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1. Incident with Github.com

   684 points • 487 comments • aug 17, 2026

2. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

   519 points • 313 comments • aug 17, 2026

3. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

   505 points • 88 comments • aug 17, 2026

4. Incident with Github.com

   502 points • 876 comments • aug 17, 2026

5. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

   472 points • 299 comments • aug 17, 2026

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

   374 points • 509 comments • aug 17, 2026

7. AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

   304 points • 123 comments • aug 17, 2026

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

   290 points • 151 comments • aug 17, 2026

9. Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

   284 points • 124 comments • aug 17, 2026

10. GitHub down again? no PR access

    283 points • 99 comments • aug 17, 2026