Hacker News: featherless

New comment by featherless in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

featherless — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:35:48 +0000

I had steered away for a long while thinking it was subpar to GitHub, but it's really come a long way. Especially running it on a local network it's noticeably faster in every way than GitHub, and I'm able to build complex gitlab workflows with custom runners that are fully configurable and have effectively 100% uptime and no queues.

New comment by featherless in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

featherless — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:28:10 +0000

I migrated my entire workflow onto a personal GitLab instance after the whole "pay a fee to bring your own bags to the grocery store" GitHub Actions pricing shenanigans earlier this year.

Best decision ever.

100% uptime. 100% less stress with each of the product/pricing changes over the past few months.

Was also able to build my own GitHub Copilot equivalent that auto-reviews MRs interactively.

Highly recommend it.

New comment by featherless in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

featherless — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:01:34 +0000

I got openclaw to compete Qwen3-Coder-Next vs Minimax M2.1 simultaneously on my Mac Studio 512GB: https://clutch-assistant.github.io/model-comparison-report/

An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg

featherless — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:07:17 +0000

Article URL: https://jeffverkoeyen.com/blog/2026/01/13/WYSIWYG/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603947

Points: 32

# Comments: 31

New comment by featherless in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

featherless — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:19:31 +0000

Except most of those services don't have at-home equivalents that you can increasingly run on your own hardware.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:47:01 +0000

It would be silly to write a new one today. Plenty of open source + indy options to invest into instead.

For scheduled work, cron + a log sink is fine, and for pull request CI there's plenty of alternatives that don't charge by the minute to use your own hardware. The irony here, unfortunately, is that the latter requires I move entirely off of GitHub now.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:44:06 +0000

Charging people to maintain a row in a database by the minute is top-tier, I agree.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:01:37 +0000

Do you feel that orchestration runs on a per-minute basis?

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:23:21 +0000

This is not investment in CI/CD. I already did that, by buying and investing in my own hardware, my own workflows, my own caching solution.

This is like if Dropbox started charging you money for the files you have stored on your backup hard drives.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:32:10 +0000

No. It is not worth a time-scaled cost each month for them to start a job on my machines and store a few megabytes of log files.

I'd happily pay a fixed monthly fee for this service, as I already do for GitHub.

The problem here is that this is like a grocery store charging me money for every bag I bring to bag my own groceries.

> But at $140 a month, how much time is that worth investing?

It's not $140/month. It's $140/month today, when my company is still relatively small and it's just me. This cost will scale as my company scales, in a way that is completely bonkers.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:11:56 +0000

Won't those other systems create a cost that is metered in terms of run-time?

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:39:17 +0000

As a solo Founder who recently invested in self-hosted build infrastructure because my company runs ~70,000 minutes/month, this change is going to add an extra $140/month for hardware I own. And that's just today; this number will only go up over time.

I am not open to GitHub extracting usage-based rent for me using my own hardware.

This is the first time in my 15+ years of using GitHub that I'm seriously evaluating alternative products to move my company to.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:25:16 +0000

Just wrote about my approach yesterday: https://jeffverkoeyen.com/blog/2025/12/15/SlotWarmedCaching/

tl;dr uses a local slot-based cache that is pre-warmed after every merge to main, taking Sidecar builds from ~10-15 minutes to <60 seconds.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:30:01 +0000

I found that implementing a local cache on the runners has been helpful. Ingress/egress on local network is hella slow, especially when each build has ~10-20GB of artifacts to manage.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:24:59 +0000

I run a local Valhalla build cluster to power the https://sidecar.clutch.engineering routing engine. The cluster runs daily and takes a significant amount of wall-clock time to build the entire planet. That's about 50% of my CI time; the other 50% is presubmits + App Store builds for Sidecar + CANStudio / ELMCheck.

Using GitHub actions to coordinate the Valhalla builds was a nice-to-have, but this is a deal-breaker for my pull request workflows.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:20:48 +0000

There's absolutely no way that the cost scales with the usage of my own hardware. I cannot fathom this change in any way or form. Livid.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:15:19 +0000

Genuinely curious about this as well. It's a major bummer that self-hosted infra can't be used to validate GitHub Pull Requests now; basically means I'll have to move my entire workflow off of GitHub so that everything can be integrated reasonably again.

New comment by featherless in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

featherless — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:08:55 +0000

This is absolutely bananas; for my own CI workflow I'll have to pay $140+/month now just to run my own hardware.

Will Anyone Read This?

featherless — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:08:34 +0000

Article URL: https://sidecar.clutch.engineering/news/2025/11/26/will-anyone-read-this/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065518

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Why your speedometer is lying to you (in a good way)

featherless — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 03:23:35 +0000

Article URL: https://sidecar.clutch.engineering/news/2025/11/22/Why-your-speedometer-is-lying-to-you/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46020484

Points: 3

# Comments: 0