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I'm Tired of Talking to AI

https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/
537•theorchid•2h ago•312 comments

Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services

https://rubbishtalk.com/economy/how-private-equity-bought-americas-essential-services/
74•NoRagrets•1h ago•39 comments

Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about
97•nicoloren•3h ago•40 comments

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m
93•maxnoe•58m ago•68 comments

The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-strange-melancholy-of-slaying-monsters/
162•prismatic•17h ago•64 comments

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22391
83•josefchen•4h ago•28 comments

Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes

https://padhye.org/raft-minority/
71•moarbugs•1d ago•5 comments

Cloudflare Flagship

https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/
261•tjek•13h ago•144 comments

BadHost – CVE-2026-48710: Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass

https://badhost.org/
89•ylk•1d ago•33 comments

That Methyl Methacrylate Tank

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank
358•nooks•17h ago•150 comments

Go: Support for Generic Methods

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273
23•f311a•4h ago•14 comments

Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

https://arps18.github.io/posts/claude-code-mastery/
136•arps18•8h ago•104 comments

What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable

https://www.servethehome.com/what-is-a-direct-attach-copper-dac-cable/
41•teleforce•1d ago•18 comments

XLIDE: VBA without excel

https://github.com/WilliamSmithEdward/xlide_vscode
8•sts153•1h ago•0 comments

Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Predictable" Data

https://www.thonking.ai/p/strangely-matrix-multiplications
9•tosh•4d ago•2 comments

The worst job interview I ever had

https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had
418•oliverio•17h ago•323 comments

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/
385•zdw•1d ago•82 comments

We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin

https://www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-poles-so-of-course-we-print-in-latin
47•danielam•3d ago•7 comments

I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline

https://www.djspeckhals.com/posts/2026-05-22-how-i-bypassed-adobe-and-microsoft-to-build-a-git-tr...
258•dustin1114•4d ago•64 comments

Seeking a Language in Mathematics 1523-1571

https://tyndale.org/journals/reformj01/bmarsden.html
19•jruohonen•3d ago•2 comments

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

https://github.com/logannye/rosalind
172•samuell•5d ago•49 comments

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

https://www.minicor.com/
94•fchishtie•22h ago•56 comments

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gamb...
997•thm•1d ago•459 comments

A history of obituaries in American newspapers

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2026/05/mourn-not-a-history-of-obituaries-in-american-ne...
32•NaOH•2d ago•3 comments

C array types are weird

https://anselmschueler.com/blogposts/2025-c-pointers/
103•signa11•2d ago•107 comments

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sagecare/jobs/xtloH8r-senior-software-engineer
1•ian-gillis•20h ago

TSDuck: Open-source toolkit for MPEG-TS analysis and manipulation

https://tsduck.io/
47•phantomathkg•10h ago•4 comments

IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zokKqP0plrM
52•DaiPlusPlus•2d ago•25 comments

A portentous reunion

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/05/25/a-portentous-reunion/
111•cafkafk•1d ago•31 comments

What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift

https://calvinflegal.com/2026/05/24/what-ive-learned-so-far-building-online-mini-games-with-elixi...
70•calflegal•3d ago•34 comments
Open in hackernews

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m
89•maxnoe•58m ago

Comments

maxnoe•58m ago
GitHub Incident again/
denysvitali•57m ago
At this point we can even stop specifying that it's GitHub...
sibidharan•57m ago
Are they running paid marketing campaigns for Gitlab ?
EduardoBautista•50m ago
I'd consider self-hosting GitHub Enterprise before putting my team through the pain of Gitlab.
ricardbejarano•46m ago
How is it painful to use GitLab? Curious, as a user of both, I find them both nice. I like GitLab CI/CD more than I do GHA, but that's personal preference/bias more than anything objective.
tux3•35m ago
Gitlab CI has some tech debt from accumulating geological layers of different ways to do things, but overall it's pretty good, it scales to more complicated setups, and it's not too painful.

Now the best way to use GHA is to do the bare minimum. Put all your CI logic in a script that you can test locally, and just have GHA run your script. Even that is painful. And, somehow, impossible to make secure without having spent 5,000 hours reading all the previous ways people got pwn'd by Github Action's horrendous security model.

My main problem with Gitlab is that after years I still can't find what I'm looking for in the UI. It's always exactly in the third place I look. Otherwise Gitlab has been good. Even self-hosted works pretty well.

EduardoBautista•30m ago
Everything about their UI/UX screams of doing the bare minimum to check off a box on a feature list. It reminds me of Jira.
ramon156•31m ago
Self-hosting forgejo under tailscale + mirroring public repos through GitHub

Has worked wonders for me :)

varun_ch•6m ago
Forgejo is fantastic. I do think it could use a fresh coat of paint from a designer but it’s otherwise really good.

