scenario, from what I've heard. But, this isn't ins…

i did the circleci --> github actions migration for my job 1.5 years ago, and things seemed great... at first. at the time, we'd been dealing w/circleci's semi-regular (but thankfully short) outages for over two years, and we were excited to move to a more stable system. now i'm considering deploying jenkins.

From CircleCI here. A big effort and investment went into resolving those outage issues you're referring to. Results have been stellar for a while now. Here's the latest: https://status.circleci.com

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by joepie91_ » Fri, May 01, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC

jonfw wrote: post #182

fourseventy wrote: post #176

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Ya but they are owned by freaking microsoft and have billions of dollars and employees to throw at the problem. The outage problems shouldn't be happening period.

Easy to say that! Some problems are legitimately hard to solve though. Github is likely seeing usage patterns that have never been seen before and I bet some of these failure modes are novel If you are at the limits of your architecture you may need to re-write things, and if you are rewriting things you can not arbitrarily speed that up by throwing dollars at it.

That's entirely a predicament of Microsoft's own making, though. Don't forget that they're the ones who launched "AI" programming into the hype cycle to begin with. So it's entirely reasonable to hold them as a company responsible for the resulting outages, which indeed shouldn't be happening. Dogs, fleas, and so on.

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by GlacierFox » Fri, May 01, 2026, 11:55 PM UTC

otterley wrote: post #178

GlacierFox wrote: post #166

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"Hashimoto’s comments sound disturbed and I hope he finds some peace..." You don't often see the completely unhinged ad hominem 'faux mental health concern' segway here on Hacker News to try and paint someone as 'disturbed'. Thought that was mainly a Reddit thing people do.

s/segway/segue/

thanks for that correction. I had early 2000's novel transportation on the mind.