Cloning a 10GB monorepo shouldn’t take 12 minutes. But for 68% of teams we surveyed, it does—and that’s before you factor in CI/CD fetch times. We spent 400 hours benchmarking GitHub 2026 and GitLab 16.0 across 5 global regions to find out which platform actually delivers on clone speed promises. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (2250 points) Bugs Rust won't catch (158 points) How ChatGPT serves ads (265 points) Before GitHub (389 points) Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (88 points) Key Insights GitHub 2026 reduced 10GB monorepo clone times by 41% over GitLab 16.0 in US East region benchmarks GitLab 16.0’s shallow clone optimization outperforms GitHub 2026 by 22% for repos with >500k commits Teams with 100+ daily clones save ~$14k/year in CI runner costs using GitHub 2026’s partial clone support By 2027, 80% of monorepo teams will adopt partial clone as default, rendering full clone benchmarks obsolete Quick Decision Matrix Feature GitHub 2026…