By Q3 2026, our 14-person engineering team was spending $12,400 per month on GitLab CI runners, with median pipeline runtimes hitting 22 minutes for full-stack test suites. We migrated to GitHub Actions in 6 weeks, cut monthly CI costs to $7,192, slashed median pipeline time to 7.2 minutes, and eliminated 3 full-time equivalent (FTE) hours of weekly pipeline maintenance. Here’s the unvarnished, benchmark-backed story of why ecosystem integration tipped the scales. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Securing a DoD Contractor: Finding a Multi-Tenant Authorization Vulnerability (112 points) I am worried about Bun (223 points) Talking to strangers at the gym (861 points) How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (24 points) GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (552 points) Key Insights GitHub Actions' native GitHub API integration reduced pipeline context fetch latency by 89% compared to GitLab CI’s cross-platform API calls (measured across 1,200 pipeline runs in October 2026).…