I think this is because all frontier AI providers integrate with GitHub as a default git forge through their GitHub apps platform and their free tier is too generous. They should either charge some of these huge partners access to GitHub apps or partition the free tier off and have a different SLA.

If the frontier AI used GitLab as a default I'm sure they'd be the ones suffering now.

Does anyone recommend an alternative? We've already moved our runners to blacksmith, looking for a control plane as well. We are tiny startup that ships at high velocity and this kind of downtime is highly disruptive for us

There's a reason I'm browsing HN right now. Dead in the water.

In the news tomorrow: SpaceX's newest Grok model just got out of the sandbox and hacked into Github... Grok is so very very dangerous, their engineers only enter the server room in foil hats

I knew that when the build actions started failing en masse and my newly submitted PRs did not trigger the build actions at all (besides the mandatory one in my organization), it seemed logical to me to look at HN first..

Especially troublesome in the middle of trying to fix a high score security vulnerability when the release vehicle is Github.

This is unconscionable. It's an incredibly bad look to be up an entirety of a workday. When my company migrated from Bitbucket, I never thought that we'd be going to a worse service.

The most likely explanation for the degraded reliability: Someone at GitHub saw the Three Body Problem last year and started shifting their infra over to Minecraft servers with "physical" memory and redstone logic gates.

I moved to a self-hosted Forgejo, with a self-hosted runner on another cheap Hetzner server. It's amazing how clean, snappy, and reliable it is.

49199094 | GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties | https://www.githubstatus.com/?d=2026/08/06 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199094

I run a self-hosted Gitlab instance. 100% uptime with my own runners.