Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues

Sytten 51 points 27 comments March 03, 2026
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Another day, another Github outage. Files are not loading, cannot create repos, etc.

Discussion Highlights (15 comments)

sync

As of the time of writing, nothing on the status page either :( https://www.githubstatus.com

utf_8x

Actions are failing and starting new actions results in a 500 error... The status page is shockingly all green... Edit: The status page is no longer green

jakub_g

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4

jipbear

Ah finally evidence that it’s down. Their status pages didnt say anything. Thank you!

AznHisoka

Right at the precise moment I decide to git pull!

kdazzle

My god. I hope the constant refreshing helps. Seems like it would be increasingly difficult to make a case for switching to GitHub.

utf_8x

GitLab seems to be having some issues too https://status.gitlab.com/

dr0idattack

Last time this happened, GPT 5.3-codex was released...

lelandbatey

Github continuing their recent trend of less-than-one 9 of availability: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ 87.85% of across-the-board availability for the month of February. Maybe March will be even lower.

ccleve

I'm wondering how many millions in developer productivity are being lost every minute.

flopsamjetsam

I am not a heavy user of GitHub at the moment, but it seems like every week or two there's an outage.

pluc

That's ok Copilot will fix it

ChrisArchitect

Some more discussion: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237088 )

cableshaft

It's working intermittently for me, so not entirely down. But yeah I did notice issues, enough to look on DownDetector and check here.

arionmiles

I seriously believe that it's not that GitHub is run on AI-generated code that's responsible for these slew of outages recently. I think it's crumbling under the load of a significantly large amount of AI-enabled coding with users raising PRs and pushing content a lot more than previously. Obviously, if this is true, the team at GitHub is failing to scale their infra to meet the workload demands.

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