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comment by thejaybird · 2026-06-05 · in Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js

…instead of an equals. That's really, really all it would have taken to fix the issue. And yet https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3157 was opened on 2024-02-17 and was merged on 2025-08-21, a full 18 months (plus a few days) later! It…

comment by rmunn · 2026-04-30 · in Ghostty is leaving GitHub

…should have existed from day 1 too (a very very well known pattern for writing bash scripts)[2] [0] https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 [1] https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3157/changes [2]…

comment by godelski · 2026-03-16 · in Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories

…https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/APIReference/We... ) - [GitHub Actions Runner Releases]( https://github.com/actions/runner/releases ) - [AWS Systems Manager Session Manager]( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/u…

comment by TomWizOverlord · 2026-01-21 · in Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?

…https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/APIReference/We... ) - [GitHub Actions Runner Releases]( https://github.com/actions/runner/releases ) - [AWS Systems Manager Session Manager]( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/u…

comment by TomWizOverlord · 2026-01-21 · in Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?

…Seems like that would have been caught on GitHub's side before that happened, but what do I know! > https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/449 > https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/180160

comment by olivia-banks · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion

…== in a counter... Though in this case GitHub wasn't bearing the cost, it was gaining a profit... https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3157 https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792

comment by godelski · 2025-12-27 · in Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

…or didn't they have a bug in the action runners that would basically cycle the CPU infinitely ? > https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/2380 > https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 Didn't they take years to fix this ? Or its…

comment by bilekas · 2025-12-18 · in GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions

https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 fun video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3_95BZYIVs

comment by neb_b · 2025-12-16 · in Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

Reference: https://github.com/actions/runner?tab=readme-ov-file#note

comment by paulddraper · 2025-12-16 · in Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

I wonder how much they made from engineering practices such as https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 . To spell it out: jobs can hang forever because of some ridiculously bad code on their end, they have a 6 hour cap, so that's 6…

comment by hoten · 2025-12-16 · in Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

…known for listening to their customers? this trivial bug fix took more than a year to be merged: https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3157 that bug likely ended up costing customers millions

comment by blibble · 2025-12-11 · in Days since last GitHub incident

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Safe_sleep.sh Rarely Hangs Indefinitely

story by _dain_ · 2025-11-29 · 0 comments

For those who haven't seen the actual issue that links to, I'd take a closer look. Pretty insane: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792#issuecomment-3...

comment by rohitpaulk · 2025-11-27 · in Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

…or maybe it's the wine -- how is the code in PR 3157 (referenced in a later comment) a proper fix? https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3157/files Is : doing something unusual in GH actions?

comment by dpkirchner · 2025-11-27 · in Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

…they do precisely cite the technical issues. That snippet links to a Github discussion comment https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792#issuecomment-3... (reproduced below) "The bug in this "safe sleep" script is obvious from looking…

comment by ssivark · 2025-11-27 · in Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

…Call it github-flavored YAML (GFY) or something and accept a different file extension. https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182 > YAML 1.1 to be an important goal: they still don't support merge keys right, they don't do merge keys…

comment by VGHN7XDuOXPAzol · 2025-09-22 · in Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please

…anymore (on top of, you know, the CEO explicitly saying that GitHub is an AI company now). Related https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 Since we do see ourselves eventually migrating away from GitHub (at least in some form), we…

comment by kristoff_it · 2025-09-03 · in Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser

Apparently fixed five days ago: https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3157 But yes a joke of a situation.

comment by antihero · 2025-08-25 · in Ghrc.io appears to be malicious

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Microsoft "safe_sleep.sh" unsafe and takes up 100% of CPU

story by yogorenapan · 2025-08-25 · 0 comments

…issue are struggling to get github's attention for a 1-line fix to stop hanging jobs forever https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792#issuecomment-3... That bug is incredibly dumb and obvious. There's been a PR to fix it for over a…

comment by TheDong · 2025-08-25 · in Ghrc.io appears to be malicious

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Actions/runner: safe_sleep.sh rarely hangs indefinitely

story by mlugg · 2025-08-16 · 0 comments

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GitHub Actions Safe_sleep.sh

story by todsacerdoti · 2025-08-15 · 0 comments

…administrator can pay for CoPilot) * Releasing Node24, completely skipping Node22 in their actions: https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/tag/v2.327.1 One of the most disgusting features that they did build is the ability for…

comment by OptionOfT · 2025-08-11 · in GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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GitHub Actions now supports YAML anchors

story by slorber · 2025-08-04 · 2 comments

…easy to read, here's a specific place that define default arguments for popular shells / binaries: https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/main/src/Runner.Worke... , it is exported through a method ScriptHandlerHelpers.GetScriptArgumentsForm…

comment by aljarry · 2025-04-08 · in Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell

