YHK - yet another hacker news clone

81 points SpyCoder77 1 hour ago 23 comments

Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists."

Edit: at the time of posting there was not an incident on githubstatus.com. Now there is. https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

Original Title: "Tell HN: GitHub Is Overloaded"

ozarkerD 1 hour ago | parent

Is github down? Does the day end in y?

Hammerhead12321 53 minutes ago | parent

No, es lunes.

SigmundurM 1 hour ago | parent

Same here. Just as I was going to push out a release

MallocVoidstar 1 hour ago | parent

https://www.githubstatus.com/

It's all green which means it's working. Ignore the unicorn error on every page.

edit: After 5-10 minutes they got around to opening an incident and (apparently manually?) marking the API as having 'degraded performance'.

cyphar 30 minutes ago | parent

I find it quite amusing what they seem to consider "degraded performance" to mean -- I guess if you really squint, your service not working at all is actually just very large latency spikes (until the service recovers) and thus can be labelled as "services experiencing degraded performance for a small portion of our customers".

malfist 19 minutes ago | parent

Even better "degraded performance" doesn't seem to count against their uptime stats. Issues is labeled as "degraded" with 100% uptime.

Andugal 59 minutes ago | parent

Yes it is https://downdetector.com/status/github/

lini 56 minutes ago | parent

incident was just created - https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

biennvops 53 minutes ago | parent

Seems to affect web as well. Currently working on a PR and now it says "Merge status cannot be loaded"

pavo-etc 51 minutes ago | parent

> Update - We are seeing an approximate 20% error rate across numerous experiences including Pull Requests, Issues, and others. Investigations are currently under way and we will be posting updates as they become available

brutal

gottagocode 49 minutes ago | parent

20%, do we just make numbers up?

ozarkerD 43 minutes ago | parent

Depends if this is coming from engineering or management

anonymousab 28 minutes ago | parent

It seems vastly higher on every region and VPN I've tested, so I think this is a case of the "technicalies".

It is technically 20%, because a bunch of the requests that happen on page load do succeed. Just not the few crucial ones that are required for the page to load correctly - those return a 500 the vast supermajority of the time.

brookst 25 minutes ago | parent

I can't get a single PR or issue to work. Maybe it's "20% globally, 100% anywhere people are awake".

malfist 23 minutes ago | parent

Feel free to disregard this because ultimately its a tangent that doesn't matter; but supermajority is specifically a political term referring to the required threshold to advance legislation when simple majority isn't procedurally enough. It doesn't mean simply a greater share of.a majority

normie3000 22 minutes ago | parent

20% of requests on a GUI page also makes the whole thing unusable.

leumon 49 minutes ago | parent

Not sure if related, but claude seems to be down for me too.

hn58622tsf 42 minutes ago | parent

Been doing this wrong for years, thanks

georgehotz 25 minutes ago | parent

We're moving to self hosted Gitea. It's never been easier to do devops with the help of LLMs. I cannot believe how flaky GitHub is.

https://git.tinygrad.win/tinygrad/tinygrad

ChrisArchitect 24 minutes ago | parent

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330684

b800h 22 minutes ago | parent

Well I was dumped out of Github Copilot as this issue started, and haven't been able to get back in. Seems like a slightly strange thing to be connected, but feasible.

calvinmorrison 15 minutes ago | parent

reminder: git is distributed

porridgeraisin 14 minutes ago | parent

Clones, repo browsing etc are all working.

/pull/:id/changes is not working, but /pull/:id.diff _is_. It seems parts of the API is also ok? some gh commands I tried worked.

Files changed works on the mobile app somehow. I guess a particular api version or something is down.

Anyway if someone needs files changed and merge status, check the mobile app. Past actions are also loading on that.

[Android, India]