Github did layoffs, yes.

We'll see how much longer the site can stay up. This is a death rattle.

GitHub is among many tech companies currently shedding fat from hiring during the pandemic boom. The morality of that is another discussion, but I'd hardly call this a death rattle.

Let's see you apply that same logic in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34715890

Twitter fired many more engineers, and the reason for those firings was Elon's takeover and temper tantrums. Many more companies had firings this winter and things aren't on fire anywhere but Elon's Twitter.

Lol, what a hilariously unfounded coclusion.

I read that with a /s