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GitHub is having some major issues right now…

2026-04-30 Science & Technology
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Get the free 80,000 Hours career guide - https://80000hours.org/fireship GitHub is easily the most important website in software engineering but a wave of recent issues has led several 10x developers to jump ship. What's going on? #coding #programming #github #tech 🔖 Topics Covered - The rise of GitHub - GitHub uptime issues - GitHub's week from hell - Why Ghostty is leaving GitHub - GitHub alternatives 📚 Resources - https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev

Top Comments (10)

@prathamuser 2026-04-30

microsoft:- 30% of our code is written by ai, yeah we can see it Edit- Mom i am famous

5.3k 48 replies
@ZZ-sn7li 2026-04-30

Thanks god I use "New folder (2)" every time I need to push something new to my code

2.1k 18 replies
@red_amoguss 2026-04-30

Imagine having your repositories locked out - This message was brought to you by the self-hosted gang

1.6k 36 replies
@Lifeandlogic 2026-04-30

Microsoft then : developers, developers .... Microsoft now : agent, agent, agent, ....

1.5k 13 replies
@Syrigano 2026-04-30

Blink Twice if the private equity is holding you at gunpoint.

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@HenriqueMazer 2026-04-30

1:46 forgot to mention “leak env variables and secret keys”

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@spicy-comments 2026-04-30

The situation is so bad that Ghostty decide to ghost GitHub.

700 3 replies
@DavidBreneisen 2026-04-30

4:20 That's actually impressive that they managed to hire a CTO with zero repos.

519 7 replies
@Crophixx 2026-04-30

"copilot fix github, no more errors, it's serious now!"

216 5 replies
@VValkyrie7 2026-04-30

I like how in 2026 we have no idea whether this is a cyber attack or just ai

148 4 replies

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