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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

47 upvotes – 14 comments

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

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

1 hour ago

19 upvotes – 6 comments

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Trump administration Announces New "Hacking Back" Program

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

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 1 comments

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

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

33 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

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Incident with Github.com

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

12 hours ago

694 upvotes – 2 comments

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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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

6 hours ago

599 upvotes – 375 comments

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A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

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

12 hours ago

540 upvotes – 97 comments

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Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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

5 changeschanges seen by hnhub 32 minutes ago · title Incident with Github.com Incident with Github.com [resolved]9 hours ago · title Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance Incident with Github.com9 hours ago · url (none) githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx12 hours ago · text edited 12 hours ago · title Tell HN: GitHub Is Overloaded Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance 12 hours ago

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532 upvotes – 913 comments

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Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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

12 hours ago

496 upvotes – 319 comments

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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/

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 9 hours ago · title Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114,000 Lives a Year, Yale Study Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study 10 hours ago

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385 upvotes – 517 comments

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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

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 9 hours ago · title AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira 11 hours ago

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317 upvotes – 125 comments

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Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

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

8 hours ago

307 upvotes – 136 comments

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

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

13 hours ago

302 upvotes – 153 comments

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GitHub down again? no PR access

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

12 hours ago

288 upvotes – 2 comments

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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

278 upvotes – 178 comments

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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

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

11 hours ago

257 upvotes – 156 comments

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Linear algebra done right

https://linear.axler.net/

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 17 hours ago · title Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler Linear algebra done right 20 hours ago

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255 upvotes – 98 comments

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GIMP Development Update

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

22 hours ago

254 upvotes – 233 comments

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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

238 upvotes – 93 comments

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On AI regulation and messaging

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

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 9 hours ago · title On A.I. regulation and messaging On AI regulation and messaging 1 day ago

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235 upvotes – 499 comments

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How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 2 hours ago · title Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots 3 hours ago

1 change

227 upvotes – 158 comments

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The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf

1 day ago

212 upvotes – 112 comments

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Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/

9 hours ago

173 upvotes – 56 comments

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GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759

8 hours ago

163 upvotes – 36 comments

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

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

3 hours ago

145 upvotes – 67 comments

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Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

https://desktopcolors.com

18 hours ago

141 upvotes – 62 comments

136

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Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/

9 hours ago

136 upvotes – 54 comments

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Anthropic's War on open source AI

https://twitter.com/TheAhmadOsman/status/2065307070044234186

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 8 hours ago · title Ahmad on X: "Anthropic's War on open source AI" / X Anthropic's War on open source AI 10 hours ago

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134 upvotes – 57 comments

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Buy Your Friends Batteries

https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/17/buy-your-friends-batteries/

9 hours ago

132 upvotes – 143 comments

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/

12 hours ago

131 upvotes – 286 comments

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People are worried about America's solvency

https://www.ft.com/content/e04f286c-f5ed-46d1-8e3f-0bbe4cce4d3e

14 hours ago

129 upvotes – 186 comments

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AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/

6 hours ago

126 upvotes – 6 comments

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AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64

1 day ago

126 upvotes – 24 comments

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GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

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

4 hours ago

126 upvotes – 56 comments

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Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html

1 day ago

121 upvotes – 54 comments

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An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 5 hours ago · title An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail 8 hours ago

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115 upvotes – 92 comments

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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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

8 hours ago

114 upvotes – 66 comments

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Self hosted email continues to steeply decline

https://labs.ripe.net/author/artem-berezin/two-providers-a-stubborn-plateau-and-a-very-long-tail-email-in-the-tranco-top-1m/

15 hours ago

114 upvotes – 172 comments

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Mexico crackdown on coastal development

https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 9 hours ago · title Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway Mexico crackdown on coastal development 13 hours ago

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111 upvotes – 29 comments

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Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 5 hours ago · title The Lonely Men Who Work in Patagonia, at the End of the World Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia 7 hours ago

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107 upvotes – 39 comments

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Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

https://twitter.com/lydiakauppi/status/2089196932413452386

13 hours ago

104 upvotes – 138 comments

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How to put 170 atoms in an atom

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/

11 hours ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

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

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

10 hours ago

99 upvotes – 78 comments

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Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion

13 hours ago

95 upvotes – 45 comments

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Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices

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

8 hours ago

94 upvotes – 74 comments

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India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xnwqe00v1o

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 5 hours ago · title India built the biggest digital payments miracle: Now comes the bill India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions 6 hours ago

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92 upvotes – 90 comments

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Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5928263/cialis-viagra-tadalafil-longevity-heart-health

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 9 hours ago · title Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer? Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug 12 hours ago

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92 upvotes – 71 comments

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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-bookseller-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai-models/

7 hours ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

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Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

https://speko.ai/

3 changeschanges seen by hnhub 9 hours ago · text edited 9 hours ago · url (none) speko.ai/9 hours ago · text edited 10 hours ago

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91 upvotes – 51 comments

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Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera

4 hours ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

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

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

5 hours ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

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Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?

https://beachfront.bearblog.dev/will-you-have-spent-more-of-your-life-with-computers-than-your-family/

6 hours ago

78 upvotes – 72 comments

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Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attorneys-general-california-federal-trial-astronomical-consequences.html

7 hours ago

76 upvotes – 77 comments

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$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/12b-of-us-ratepayers-money-wasted

20 hours ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

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Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

https://mkornreich.me/projects/sokoban/

12 hours ago

67 upvotes – 40 comments

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Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes

1 changechanges seen by hnhub 20 hours ago · title Applying a photosynthetic process to treat "dry eye" Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” 1 day ago

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67 upvotes – 28 comments

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How to ship a database every day