Gitea (what Forgejo forked from) recently stole the sidebar on repos from GitHub and I think that would be great for Forgejo to steal too…

Forgejo themed by Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo (the codeberg theme is extremely low contrast)

Forgejo default: https://v15.next.forgejo.org/pparaxan/quark

Forgejo themed by Lix: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix

Gitea: https://gitea.com/gitea/awesome-gitea

Gitea themed by Blender: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender

I personally like Blender’s Gitea theme better than the rest but I guess that’s subjective. In dark mode I do not like the low contrast Codeberg theme or the default Forgejo theme, but all of the instances custom themes look great.

cedws•53m ago
I'm so done with GitHub.
gen220•52m ago
https://isgithubcooked.com

Normally I defend GH in the comments of these incidents but it’s been an impressively bad month by their standards, even when you filter for critical components filter out sev-2’s and 3’s.

EduardoBautista•49m ago
May has been filled with critical issues. It seems it's getting worse over time.
pluc•47m ago
Name one thing Microsoft didn't run into the ground post-acquisition
elzbardico•43m ago
GH was acquired by microsoft some eight years ago. It has been working quite well until recently.

People may have had complaints about functionality, features, commercial issues, but the thing used to at least have a decent uptime until recently.

bsimpson•40m ago
It also used to be run as an independent company with access to MS's resources.

Now it's a unit in their AI hype machine.

modriano•23m ago
MSFT was pretty arms length for the first 5-6 years. I was honestly kind of impressed and it made my opinion of MSFT better. But then AI made it too attractive of a target and MSFT couldn't help but make it a place the former CEO wanted to leave (and it has been running headless for about a year now).

It's quite disappointing objectively, but I expected worse from MSFT.

chris_money202•7m ago
Has nothing to do with Microsoft acquisition... AI usage has increased demand and load. More PRs, more Action runners, more of everything firing. GitHub just wasn't ready for the scale and are now having issues catching up with it as it continues to increase exponentially.
robotmaxtron•32m ago
hey now, LinkedIn was terrible before Microsoft.
SteveNuts•14m ago
Java or Bedrock edition, and have you tried logging into your EntraID Microsoft Teams for Xbox account lately? Make sure to check the box to keep you logged in!
darkamaul•22m ago
I think Minecraft is still in good shape
embedding-shape•12m ago
I wouldn't know, somehow this game I bought maybe 15 years ago is no longer playable for me, my account was supposed to be migrated from Mojang to Microsoft or similar, but then that never happened or something, and trying to login now asks me to contact Microsoft support, which I've tried 3-4 times, never had anyone respond to me so who knows how the game is today? I stopped trying at this point...

Personally, once a game I own is janked from my hands because of organizational decisions, that's the time I'll stop consider the game "in good shape", but I'm sure the people who had to buy the same game a second time still enjoy it.

beart•7m ago
Yes, the account migration was a mess. Support response times were at least 30 days, if you ever actually received a response at all (I never did). I did buy the game a second time in order to play with my kids.
rvz•36m ago
They are already cooked as this has been happening ever since the Microsoft acquisition and it was run to the ground before 2023.

At this point you would get better uptime by just self-hosting your own GitLab, Forgejo or Codeberg instance instead of dealing with Github's unreliablity.

There is no defending them with their clear neglet and carelessness of the platform.

taintlord223•25m ago
The UI of that page is so nice, should build a github competitor.

The user profile / contributions and PR UX is pretty much the entire "hub" product since git is a fully separate offline app.

embedding-shape•22m ago
> The UI of that page is so nice

Is it? Seems a text description of "Make a website outlining 'How cooked GitHub' is with a modern style" to basically any LLM would produce exactly that UI and design, literally nothing of that design a human had any influence on, besides the ones selecting what training data the used LLMs was trained with.

I think most of us who've tried using LLMs for web-design can recognize that style and design at this point, regardless of model actually used.

olmo23•15m ago
What really grinds my gears is how easy it is to get better designs out of LLMs. But if you don't ask, you get the default.
angrydev•14m ago
Compared to near unusable pages that large organizations produce, yes this page is highly effective at conveying information. Who cares how it was produced?
embedding-shape•7m ago
> Who cares how it was produced?

Well, we're at least two people who care, since we were conversing about how good/bad the webdesign is, then you jumped in here :) If you don't care, why bother to reply to people who seemingly do care? What kind of conversation are you expecting here, "Yeah, do tooo"? :|

Hamuko•7m ago
The Bootstrap of 2020s.
FpUser•5m ago
>"The UI of that page is so nice"

Most part screen is taken by picture. Contrast ratio is really low. Hard to read Should they remove that useless banner, current status which is the most interesting part coud've been made visible right away.

I would call this whole thing highly un-ergonomic

Arbortheus•50m ago
Fed up and bored of this
rvz•48m ago
Again?

It was just yesterday [0] that GA was down and another incident today? I am convinced that Copilot and Tay.ai are destroying GitHub and there is no CEO of GitHub to contact.

