top 20 hacker news stories for today

PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/08/17/prime-minister-carney-announces-largest-clean-energy-investment-north

1 hour ago

Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/google-spirit-airlines-bankruptcy

1 hour ago

Trump administration Announces New "Hacking Back" Program

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/17/trump-administration-announces-new-hacking-back-program/

1 hour ago

Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340013

33 minutes ago

Incident with Github.com

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

12 hours ago

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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

6 hours ago

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

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

12 hours ago

Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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

12 hours ago

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Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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

12 hours ago

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study

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

10 hours ago

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

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

11 hours ago

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Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

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

8 hours ago

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

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

13 hours ago

GitHub down again? no PR access

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

12 hours ago

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/

1 day ago

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

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

11 hours ago

Linear algebra done right

https://linear.axler.net/

20 hours ago

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GIMP Development Update

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/

22 hours ago

Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2026/08_17_2026_Apple_ATTF.html

11 hours ago

On AI regulation and messaging

https://twitter.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762

1 day ago

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