…use one which does not do stupid things with your containers (like Github: 4 years! old f** up: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/863#issuecomment-25... ). Also one which lets you run dynamically generated pipelines. Thats why we…

comment by gabyxgabyx · 2025-03-24 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

…use one which does not do stupid things with your containers (like Github: 4 years! old f** up: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/863#issuecomment-25... ) Thats why we built our own build tool which does that, or at least helps us…

comment by gabyx · 2025-03-24 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

A lot of GH actions teams were impacted by layoffs in November. Example: https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/2477#issuecomment-244...

comment by SamuelAdams · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

…Action Runner's source code[1], you'll find the VSS prefix all over, showing it's lineage. [1] https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/6654f6b3ded8463331fb0...

comment by GauntletWizard · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions supporting yaml anchors would resolve one of the gripes, which I share. https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182

comment by baobun · 2025-01-20 · in I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again

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20-line PR to add key Docker feature to GitHub Actions, please bump it

story by awinter-py · 2024-04-28 · 1 comment

…by the lack of support for YAML anchors, which would provide a bare minimum of composability. https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182

comment by Footkerchief · 2024-01-23 · in Why are we templating YAML? (2019)

…the GitHub actions runner itself is a modern .NET core project with CI except for .app packaging. https://github.com/actions/runner/tree/main/.github/workflow...

comment by ttyprintk · 2023-11-19 · in PySide vs. .NET WinForms for a Desktop GUI App in 2023?

This probably answers your question: https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/a4c57f27477077e57545a...

comment by asmor · 2023-11-12 · in GitHub Actions Are a Problem

You can also find many leftovers with the "VSS" acronym, like https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/main/src/Sdk/Common/C... or https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/main/src/Sdk/Common/C... - which also mentions TFS (which is yet…

comment by Kwpolska · 2023-11-12 · in GitHub Actions Are a Problem

The runner is open source, but once you read the code you'd wish it wasn't. https://github.com/actions/runner For anyone in the audience who didn't know: GitHub Actions is based on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server's CI, and later Azure…

comment by asmor · 2023-11-12 · in GitHub Actions Are a Problem

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GitHub Actions Frequently Failing

story by aduffy · 2023-09-04 · 0 comments

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Runners fail to set up job with tar -xzf error

story by robin_reala · 2023-09-04 · 0 comments

…It's not a new issue, the Python community had exactly the same surprise with 3.10: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1989

comment by BiteCode_dev · 2023-05-05 · in Why is GitHub Actions installing Go 1.2 when I specify Go 1.20?

C# is used for Actions: https://github.com/actions/runner , and Go is used a lot for internal services. There is no traction rewriting our monolith in C#.

comment by dewski · 2023-04-07 · in Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

Isn't GitHub Actions now open source? You can self-host runners now https://github.com/actions/runner or am I missing something?

comment by patrickaljord · 2022-11-26 · in Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally

…recommend running the container as root[1] instead of designing something more secure and sane. 1: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/434#issuecomment-61...

comment by dtmtcm · 2022-09-26 · in GitHub Actions Pitfalls

…for you to access. Issues, Wikis, etc.. Even github actions, the runner is here and open source https://github.com/actions/runner There's no lock in. There's a company offering a free service to open source developers and hoping that…

comment by gernb · 2022-08-29 · in Is Over, Bye GitHub

…using tags GL pipelines trounce GHA workflows†. [0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/ [1]: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/805 † GHA covers 80% of cases (from basic to a bit more involved) somewhat nicely, but when it…

comment by lloeki · 2022-05-17 · in Arm Open Source makes a seamless migration to GitLab

…almost two years and it's still not possible to have a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner on Mac M1: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/805 , even though the community has made PRs for it.

comment by juanbyrge · 2022-05-17 · in Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries

…offers this as well. [1]: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/... [2]: https://github.com/actions/runner

comment by tedmiston · 2022-04-08 · in CircleCI Down

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GitHub actions bug: 'some' of your jobs will run, but build successful

story by wesleyjconnor · 2022-01-12 · 0 comments

…And this bug is not fixed for quite a while. Travis CI and Appveyor both allow that, of course. [1] https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/432

comment by xvilka · 2021-09-21 · in GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling

https://github.com/actions/runner/search?q=Azure

comment by pestaa · 2021-09-21 · in GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling