Hacker News: maccard

New comment by maccard in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

maccard — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:36:07 +0000

For a very long time this year Claude was down multiple times a week. Can’t speak for OpenAI

New comment by maccard in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

maccard — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:34:36 +0000

GitHub’s reliability issues started earlier than the boom in agentic coding they talk about. I have comments on here from 2025 talking about massive outages with actions and issues.

New comment by maccard in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

maccard — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:22:26 +0000

I disagree. They’ve been struggling with up time for a long time, this seems more related to their move to azure than anything else.

It also shows there’s a fundamental problem with their architecture or their development pattern to have these sorts of issues so frequently.

New comment by maccard in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

maccard — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:17:20 +0000

I disagree. The integrated workflow of actions, issues, code review and source control is a huge productivity win. There’s a reason people chase a “single pane of glass”.

New comment by maccard in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

maccard — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:50:25 +0000

0.5% downtime is an hour a week. If that happens for 10 minutes a day at 11pm PT it doesn’t matter, if it happens for half a working day once a month, it’s a disaster.

New comment by maccard in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

maccard — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:45:59 +0000

That effectively means “stop using GitHub” though. Which is definitely worth considering but also kind of insane to think as the best option.

New comment by maccard in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

maccard — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:36:54 +0000

I’m not working for a small team anymore but I can say this would have gotten us to use Buildkite again.

I think an in between tier would help, as it’s 4.5x the cost of GitHub per person, plus the cost of the runners. The idea of spending $42/mo on GitHub plus $180 on buuldkite is a hard sell, but the economics aren’t there.

New comment by maccard in "Incident with Github.com"

maccard — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:25:15 +0000

This is all well and good until you need a cache, or credentials, or to pass data between steps, or to parallelize across runners.

New comment by maccard in "Incident with Github.com"

maccard — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:23:53 +0000

We ran a mirror of our git repo on codecommit when things started to get really hairy, and pointed out CI to that instead of GitHub. It’s still a moving target though as we were using GitHub releases to publish to. We replaced that with an s3 bucket and mirrored _those_ to GH via actions, which had the added benefit of only failing when GitHub was down!

New comment by maccard in "Incident with Github.com"

maccard — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:04:50 +0000

I want to second build kite - it’s an excellent piece of tech and is best described as “sane Jenkins” as a compliment. My only gripe is the pricing - it’s not designed for “small teams”. But I’d use it again in a heartbeat.

New comment by maccard in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

maccard — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:08:08 +0000

You use a different browser, like Firefox.

New comment by maccard in "Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results"

maccard — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:55:11 +0000

Can you share some posts of good examples of prompts and comparisons?

New comment by maccard in "Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results"

maccard — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:54:55 +0000

Great - can you show us some examples of these? Every time this topic comes up here it’s full of people saying “you’re using it wrong” and apparently it should just be intuitive. Yet all the material is like this.

New comment by maccard in "an ambiguity in C89 which will never be fixed"

maccard — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:46:40 +0000

What language doesn’t have its own set of absolutely monstrous footguns? https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs - https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31216080 - https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-08-16-go-pitfalls/ are all examples of pitfalls of a few languages.

I’m not going to defend all of the ones C(++) has but stuff like deref’ing null or integer overflow or out of bounds access has its roots in sanity, it just looks insane today. There are tools for many/most of these and if you’re not using them you’re doing it wrong.

New comment by maccard in "Pixel Watch 5"

maccard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:37:26 +0000

I find the whole “get the thing close enough to the reader” action to be difficult with the watch.

New comment by maccard in "Pixel Watch 5"

maccard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:36:54 +0000

I’m not using it for live-live data, or for mapping recovery times, I’m just using it to gauge 120 vs 140 vs 175 heart rate while running

New comment by maccard in "Pixel Watch 5"

maccard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:35:49 +0000

Not the person you replied to but - I do my best to disable as many notifications as possible. It’s just DMs, group chats, email and banking.

New comment by maccard in "Pixel Watch 5"

maccard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:33:37 +0000

Is that really new compared to the friend who will look at their phone every time it pings, or my parents who will stop mid conversation and answer a phone call?

New comment by maccard in "I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program"

maccard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:32:35 +0000

> ordering via the app can help a little...

I’ve used the app once - it was slower than ordering at the kiosk, I was bombarded by ads and promos, and they didn’t pre cook my food.

New comment by maccard in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

maccard — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:01:34 +0000

I had a flip phone. It was silly, and a waste of money, but I’d buy another one. It was fun, quirky and a bit different to the general black rounded rectangle.