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  Guri Saroy (@HeyGurisaroy) reported 2 minutes ago

  » claude = code ($20/mo) » supabase = db + auth (free) » vercel = deploy (free) » stripe = payments (2.9% + 30c) » resend = emails (free) » posthog = analytics (free) » sentry = errors (free) » cloudflare = domain + dns (~$10/yr) » github = version control (free) real cost month one: $20 everything else is a nice-to-have you add once you have users.

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  Ameyy (@internetDevv) reported 2 minutes ago

  GitHub Outage on August 17, 2026 GitHub suffered a major global outage lasting nearly 8 hours (13:28 – 21:15 UTC). Root Cause: - Network saturation hit load balancers in the Central US region - An Istio sidecar pod reached its concurrency limits and failed to auto scale due to a misconfigured policy - This cascaded into four HAProxy nodes exhausting their capacity - The authentication gateway degraded, causing widespread failures - A latent retry bug in VS Code amplified Copilot traffic by ~10x - Optimistic retry logic and scraping attacks made recovery even slower Meanwhile...... in the middle of the chaos, Cursor dropped Origin, a brand new code hosting platform built as a direct GitHub alternative. It supports full *** workflows, live GitHub repo syncing, and is designed from the ground up for the AI agent era where machines are committing code at insane scale. Perfect (or painful) timing.

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  while agent experience gets somewhat better, bare internet experience is getting worse and worse. news are useless rewrites, paywalls everywhere, bots everywhere, anti-bot "verifying" walls everywhere, your IP is from third world country, how dare you are to come to our precious website, using vpn -- double whammy. no account? goodbye. new account? too recent, go to the spammers corner. github down. give your passport. what's your age? pay money. your credit card is fraud risk. enter your phone, no not like that. can't install that extension anymore. what do you mean download and run executable file? ads, ads, ads. system is checking if this is allowed on your device. drm. install this certificate to open that. access this site is limited from outside. and to that is from inside. that's is porn. this is dangerous. these are for extremists. chat control. retina scan. files scan. for you safety. telemetry. your bandwidth? our bandwidth.

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  Amandeep Singh (@Amandee24524309) reported 13 minutes ago

  @acolombiadev @grok summarise the cause why GitHub was down

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  Shreyash (@WebDevCaptain) reported 17 minutes ago

  @cassidoo Just being sorry won't fix it.😶 Now I have seen that teams have started evaluating GitHub alternatives; Bitbucket, GitLab, and Codeberg are actually being considered by ppl. Some are also self-hosting Gitea just as a backup origin in case GitHub goes down for a day or longer.

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  NULL (@nulldevpi) reported 19 minutes ago

  cursor (now spacex) shipped origin. github, but for the ai editor people. same day github ate itself for 6+ hours. ~20% errors on prs and the api. you do not get to write a joke this clean. reality already did. origin syncs your github repos. you don't have to leave. it's the "stay, i just got another apartment" of *** hosts.

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  Nami (@Namiixbt) reported 20 minutes ago

  Cursor just made a move that could change what an “AI coding tool” actually For years, the setup was simple: > GitHub holds the code 
> Cursor helps you work on it 
> AI agents sit on top But Cursor’s new Origin is basically saying: “What if we own the layer underneath the agents too?” Origin brings repositories, code search, branches, commits, PRs, reviews, checks and merging directly into Cursor And the interesting part isn’t just that Cursor can host your code It’s what happens when the agent and the code live in the same place. An agent can understand the repo → change the code → create a branch → update the PR → handle feedback → push changes → and eventually move toward deployment. That is a very different workflow from: open GitHub → copy context → open IDE → ask AI → push code → go back to GitHub → review → repeat. Cursor is trying to remove those walls. And honestly, the timing makes this even more interesting GitHub has had some pretty painful reliability incidents recently When your entire development workflow depends on one platform, an outage doesn't just mean “the website is down.” It can mean your CI is stuck. > Your PRs are stuck > Your deployments are stuck > Your agents lose access to the environment they depend on So Cursor building its own code-hosting layer suddenly feels less like a random feature and more like a strategic move. But I don't think the biggest story is: “Cursor is competing with GitHub.” The bigger story is: AI agents are starting to need infrastructure built specifically around them. GitHub was designed primarily for humans collaborating on software. Cursor is building toward a world where agents are constantly reading repositories, creating changes, opening PRs, responding to reviews and shipping code. That requires a different architecture. And if Cursor eventually connects: IDE → Agent → Repository → PR → CI → Deployment then the IDE stops being just an editor. It becomes the control center for the entire software-development loop. Origin is still early beta, so there's a lot left to prove. But this is the part I’m watching: The AI coding war may not be about who has the smartest model. It might be about who owns the workflow around the model And Cursor just took a pretty big step down that road.

