YHK - yet another hacker news clone

fuck dang with a rusty cactus, in retaliation for giving me a rate limit

(I said "believable", not "realistically")

So the real reason GH continues to grow is that betting on GitLab just means that you'll probably run into the same problem at some point, except they aren't a hyperscaler and if even Microsoft has to span their workloads into AWS to scale, what hope can you have with smaller vendors?

I think you mean unicorn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

Meaning your alternative provider is also facing massive outages?

I hear many complaints about github these days due to outages. I am genuinely curious if anyone has switched recently to a competitor for this and gets more uptime?

Those limitations were put in place for a reason, and using the work-around feels dirty. I recognize that all platforms are flawed once you start to do more than they offer, but I feel that with AI its easier to build the plumbing around it.

The question shouldn't be: can you do this, but 'is this the right thing to do'?

Nothing about complexity, simply github setup such an easy automated system but AI cares not about whether their commit+push is going to kcik off a whole rebuild.

Same thing happens when I run docker build loops. The AI gives very little shit, unless I tell it, about not busting cache; so it'll sit there for hours making minor changes just to make a 30 minute build.

AI has not concern about how long anything takes, in general, but it if it's just waiting for it to return, it won't get impatient.

For one of my green-field projects that I just vibe-coded with AI's (where Claude, Codex and Gemini critique each other's design and code), a PR could go through many iterations (commits) until every AI approves, and if every commit runs the CI, it'd be very slow. So I eventually come up with a mechanism to only run CI when all reviewers approve. That improves things a lot.

So you can reduce the free resources they consume with the slop.

I think that even if you stripped out non-professional vibe coders from the equation - the problem is still there, and will keep compounding.

Last year Github said they are giving away 11.5B action minutes [1] for public repos for free, that translates to about ~30,000 cores . The explosion in commits, pull requests and action minutes that Vlad the CTO mentioned[2] in the August postmortem is approximately 10x and he also highlighted they added 3 Million cores to their fleet.

Assuming a similar 10X growth in open source; total public repo compute budget is only 10% of the new compute they have added. Only half of Github is on Azure as of April, and Azure itself is much much larger.

Last year numbers were worth $180 Million going by list prices of action minutes [3]. However that would be only $20-30M equivalent typical outlay for a mid-size tech company if they were actually buying 30,000 cores on the cloud ; and definitely much cheaper for Azure's procurement ;

It is a good PR strategy and very good deal for Open Source but is really only a small customer acquisition line item for them and doesn't likely meaningfully impact their compute issues one way or other.

[1] https://github.com/resources/insights/2026-pricing-changes-f...

[2] https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17...

[3] Action minutes are priced more expensive than even buying on-demand compute on the cloud including with Azure;