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The Amazon tax

herbertl — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:22:38 +0000

Article URL: https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345263

Points: 696

# Comments: 448

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

jp_sc — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:18:40 +0000

Article URL: https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345220

Points: 294

# Comments: 195

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

otherayden — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:43:54 +0000

Article URL: https://philo.gay/linecam/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344825

Points: 348

# Comments: 55

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

Vinnl — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:42:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fairphone.com/nl/stories/the-fairphone-gen-6-is-all-about-giving-you-more

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344811

Points: 321

# Comments: 163

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit

pseudolus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:13:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343559

Points: 541

# Comments: 369

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

flaburgan — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:51:50 +0000

Article URL: https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342719

Points: 469

# Comments: 222

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

gavide — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:20:40 +0000

Article URL: https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338459

Points: 679

# Comments: 421

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

shdon — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:06:14 +0000

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338328

Points: 472

# Comments: 210

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

pizzaiolo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:01:17 +0000

Article URL: https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285

Points: 276

# Comments: 73

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

Topfi — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:03:18 +0000

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337602

Points: 611

# Comments: 432

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

DeepLogin — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:46:10 +0000

Article URL: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392

Points: 996

# Comments: 669

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

mooreds — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:47:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336573

Points: 1052

# Comments: 653

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

haunter — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:52:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to-10x-the-lowest-ever-tracked-prices-128gb-of-ddr5-now-usd3-399

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334960

Points: 340

# Comments: 263

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

anana_ — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:25:17 +0000

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334544

Points: 368

# Comments: 172

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

neogodless — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:15:20 +0000

Article URL: https://moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334409

Points: 298

# Comments: 202

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

tomasreimers — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:02:44 +0000

Article URL: https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209

Points: 349

# Comments: 272

Sun Clock

Gecko4072 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:37:54 +0000

Article URL: https://sunclock.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333824

Points: 278

# Comments: 88

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

karakoram — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:49:57 +0000

Article URL: https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332981

Points: 586

# Comments: 679

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

galnagli — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:18:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331423

Points: 416

# Comments: 152

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

ColinWright — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:07:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.librarian.net/notoai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331220

Points: 332

# Comments: 194

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

dhruv3006 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:59:17 +0000

Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331033

Points: 625

# Comments: 415

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

ibotty — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:46:27 +0000

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330781

Points: 700

# Comments: 124

Incident with Github.com

kevcampb — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:40:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330684

Points: 708

# Comments: 2

GitHub down again? no PR access

yodon — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:37:28 +0000

Githubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330632

Points: 289

# Comments: 2

Incident with Github.com [resolved]

SpyCoder77 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:35:06 +0000

Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists."

Edit: at the time of posting there was not an incident on githubstatus.com. Now there is. https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

Original Title: "Tell HN: GitHub Is Overloaded"

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330597

Points: 553

# Comments: 955

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

plurby — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:09:42 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329575

Points: 359

# Comments: 166

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

walrus01 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:14:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325159

Points: 283

# Comments: 189

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

bilsbie — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:45:09 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324985

Points: 782

# Comments: 373

Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

ropbear — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:53:43 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324087

Points: 808

# Comments: 714

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

zacharyozer — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:31:16 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381

Points: 469

# Comments: 289