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Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues

52 points by Sytten 7mo ago

Another day, another Github outage. Files are not loading, cannot create repos, etc.

sync 7mo ago
As of the time of writing, nothing on the status page either :( https://www.githubstatus.com https://www.githubstatus.com
- shahahmed 7mo ago
  Updog tracks this via Datadog logs - https://updog.ai/status/github https://updog.ai/status/github
  - utf_8x 7mo ago
    No wonder they don't publish an availability percentage. If I was a business customer paying for GitHub I would be very upset with the availability lately.
    - lelandbatey 7mo ago
      Someone built an archive of Github statuses to show aggregate uptime, last month and this month Github's uptime is below 90%, not even one "nine" of availability: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ 87% uptime for Github in February 2026. They've got to get it together.
      - jcgrillo 7mo ago
        They only have to get it together if the churn impacts their bottom line. If they aren't losing strategic customers the uptime is good enough.
utf_8x 7mo ago
Actions are failing and starting new actions results in a 500 error... The status page is shockingly all green... Edit: The status page is no longer green
jakub_g 7mo ago
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4
jipbear 7mo ago
Ah finally evidence that it’s down. Their status pages didnt say anything. Thank you!
AznHisoka 7mo ago
Right at the precise moment I decide to git pull!
kdazzle 7mo ago
My god. I hope the constant refreshing helps. Seems like it would be increasingly difficult to make a case for switching to GitHub.
utf_8x 7mo ago
GitLab seems to be having some issues too https://status.gitlab.com/ https://status.gitlab.com/
dr0idattack 7mo ago
Last time this happened, GPT 5.3-codex was released...
lelandbatey 7mo ago
Github continuing their recent trend of less-than-one 9 of availability: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ 87.85% of across-the-board availability for the month of February. Maybe March will be even lower.
- incomplete 7mo ago
  came here to post that community github status page, thanks for beating me to it! feels like it's a race to the bottom here, and gitlab is starting to look even more appealing as the 9s disappear from github's uptime numbers.
ccleve 7mo ago
I'm wondering how many millions in developer productivity are being lost every minute.
flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
I am not a heavy user of GitHub at the moment, but it seems like every week or two there's an outage.
shimman 7mo ago
[flagged]
- madeofpalk 7mo ago
  Is there anything to point towards Github's (not so) recent issues being related to AI coding? Github's always had reliability issues. They tend to have these 'seasons' of downtime. It's been like this for years.
  - edgyquant 7mo ago
    No reason to assume all slop is ai generated
  - shimman 7mo ago
    Well yes, the CEO of GitHub said "embrace AI or get out:" https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac... Unless you're unemployed ATM, what is happening throughout corporate America is forcing employees to use LLM tools or get fired. It's hard to not see the connection, big tech offerings were already shit before but since all these mandates it's gotten noticeability worse. You don't get to back away from the LLM damage when you were making the media rounds telling everyone to use these tools. This is a direct result of using these tools: decaying code, rotten services, and putrid responses.
    - madeofpalk 7mo ago
      So, no?
  - anonymousab 7mo ago
    GitHub itself was reorged under the CoreAI division recently, I think. For the stability issues, I see it more as a potential tenuous link between having to hyper accelerate the Azure moves with a "you have no excuses because AI makes everything easier" sentiment from above, and then the more obvious literal situation of devs maybe vibecoding infra changes. No evidence of the latter, just the likelihood, given the incentives.
pluc 7mo ago
That's ok Copilot will fix it
ChrisArchitect 7mo ago
Some more discussion: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237088)
cableshaft 7mo ago
It's working intermittently for me, so not entirely down. But yeah I did notice issues, enough to look on DownDetector and check here.
arionmiles 7mo ago
I seriously believe that it's not that GitHub is run on AI-generated code that's responsible for these slew of outages recently. I think it's crumbling under the load of a significantly large amount of AI-enabled coding with users raising PRs and pushing content a lot more than previously. Obviously, if this is true, the team at GitHub is failing to scale their infra to meet the workload demands.

