alt Hacker NewsGitHub implements self hosted runners by running a normal runner that passes the environment to your runner and then polls it. That's why they cost as much as the smallest GitHub-hosted runner.
This is no surprise given standard Microsoft operating procedure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
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exochrono • today at 5:59 PM
they walked that back for now at least - self-hosted gh runners are still free: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/...
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Oh that is pretty gross, thanks for sharing. I was not aware of that process, that explains the cost they attempted to roll out for runners too a few months back.