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Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by GitHub users through our website.

• Website Down (57%)
• Errors (30%)
• Sign in (14%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Inverness	Website Down	3 days ago
Quito	Sign in	4 days ago
Junín	Errors	4 days ago
Guadalajara	Errors	4 days ago
Paris	Website Down	4 days ago
Quito	Errors	4 days ago

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GitHub Issues Reports

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  Modern Web Development (@TypeScriptFTW) reported 6 minutes ago

  @realamlug And a GitHub alternative would go down even more frequently, if it had the same, massive, ever-growing load from all the AI pull requests.

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  Rain Echo (@jamesmusk345316) reported 8 minutes ago

  GitHub went from 1.4B commits/month in April to 2.9B. Then came a 7h 47m outage. Doubling that kind of load in a few months has to be an infrastructure nightmare.

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  Aayush Giri (@AayushStack) reported 9 minutes ago

  one recent security paper looked at malicious instructions hidden inside github issues and found that current coding agents can be surprisingly susceptible to them. that's a pretty uncomfortable thought. your agent doesn't just read your code anymore. it reads your environment.

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  OomDagobert (@OomDagobertDuck) reported 11 minutes ago

  GALA surges nearly 30% back to €0.00163! 🚀 After a 15% drop from a 2B token panic dump on GalaChain, the price is bouncing hard. Devs successfully deployed the mainnet drain fix on GitHub and paused cross-chain bridges, freezing the sell pressure. $GALA

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  Colin O'Brien (@InsanityBit) reported 13 minutes ago

  Things that won't change supply chain security meaningfully: 1. "Don't use package repositories" Attackers will just distribute via github or whatever your defacto platform becomes. 2. "Don't support build scripts" Attackers will use `./configure` scripts, makefiles, etc. 3. "Have a bigger stdlib" Literally will do nothing, python's stdlib is famously large and attacks have happened. Worst suggestion ever btw. 4. "Don't install new dependencies, use cooldowns" Attackers will yank versions or issue critical CVEs. This is the SMS 2FA of supply chain mitigations. 5. "Audit your dependencies" Developers are not in a position to do this and tooling does not make it easy. AI helps though so this is by far the best suggestion, but we need better tooling support.

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  BSKR (@buskerrrrrr) reported 18 minutes ago

  @iirfan pretty sure thats already issue #16362 on their github, no pan/zoom on the graph view

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  Naveen Gumaste (@Z0D404) reported 20 minutes ago

  🚨 BREAKING: Bun 1.4 is here, and it’s a massive upgrade! - Reduces memory usage by up to 35% - Adds 1,517 tests from the Node.js test suite - Fixes over 2,900 GitHub issues - Cuts idle CPU usage by 5× - Starts up to 50% faster on Linux And the biggest news: Bun has been rewritten in Rust! Bun 1.4 isn’t just an update; it’s a major rewrite. 🔥

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  Rahul.solace (@rahul6904) reported 20 minutes ago

  @moraes_c_ can you please look i to this and reslove this issue , ialso contact the github support by mail

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  Nikita 🇪🇺 (@nikitajanockin) reported 21 minutes ago

  @samlambert At the very same time we are crying when GitHub is down

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  The Whizz AI (@TheWhizzAI) reported 22 minutes ago

  SOMEONE IS CUTTING HIS AI BILL BY RENDERING TEXT INTO PICTURES BEFORE THE MODEL READS IT text is priced per token. images are not. it started as a joke skill that made your coding agent answer like a caveman so it would stop writing paragraphs. the sequel went after the other half of the bill, the enormous pile of stuff your agent quietly re-reads on every single turn. > the original skill is still the fun one, the agent answers in clipped fragments while code, commands and error strings stay byte for byte exact, and his benchmark table averages 65% fewer tokens out > hes upfront that some of that 65% is just what "answer concisely" would have bought you, and hes rerunning the benchmark with a terse control arm to prove which is which > the new piece is a local proxy compressing what goes up, json keeps keys and error subtrees, logs keep stack traces and drop the info noise, code keeps imports and signatures and elides the bodies > 33.2% fewer provider reported input tokens across a pinned 54 run claude code benchmark, with all 18 exact answer checks still passing > pixel mode is the one nobody sees coming, dense text slabs get rendered to png pages, and a 63.7k character tool catalog plus a 93k character log went 55,413 text tokens to 11,402 image tokens > it only fires when it measures smaller, sparse short line code is honestly not profitable and the gate declines it out loud with a reason > the original bytes land in a store on your disk before anything lossy ships, and the agent pulls them back with caveman_retrieve > caveman learn reads months of your real agent history locally and ranks where your tokens are actually going, with a one line fix behind each row its called caveman, its mit for the skill and bsl for the proxy runtime, and it works in claude code, codex, gemini, cursor, cline and thirty odd others. what makes it trustworthy is that every number wears a label, the local estimates say inferred and only real traffic through eval gates gets called verified, and he says outright that pixel mode loses money on sparse code. 99,500 stars and another 309 in the last day, sitting on github trending. everyone tried to make the bill smaller by making the model smaller. he made the conversation smaller instead, and the funniest version of that idea turned out to be a picture of the words. link in the comments below.↓

