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Hacker News (17 Aug 2026)
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Incident with Github.com
684 points • 487 comments • aug 17, 2026
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
519 points • 313 comments • aug 17, 2026
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A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
505 points • 88 comments • aug 17, 2026
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Incident with Github.com
502 points • 876 comments • aug 17, 2026
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Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
472 points • 299 comments • aug 17, 2026
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study
374 points • 509 comments • aug 17, 2026
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AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
304 points • 123 comments • aug 17, 2026
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GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
290 points • 151 comments • aug 17, 2026
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Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
284 points • 124 comments • aug 17, 2026
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GitHub down again? no PR access
283 points • 99 comments • aug 17, 2026