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  abyee.eth (@0xabyee) reported 23 minutes ago

  gm fam... quick take on @quipnetwork most people are just farming points for the snapshot and calling it a day, but the actual setup here is a bit different from the usual airdrop noise they have a spot rate marketplace for idle quantum and classical compute. you pay for what you run instead of locking into heavy reservations. that alone is a real infra play, not just another token meta on top of that they wrapped MetaMask, Ledger, and Safe with a quantum resistant cosigner. not flashy, but it is the kind of detail people ignore until Q day talk stops being memes and starts being real testnet mining is live too. compete on optimization problems using quantum, CPU, or GPU and earn QUIP incentives. airdrop is confirmed, points are stacking from social tasks, github activity, daily check ins, and referrals. TGE still TBA, mainnet looking at Q2 2026 my read: if this actually makes specialized compute reachable to smaller players instead of just enterprises with massive CapEx, it is more than a mid narrative. if it does not, it is just another convo. either way, DYOR, not shilling, just what I'm seeing @quipnetwork drop an update when you got one, this space moves fast

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  Ramin (@Ramin_Ger) reported 24 minutes ago

  Is @github down again??

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  Kyle Strouse (@MrKyleStrouse) reported 25 minutes ago

  The "5 nines" is 99.999% system uptime, meaning .001% of the time the system is "down" for whatever reason. Over the course of a year that equates to ~5 minutes. GitHub has had 93% uptime over the past 90 days. Extrapolated over a year that is ~25 days of downtime. Why does everything Microsoft touch seem to go to ****?

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  Mohit Bhandari (@MohitDev45) reported 27 minutes ago

  Why github is slow.......

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  asyaffyyngg (@asiyayyay) reported 32 minutes ago

  @the_codewala you should have gone wild: what if github and gitlab both goes down.

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  Ashutosh Maheshwari (@asmah2107) reported 33 minutes ago

  Three takeaways from the GitHub RCA: 1) Retries are a system problem, not a client problem. If every service gets to invent its own backoff and there’s no hard limit at the edge -> one buggy SDK or stale config can 10x your traffic in minutes. You need concurrency caps and global throttles that override client optimism, or the clients will write your next postmortem for you.

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  kevops (@kevvOH_) reported 36 minutes ago

  Devs complaining about GitHub downtime like its YouTube buffering need a reality check YouTube and Meta are built around serving content at insane scale, with advertising funding a huge part of that infrastructure. GitHub is hosting and coordinating your codebases, *** objects, source control, CI/CD, databases, permissions, webhooks, packages, and thousands of integrations. Different business models. Different infrastructure. Different reliability problems. And yes, I'm saying this as someone who isn't paying GitHub a cent

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  Ryan Zander (@ywzander) reported 38 minutes ago

  Instila launches August 24. Most founders don’t have an information problem. They have a “something important got buried in Slack, GitHub, Linear, or Jira” problem. Instila is an AI COO that watches the company context, catches what gets missed, and tells you what actually needs attention. We’re opening it up in 5 days. If you run a software company and want early access, reply “instila” or DM me.