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The Runner for GitHub Actions :rocket:

61 mentions on Hacker News by 58 people: 9 stories, 52 comments · first 2019-12-19 · latest 2026-06-05

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  1. …for GitHub actions - 2x the speed for half the price. Easy to install and easy to revert. [1] https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/660 [2] https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions
  2. …and failing miserably when these disappear, job times out after 20 minute of waiting type) [1]: https://github.com/actions/runner
  3. …may want to take caution - some users have reported that the changes are not currently compatible https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/660
  4. …on each PR and I'd love to be able to have better workflow management based on branches. [1] https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/432
  5. …to self-host our CI/CD. I'm confused as to the difference between https://github.com/nektos/act and https://github.com/actions/runner Is it not possible to use 'runner' to run github actions locally? The docs for this seem like they are…
  6. Yeah. I really hope they fix the dumb runner part: https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/660 I resorted to this one instead https://github.com/summerwind/actions-runner-controller but it requires kubernetes...
  7. …has taken a dive in quality and reliability of their services for sure. EDIT: Here's the source: https://github.com/actions/runner This code is identical to the runner code for Azure DevOps. Also the repo history only goes back a little…
  8. …has influence to raise visibility of this (Twitter, GitHub, whatever) that would be appreciated :) https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/475
  9. …implementation of Actions during the beta; they pivoted away from that to the current form. [0] - https://github.com/actions/runner
    comment by jeremy_k · 2020-04-14 · in GitHub is now free for teams
  10. …add custom labels. Is there any timeline for either of these features (especially the labels)? [0] https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/130
  11. The GitHub Actions Runner has just been open sourced https://github.com/actions/runner