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  Paul Boag (@boagworld) reported 25 minutes ago

  The migration timeline most people expect for a website rebuild is at least a year. Sometimes longer if you're moving off an old CMS and the codebase is a mess. Then you run into teams like Boulevard, who just rebuilt their entire site in three months. Moved from Contentful to Next.js static pages, migrated off Unbounce for landing pages, set up GitHub branching and PR reviews. All of it. How? They used AI-assisted development tools (V0, powered by Claude) and stopped treating the migration like a traditional engineering project. Nesting and re-nesting components, building complex abstractions, spending weeks on architecture decisions. Instead, prompt-based development. Fast iteration. Refine as you go. The interesting part isn't the speed. It's that it worked. The site's faster, easier to maintain, and actual non-developers can make changes without touching code. Turns out the slow part of most migrations isn't actually the building. It's the overthinking. #WebDevelopment #AI #Development

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  Sondre Bjellås (@SondreB) reported 27 minutes ago

  I'm fairly disappointed with the quality of apps by @OpenAI. With ability to user their own models, here is a few very hard to understand issues: How come adding credits to my business account just says credits/month? What is a credit? How much is that? @github shows this is dollars. Also look at this screenshot, this UI feels like it was made by a junior developer fresh out of school. Zero padding, wrong colors, low contrasts. You're a billion dollars company with thousands of employees? I know you're working on Premium seats for Business, but how come that has taken this much time? I had to Google, which uses Gemini model, to learn that 1 OpenAI credit is 1 USD. So my credit balance shows NOK, but credits is actually in USD... Next step, I set a per seat limit fairly high, my weekly usage is at 1% left - will it be able to continue working now... Let's see. "You've hit your usage limit." No. Auto-reload it is, also shows credit/currency. That worked, back in business.

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  Subham (@super_tibs) reported 30 minutes ago

  GitHub's Aug 17 outage is dominating HN. What happened: A DB misconfig took down GitHub for hours. Why it matters: Builders relying entirely on cloud *** were blocked from shipping. What changes: Solo founders must keep local mirrors. Decentralize your critical infra.

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  Hareesh Vemasani (@HVemasani) reported 31 minutes ago

  If you want to start a startup: Claude = coding. ($20/mo) Supabase = backend. (Free) Vercel = deploying. (Free) Namecheap = domain. ($12/yr) ProductBridge = customer support + feedback (Free) Stripe = payments. (2.9%/transaction) GitHub = version control. (Free) Resend = emails. (Free) Clerk = auth. (Free) Cloudflare = DNS. (Free) PostHog = analytics. (Free) Sentry = error tracking. (Free) Upstash = Redis. (Free) Pinecone = vector DB. (Free) Total monthly cost to run a startup: ~$20

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  Roy (@GabePdx) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Vlad_GitHub @github Could you please start with isolating GitHub cloud enterprise users to an isolated instance of GitHub. So a public outage doesn’t take out all your large enterprise customers.

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  CryptoPatrick (@cryptopatrick) reported 35 minutes ago

  @avrldotdev I looked at this a while a go. You can create a third agent, a dockerized "tester" with sole UNIX level write permission to test folders, responsible for writing property based tests from planner actions. The tester publishes one test suite via an API, and keeps one test suite private. The executor, dockerized so that it cannot interact with broader infra and has zero read or write permission to the testers test suite, then works until tests pass the test suite exposed by via the API. Once tests pass, the executor signals readiness to the tester with a link to a github repo, the tester pulls the repo and run both the published and its private twst suite. If tests pass then the tester signals readiness to the planner, using the planners API, which requires mTLS authentication between by the planner and tester. If tests fail, then the tester uses the executor's API to signal error category (status: fail, reason: property). To prevent the executor trial-and-erroring a passing test, the tester uses rate limiting by exponential backoff for failed attempts. By preventing the executor from talking to the planner (using mTLS), we "ensure" that the exwcutor cannot masquerade as the tester agent to try and bypass it. It's clearly a bit cumbersome to setup. I'm sure there are much simpler solutions. I think I have an orchestrator project which spins up the setup, but I haven't used it for anything to test its usefulness (too busy with math and school).

