top 10 hacker news stories for today

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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

31 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 6 comments

Buy Your Friends Batteries

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

49 minutes ago

35 upvotes – 27 comments

Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement to Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-SMP

57 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

https://dhruv2038.bearblog.dev/github-has-an-availability-problem-is-it-time-to-look-elsewhere/

1 hour ago

46 upvotes – 21 comments

Polar Signals Is Joining Dash0

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2026/08/17/polar-signals-is-joining-dash0

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

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 hour ago

1 change
255 upvotes – 326 comments

Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Lawsuit

https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-defending-company-in-deadly-explosion-lawsuit/

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

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

https://speko.ai/

1 hour ago

3 changes
43 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Big Tech's AI Spending Is $3T Higher Than It Seems

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-big-techs-ai-spending-is-3-trillion-higher-than-it-seems-e1067bb2

2 hours ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Ahmad on X: "Anthropic's War on open source AI" / X

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

2 hours ago

32 upvotes – 7 comments
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