Trending on 2026-08-17 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

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Hacker News

20 items

1
How to put 170 atoms in an atom
99 points · 22 comments
2
Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
285 points · 124 comments
3
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
95 points · 76 comments
4
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
473 points · 299 comments
5
A simple fix for LLM tail latency
29 points · 13 comments
6
Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models
39 points · 3 comments
7
Intriguing stories in computer science
20 points · 3 comments
8
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
241 points · 138 comments
9
Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
123 points · 48 comments
10
Olo (Color)
278 points · 62 comments
11
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
524 points · 316 comments
12
A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'
90 points · 7 comments
13
My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup
15 points · 22 comments
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GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
18 points · 2 comments
15
Sun Clock
158 points · 50 comments
16
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
12 points · 0 comments
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GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
290 points · 151 comments
18
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
86 points · 51 comments
19
Incident with Github.com
502 points · 877 comments
20
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
304 points · 123 comments

20 items

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Can’t even dry clothes outside these daysr/Unexpected
2
Mitch McConnell is getting more paid time off than women who give birthr/politics
3
"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate." Elon Musk 6/5/2025r/SpaceXBets
4
The 2026 preseason AP Top 25 Pollr/CFB
5
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility / The shipment was found at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys booksr/technology
6
In my opinion everyone should handle pokemon cards like thisr/PokemonTCG
7
Stars shining bright above you!r/MadeMeSmile
8
Euphoriaaar/memes
9
How do you feel about Trump netting $2.3 billion from selling his memecoin, while many buyers are sitting on a 98%+ loss after following his buy recommendation?r/AskReddit
10
Anime Girlsr/memes
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Americans would rather choose this maze, than universal coverage.r/pics
12
Meirlr/meirl
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I want to get off off Mr. Bones' Wild Rider/comics
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What do you think is the funniest line in any Marvel movie or show?r/Marvel
15
Mitch McConnell hounded to face cameras: ‘He absolutely refuses’r/politics
16
Prime Minister Carney announces the largest clean energy investment in North American historyr/worldnews
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Where Do You Put Your Characters In The Party?r/Genshin_Impact
18
My phone fell from the phone holder and got crushed by the treadmill I was using
r/mildlyinteresting
19
How is Doctor Doom such a huge threat?r/marvelstudios
20
She wants what?r/SipsTea

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