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

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
107•plurby•2h ago•58 comments

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
337•kevcampb•50m ago•268 comments

Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

https://mkornreich.me/projects/sokoban/
24•enjoyyourlife•1h ago•12 comments

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

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
654•bilsbie•14h ago•309 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

27•dhruv3006•31m ago•11 comments

How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy

https://func25.dev/posts/go-sync-nocopy/
32•func25•4d ago•26 comments

GitHub down again? no PR access

86•yodon•53m ago•26 comments

My Ten Years in No Man's Sky

https://nmsspot.com/2026/08/09/my-ten-years-in-no-mans-sky/
23•blakespot•4d ago•7 comments

Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-fo...
67•FinnLobsien•1h ago•26 comments

On A.I. regulation and messaging

https://twitter.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762
165•jacquesm•12h ago•324 comments

Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway

https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/
39•untiledsource•2h ago•6 comments

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

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversi...
519•ropbear•16h ago•465 comments

Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer?

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5928263/cialis-viagra-tadalafil-longevity-heart-health
32•brandonb•1h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

https://desktopcolors.com
71•vlowrian•6h ago•32 comments

How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser

https://nanochess.org/am29000_c_compiler_web_browser.html
6•nanochess•17h ago•0 comments

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
570•Narishma•21h ago•292 comments

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-fac...
18•amarcheschi•46m ago•14 comments

Linear algebra done right

https://linear.axler.net/
156•the-mitr•9h ago•57 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/
173•sudo_cowsay•14h ago•59 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
717•tosh•1d ago•271 comments

Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance

79•SpyCoder77•56m ago•23 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64
114•erickhill•12h ago•15 comments

The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/running-empty/
64•cwwc•2d ago•45 comments

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop...
180•dt3ft•3d ago•124 comments

Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget

https://opscode.io/posts/ptp-grandmaster-cm4-sr1723u10/
33•malcolmfrazier•4d ago•9 comments

Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed

https://www.bgr.com/2233625/who-owns-commodore-retro-brand/
19•theanonymousone•2h ago•3 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html
107•spdegabrielle•13h ago•30 comments

Gakutensoku

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakutensoku
57•benbreen•3d ago•10 comments

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd
134•ibobev•4d ago•60 comments

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes
64•gumby•13h ago•24 comments
Open in hackernews

Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance

77•SpyCoder77•56m ago
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

ozarkerD•54m ago
Is github down? Does the day end in y?
Hammerhead12321•45m ago
No, es lunes.
SigmundurM•54m ago
Same here. Just as I was going to push out a release
MallocVoidstar•52m ago
https://www.githubstatus.com/

It's all green which means it's working. Ignore the unicorn error on every page.

edit: After 5-10 minutes they got around to opening an incident and (apparently manually?) marking the API as having 'degraded performance'.

cyphar•22m ago
I find it quite amusing what they seem to consider "degraded performance" to mean -- I guess if you really squint, your service not working at all is actually just very large latency spikes (until the service recovers) and thus can be labelled as "services experiencing degraded performance for a small portion of our customers".
malfist•12m ago
Even better "degraded performance" doesn't seem to count against their uptime stats. Issues is labeled as "degraded" with 100% uptime.
Andugal•51m ago
Yes it is https://downdetector.com/status/github/
lini•48m ago
incident was just created - https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
biennvops•45m ago
Seems to affect web as well. Currently working on a PR and now it says "Merge status cannot be loaded"
pavo-etc•43m ago
> Update - We are seeing an approximate 20% error rate across numerous experiences including Pull Requests, Issues, and others. Investigations are currently under way and we will be posting updates as they become available

brutal

gottagocode•41m ago
20%, do we just make numbers up?
ozarkerD•35m ago
Depends if this is coming from engineering or management
anonymousab•21m ago
It seems vastly higher on every region and VPN I've tested, so I think this is a case of the "technicalies".

It is technically 20%, because a bunch of the requests that happen on page load do succeed. Just not the few crucial ones that are required for the page to load correctly - those return a 500 the vast supermajority of the time.

brookst•18m ago
I can't get a single PR or issue to work. Maybe it's "20% globally, 100% anywhere people are awake".
malfist•15m ago
Feel free to disregard this because ultimately its a tangent that doesn't matter; but supermajority is specifically a political term referring to the required threshold to advance legislation when simple majority isn't procedurally enough. It doesn't mean simply a greater share of.a majority
leumon•41m ago
Not sure if related, but claude seems to be down for me too.
hn58622tsf•35m ago
Been doing this wrong for years, thanks
georgehotz•17m ago
We're moving to self hosted Gitea. It's never been easier to do devops with the help of LLMs. I cannot believe how flaky GitHub is.

https://git.tinygrad.win/tinygrad/tinygrad

ChrisArchitect•17m ago
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330684
b800h•14m ago
Well I was dumped out of Github Copilot as this issue started, and haven't been able to get back in. Seems like a slightly strange thing to be connected, but feasible.
calvinmorrison•7m ago
reminder: git is distributed
porridgeraisin•6m ago
Clones, repo browsing etc are all working.

/pull/:id/changes is not working, but /pull/:id.diff _is_. It seems parts of the API is also ok? some gh commands I tried worked.

Files changed works on the mobile app somehow. I guess a particular api version or something is down.

Anyway if someone needs files changed and merge status, check the mobile app!

normie3000•14m ago
20% of requests on a GUI page also makes the whole thing unusable.