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Ask HN: For those of you building AI agents, how have you made them faster?

1•arkmm•44s ago•0 comments

Are open source maintainers going to be the main sufferers from AI

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10205
1•jemiluv8•56s ago•1 comments

You can now import data from CSV files without Power Query

https://www.neowin.net/news/good-news-for-excel-users-you-can-now-import-data-from-csv-files-with...
1•bundie•56s ago•0 comments

Musk Praises Anthropic's Claude for Coding Lead over Grok 4.20

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2011699395717447749
1•sh_tomer•1m ago•0 comments

DriftMind – Anomaly detection and forecasting for Excel users (no signup)

https://thingbook.io/csvanalysis.html
2•romanfll•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Munimet.ro – ML-based status page for the local subways in SF

https://munimet.ro/
1•MrEricSir•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a self-hosted video search tool because Google's API was $$$

1•iliashad•1m ago•0 comments

TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/translategemma/
1•kerim-ca•2m ago•0 comments

Vibe Mapping – Google's Antigravity is pretty damn amazing

https://flower.codes/2026/01/15/antigravity.html
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

Interview with Todd Green, head of the company that created 'Candy Crush'

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-12-27/todd-green-head-of-the-company-that-created-cand...
1•PaulHoule•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Google Flights TUI

https://github.com/spacegauch0/flights-scraper-effect
1•dperalta•3m ago•0 comments

Looking at a Real Fake Raspberry Pi RP2040 Board

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/15/looking-at-a-real-fake-raspberry-pi-rp2040-board/
1•hpb42•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I have build a free random code generator (250k codes/batch)

https://codito.io/free-random-code-generator/
1•tomge•4m ago•1 comments

UseOptimistic Won't Save You

https://www.columkelly.com/blog/use-optimistic
1•columk•4m ago•0 comments

State Department Threatens UK Because Only the US Is Allowed to Ban Foreign Apps

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/state-department-threatens-uk-over-grok-investigation-because...
2•beardyw•5m ago•0 comments

Observer Theory Extension

https://github.com/SASenchal/Observer-Theory-Extension
1•sasenchal•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: TestSpec – Test Heavy Machinery Parts Intantly(Rotary Center Joints)

https://testspec.io/
1•ronantech•6m ago•0 comments

LLDB in 2025

https://jonasdevlieghere.com/post/lldb-2025/
1•JDevlieghere•7m ago•0 comments

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs
2•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

The surprising benefits of standing on one leg

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260114-the-surprising-benefits-of-standing-on-one-leg
3•devonnull•9m ago•0 comments

'Elite': The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

https://werd.io/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
2•sdoering•10m ago•0 comments

Using AI as a Design Engineer

https://jakub.kr/work/using-ai-as-a-design-engineer
1•hnhsh•10m ago•0 comments

NeXT, OOP, WWW, HTML (2025)

https://forum.malleable.systems/t/next-oop-www-html/332
1•mpweiher•10m ago•0 comments

Incompatible Versions of RSS. (2004)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110726002019/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatib...
1•fanf2•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lore – search and link AI coding sessions to commits

https://github.com/varalys/lore
1•raethro•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TalkMate – Someone to Talk To, Anytime

https://talkmate.online
1•digi_wares•13m ago•0 comments

AMD's Acquisition of NexGen

https://dfarq.homeip.net/amds-acquisition-of-nexgen/
2•7777777phil•13m ago•0 comments

How to think about Gas Town

https://steveklabnik.com/writing/how-to-think-about-gas-town/
2•steveklabnik•16m ago•0 comments

A Data Model for Git

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/08/a-data-model-for-git/
1•7777777phil•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why do most AI assistants start with the letter C?

2•jjmarr•16m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

GitHub Incident

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/q987xpbqjbpl
84•aggrrrh•1h ago

Comments

nullfish•1h ago
I suspect the migration to Azure is continuing to go well
rvz•1h ago
Yes indeed. 6 years of non-stop outages across the platform every month.

Even self-hosting would have been more stable than sitting on GitHub as predicted more than half a decade ago. [0]

Now there is no 'CEO of GitHub' to contact this time (Satya does not care).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

someguyiguess•1h ago
I did not come to hacker news expecting comedy gold but you have done it my friend!
ascendantlogic•1h ago
This feels more like Copilot-as-platform-engineer to me
nottimbo•1h ago
Microsoft, it's time to hire some SREs.
arm32•1h ago
We did hire some, boss! Soshie, Vizzy and Dexter. They're AI, but they're supposed to be way better than a human SRE. At least that's what the Sintra salesguy told us.
rvz•1h ago
So that's what the Tay, and Zoe AI bots were doing all this time after they were cancelled and banned off of Twitter.

