top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-08-17

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read

2 months ago

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/

2 months ago

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/

2 months ago

3 changes

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

2 months ago

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights

2 months ago

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/

2 months ago

1 change

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to-10x-the-lowest-ever-tracked-prices-128gb-of-ddr5-now-usd3-399

2 months ago

1 change

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331033

2 months ago

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol

2 months ago

1 change

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting

2 months ago