Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-18
- AI;DR - AI; Didn’t Read www.rickmanelius.com - 491 comments 769 points
- Incident with Github.com www.githubstatus.com - 2 comments 698 points
- A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 duckdb.org - 110 comments 598 points
- Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub news.ycombinator.com - 355 comments 563 points
- Incident with Github.com - resolved www.githubstatus.com - 926 comments 538 points
- How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots timmarinin.net - 272 comments 401 points
- Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study ysph.yale.edu - 531 comments 395 points
- AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake’s Jira www.wiz.io - 137 comments 353 points
- Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots responsiblestatecraft.org - 214 comments 341 points
- GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% openrouter.ai - 172 comments 336 points
- Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis artificialanalysis.ai - 147 comments 332 points
- GPT 5.6 Sol is the best “vision” model OpenAI ever released blog.roboflow.com - 158 comments 328 points
- GitHub down again? no PR access news.ycombinator.com - 2 comments 288 points
- How to disable or avoid intrusive AI www.librarian.net - 165 comments 281 points
- Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full fabiensanglard.net - 116 comments 277 points
- Apple’s App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals www.bundeskartellamt.de - 93 comments 244 points
- Sun Clock sunclock.net - 67 comments 209 points
- GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast arxiv.org - 37 comments 190 points
- An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail moddedbear.com - 122 comments 179 points
- Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data current.org - 60 comments 155 points
- Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore? news.ycombinator.com - 104 comments 146 points
- Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS desktopcolors.com - 62 comments 144 points
- Anthropic’s War on open source AI twitter.com - 57 comments 142 points
- We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility www.404media.co - 293 comments 139 points
- People are worried about America’s solvency www.ft.com - 193 comments 138 points
- Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera catcrafts.net - 31 comments 138 points
- Buy Your Friends Batteries domenkozar.com - 146 comments 135 points
- Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia www.newyorker.com - 46 comments 134 points
- India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions www.bbc.com - 156 comments 132 points
- AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI arstechnica.com - 6 comments 127 points
August 18, 2026 ∙