Trending on 2026-08-18 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

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Hacker News

20 items

1
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
506 points · 326 comments
2
scScript for Linux
19 points · 7 comments
3
GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform
40 points · 12 comments
4
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
92 points · 53 comments
5
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
135 points · 48 comments
6
Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
140 points · 56 comments
7
Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items
27 points · 8 comments
8
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
637 points · 397 comments
9
India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions
100 points · 102 comments
10
Olo (Color)
334 points · 66 comments
11
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
307 points · 154 comments
12
Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia
113 points · 41 comments
13
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
35 points · 12 comments
14
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
129 points · 98 comments
15
The Road to MS-DOS 2.0
26 points · 6 comments
16
Sun Clock
181 points · 56 comments
17
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
262 points · 160 comments
18
Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet
8 points · 4 comments
19
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
322 points · 126 comments
20
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
166 points · 36 comments

20 items

1
I’ll miss this sub ;)
r/GirlDinnerDiaries
2
Big Tech is spending $500 million on a political campaign against Universal Basic Income.r/Futurology
3
Can’t even dry clothes outside these daysr/Unexpected
4
Honey loses over 7 million users and 7,000 stores following YouTuber’s viral exposer/technology
5
Hasan Says Collargate Was a Coordinated Smear Campaign by Kick Clippersr/LivestreamFail
6
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
7
Making stuff up again
r/stupidpeoplefacebook
8
Would u rather for the rest of your life get..r/BunnyTrials
9
In my opinion everyone should handle pokemon cards like thisr/PokemonTCG
10
My car has a dedicated spot for lip balm
r/mildlyinteresting
11
Mitch McConnell hounded to face cameras: ‘He absolutely refuses’r/politics
12
Let’s do it.r/pics
13
Daughter hand feels a little swollenr/funnyvideos
14
Americans would rather choose this maze, than universal coverage.r/pics
15
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
16
How is Doctor Doom such a huge threat?r/marvelstudios
17
My phone fell from the phone holder and got crushed by the treadmill I was using
r/mildlyinteresting
18
What do you think is the funniest line in any Marvel movie or show?r/Marvel
19
She wants what?r/SipsTea
20
Which game is this to you?r/Steam

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