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Hacker News Trends – August 2026

In August 2026, Birbla tracked 500 high-signal Hacker News stories. github.com led publishers with 26 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (158 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: working (5), valley (5), qwen3 (4). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
github.com26
openai.com6
bbc.com6
theguardian.com5
en.wikipedia.org5
404media.co5
ft.com5
blog.google4
techcrunch.com4
twitter.com4
tomshardware.com4
huggingface.co3
artificialanalysis.ai3
daringfireball.net3
youtube.com3

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI158-21
Open Source760
Programming32+4
Google30+1
Startups24-3
Apple24+1
LLM23+3
Automation18-5
Hardware14+8
Career10+3

Fastest-rising keywords

Ranked by month-over-month growth in story titles (min 2 mentions).

working (5, new)valley (5, new)qwen3 (4, new)prices (4, new)system (7, was 1)phone (7, was 1)capabilities (3, new)facebook (3, new)known (3, new)engineer (3, new)exist (3, new)inference (3, new)employees (3, new)eclipse (3, new)police (3, new)generate (3, new)america (3, new)store (3, new)rejection (3, new)prediction (3, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
DevOps4153
LLM26023
Biotech2536
Automation24318
Google23030
AI210158
Programming20232
Launches20110
Startups19224
JavaScript1906

Notable launches

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