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Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by jeffrallen »

theojulienne wrote: post #38
rickette wrote: post #27

Easy to criticize this, but I rather see GitHub survive than fail under its own success. So thanks for acting on this MS!

They were originally on their own datacenters + huge amounts of burst and ancillary stuff in AWS, the internal push to move away from "the competitor's cloud" after the acquisition was huge and entirely stupid. I'm ex-GitHub and was one of the annoying people constantly saying GitHub should only move where it was provably the best option for GitHub - the third best major cloud provider is likely never it on merits al…

In the early 2000's they did the same dumb thing to WebTV: forced a move from Solaris to Windows, that completely wrecked the engineering team's velocity and motivation.

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by plaguuuuuu »

kuschku wrote: post #36

What kind of vibecoded website is this? - the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer - the title tag doesn't seem to work properly (just shows the URL in the tab title, on Chrome and Firefox) - 2007-style keyword stuffing in meta keywords - the entire page is client-side react with a completely empty body? The agency that built it even proudly states on their website that they…

I've read more than a handful of AI-generated articles on HN recently. The last one even had a fake author with a fake face. despite the site insisting it had human editors and reviews. The web property was created by a marketing/AI agency from (AFAIK) a European country with zero employees credentialed to edit hard science news articles, also zero employees with English names and faces like the supposed author.

The interslop is real. Simulacra and simulation.

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by jeffrallen »

kqgnkqgn wrote: post #24
UnlockedSecrets wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this in reference to something that should be linked for those not alive or in the know at the time?

I'm not sure if it was entirely true, but there are stories that after Microsoft bought Hotmail in the mid-90's, they quickly attempted to move them from FreeBSD (?) to Windows NT. But it failed miserably, and they went back to the original stack for another ~decade.

Yes. This happened.

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by amazingman »

kuschku wrote: post #45
ilreb wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Because I didn't read that thread? Last week I was at a conference, so I spent relatively little time on HN. That said, I likely wouldn't have read that thread even today. I prefer engaging more deeply with fewer stories. Another new AI benchmark result is of little interest to me, in contrast to a story about Microsoft stalling or even partially reversing the GitHub Azure migration.

It's a bot

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by TurdF3rguson »

inopinatus wrote: post #28

If there’s one thing that surprised me at AWS during my time there - over a decade ago now - that I was not clearly expecting in advance, it was the scale and competence of the units fulfilling the colossal and unceasing growth in capacity demand. This led me to reconsider Amazon as a whole, and I still think of it basically as a logistics firm, with the shop and the public cloud merely a monetisation thereof.

I wonder how that translates to Blue Origin and how they managed to be so completely outclassed by SpaceX.

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by kuschku »

mujib77 wrote: post #49
kuschku wrote: post #36

What kind of vibecoded website is this? - the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer - the title tag doesn't seem to work properly (just shows the URL in the tab title, on Chrome and Firefox) - 2007-style keyword stuffing in meta keywords - the entire page is client-side react with a completely empty body? The agency that built it even proudly states on their website that they…

works fine on the phone

I can't confirm that.

Mobile Chrome can't show a tab title either https://i.k8r.eu/3vVCTQ.png

And the infinite scroll causes the page to constantly jump back up, again preventing me from accessing the footer

And of course with JS disabled you get nothing at all (which affects RSS readers, kindle devices, etc)

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by mujib77 »

kuschku wrote: post #56
mujib77 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

works fine on the phone

I can't confirm that. Mobile Chrome can't show a tab title either https://i.k8r.eu/3vVCTQ.png And the infinite scroll causes the page to constantly jump back up, again preventing me from accessing the footer And of course with JS disabled you get nothing at all (which affects RSS readers, kindle devices, etc)

Now i see the problem yeah same on my device to

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by patates »

kuschku wrote: post #36

What kind of vibecoded website is this? - the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer - the title tag doesn't seem to work properly (just shows the URL in the tab title, on Chrome and Firefox) - 2007-style keyword stuffing in meta keywords - the entire page is client-side react with a completely empty body? The agency that built it even proudly states on their website that they…

> the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer

Let's be fair, it's possible to reach the footer! You keep pressing the end key for like a minute or two and 665 requests (with embedded base64 encoded images and all) later, you have your footer.

So saying it's possible to reach the footer would be technically correct - the best kind of correct!

Re: Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

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Post by Walf »

kuschku wrote: post #36

What kind of vibecoded website is this? - the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer - the title tag doesn't seem to work properly (just shows the URL in the tab title, on Chrome and Firefox) - 2007-style keyword stuffing in meta keywords - the entire page is client-side react with a completely empty body? The agency that built it even proudly states on their website that they…

But the hero image is an AI homage to cute paper-craft, to remind us that people cannot or will not put in that level of effort any more, so it's okay!
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