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Github Actions introducing a per-minute fee for self-hosted runners

Github have just sent out an email announcing a $0.002/minute fee for self-hosted runners. Just ran the numbers, and for us, that's close to $3.5k a month extra on our GitHub bill. https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/   submitted by   /u/markmcw...

Snowflake Major Outage

Article URL: https://status.snowflake.com/incidents/xdxj4klf7sc5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286224 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

The return of 8GB RAM laptops (RAM mayhem) - Good luck with your Service Desk

As everyone already probably know, RAM situation is only getting worse. This means that in the near future a lot of companies will be relying on entry-level workstations (laptops) featuring the absolute minimum amount of RAM. Many of us are aware what happens once you run Windows 11 with Office...

Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline

Article URL: https://statusgator.com/blog/scrapers-take-down-github-december-11-outage-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248021 Points: 10 # Comments: 7

Weekly 'I made a useful thing' Thread - December 12, 2025

There is a great deal of user-generated content out there, from scripts and software to tutorials and videos, but we've generally tried to keep that off of the front page due to the volume and as a result of community feedback. There's also a great deal of content out there that violates our...

Terraform Provider Registry Outage

Article URL: https://status.hashicorp.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234406 Points: 1 # Comments: 2

Apple Services Experiencing Outage

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223577 Points: 131 # Comments: 65

Patch Tuesday Megathread (2025-12-09)

Hello r/sysadmin, I'm u/AutoModerator, and welcome to this month's Patch Megathread! This is the (mostly) safe location to talk about the latest patches, updates, and releases. We put this thread into place to help gather all the information about this month's updates: What is fixed, what broke,...

A Government Shutdown and a 1913 Data Assumption Caused an Outage in 2025

Article URL: https://heyoncall.com/blog/total-real-returns-outage-government-shutdown Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195975 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

There's nothing on health.aws.amazon.com but I'm getting reports of performance failure on systems that utilize AWS...Downdetector is also recording failure reports: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722733 Points: 85 #...

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649178 Points: 1018 # Comments: 654

Ask HN: AWS Down?

AWS dash is all greeen for US-WEST-* but we're experiencing problems and downdetector seems to agree.https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39608702 Points: 14 # Comments: 9

How should this sub respond to reddit's api changes, part 2

We stand with the disabled users of reddit and in our community. Starting July 1, Reddit's API policy blind/visually impaired communities will be more dependent on sighted people for moderation. When Reddit says they are whitelisting accessibility apps for the disabled, they are not telling the...

'Getting into DevOps'

What is DevOps? AWS has a great article that outlines DevOps as a work environment where development and operations teams are no longer "siloed", but instead work together across the entire application lifecycle -- from development and test to deployment to operations -- and automate...

The US, UK, and EU Want to Regulate Cloud Reliability. Is That Necessary?

Article URL: https://metrist.io/blog/the-us-uk-and-eu-want-to-regulate-cloud-reliability-is-that-necessary/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513184 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

AWS boosted cloud reliability in 2014

Article URL: https://gigaom.com/2015/01/22/aws-boosted-cloud-reliability-in-2014-new-stats-show/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8929857 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

To the BBC: I’m sorry about Cloud Reliability

Article URL: http://blog.mimecast.com/2011/05/bbc-im-sorry-about-cloud-reliability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2575809 Points: 2 # Comments: 2