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jenkins vs github actions on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, github actions leads jenkins vs github actions with 16,435 mentions to jenkins’s 9,847, peaking in Feb 2026.

Mention-over-time for jenkins vs github actions, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

jenkins9,847 mentions, peak Apr 2019github actions16,435 mentions, peak Feb 2026
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How the lead changed hands

CI changing of the guard: Jenkins is the CI tool of the mid-2010s, then GitHub Actions takes over from 2021 on.

The stories behind each line

Top “jenkins” stories
  1. Jenkins Is Getting Old 461 points · 2019
  2. Jenkins 2.0 Beta 415 points · 2016
  3. Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins 382 points · 2016
  4. Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V 345 points · 2014
Top “github actions” stories
  1. Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled 1,146 points · 2019
  2. Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions 802 points · 2025
  3. The Pain That Is GitHub Actions 704 points · 2025
  4. GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories 680 points · 2019

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