Now will you please self-host as I said 6 years ago? [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278635

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

rob•38m ago
You think a Microsoft chatbot from 2016 is destroying GitHub?
rvz•10m ago
At this point, you might as well say that is what's happening at GitHub with the help of GitHub Copilot since nothing has changed and has only gotten worse over time.
looperhacks•47m ago
Maybe we should start posting av story when GitHub has been fine for some time instead of posting every incident
voidUpdate•47m ago
They may have gotten down to only 2 nines on most of their services, but at least the LLM is still running at full power! must increase value for shareholders
dzonga•44m ago
git is supposed to be decentralized.

maybe it's time to revert back to the central idea of git & not centralize around a particular provider.

for issues - mailing list will do. you can always slap a beautiful ui if you want to or a tui (as is the fad) these days.

actions can also be decentralized via an API spec & webhooks.

xnorswap•43m ago
Before clicking, I assumed this was going to be a write-up of the one from a few days ago instead of an entirely new incident.
jamdav16•37m ago
I assumed it was the one from yesterday! Silly me.
spaceman_2020•42m ago
is it me or ever since AI coding became the norm, there have been way more outages with otherwise reliable services?

I get downtime on Supabase every few weeks. Even Cloudflare. And now Github

julianlam•27m ago
Not just you, but uncertain whether it's due to unreviewed slop going to production, or increased demand due to slop generation.
hansmayer•23m ago
No, it's not just you. It is fairly obvious what's happening - the same old Entshittificators now have a great tool to up the speed of entshitification by 100x - thus these crappy outages every other day.
throwatdem12311•15m ago
> is it me or

No, of course not.

chris_money202•5m ago
Yes, because that caused the usage of the services to skyrocket, GitHub runs on Azure and Azure is experiencing capacity strain due to AI, so GitHub's services are struggling to auto-scale
fen4o•41m ago
Tried to do a git push - it succeeded after 3 mins. Then I wanted to open a PR and it failed with a 500 error.

Facepalmed and decided that this is it for today.

Hamuko•41m ago
Yesterday my CI runs wouldn't even be created because Actions was eating shit, and today my CI runs get created but fail because the API is eating shit. Fun.
ckorhonen•38m ago
This is getting ridiculous. One particularly concerning thing I’m seeing is that pull requests on both the web UI and API aren’t reflecting all commits or branch changes consistently. It would be very easy to merge something without realizing you’re not actually reviewing the full diff.
drcongo•36m ago
For years we had a GitHub status thing in our Slack but I had to remove it about a year ago because the noise got too much, it would be unbearable in 2026.
dist-epoch•31m ago
GitHub is not agent scale.

Multiple companies are trying to create new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo.

It's like switching from horse buggies to automobiles, the whole worlds needs re-architecturing to handle the new load.

The age of boutique hand-coding is being replaced by the age of industrial software factories.

julianlam•23m ago
Why the heck would you want to do this. Using git as your undo chain sounds like a pretty awful thing to do.
andyjohnson0•15m ago
> GitHub is not agent scale.

Is the scaling issue with git or github?

skinfaxi•14m ago
This seems odd to me. Why would you need to commit every second?
swiftcoder•9m ago
> new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo.

This is not a particularly novel level of scale. Facebook's mercurial backend had to handle >5,000 developers committing to the singular monorepo long before LLMs were a thing

hansmayer•24m ago
It seems before AI eats software, its going to first eat GH and Microsoft.
throwatdem12311•15m ago
they didn’t think the leopard would eat their face!
hansmayer•21m ago
Can't they just use one of Satiya's "powerful daily prompts" and ask the - was it "Mico"? - to excrement their way out of these troubles? Ah - you're telling me those powerful prompts were just bullshit for the lazy office cretin who is mainly reading and writing emails throughout the week? They don't really create any new fucking value? No way - I thought CEOs paid tens of millions of dollars each year had real competence justifying such high salaries.
abhashanand1501•17m ago
as a github user, we are paying for the slow git operations through our github action minutes, if someone from GH is here, will you be compensating for it?
throwatdem12311•16m ago
Maybe GitHub needs to freeze free repository creation until they get this under control because this is ridiculous.
embedding-shape•10m ago
I mean, if we're talking about "fixing" the symptoms of the downtimes rather than the sources and causes, I guess they could just null route github.com until they have things under control?

Personally, I think they'd have more luck actually attacking the source, what that might be. Somehow I think Microsoft's push for "Every developer only use AI for development, no manual thinking/coding from now on" is the detrimental step, seemingly many companies are still discovering the right approach. Put a freeze to that, and I'm fairly sure you'd see less downtime pretty much immediately, unless all real engineers already left the company, I'm sure I would have at this point.

goda90•7m ago
Or maybe they need to bring back quality assurance expertise to the company.
renehsz•13m ago
https://GiveUpGithub.org