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54 mentions on Hacker News by 49 people: 14 stories, 40 comments · first 2020-05-25 · latest 2026-05-26

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  1. …and GitHub, by which the use of public Docker Hub images won't be rate limited in GitHub Actions: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1445#...
  2. The ubuntu machine that Github uses hosted in Azure doesn't support virtualizsation yet. https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/183
    comment by neilpang · 2020-10-02 · in FreeBSD Support in GitHub Actions
  3. …and unfortunately plagued by random CI failures occurring when Poetry resolves the dependencies: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1343
  4. …is that since 7 days msys2 is by default installed on the windows-latest target of GitHub actions: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/commit/c6114... I'm doing all local development on Linux and since msys2 is there by default…