top 20 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

1113 upvotes – 691 comments

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

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

2 months ago

1056 upvotes – 870 comments

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
901 upvotes – 975 comments

Incident with Github.com

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

2 months ago

719 upvotes – 2 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

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

2 months ago

719 upvotes – 132 comments

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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

2 months ago

1 change
712 upvotes – 439 comments

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
674 upvotes – 563 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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

2 months ago

649 upvotes – 435 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

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

2 months ago

1 change
635 upvotes – 448 comments

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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

2 months ago

596 upvotes – 453 comments

Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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

2 months ago

5 changes
562 upvotes – 975 comments

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html

2 months ago

492 upvotes – 225 comments

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug

2 months ago

1 change
424 upvotes – 157 comments

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b

2 months ago

380 upvotes – 180 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/

2 months ago

366 upvotes – 170 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/

2 months ago

339 upvotes – 198 comments

Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332495

2 months ago

1 change
327 upvotes – 262 comments

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

https://moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/

2 months ago

1 change
311 upvotes – 211 comments

GitHub down again? no PR access

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330632

2 months ago

290 upvotes – 2 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/

2 months ago

288 upvotes – 92 comments
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