52 points by Sytten 7mo ago

Another day, another Github outage. Files are not loading, cannot create repos, etc.

sync 7mo ago

As of the time of writing, nothing on the status page either :( https://www.githubstatus.com https://www.githubstatus.com

shahahmed 7mo ago
Updog tracks this via Datadog logs - https://updog.ai/status/github https://updog.ai/status/github
- utf_8x 7mo ago
  No wonder they don't publish an availability percentage. If I was a business customer paying for GitHub I would be very upset with the availability lately.
  - lelandbatey 7mo ago
    Someone built an archive of Github statuses to show aggregate uptime, last month and this month Github's uptime is below 90%, not even one "nine" of availability: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ 87% uptime for Github in February 2026. They've got to get it together.
    - jcgrillo 7mo ago
      They only have to get it together if the churn impacts their bottom line. If they aren't losing strategic customers the uptime is good enough.

utf_8x 7mo ago

Actions are failing and starting new actions results in a 500 error... The status page is shockingly all green... Edit: The status page is no longer green

jakub_g 7mo ago

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4

jipbear 7mo ago

Ah finally evidence that it’s down. Their status pages didnt say anything. Thank you!

AznHisoka 7mo ago

Right at the precise moment I decide to git pull!

kdazzle 7mo ago

My god. I hope the constant refreshing helps. Seems like it would be increasingly difficult to make a case for switching to GitHub.

utf_8x 7mo ago

GitLab seems to be having some issues too https://status.gitlab.com/ https://status.gitlab.com/

dr0idattack 7mo ago

Last time this happened, GPT 5.3-codex was released...

lelandbatey 7mo ago

Github continuing their recent trend of less-than-one 9 of availability: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ 87.85% of across-the-board availability for the month of February. Maybe March will be even lower.

incomplete 7mo ago
came here to post that community github status page, thanks for beating me to it! feels like it's a race to the bottom here, and gitlab is starting to look even more appealing as the 9s disappear from github's uptime numbers.

ccleve 7mo ago

I'm wondering how many millions in developer productivity are being lost every minute.

flopsamjetsam 7mo ago

I am not a heavy user of GitHub at the moment, but it seems like every week or two there's an outage.

shimman 7mo ago

[flagged]

madeofpalk 7mo ago
Is there anything to point towards Github's (not so) recent issues being related to AI coding? Github's always had reliability issues. They tend to have these 'seasons' of downtime. It's been like this for years.
- edgyquant 7mo ago
  No reason to assume all slop is ai generated
- shimman 7mo ago
  Well yes, the CEO of GitHub said "embrace AI or get out:" https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac... Unless you're unemployed ATM, what is happening throughout corporate America is forcing employees to use LLM tools or get fired. It's hard to not see the connection, big tech offerings were already shit before but since all these mandates it's gotten noticeability worse. You don't get to back away from the LLM damage when you were making the media rounds telling everyone to use these tools. This is a direct result of using these tools: decaying code, rotten services, and putrid responses.
  - madeofpalk 7mo ago
    So, no?
- anonymousab 7mo ago
  GitHub itself was reorged under the CoreAI division recently, I think. For the stability issues, I see it more as a potential tenuous link between having to hyper accelerate the Azure moves with a "you have no excuses because AI makes everything easier" sentiment from above, and then the more obvious literal situation of devs maybe vibecoding infra changes. No evidence of the latter, just the likelihood, given the incentives.

pluc 7mo ago

That's ok Copilot will fix it

ChrisArchitect 7mo ago

Some more discussion: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237088)

cableshaft 7mo ago

It's working intermittently for me, so not entirely down. But yeah I did notice issues, enough to look on DownDetector and check here.

arionmiles 7mo ago

I seriously believe that it's not that GitHub is run on AI-generated code that's responsible for these slew of outages recently. I think it's crumbling under the load of a significantly large amount of AI-enabled coding with users raising PRs and pushing content a lot more than previously. Obviously, if this is true, the team at GitHub is failing to scale their infra to meet the workload demands.