Working on the GitHub Azure migration and for years it's gone so well so far.

lenerdenator•1h ago
Why hire anyone to fix a problem when you can make an AI agent to "fix" it, tell investors about it to pump the price, and not fix anything knowing that you have a monopoly?
ferguess_k•1h ago
Yes we did hire SREs, unfortunately they are in another continent and they only know how to pull others into the chat. We also have some AI too, do you want to try them? They are pretty good SREs, one of them wrote 100K lines of code in a week while another one reviews every line along the way. It was fantastic! Fantastic!! FANTASTIC!!!

OK I have no idea about MSFT SREs, just to be /s.

aruggirello•53m ago
Clippy to the rescue! :-)
VirusNewbie•46m ago
Microsoft doesn't pay well enough to attract good SRE talent.
postexitus•1h ago
I believe it is an Azure outage or some type of MS service - everything on Azure is down.
zxcvasd•1h ago
having no issues on azure here, seeing no azure incidents on the status page or any of my admin panels
verst•1h ago
I second this. Not experiencing any Azure issues at this time.
deathanatos•31m ago
> seeing no azure incidents on the status page

… in all seriousness, that is hardly proof that Azure isn't having an outage.

zxcvasd•27m ago
if i thought it alone was proof enough, i wouldnt have also included the bit about how i was actively using azure.

its one signal, among others. and in any case, i wasn't trying to prove the parent commenter wrong. i was offering my own signal to the crowd.

ctxc•50m ago
My az services seem to be up.
MadameMinty•1h ago
Angry unicorns seem to be over.
tapoxi•1h ago
helm repo add gitlab https://charts.gitlab.io/ && helm upgrade --install gitlab gitlab/gitlab

I did this in 2019, it avoided so many headaches. CI is better too since there's a nice clean mapping of build -> pod for everything and I can just exec in if something's borked.

odie5533•1h ago
Things would have to get really bad before I considered managing my own repositories. Trading someone else's headaches for my own.
0xbadcafebee•59m ago
^ this. the last thing i want is to add to my workload. take my money and make my life easier, even if it means that for one hour every couple months i can't do anything
NewJazz•29m ago
Have you ever actually hosted gitlab?
tapoxi•53m ago
It's not as bad as you think, I run the helm upgrade when patches come out, the backing store is S3 or managed SQL, it runs a nightly k8s cron called gitlab-backup which tarballs the whole thing into an s3 bucket with a single command restore should disaster strike. (This is part of the product, not a thing I wrote.)

I probably only babysit it for 30 minutes per year, including all the upgrades.

nine_k•28m ago
It depends how high you value your headaches, and how high, your org's downtime. Github not working accrues over the hourly rate of every developer affected, which is likely $70-$100 a hour. 10 hours of outage in a year affecting a team of 10 would cost north of $70k, enough to hire a part-time SRE dedicated just to tend to your Gitlab installation.
zxcvasd•12m ago
>10 hours of outage in a year affecting a team of 10 would cost north of $70k

10 hours x 10 developers x $70 per hour = $7000, not $70000.

corvad•1h ago
Github's recent reliability has honestly been abysmal. Not surprised.
ferguess_k•1h ago
Unless some major customers are moving away, I don't think they are going to seriously care about it.
corvad•1h ago
I suspect some companies may already be considering it. Especially with the wealth of alternatives today.
nine_k•40m ago
What kind of alternatives do you see as viable for large(ish) commercial users?
toephu2•32m ago
GitHub on-prem. Officially called GitHub Enterprise Server. You can have GitHub, but hosted on your own servers.
NewJazz•28m ago
So you still pay them, you do the hosting work, and you get a product with worse features than gitlab?
zxcvasd•16m ago
but you can be smug when theres a github incident, and thats hard to put a price on
g947o•34m ago
Companies are already using on-premise GitHub server, if they are using GitHub in the first place. There are many other self hosted solutions which are quite common in enterprise environment.
supriyo-biswas•29m ago
In my experience companies are moving into GitHub for Copilot and GHA.
appplication•19m ago
GHA maybe, but copilot is just another mid tier player in a congested space.
bakje•1h ago
Perhaps the gemini-cli bot arguing with itself is taking its toll

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

johnisgood•1h ago
Wonderful, lmao.
lol768•1h ago
Jeez, what a mess. Some of those issues have over 5000 events on them.

