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1. Incident with Github.com

   684 points • 487 comments • aug 17, 2026

2. GitHub down again? no PR access

   283 points • 99 comments • aug 17, 2026

3. The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

   266 points • 155 comments • aug 17, 2026

4. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

   252 points • 33 comments • aug 17, 2026

5. GIMP Development Update

   244 points • 221 comments • aug 17, 2026

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

   227 points • 285 comments • aug 17, 2026

7. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

   223 points • 136 comments • aug 17, 2026

8. The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

   203 points • 108 comments • aug 17, 2026

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

   199 points • 104 comments • aug 17, 2026

10. Linear algebra done right

    197 points • 70 comments • aug 17, 2026