After 7 years of maintaining 14 Jenkins masters across 3 regions, we migrated 112 microservices to GitLab CI 16.5 in Q3 2024. The result? A 40% reduction in critical security vulnerabilities, 22% faster pipeline execution, and $147k annual savings in idle compute costs. This isn’t a vendor pitch—it’s a benchmark-backed postmortem of a migration that fixed our broken CI/CD security posture. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now New Integrated by Design FreeBSD Book (21 points) Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal (719 points) Is my blue your blue? (280 points) Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 (21 points) Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests (70 points) Key Insights GitLab CI 16.5’s built-in SAST/DAST integration reduced unpatched CVEs from 217 to 130 per quarter across 112 services, a 40% reduction in critical/high severity vulnerabilities.…