Not a fan of defending GitHub, but TBH them launching GithubActions made me abandon all other CI platforms I was using in the past, I even left GitLab just for that.

Not sure what you’re intending to show.

That page shows 99.5%+ uptime across all 11 of the services provided.

To do that at a small company world cost significant money.

To have it integrated and cheap for all those small shops is very valuable to them.

It shows 98.3% for actions for me

https://ibb.co/PsMkpJFY

99.5% uptime is nothing significant...

Yeah but it's sufficient for the largest part of CI needs. Most people are making CRUD apps, 6 9s reliability is not required there.

not really, I've ran into Github Action downtime and you can't run tests or anything so either you wait or you just let stuff merge

and again don't know how this is acceptable in 2026, for a paid CI service

and I'm not talking about 6 9s, I mean, 99.5% is terrible

A 99.5 means over one year you will need to wait about 40 hours total for the issue to be solved. What kind of high pressure crud app are you making where this is a problem?

we have technology, 99.5% is embarrassing for a company like Microsoft

it's 2026, not 2016

and that 40 hr may be that over 40 days you just have to randomly stop working if you depend on GHA for something

and why are other services not struggling like this?

I never said I paid, I was referring to my opensource repos.

Did I just read an HN comment written by an AI? Looks sycophantic enough

I believe that is "The Joke"

You are absolutely right! It's not just that you spotted it, it's how you pointed it out that make your comment upvote worthy

Can proper Result/Option types be created for Go now?

You can do pipelined option/result manipulation now, but without sum types/pattern matching it's not going to be quite as useful as Rust's.

Why?

Because they already censor what businesses can use their payment preprocessing / stripe.

But how's this related to melatonin? Did you use it on those 7 years to progressively switch?

Am I the only one thinking this tweet is just a word salad with a lot of sauces and condiments?

Yeah I got basically nothing from reading it.

I kind of wondered if he was contractually obligated to offer up some kind of statement, for PR or something, didn’t really care much, and a quick garbled post on X was all he could be bothered with (plus the newspaper interview or whatever)

Word salad for regulatory capture.

Well, if he had proposed more concrete plans for what that body might do... but yeah, it seems too abstract that indeed sounds like a bureaucrat wanting to wrap everything under a big pile of paperwork.

Or give them a dedicated user and you don't lose precious CPU cycles to run a VM/container: http://github.com/tarsgate/skynot

Yeah! This way TS at runtime would also benefit from the speedup, not just the compilation.

> Python is strongly typed

Get the f*ck outta here.

I shared your fear some weeks/months ago so I was always using my harness in the cloud. However, latency started to become an issue when I traveled to other countries where I needed a VPN... so I ended up cooking skynot to be able to trust running my harness in my own computer: https://github.com/tarsgate/skynot (PRs welcome if you want to add support for another harness different than Pi)