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  ⚡ Marshall ⚡ (@MarshallsFolly) reported 37 minutes ago

  @virgilspath Me and bro 20 replies deep in the GitHub issue

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  Primož Ajdišek (@Bigpod98) reported 38 minutes ago

  @ellie_huxtable beyond open source github really doesnt have much point, the whole social coding thing is kinda bullshit. problem with replacing github is hosting and discovery and the fact that everyone is on it same with so many entrenched services that have BETTER open alternatives

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  mefuri (@mefuri_k) reported 38 minutes ago

  @lukeisandberg thanks but going back with webpack somehow made it worse, tried with the flag after reading some github issues and official docs. It runs on turbopack now though. It run smoothly again now after banging my head into the table many times.

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  Artyem Sokovtsev (@ArtyemSokovtsev) reported 39 minutes ago

  @github @OpenAIDevs After the recent outage, GPT-4.6 Sol Max Effort quality dropped dramatically. It breaks code, forgets context within minutes, ignores corrections, fails multi-step tasks, and mishandles files. Yesterday it failed a simple Rich Text edit in an HTML table. May switch away.

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  Shaishav Pidadi (@shaivpidadi) reported 42 minutes ago

  @JasonBud - Keeps Crashing on previews - Github connection has some issues - Cant download source code (Most frustrating, Neither form download button nor with chat)

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  Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha (@matchaman11) reported 43 minutes ago

  @utkarhs @mizanxali @github Raised a ticket but don't know when it will be resolved. Is there anything which can help with this issue

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  Luke The Dev (@iamlukethedev) reported 45 minutes ago

  @vicentee97 @jrwut It was because GitHub was down and experiencing issues

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  Voltage (Fella) (@SpoogemanGhost) reported 48 minutes ago

  @ns123abc I caught Claude Code going through my entire /root directory on my Linux server, including the contents of the databases I had there, contents of all files and of each github repository I had cloned! It then judged what kind of data use I had, and auto-sent it to Anthropic. 😡

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  Phineas J. Spratt (@alongtheway) reported 53 minutes ago

  @HolliTheNord Cursor with Grok is cooking right now. Microsoft owns GitHub, the code repository that almost everyone uses, and it went down for about 7-8 hours the other day. The same day Cursor introduced its code repository hosting. Microsoft is overrun with Indians so that explains a lot across the board there, but I'm betting on Elon's money and investment in Cursor is solid.

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  Hjörtur (@hjortureh) reported 57 minutes ago

  Coding is exploding. After Github outage last week: Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Also hearing people are waiting mininum a month to get an app into the Apple App Store. Your mom is coding now.

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  The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 (@startupideaspod) reported 57 minutes ago

  Skills are going to add real enterprise value to companies. Every business already writes SOPs so employees do a task the right way. A skill is the same document, written for an agent. A good skill: - Trains an agent on a task that actually makes the business money. - Runs the same way for everyone, not only the person who wrote it. - Costs nothing to hand to the next hire. Right now most skills are sitting siloed on your team's laptops. Fix that by pushing them to your company's GitHub.

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  Bash (@bashirbuilds) reported 59 minutes ago

  GitHub went down for hours this week. APIs, Actions, pull requests, Copilot and authentication were affected. Here's the part SaaS founders should think about: If your product depends on GitHub, knowing "GitHub is having an incident" isn't enough. You need to know: → Which part of MY product stopped working? → What are MY customers experiencing? → Is it still broken? → When has it actually recovered? Third-party downtime becomes your downtime surprisingly fast.

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  Mike Vegeto (@ZECTBynmo) reported 1 hour ago

  @burkeholland @github I tried it for the first time ever a few days ago. As someone with a lot of experience with AI tools I was stunned that a model powered by GPT 5.6 could be so bad. Copilot has problems that no other tools have - hallucinations, bad instruction following, etc. Shockingly bad

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  GTA 6 HQ (@GTA6_HQ) reported 1 hour ago

  Rockstar has finally taken action against the user who leaked GTA 6 gameplay. - The leaker made the stupid mistake of using their real name on GitHub. - They haven’t been active for almost 12 hours. - Most of their main sites have been taken down. They are officially f*cked. Rockstar is going to make a serious example out of them.