I really hope that didn't send emails out to people.

embedding-shape•1h ago
Haha, reminds me off bringing down office mail servers by accidentally creating loops of emails back in the day... What is old is new again, but this time with probabilities :)
pdimitar•53m ago
I could not resist to put my sarcastic comment about RAM price increases serving a good cause in there.
dgxyz•48m ago
Having just had to buy 4TB of RAM, I appreciate this.
MisterTea•38m ago
That's like 100,000 USD. I keep thinking about making a rap video wearing a 10 TB gold chain surrounded by big booty girls with their naughty bits covered in m.2 SSD's while dissing the AI industry. Though I cant afford the RAM :-/
zxcvasd•32m ago
like most rap videos do with cars/jets/mansions, just rent the ram sticks for a few hours!
dgxyz•24m ago
Yep that much. 64Gb DDR5 ECC sticks (128Gb don't exist at the moment apparently). They declined the PO 6 months ago. That'll teach 'em.

I was pissed that there weren't any sticks heading to the recycling out of the nodes otherwise I would make myself that chain :)

TheJoeMan•22m ago
It’s sad that I can’t interpret if you mean to actually shoot your rap video on film, or have an AI generate it lol. Either way you’re going to need RAM.
MattIPv4•52m ago
https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16723 is even worse, GitHub shows `5195 remaining items` in the collapsed timeline.
unaut•16m ago
Wow that's whole a lot of yapping
omoikane•14m ago
Maybe the bots should implement rule of ko.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_Go#Ko

jbverschoor•59m ago
Good thing git is a distributed system
dgxyz•44m ago
Virtually no one knows how to do anything with it outside of github.
Joe_Cool•37m ago
That's a them problem.
nine_k•36m ago
Your favorite search engine or LLM will show you in a second, it's really easy.

The problem is that it's not enough. The fact that Github uses Git specifically is a technical detail; it could use mercurial equally easily, as Bitbucket used to. Github Actions, OWNERS files, PRs and review tools, issue tracker, wiki are all not Git features.

dgxyz•22m ago
Not a chance. I think you need to spend some time in low ball corporate IT. It's just monkeys throwing faeces at the wall. We only just levered them off subversion...

(I use Fossil 100% offline for personal projects for ref)

tonymet•26m ago
i still find insightful ways to use git every day. amazing tool. it's a shame for those who only see it as "how to sync my repo with my coworkers"
TZubiri•16m ago
You might be surprised, but that's not true at all.

I once read someone commenting "Nobody writes code by hand without looking syntax up".

Man, you are just outing yourself as a complete beginner, the field is way deeper than you imagine and it's not even close.

nine_k•39m ago
Git is!

PRs and code review are not. CI/CD is not.

I mean, there are solutions, but none of them seems to have a large enough mindshare and efficiency. (Even though Github's code review tools are pretty spartan.)

globular-toast•7m ago
> PRs and code review are not. CI/CD is not.

They can be. A PR can be made and code review conducted by submitting a patch to a mailing list. That's how the kernel and, I think, git itself is developed.

CI/CD is really a methodology. It just means integrating/deploying stuff as soon as its ready. So you just need maintainers to be able to run the test suite and deploy, which seems like a really basic thing.

TZubiri•18m ago
True, workers can still commit to their local git.

I've been looking into having a separate git server that we can commit to and add plain ole git hooks to, and just having it be synced with github as a clone.

phtrivier•56m ago
Fixed in about 30m to an hour.

Definitely annoying, but I'll try the hot take that, contrary to popular belief, GH is not critical infrastructure - or so I hope.

Please tell me no part of the Ukrainian air defense system depends on a gh action hook.

eddd-ddde•52m ago
You've heard of infrastructure as code, now presenting air strikes as code!

Need a new secret offensive operation? Create a new JSON file with the coordinates, make a merge request and get Commander approval, merge it, and our new proprietary GitHub action runner will deploy a drone in seconds!

philipallstar•41m ago
This is far too simple. The correct way is to generate an NFT that's a screenshot from Google Maps of where you'd like to hit, and a blockchain-watching AI will spot it, figure out where you probably mean and send the coordinates to the fire control system.
ares623•43m ago
When millions of man-hours are lost waiting for your service to be back up, I think that deserves a bit of resiliency.
vaylian•37m ago
It's not critical, but there's still a lot of reliance on it.

It's also the only reason why I still need IPv4.

NewJazz•30m ago
The status page says things are still not fixed.
toephu2•31m ago
This is why companies should host their own source code on-prem.
howToTestFE•30m ago
If GH has an issue, it seems to always be around 4pm or 5pm GMT. I'm starting to think that i should avoid any planned production releases around this time.